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is said to be fond of getting in close proximity to a sleeping boy for some reason or other possibly for warmth, and because his skin is soft and smooth.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. [Further replies next week.]

REVOLUTION SOCIETY (10 S. x. 247). This was a society for " the permanent union and mutual intercourse of those zealously attached to the principles of the Revolution, and the cause of freedom." It is supposed to have been established soon after the Revolution. The Society met on the 4th of November, that being the birthday of William III. One of its most important meetings was at Street, 4 Nov., 1788.
 * ' The London Tavern " in Bishopsgate

There is in the British Museum Library a book or pamphlet (I am not sure which) entitled ' The Revolution Society,' which may contain something relating to the Society's records. The press - mark is 8135 ccc. 3 (6). See also ' An Abstract of the History and Proceedings of the Revolu- tion Society in London, to which is annexed a copy of the Bill of Rights,' and Dr. Brewer's


 * Historic Note-Book.'

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

JOHN SHAKESPEARE, OB. 1732 (10 S. ix. 9, 178). I copied the inscription referred to from Layston Churchyard, Herts, some years back, and sent it to the now defunct Genealogical Magazine during the time the interesting articles on Shakespeare's family by Mrs. C. C. Stopes were being printed. It duly appeared in vol. i. p. 544.

MR. GERISH may like to know that there were Shakespeares living at Great Berk- hampstead, Herts, in the eighteenth century. John Shakespeare married Sarah Wilkinson there on 7 Nov., 1756 ; and Wm. Shakespear married Mary Marshall there, by licence, on 13 Oct., 1794. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

48, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.

VOREDA, ROMAN TOWN (10 S. x. 269). For the remains in question vol. vii. of the

be consulted, cap. xxx., ' Plumptonwall sive Old Penrith.' Many inscriptions will be found there, and a very large number of Teferences. In the absence of more definite evidence the identification of the site with Voreda of the ' Antonine Itinerary ' can be no more than a guess.
 * Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum ' should

This seventh volume of the ' Corpus,' "which is wholly devoted to inscriptions in 'Great Britain, and may be obtained separately for II. 12s., ought surely to be in every

important public library in this country. The volumes (iii., iv., and vii.) of the ' Ephe- meris Epigraphica ' which are required to supplement it may also be had apart from the series. ^EDWARD BENSLY.

There are references to Plumpton in the Index to the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Association, especially, I think, to vol. v. ; but I am unable at present to ascertain whether in relation to Voreda. Would not Chancellor Richard S. Ferguson's ' History of Cumber- land,' 1890, afford some information, the author being " the very embodiment of the archaeology and history of the county " ?

In Nicolson's 'History of Cumberland' is the following :

"Old Penrith (says Mr. Horsley), which I take to be Bremeturacum, stands upon the grand military way that leads directly to Carlisle or to the Wall, and is visible almost all the way to it."

" Penrith," in British, says Camden, is

" a red hill or head According to Dr. Gale, the

Voreda of Antoninus is commonly call'd Perith

Near this [i.e., Plumpton Park] I saw several remains of a demolished City, which from its nearness to Perith they call Old Perith : I should rather take it to be the Petrianai. For that the Ala Petriana was quarter'd here is plain from the fragment of an old Inscription which one Vlpius Trajanus, a Pensionary of the same Ala Petriana, set up."

Here follow four separate inscriptions ( Gib- son' sed., 1722, vol. ii. c. 1019, 1020, and 1021).

Old Penrith is, I think, generally believed to be the Voreda or Bremeturacum of the Romans, with a camp of 3 acres 396 ft. by 360 ft., where not only inscriptions, but also an altar to Mars, urns, &c., have been found. Dr. Isaac Taylor, however ( ' Words and Places'), considers Penrith to be not the "red hill or summit," but "the head of the ford," as Meldreth, Shepreth. It is remark- able, however, that Penrith Church is built of red freestone.

See also W. Hutchinson's ' Excursion to the Lakes, in 1773 and 1774 ' ; Pennant's ' Tour in Scotland,' in 1769, when " the vallum, foss, and gates " were " still very visible," and (possibly) Henry Skrine's ' Three Successive Tours in the North of England,' &c. ; Cox's ' Survey of the Ancient and Present State of Cumberland,' 1738 ; J. Otley's ' Concise Description of the English Lakes and Adjacent Mountains,' 1827 ; J. Wilson's 'History of Cumberland' (Vic- toria County Histories, 1901-5) ; J. Sulli- van's ' Cumberland and Westmoreland, An- cient and Modern,' 1857 ; Housman's ' Topo- graphical Description of Cumberland,' &c. ; Joseph Walker's 'History of Penrith from