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 10 3. XL FEB. 13, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

m''ig er ante. 1 In view of these erroneous forms it would appear to be safe to assert that the form " Aro-sete " is a scribal error for " Dor-sete."

ALFRED ANSCOMBE. 30, Albany Road, Stroud Green, N.

PEWTER MARKS : POSIE RINGS. The following extracts from the will of Ellen Perry, of Weston Zoyland, Somerset, which was proved at Wells on 13 June, 1755, may perhaps be of interest to collectors of old pewter and others. She leaves to her daughter Mary Chinn a gold ring with this posie : " God doth fore see what 's best for me." To her daughter Ann Lovibon, a pewter dish marked with the letters S. S. and M. S., and date 1703 ; two small pewter dishes marked R. E. and P. (no doubt Richard and Ellen Perry, since her husband's name was Richard), and a gold ring with this posie : "I live, I love, I rest content ; I like my choice not to repent." To her granddaughter Mary Chinn, a pewter dish with letters R. A. D. and a gold ring with this posie : "In thee my choice I rejoice." To her granddaughter Mary Southe, a pewter dish marked T. H. and date 1682. To her granddaughter Betty Lovibon, a pewter dish with the letters M. M. and S. S., and a gold ring with this posie : " God's blessing be on thee and me." To her grandson Edward Lovibon, a silver spoon marked A. K. and E. A. To her grand- daughter Betty Burnal, a pewter dish marked W. C. and E. A., date 1682. To her granddaughters Mary and Ellen Burnal, pewter dishes marked E. A. and A. To her granddaughter Ann Burnal, a pewter dish marked W. J. and T.

G. S. PARRY, Lieut. -Col.

BOOKSELLERS IN THE PROVINCES. I do not think the following are to be found in the lists of booksellers you have lately been pub- lishing :

1732. Chester. P. Potter, bookseller. Robert Wright's New and Correct Tables. 4to.

1728. Liverpool. James Ansdell, bookseller. Robert Wright's An Humble Address. 4to.

1732. Manchester. W. Clayton, bookseller. Wright's Tables.

1732. Preston. J. Hopkins, bookseller. Wright's

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lables.

1732. Warrington. J. Higginson, bookseller. Wright's Tables.

1732. Wigan. J. Laland, bookseller. Wright's Tables.

HENRY R. PLOMER.

' The Agricola ' of Tacitus, Vatican MS. 3429, A.D. 1497 ; ed. F. C. Wex, 1852, p. 280 L 3.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

MACAULAY'S ' FREDERIC THE GREAT ' : PELLETIER. Being engaged on a study of the above, I am at a loss how to account for a name occurring there about twelve pages from the middle of the essay. " In his letters and conversations," says Macaulay, " he alluded to the greatest potentates of the age in terms which would have better suited Calle, in a war of repartee with young Crebillon at Pellrtier's table, than a great sovereign speaking of great sovereigns."

I wish to settle the identity of this Pelle- tier. It cannot be the French chemist, the other two being more than fifty years older than the latter.

PROF. DR. PAUL REIMANN.

Lindenstrasse, 6, Danzig.

REV. WILLIAM Cox, LECTURER, ST. MARY ABBOT'S, KENSINGTON. I should be grateful if any correspondent could tell me by whom the above was appointed Lecturer at St. Mary Abbot's, and whether he held any other appointment in addition to the lecture- ship.

In the burial register of St. Mary Abbot's there is an entry dated 22 Jan., 1754 : " Rev. Mr. William Cox, Lecturer."

In the baptismal register there is an entry dated 9 May, 1724 : " Baptized Nicholas, son of William Cox, clerk, and Mrs. Frances his wife."

In the will of William Cox, dated 17 Sept., 1749, he styles himself M.A. of the parish of Kensington. In the administration of the will he is described as the Rev. William Cox.

The Bishop of London's visitation book shows William Cox Lecturer at St. Mary Abbot's, from 1719 onwards.

EDMUND C. Cox, Bt.

102, Gordon Road, West Ealing, W.

COBBETT ON SHAKESPEARE AND MlLTON.

I should be very much indebted to any of your readers if they would let me know ' where I could find, in the Catalogue of the British Museum Library or elsewhere, the text of Cobbett's adverse criticisms on Shak- speare and Milton, to which Byron alludes in an article in defence of Pope against Bowles's attacks. I recently examined all the entries of Cobbett's works in the Museum Catalogue, but could find no work on such