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the election for London took place on 13 Dec., 1496, that for Ipswich on 23 Dec., and for King's Lynn on 16 Dec. The Parlia- ment met on the day for which it was sum- moned, i.e., 16 Jan., 1496/7. How long it lasted we are ignorant, but seemingly its duration was but brief. Some accounts say that the Speaker was Thomas Englefield, M.P. for Berks ; but I know of no clear evidence of this. Sir Thomas Englefield was Speaker in the first Parliament of Henry VIII., 1509/10. I doubt his election to the office in any previous Parliament.

I venture to subjoin the list of Henry VIII. 's Parliaments and Speakers, so far as my researches have led me.

1 Henry VII. Parliament 7 Nov., 1485. Writs dated 15 Sept., 1485. Duration un- certain, but probably dissolved early in March, 1486. (A MS. in the York archives states that the two members for York set out in Nov., 1485, and returned 28 Dec. ; went again in January, returning 10 March. Apparently, therefore, there were two sessions, or perhaps an adjournment over Christmas, the Parliament ending some few days before 10 March. (See Gent. Mag. for 1851, p. 167.) Speaker, Sir Thomas Lovell, Kt.

3 Henry VII. Parliament 9 Nov., 1487. Writs dated 1 Sept., 1487. Duration un- certain. Speaker, Sir John Mordaunt, Kt.

4 Henry VII. Parliament 13 Jan., 1488/9. Writs not found. There were three ses- sions : (a) 13 Jan. 23 Feb., 1488/9 ; (6) 14 Oct. 4 Dec., 1489 ; (c) 25 Jan. 27 Feb., 1489/90 (on the last day it was dissolved). Speaker, Sir Thomas Fitzwilliam, Kt.

7 Henry VII. Parliament 17 Oct., 1491. Writs dated 12 Aug., 1491. First session, 17 Oct. 4 Nov., 1491 ; second session, 26 Jan. 5 March, 1491/2, being dissolved on the last-named day. Speaker, Richard Empson, Esq.

11 Henry VII. Parliament 14 Oct., 1495. Writs dated 15 Sept., 1495. Duration un- known. Speaker, Robert Drury, Esq.

12 Henry VII. Parliament 16 Jan., 1496/7. Writs not found. Duration un- certain. Speaker, (?) Sir Reginald Bray, Kt.

19 Henry VII. Parliament 25 Jan., 1503/4. Writs not found. Duration un- certain. Speaker, Edmund Dudley, Esq.

Henry VII. was no lover of Parliaments. As will be seen from the foregoing list, in the first twelve years of his reign he called ix Parliaments, and in the last twelve years but one.

It is but fair to notice the fact recorded by Mr. Beaven in connexion with the Par- liament of January, 1496/7, that while the

election of City members took place on 13 Dec., 1496, a previous election, apparently DO the same Parliament, is recorded in the lorporation Journal on 19 Oct., 1496. Mr. Beaven considers that this was a preliminary nomination, or that the second election was rendered necessary owing to one of the persons originally returned declining to serve. It is a little singular that the King's Lynn Hall Books show an almost analogous case of elections on both 25 Oct. and 16 Dec., 1496 (see ' Norfolk Official Lists,' by H. Le Strange, p. 211). I have no doubt whatever that Mr. Beaven is right in his surmise, inasmuch as other instances could be given from local records of two separate elections to one Parliament, the second being rendered necessary through one or other of the persons first chosen desiring to be excused from serving. In those days Parliamentary honours were not so eagerly sought for as they have become since. W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Newtori-le-Willows.

[MR. A. F. BOBBINS also refers to Manning's 'Lives of the Speakers.']

ETON COLLEGE NAMES (10 S. xi. 290). If D. K. T. means the names cut in Lower School which represent those boys who " got King's " he will find printed lists of the Kingsmen in such publications as Har- wood's ' Alumni Etonenses ' and Pote's ' Registrum Regale.' But if he means the names cut in Upper School, I do not believe any complete list has ever been published. It would, indeed, be a considerable under- taking, though well worth the doing, as, owing to the fact that initials are given, it would lead to the identification of many boys, of whom we now know nothing but the surname. A few very early names may be found cut in other places, viz., on the stone jambs of the windows in the gallery running round the Cloister Court.

R. A. AUSTEN LEIGH.

I do not know of any list of the names cut in Upper School, &c., Eton. There is an interesting article in The Strand Magazine of November, 1895 (x. 494), entitled ' Great Names at Eton and Harrow,' with illustra- tions from photographs. Among the few names given are C. J. Fox, Clive (Edward, son of the great Lord Clive), S. Canning (Lord Statford de Redcliffe), W. E. Glad- stone, and other Gladstones.

The vast majority of the names on the panels have been for many years cut by professionals. In the article which I mention is a reduced facsimile of a letter written