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11 Porch). In that document only four

sons and. two daughters are mentioned, a fact which suggests that the " eleven sons and eleven daughters " ascribed to him in

vfche ' D.N.B.,' article are to some extent imaginary. In the will, after the date (4 Nov., 17 Hen. VIII.), the testator describes himself as one of the judges " dicti domini Regis de banco." This would seem at first

.sight to imply the King's Bench, but Dugdale, Foss, the ' D.N.B.' and all other authorities

.allocate him to the Common Pleas.

ALFRED B. BEAVEN, M.A.

DENTON FAMILY, FOLKESTONE. (See 10 S. ii. 417 ; v. 209.) Yorkshire Notes and Queries (Bradford) for August, 1908, con- tained some ' Denton Family Notes,' re- lating chiefly to the ancestry and collateral descendants of the writer's late uncle-in-law, Mr. William Denton, who, as a retired builder of Folkestone, Kent, died in the latter place, 20 July, 1905. His will, dated 13 Aug., 1904, was proved in London, 6 Sept., 1905. His widow, a brother, three nephews, and a niece survive. The two first named reside at Folkestone ; one nephew resides at Cheriton, Kent (near Folkestone) ; the two remaining nephews and the niece (the latter being Mrs. McPike) reside in Chicago.

The article to which reference is made above was mentioned in The Folkestone, Hythe, Sandgate, and Chzriton Herald for 19 Dec., 1908, p. 10, col. 4, and that news- paper contained another item on the same family in the issue for 20 Feb., 1909, p. 10, col. 2.

The writer would be grateful for any in- formation relating to the early history of the Denton family of Beverley, Yorkshire. EUGENE F. McPiKE.

290, East Forty-Second Street, Chicago.

SHAKESPEARE SECOND FOLIO IN SWITZER- LAND. Readers of ' N. & Q.' are likely to be interested in the following, which I translate from a Swiss newspaper dated 24 April :

"According to the National Zeitung [a daily journal published at Bale], in the compilation of the catalogue at the Frey-Grimaisch Institute, a large number of very valuable books by English writers have been discovered notably the second edition of Shakespeare in folio, a work which ranks amongst the greatest of bibliographical rarities. By arrangement with the managers of the Frey- Xirimaisch Institute, this scarce edition and other English books, amounting in all to 6,000 volumes, Jiave been transferred to the Public Library [i.e., of Bale]."

A noteworthy " find," truly.

CECIL CLARKE.

MARQUIS DE MORANTE : MOTTO or HIS BOOK-PLATE. In the late Mr. R. C. Christie's entertaining account of ' The Marquis de Morante : his Library and its Catalogue,' which first appeared in the ' Papers of the Manchester Literary Club ' for 1883, and was reprinted in his ' Selected Essays and Papers,' edited by Dr. W. A. Shaw in 1902, mention is made of the motto on the Mar- quis's book-plate :

Egregios cumulare libros praeclara supellex ; but nothing is said of its source. The library, to quote Mr. Christie, included " a larger collection of modern Latin poetry than is, I think, to be found elsewhere," and the line in question is appropriately taken from a modern Latin poet. The couplet

Egregios cumulare libros prseclara supellex ; Ast urium utilius volvere ssepe librum

(the conclusion was perhaps not so much to the Marquis's taste) is most likely to catch an English reader's eye among the ' Monosticha qufrdam Ethica & Politica veterum Sapientum ' contained in nearly every edition of John Owen's 'Epigrammata.' But Owen was not the author of these ' Monosticha.' They were the work of a fifteenth-century poet, Michael Verinus. See, for example, his ' Disticha de Moribus cccxxiix.' at the end of Matthaeus Zuber's ' Cato Graecus ' (Hanoviae, 1619), where the above couplet is No. 234. Verinus's claim to this section of ' Owen ' was pointed out by Renouard in the preface to his edition of ' Joannis Audoeni Cambro-Britanni Epi- grammata,' printed by Didot at Paris in 1794. EDWARD BENSLY.

University College, Aberystwyth.

" THE DEBATABLE." In ' N.E.D.' are two illustrative quotations from Scottish sources (of 1551 and 1568 respectively) for "The Debatable" as meaning "The De- batable Land between England and Scotland, claimed (before the Union) by both countries." One from an English source could be added from a letter (sent from Sempringham on 21 June, 1552) of the Duke of Northumber- land, the Earl of Pembroke, and others to the Privy Council, communicating their pro- ceedings " with reference to the matter of the Debatable" ('Cecil MSS.,' vol. i. pp. 96-7). ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

" I SHALL JOURNEY THROUGH THIS WORLD

BUT ONCE." (See ante, p. 60, ' Notices to Correspondents.') Canon Jephson has sent this quotation recently to a Northampton paper, and attributes it unreservedly to R. W. Emerson. JOHN T. PAGE.