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of the ministerial changes after Townshend's transfer from the Admiralty to the Treasurer- ship of the Chamber ; he adds : " Mr. Towns- hend cannot be rechosen at Yarmouth, but only consents to accept provided another borough can be found for him." This is strong presumptive evidence, and it is con- firmed by the following.

2. The Official Return (ii. 110) gives (without any note of identification) :

" Saltash. Charles Townshend, Esq., 14 Dec., 1756."

3. ' The Court and City Register ' for 1756 gives :

" Yarmouth. Hon. Charles Townshend of Atterbury, Oxon, 2nd son of Viscount Townshend, a Lord of the Admiralty." And the same annual for 1757 has :

" Saltash. Hon. Charles Townshend of Atter- bury, Oxon, 2nd son of Viscount Townshend."

" Yarmouth. Charles Townshend, Esq., nephew to Viscount Townshend, Secretary to Sir Benjamin Keene, his Majesty's Ambassador at [sic] Spain."

" Chosen since the general election."

4. In the issues of ' The Court and City Register' for 1758, 1759, 1760, 1761, the same identifications are repeated, and (as if "to make assurance doubly sure ") the words " Treasurer of the Chamber " are appended to the name of the member for Saltash, and an asterisk is prefixed, denoting a Privy Councillor, to which dignity he (the elder Charles) was promoted in 1757, the younger not attaining to that position till twenty years later. In the last three of these four years he is correctly styled " Right Hon." instead of " Hon.," in virtue of his seat on the Privy Council.

5. Beatson's ' Parliamentary Register ' (vol. ii. p. 160) carefully discriminates (under ' Harwich ' ) between the Charles Townshend of 1754 and the one of 1756 as being respectively son and nephew of Viscount Townshend, and (p. 37) describes the M.P. for Saltash, 1756, as "second son of Viscount Townshend : Treasurer of the Chamber." (This book was published in the lifetime of the younger Charles.)

6. In Smith's ' Parliaments of England ' (vol. i. p. 229) there is a foot-note to the record of the election in 1756 to the effect that ' the Hon. C. Townshend was elected for Saltash."

7. Mr. Norgate himself puts G. E. C.'s ' Complete Peerage ' first on his list of authorities, yet G. E. C. correctly states (vol. ii. p. 273) that Lord Bayning sat for Yarmouth from 1756 to 1784. (He should have added " and from 1790 to 1796.")

8. Sharpe's ' Genealogical Peerage ' (vol. i. r under ' Bayning ') states that he (the younger Charles Townshend, first Lord Bayning) represented Yarmouth " for nearly forty years from 1756."

I may add, though I have not the refer- ences at hand, that the newspapers of 1756
 * ive the same information. I have seen

With all these authorities easily accessible bo those who work in London, it is a pity that the writers in the ' D.N.B.' should have ignored them, and so perpetuated an error which might easily have been rectified. This is only one instance out of thousands- which I have ready to hand illustrating the necessity of verifying statements of historical fact, even when they are supported by the prestige of the ' D.N.B.'

Mr. Norgate in his article on Lord Bayning invents a new office for him that of " Vice- Treasurer of the Navy." He will not find that designation (which I have never seen. elsewhere, though my reading in regard to public officials of all kinds covers a fairly wide field) in any of the original authorities to which he refers at the end of his article. AL.FBED B. BEAVEN.

Leamington.

'ENGLANDS PARNASSUS,' 1600.

(See 10 S. ix. 341, 401 ; x. 4, 84, 182, 262, 362., 444 ; xi. 4, 123, 204.)

' Soule,' p. 323. Everie good motion that the Soule awakes.

Drayton's ' Epist., Lady J. Grey to Dudley,' (signed) Ed. Spencer.

' Soule,' p. 324. ... .As Phoebus throwes, &c.

G. Chapman's ' Cont. of Hero and Leander, ' Sest. III., (signed) Idem, viz. Spenser.

' Soule,' p. 327. That learned father, which so flrmely prooves.

Idea,' Son. XII., 1593, (signed) M. Drayton-

' Of Sorrow,' p. 330. Sorrow is still unwilling to give over.

' Comp. of Rosamond,' 1. 863, (signed) S.- Daniell.


 * Of Sorrow,' p. 331.

He that his Sorrow sought, through wilfulnesse. ' Faerie Queene,' II. v. 24, (signed) Ed- Spencer.

Correct Collier, as under : 'Teares,' p. 332. Teares, vows, and prayers, gaine the hardest

hearts. ' Delia,' Son. XI., (signed) S. Daniell.

Teares worke no truce, but where the heart is-
 * Teares,' p. 333.

tender.

' Elstred,' appended to ' Philtis,' (signed) D- Lodge.