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of Dettingen of 1743. It might have been .added that the Royal Collection, whence this splendid picture came, having been in 1836 presented to the nation by Wil- liam IV., still boasts a fine bust of Lord Ligonier by Roubiliac. H. W.

EDWARD CLARKE, 1730-86. The 'D.N.B.' does not mention the fact that he was a Scholar of Winchester College. See Kirby's ' Winchester Scholars,' p. 245, and Scott's ' Admissions to the College of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge,' iii. 125.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

ROBERT BURTON AND JACQUES FERRAND'S Oxford Press ' (p. 219) Mr. Falconer Madan gives the title of an English version of this book published in 1640, the translator, according to Wood's ' Athense Oxonienses ' (ed. Bliss, iii. 350), being Edmund Chilmead : " EPftTO- MANIA | Or | A Treatise j Discoursing of the Essence, j Causes, Symptomes, Prog- | nos- ticks, and Cure of | Love, or | Erotiqve | Melancholy | Written by | lames Ferrand | Dr. of Physick.'*
 * MELANCHOLIE EROTIQUE.' In his ' Early

Mr. Madan in his note on this work says : " The original French edition was published ^t Toulouse in 1612, under the title ' Trait6 de 1'essence et guerison de 1'amour,' and at Paris in 1623 as ' De la maladie d'amour, ou melancholic erptique.' If Robert Burton was acquainted with the first edition of this book, as he well may have been, there can be little doubt that he has taken or imitated the general method and treatment of the subject, in his ' Anatomy of Melancholy ' ; but the French author is surpassed on his own ground."

There is no room here for conjecture. Burton distinctly states on more than one occasion that he was unacquainted with the French writer when he first composed his own work. On p. 14 of the 1632 'Anatomy of Melan- choly ' he writes : " Some things are here altered, expunged in this fourth Edition, others amended, much added, because many good Authors in all kinds are come to my hands since," the marginal note specifying these authors as " Frambesarius, Sennertus, Ferandus [sic], &c." Again, on p. 552 of the same edition the marginal note to " lacobus Ferrandus the Frenchman in his 'Tract ' de amore Erotique ' " is : " This Author came to my hands, since the third Edition of this booke." On p. 444 of his fifth edition (1638), in the middle of a state- ment about " Ferandus a Frenchman in his ' Eretique [sic\ Mel.,' " which had already appeared in the previous edition, Burton adds within brackets, " which book came first to my hands after the third edition,"

appending the marginal note : " Printed at Paris 1624, seven years after my first edition." It was presumably in consequence of this note that Dr. Ferriar, who himself used the eighth (1676) edition of ' The Ana- tomy of Melancholy,' asserted the date of the first issue to be 1617 (' Illustrations of Sterne,' 2nd ed., vol i. p. 90). The same error is found elsewhere. In Shilleto's edition (vol. iii. p. 67) the date given by Burton, 1624, is altered, without any warn- ing, to 1628, in order to harmonize it with the rest of the note.

I should be sorry to appear to disparage Mr. Madan's most useful and interesting book. Experience shows how extremely difficult it is to attain rigid accuracy in dealing with Burton. EDWARD BENSLY.

University College, Aberystwyth.

GAYFERE STREET, WESTMINSTER. A pro-

posal has been made that St. John's Street, Smith Square, should be renamed, and that the above should be its future name. To this, I think, no exception will be taken, as there are within the metropolitan area many streets with names which might well be changed for more distinctive appella- tions, and this is one of them.

Gayfere was, in his day, a notable West- minster man one who may well be honoured in this way. He was the master mason of Westminster Abbey, and superintended the restoration of Henry VII. 's chapel. Thomas Gayfere was churchwarden of the parish of St. John the Evangelist in 1778-9, and he and his co-churchwarden George Byfield were the defendants in an action in which the plaintiff was the Rev. Dr. Blair, Pre- bendary of Westminster and Rector of St. John's.

" The action was brought to recover a sum of money received by them, by virtue of their office, for laying down gravestones in the church- yard, and for rent received for vaults under the church, which had, ever since the consecration of the church, been received by the church- wardens on the parish account, in ease of the parish towards paying the Rector part of his income settled by Act of Parliament, by a pound rate on the inhabitants, &c. After a full hearing, a verdict was given for the defendants."

So The -Morning Chronicle of 2 June, 1781. Lord Mansfield was the judge.

Mr. Gayfere had been overseer in the years 1764-5. He is noted as having been " an active participator in parochial affairs," and for some time lived in Little College Street, close by the thoroughfare it is now sought to call after him. He was in 1801 described as the " Father of the Vestry," as may be seen by an inspection of an " in-