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words vv fpXfTui; but Dr. Johnson, thinking the motto might appear ostentatious, disused the dial-plate, replacing it with a plain one. The watch itself was made by Mudge, London. The Bible is a pocket one, bound in red leather, with a clasp ; the London edition of 1650, printed for the Stationers' Company ; and (what one could not have expected to find with Dr. Johnson) consequently a republican copy. It bears marks of close and constant study, being folded down, according to his custom, at numerous passages. The present owner religiously preserves the folds as Johnson left them. I hope it was with no unprofitable emotion that I held in my hand this little volume, the well-worn manual of our great English moralist. A volume of South 's ' Sermons, ' used by Dr. Johnson for his ' Dictionary,' was also much worn, and the margin repeatedly marked in pencilling, or the passages for citation underlined.

" From the Cathedral, the Bishop proceeded to visit the house in which Dr. Johnson was born ; saw the shop (then a brazier's) in which his father carried on business as a bookseller ; and a small back parlour, in which the son is said to have studied. The room in which he was born stands immediately over the shop ; this the owner was prevented from showing, owing to the illness of one of the family." Forscer, ' Life of Bishop Jebb,' 1851, pp. 218-20.

F. H.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EASTER,

(Continued from 10 S. ix. 305.)

Paschal Candle. " Cereae paschales candelae vt dominicae resurrectionis sabbato per singula templa consecrarentur, Zozimus auctor fuit." Polydore Vergil, ' De Rervm Inventoribvs ' (1499), Geneva?, 1604, p. 506.

A Sermon of Christ Crucified, preached at Paules Crosse the friday before Easter, commonly called good fryday .... By lohn Foxe. 4to, 73 leaves, London, lohn Daye, 1570. The same in Latin. 4to, 107 leaves, 1571.

The Resurrection asserted : a Sermon. By John Wallis, D.D., Professor of Geometry. Sin. 4to, Oxford, 1679.

" I told him that it was now late at night, that the next morning being Easter-day I in- tended to receive the Eucharist in Whitehall Chapel ; that that day was too sacred and solemn to do any business in." Dr. Thomas Smith, 1687, in Oxford Hist. Soc., vi. 3.

L' Office de la Semaine Sainte, en Latin et Fran- cais a 1'usage de Rome. 8vo, plates, Paris, 1741.

An Account of some Lent and other extra- ordinary Processions seen at Lisbon. By George Whitefield. 1768.

Easter Hunt at Epping Forest. An etching by J. Bretherton after H. Bunbury, 19 in. by 53 in., 1799.

Shores of the Adriatic, Austrian Side. By F. Hamilton Jackson. 1908. Good Friday pro- cession, p. 92 ; Easter customs, pp. 15, 121.

The First Easter Dawn : an Inquiry into the Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus. By Charles T. Gorham. 1908.

Studies in the Resurrection of Christ. An Argument. By Canon C. H. Robinson. 8vo,. 1909.

Easter Eggs. An Easter Idyll for Children.. By Christoph von Schmid. Illustrated. 4to, 1909.

W. C. B.

CHARLES TOWNSHEND, M.P. FOR YARMOUTH, 1756-1761.

THEBE is an error in the ' Official Return of Members of Parliament ' (not corrected in the copious appendix of Errata) which, inasmuch as it is repeated in two articles in the ' D.N.B.,' seems likely to be per- petuated. Most people are content to take the 'D.N.B.' as a final authority in such matters, only tiresome sceptics like myself venturing to go behind it.

The Return (vol. ii. p. 114) gives the following :

" Great Yarmouth. Charles Townshend, Esq., 18 April, 1754.

" Charles Townshend, Esq., re-elected after- appointment as Treasurer of the Chamber,. 13 Dec., 1756."

and again (correctly) at p. 128 :

" Great Yarmouth. Charles Townshend, Esq.,. of Honingham, 27 March, 1761."

Prof. Pollard, a most careful biographer, whose name might almost be accepted as a guarantee of accuracy, records in his notice of the elder and more eminent Charles Townshend ('D.N.B.,' vol. Ivii. p. 118) that he was " re-elected for Yarmouth " 13 Dec., (1756), and that "at the general election in May," 1761 (the general election, by the way, was not in May), " he gave up his seat .... to his cousin, Charles Towns- hend (afterwards Lord Bayning)." So, too, Mr. Le Grys Norgate ('D.N.B.,' vol. Ivii. p. 120), writing of the first Lord Bayning, says that " at the general election of 1761 he succeeded his cousin Charles as member for Great Yarmouth."

The facts are that the elder Charles was not re-elected for Yarmouth in 1756, but took refuge at Saltash, and his cousin then (1756) succeeded him in the former borough, being re-elected there in 1761. It may seem presumptuous for me to dispute the united testimony of the Official Return and Prof. Pollard (to say nothing of Mr. Norgate) ; but the authority of the Return has obviously been followed by the writers in the ' D.N.B.' without further inquiry. I think the evidence I am about to adduce is sufficient to prove them in error.

1. Horace Walpole in a letter to Sir Horace Mann (29 Nov., 1756) gives an account