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the dramatist. Sidney says, "O the cowardise of a guiltie conscience," rendered by Shake- speare " Thus conscience does make cowards of us all" ('Hamlet,' III. i. 83); while Sidney's " a popular licence is indeed the many-headed tyranny " is changed to " Stuck not to call us the many-headed multitude" ('Cor.,' II. iii. 18). CHAS. A. HERPICH.

New York.

EMMET AND DE FONTEKAY LETTERS (9 th S. xii. 308 : 10 th S. i. 52). I wish to thank Miss L. I. GUINEY for her reply to my query ; but the letters I desire to trace are not the three printed in Dr. Emmet's book, but the rest of this correspondence. The letters were to- gether until thirty years ago, when their last known owner died. It is possible that some reader of 'N. &, Q.' in France may be able to furnish a clue. Letters of R. Emmet are rare. Only nine have been traced, and until lately but five were known. The late Sir Bernard Burke showed Dr. Emmet in Dublin Castle a box of documents relating to the Emmet family which were seized in 1798 and 1803. Dr. Emmet was not allowed to see the contents. In 1886 he got permission to examine them, but the box could not then be found. FRANCESCA.

IPSWICH APPRENTICE BOOKS (10 th S. i. 41). In reply to numerous inquiries, I may state that the apprentices whose names appear in these books fall under the following counties : Suffolk, 345 ; Essex, 19 ; Norfolk, 18 ; North- umberland, 16 ; Yorkshire, 5 ; Cambridge- shire, 3 ; Durham, Sussex, and Middlesex, 2 each ; Beds, Wilts, Leicester, Derby, Devon, Lines, Rutland, Shropshire, Surrey, West- morland, and Kent, 1 each ; making a total of 423. M. B. HUTCHINSON.

37, Lower Brook Street, Ipswich.

' MEMOIRS OF A STOMACH ' (10 th S. i. 27, 57), by a Minister of the Interior, was written by Sir James Eyre, at one time Mayor of Here- ford, and a medical practitioner in that city. The object of the book was, I believe, mainly to vaunt the properties of oxide of silver in the treatment of stomach disorders. He eventually went to London, and, I think, died there. When the Duke of Clarence be- came King William IV., he refused to carry out the plan which had been adopted by his predecessors, viz., to knight the mayors of the chief cities of England, but would only knight two. The two selected were George Drinkwater, Mayor of Liverpool, and Dr. Eyre, Mayor of Hereford. This incident gave occasion to Abernethy to suggest to a corpu- lent patient, who consulted him as to his

internal minister, that he should constantly keep in mind the names of the two mayors the king had just knighted Eyre and Drink- water. CHARLES WILLIAMS. Norwich.

WERDEN ABBEY (10 th S. i. 67). The Bene- dictine Abbey at Werden (not Werdens), on the river Ruhr, was founded A.r>. 802 by St. Ludger, a Frisian priest, who lies buried in the old church. The monastery buildings are now used as a State prison. When I visited the abbey about ten years ago, I tried to procure a history of it, but failed. An account of the antiquities found in the neighbourhood was then in preparation, I was told. Your correspondent might apply to Mr. G. D. Baedeker, bookseller, 11, Burg- strasse, Essen, Rhenish Westphalia.

L. L. K.

" CLYSE " (9 th S. xii. 486). In ' Observations on some of the Dialects in the West of Eng- land, particularly in Somersetshire,' by James Jennings, I find, p. 30: " Clize, s. A place or drain for the discharge of water, regulated by a valve or door, which permits a free egress, but no ingress to water." This work was published in 1825, and carries the use of the word back more than half a century further than .MR. DODGSON'S letter in the Spectator, 1882. The word is in general use in the moors of Somerset, in the drainage of which the clyse plays an important part.

"PAPERS " (9 th S. xii. 387 ; 10 th S. i. 18, 53). The following passage comes from 'De Jure Maritime et Navali,' by Charles Molloy ('D.N.B.,' xxxviii. 130), London, 1676, bk. ii. chap. ii. sect. 9, and relates to the duties of a master of a ship :

"He must not carry any counterfeit Cocquets or other fictitious and colourable Ship Papers to in' volve the Goods of the Innocent with the Kocent."

H. C.

THE " SHIP" HOTEL AT GREENWICH (9 th S. xii. 306, 375, 415, 431). As one of the oldest natives of Greenwich, I may perhaps be regarded as an authority for local informa- tion. The original "Ship" Tavern stood at the eastern end of the spot now occupied by the pier, and in proximity to the Drawdock at the river end of Friar's Road, running southward out of Romney Road, between the Hospital and the Infirmary. This road led into a little square in which were three or four public-houses, one of them "The Chest of Chatham," another " The Red Lion," and another "The Crown and Anchor." All this has been changed Friar's Road, Brew-