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of 1576, and that the matter of it was purely modern ; but a reference to the collection of sixteenth-century pamphlets at the British Museum would easily settle the question. I remember a query with reference to this pamphlet appearing in a literary magazine (long since defunct) about 1882-3, but it elicited no reply. FREDERICK T. HIBOAME. 1, Rodney Place, Clifton, Bristol.

MRS. STOPES'S inquiry reminds one of Wither's celebrated work entitled 'Abuses Stript and Whipt ;" or, Satirical Essayes.' A full bibliography of this author's Avorks may be found in Lowndes, beginning at p. 2963.

WM. JAGGARD.

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HAREPATH (10 th S. i. 190). In the Devon- shire Association Transactions, vol. xvii. S195, in a paper on Sea ton before the onquest, the late Mr. J. B. Davidson de- scribes the boundaries in an Anglo-Saxon charter purporting to belong to the year 1005. He writes :

" Thence it struck north to the herpath, or old military road from Lyme Regis to Sidmouth. This ancient designation ' herpath ' is preserved in the name of Harepark Farm, the homestead of which is on the road, close by."

In the Transactions of the same asso- ciation, vol. xxxv. p. 147, in a paper on Sidbury, Sidmouth, Salcombe Regis, and Branscombe, Mr. J. Y. A. Morshead writes :

"Then came the Saxons. The ' Ston-her-path ' (Lyme-S tow ford road) shows their probable line of march."

It seems probable that these two writers would reply to MR. HERAPATH'S query in the affirmative. (Mrs.) RosE-T/ROUP.

RALEIGH'S HEAD (10 th S. i. 49, 130, 197). May I be permitted to bring to the notice of the readers of ' N. & Q.' a few lines from the recently published 'Life of F. W. Farrar,' by his son Reginald Farrar ? Bishop Mont- gomery, late of Tasmania, who was " almost the first of the Canon's new curates," states at p. 238 that "I remember spending an evening with the Abbey clerk of the works in a vault under the altar, trying to find Raleigh's head, but without success." It is not unlikely that there have been many searches before ; but as this is probably the last,it seemsof sufficient interest to be recorded for future reference. In 1876 Disraeli offered the Westminster canonry and the rectorship of St. Margaret's to Dr. Farrar, the restora- tion of the church being completed in 1878. W. E. HARLAND-OILEY.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Memoir of John Kay : with a Review of the Textile Trade and Manufacture. By John Lord. (Roch- dale, Clegg.)

BEFOBE the author of this work could see the proofs of the first chapter he had passed to the majority. Under these distressing circumstances the task wa taken up and finished by his brother, Mr. William Lord, who adds to the volume a portrait and life of the author. Biographies of John Kay, the famous Lancashire inventor, exist, and a memoir by Mr. R. B. Prosser appears in the 'D.N.B.,' vol. xxx. pp. 247-8. According to Mr. Lord, who has devoted to his task remarkable energy of research, these are all inadequate or misleading, and the facts of John Kay's life are now for the first time fully narrated. A strange, wandering, and romantic life appears to have been that of a man who, having conferred upon his native place unsurpassable obli- gation, saw nis house wrecked by the hostility of his fellow-townsmen, and was sent to perish in poverty and exile. John Kay is best known as the inventor of the flying shuttle, the effect of which in facilitat- ing textile labour cannot easily be over-estimated. By his biographer he is regarded as the inventor in> matters of textile machinery. His life has been written by one who is an antiquary, a genealogist, and an enthusiast, and has followed the trail of his- subject with the unerring instinct and fidelity of the sleuth-hound. A chief object of the work is to- show the inaccuracy and general untrustworthiness- of a life of Kay written by his grandson. Col. Thomas Sutcliffe, a task which is discharged with zeal and unction. It is impossible although the investigation brings us on the tracks of the Jacobite rising of 1745, and leads us up to associations with Dickens to follow Mr. Lord in his researches or to dwell upon his discoveries. For these the reader must turn to the book. What is unquestionably done is to establish the connexion or Kay with Bury, upon the trade of which prosperous town, much lignt is cast. Among numerous illustrations are portraits of John Kay himself ; of his biographer ; of Mr. Archibald Sparke, chief librarian of Bury, by whom the work is ushered in ; and of various local celebrities, including the Earl of Derby. Spots of interest are also depicted, and many- genealogies and other documents enrich a volume the scholarly attractions of which extend far beyond local bounds.

The Literature of the Highlands. By Magnus

Maclean, D.Sc. (Blackie & Son.) DB. MACLEAN has followed up his successful ' Literature of the Celts ' with a more specialized work on ' The Literature of the Highlands,' and it is to be hoped he will complete the trilogy with a similar book on the literature of the Irish, if that subject has not been too completely mono- polized by Dr. Joyce. In the present attractive- looking volume he excludes all the Gaelic litera- ture before the year 1745, as that already came within the purview of his previous essay. It was not, indeed, till after that date that the Gael first found his way into print, and that the golden age of Highland poetry began. The redeeming feature of all Gaelic poetry is the intense sympathy with Nature in all her moods which inspires it and gives it the richness of its colouring, a feature dis-