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Douglas was transferred to the colonelcy of a new-raised regiment of foot in Scotland, 1694, and attained the rank of Major- General. Queen Anne bestowed an addi- tional pension of 1 per diem on Sir William for his services, and to compensate him for the loss of his estate in France (Queen Anne's letter to the Scottish Treasury, 31 Jan., 1706, 'Warrant Book for Scotland,' vol. xxi.). On the death of this officer in 1710, his son, Lieut. -Col. Charles Douglas, claimed and was granted the pensions enjoyed by his late father (' Cal. Treasury Papers'). In May, 1729, George II. wrote an autograph letter to Louis XV. on behalf of Col. Charles Douglas's claims to certain lands in France,* which had belonged to Sir William Douglas, but had been forfeited at the commencement of the Anglo-French war. Col. Douglas was the bearer of the king's letter to the King of France. f This gallant officer was given command of a new- raised regiment of Marines on 21 Nov., 1739, which he commanded at the siege of Carthagena in 1741, where his head was taken off by a cannon ball. He left a widow, Jacobina Douglas, and a large family. The youngest of his five sons bore the honoured name of Archibald. The fourth son, Lieut. William Douglas, died 8 March, 1743, aged seventeen, and was buried in Westminster Abbey (Chester's ' Westminster Abbey Registers,' p. 362). On 3 March, 1761, Mrs. Jacobina Douglas was interred in the same grave. CHARLES D ALTON. 32, West Cromwell Road.

'ENGLANDS PARNASSUS,' 1600. (See 10 S. ix. 341, 401 ; x. 4, 84.)

THE first edition of ' Tottel's Miscellany ' appeared 5 June, 1557, or barely a month before the second was issued. In the meantime, Tottel had procured the manu- scripts of thirty-nine additional poems, which he promptly printed under ' Uncertain Authors.' He also learned, before his second edition was printed, some fresh par- ticulars concerning the authorship and purpose of some of the poems previously printed, and these he- denotes by fresh headings for poems and transpositions. One poem, entitled " Not to trust to much

p. 121. From a letter at Longleat it appears these lands were " in Alsace and else where." Sir William Douglas had acquired these estates by marriage with a French lady ('Marquess of Bath's MSS.,' vol. iii. p. 118).
 * The MSS. of the Marquess Townshend,'

t ' Townshend MSS.' as before.

but beware by others calamities," is given the new heading " The lover, dredding to move his sute for dout of denial, accuseth all women of disdaine and ficklenesse,"" and transferred further on to precede a poem which is a direct answer to it (Arber, pp. 136 and 215). Now, Tottel did not know the authors of these poems, but Allot is so well informed that he is able to furnish us with two signatures for one of them. It is the second poem that demands atten- tion, its title being " An answere to a song- before imprinted beginyng. To walke on doutfull grounde." This case furnishes fine- examples of ancient and modern editing, as we shall see. Here are the extracts from Tottel, with their signatures :

' Envie/ p. 85. Oft malice makes the mind to shed the boyled

brine. And Envies humor oft unlades by conduits of the

eine. (signed) T. W.

' Craft,' c., p. 44. Oft Craft can cause the man to make a seeming:

show Of hart, with dolor all distaind, where grief doth

never grow. (signed) S. T. B.

Who is " T. W." ? and who is " S. T. B." ?' Collier thought " T. W." stood for " William- Warner," or that, to save worry and trouble,, it ought to do so ; and therefore he credited the entry to that author's ' Albions Eng- land,' as he has done with troublesome- passages elsewhere in Allot. " T. W." could be used for Thomas Watson ; but,, as we know now that the passage is from Tottel, we may conclude that Allot meant the initials to represent the name of Sir- Thomas Wyatt.

In Allot, " S " before other initials

fenerally signifies " Sir," as in the cases of ir John Harington and Sir Philip Sidney, whose entries are sometimes signed "S. J. H.' r and *' S. P. S." If, then, we assume that Allot or his printer made a mistake in a letter, " S. T. B." ought to read " S. F. B.," or Sir Francis Bryan a known contributor to the ' Miscellany.' But is Allot' s testi- mony in this case worth accepting ? How did he know that Sir Francis Bryan had a hand in the poem ? and why does he sign another extract from it with the initials of Sir Thomas Wyatt ? Two men did not write this one short poem, and therefore Allot must have been guessing ; and he probably filled in the signatures after he had got his slips under their own headings. This explanation would account for the two signatures, although it is not certain that the initials stand for Wyatt andi Bryan.