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III. Nathaniel Gulston, matriculated from St. Alban Hall, Oxford, 10 Nov., 1598. Elected scholar of Trinity College 5 June, 1599, then described as aged 16, " of Wimondab, Leicestershire." B.A. 1603, M.A. 1607. Probationer Fellow of Trinity College 12 June, 1609 ; actual Fellow 15 June, 1610 ; appears to have vacated his fellowship in 1612. Admitted to Gray's Inn 11 Aug., 1609. B.D. 1636, D.D. 1637. Rector of Lyndon, Rutland, 1617. Rector of Wymondham 1632 ; buried there 11 Dec., 1647.

Dr. Nathaniel Gulston married (pre- sumably after 26 April, 1632) and had issue :

(1) William Gulston, born circa 1636 ; educated at Grantham School for three years ; admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge, 4 Oct., 1653, then described as "of Wimandham, Leicestershire, son of Nathaniel Gouldston, D.D., deceased." M.A., D.D. Patron of Wymondham pleno jure, temp. Car. II. Chaplain to Frances, Duchess of Somerset ; presented by her, 1669, to the rectory of Symondsbury, Dorset. Bishop of Bristol, cons. 9 Feb., 1678/9 ; held Symondsbury Rectory in commendam. Died at Symondsbury Parsonage 4 April, buried in the chancel 18 April, 1684. Bishop Gulston married and had issue a son, Seymour Gulston, born circa 1672, Rector of Symondsbury 1695 ; and (according to ' D.N.B.,' sub Eustace Budgell) an only daughter, Mary, second wife of Gilbert Budgell, D.D., of St. Thomas's, Exeter, and mother of Eustace Budgell, born 19 Aug., 1686, one of the contributors to The Spectator.

(2) Jane (IV.).

(3) Dorothy, bapt. at Wymondham, 5 Nov., 1646 ; then described as "daughter of Mr. Nathanaell Gulston Doct r in Div fcie ."

IV. Jane Gulston, born circa 1645, wife of Lancelot Addison and mother of Joseph Addison, described by Tickell (Preface to ' Miscellaneous Works ' of Addison) as " daughter of Nathaniel Gulston, D.D., and sister of Dr. William Gulston, Bishop of Bristol." Marriage licence (V.-G.) 11 June, 1670 ; allegation by" Francis Ashley, of St. Clement Danes, for marriage in that parish, at St. Mary's, Savoy, or in Gray's Inn Chapel. The inclusion of Gray's Inn Chapel may be connected with the fact that Dr. Nathaniel Gulston and his two brothers were, as has been seen, all members of Gray's Inn. Mrs. Addison died 30 June, 1684 (cf. 5 S. vi. 350 and 7 S. viii. 6). A monumental inscription in the choir of

Lichfield Cathedral stated that she was " full of hope " in view of death at a comparatively early age. It is hardly fanciful to suggest that this description forecasts the typically cheerful piety of her illustrious son, which was never more mani- fest than on his death-bed.

Can any one add anything of genealogical interest ? G. O. BELLEWES.

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THE SPLEEN UNFAVOURABLE TO RUNNING.

IN the first canto of Mistral's poem ' Mireio ' the youthful hero tells the story of a foot-race at Nimes. The favourite is full of confidence. " S'ei di qu'avie ges de ratello," it was said that he had no spleen. This idea is very common in Provence : " He runs like a derata" that is, as one- without a spleen. It would be curious to know if there be any idea of this kind sur- viving in Northern countries.

Some time ago a medical correspondent of The Standard asked for records of any operation for removal of the spleen in athletes of ancient times. This communication was reproduced in The British Medical Journal, with the remark that Pliny had spoken of the operation :

"The passage in Pliny's 'Natural History r (Eleventh Book) in Philemon Holland's Version runs as follows. Speaking of the spleen, he says : ' This member hath a prqpertie by itself sometimes, to hinder a man's running : whereupon professed runners in the race that be troubled with the splene, have a deuise to burne and wast it with a hot yron. And no marvell ; for why ? they say that the splene may be taken out of the bodie by way of incision and yet the creature live neverthelesse : but if it be- man or woman that is thus cut for the splene, hee or she loseth their laughing by the means. For sure it is that un temperate laughers have alwaies great splenes.' "

When " spleen " is reached in the ' O.E.D.,' quotations will very possibly throw light on the subject. Meanwhile I only point out that " rate " and " ratel," corresponding to the French rate and the- Proven9al ratello, are duly mentioned in it, with a 1578 quotation : " greeues [griefs,, ailments] comming or proceeding from the Rate or Spleene."

It seems as if ancient physiology tried to find a function for the spleen, placed as it is on the left side, and corresponding on a smaller scale to the liver on the right side. It corrected the morbid tendency of the liver ; to this organ melancholy was attributed, and to the spleen an opposite disposition. So the larger or the mor&