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I have a copy of the sequel, of which the
 * dedication is correctly given by AYEAHR.

The title, which I give below, shows that it i was not a privately printed issue, but was
 * published for sale by the most noted juvenile

bookseller of the day :

"A | Sequel | to | The Comic Adventures, | of another Hand, j London. | Published Feb? I 8t 1807, by J- Harris, Juvenile Librarv, I corner of St. Paul's Church Yard. | and C. Knight, Windsor."
 * Old Mother Hubbard, | and | her Dog, | By |

In my copy, which is coloured, the text and illustrations are engraved on copper.

With regard to the " Old Mother Hubbard"

' tradition which was utilized by Spenser,

attention may be invited to Prof. J. W.

Hales' s very interesting article in The


 * Athenceum for 24 .Feb., 1883 (No. 2887,

p. 248), which suggests that the story may

be derived from the legend of the dog-saint

Hubert. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

CORNISH AND OTHER APPARITIONS (10 S. ix. 325, 392 ; x. 35, 51). The full story of

the Botathen ghost, summarized at the last reference by W. P. CA., the authorship
 * the South Petherwin or, more correctly,

I of which has been commonly, but erroneously attributed to Defoe, was related by me at 8 S. viii. 221, 349. ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

IRISH REBELLION OF 1798 : CROTTY (10 S. ix. 510). As the fate of Crotty was that of hundreds in 1798, I fear that, unless some more definite data be given, Y. T. has a difficult task before him. Crotty may have been one of those " chiefs " referred to in the autobiographical sketch of General F. R. Chesney quoted in his ' Life ' (8vo, London, 1893), p. 44, who were

"" taken by the patrols in the vicinity of Newry, and executed in the presence of all the troops. They were offered pardon on condition of giving some intelligence required by Government, which they declined, and died too bravely for such a ause."

If Crotty by any action or misfortune was

distinguished above his fellows, it is singular

that he is not mentioned by Maxwell, who

was a native of those parts, and vividly

! remembered many of the incidents of the

\ rebellion, the above executions amongst

others.

Capt. Chesney 's MS. Autobiography, now

in the British Museum, makes no mention

of Crotty ; nor does his name occur in Mad-


 * den, Teeling, or McSkimmin, the three prin-

\ cipal authorities for the " Rising in the

North."

As the Mourne Infantry under Capt. Chesney as far as I can ascertain served

only in parts of Down and Louth, this narrows the scope of inquiry, and I would suggest that Y. T. should consult, if he can, the files of Gordon's Newry Chronicle of that date. JOHN S. CRONE.

Kensal Lodge, N.W.

HARVEY'S BIRTHPLACE (10 S. x. 9). John Aubrey, who was at Harvey's funeral, says :

" William Harvey, M.D., natus at Folkestone in Kent : borne at the house which is now the post- house, a faire stone-built house, which he gave to Caius College in Cambridge, with some lands there : vide his will. His brother Eliab would have given any money or exchange for it, because 'twas his father's arid they all borne there ; but the Doctor (truly) thought his memory would better be pre- served this way, for his brother has left noble seates, and about 3000 li. per annum, at least.

"Hemsted in Essex towards AudeleyEnd: ibi sepultus D r Harvey."

Aubrey mentions his white marble statue " in the Library at the Physitians' Colledge," and continues :

"D r Harvey added (or was very bountifull in contributing to) a noble building of Roman archi- tecture (of rustique worke, with Corinthian pillasters) at the Physitians' College aforesaid, viz. a great parlour (or 'a kind of Convocation-house') for theFellowes to meet in, belowe ; and a library,

above All these remembrances and building was

destroyed by the generall fire."

See Mr. Andrew Clark's edition of Aubrey's ' Brief Lives,' 1898, i. 295-7.

A. R. BAYLEY.

KING'S SILVER : LINCOLN COLLEGE (10 S. x. 47). " King's silver " was a payment made to the king for liberty to compromise the fictitious and amicable suit which ended in a Fine (or Final Concord), and established the title of a purchaser or donee of property. This was a common method of conveying lands, and was also used for effecting transfers, by gift or sale, of advowsons and Church property. The " King's Silver Books " for certain years exist at the Record Office, but some are not now legible. From these, or, if they are not available, from the Feet of Fines, or the Books of Entries of Fines, for Oxfordshire it may be possible to get a record of the actual trans- actions in respect of which the sums referred to were payable for the churches of Lincoln College. R. S. B.

The royal borough of Woodstock contained the parish of Long Combe, and from the fact of the manor and honour of the former having continued in the Crown until the reign of Queen Anne, all Fines were necessarily payable to the Clerk of the King's Silver,