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No heading, p. 541. Not that Colossus reared up in Rhodes.

' Comp. of Elstred,' (signed) D. Lodge.

Correct Collier, as under : No heading, p. 542. . . . .Art, striving to compare, &c.

' Faerie Queene,' II. v. 29, (signed) Ed. Sp

' Of Beasts,' p. 557.

The spotted Panther, and the tusked Boare. ' Faerie Queene,' I. vi. 26.

No heading, p. 558. Is the brave Normans courage now forgot ?

' Epist. Q. Isabel to Mortimer,' (signed) M. Dray.

No heading, p. 560. Fresh Hyacinthus, Phoebus paramoure.

' Faerie Queene,' III. vi. 45, (signed) Idem, viz., Spenser.

' Nimphs,' p. 560. 'The woody Nymphs, faire hamadryades.

' Faerie Queene,' I. vi. 18, (signed) Idem, viz., Spenser.

No heading, p. 561.

Fresh shadowes, fit to shrowd from sunny ray. ' Faerie Queene,' IV. x. 24, (signed) Ed. Sp.

No heading, p. 562. His angry steed did chide his foaming bitte.

' Faerie Queene,' I. i. 1, (signed) Idem, viz., Spenser.

No heading, p. 577. Who holdeth league with Neptune and the winde ?

' Civil Wars,' vi. 75, (signed) S. Dan. The Phoenix gazeth on the sunnes bright beames. ' Trag. of Selimus,' 11. 458-9, (signed) B.

Greene. 'Collier refers to ' Hist, of Orlando Furioso.'

I have omitted all quotations dealt with previously, and do not supply refer- ences for passages that have already been traced in Peele, Chapman, ' The Tragedy of Selimus,' and in other authors and single pieces. The references for such passages have been made public, and are known ; and, for anything that I can say to the contrary, some of those recorded now may also be public property. Nor have I attempted to check hundreds of the refer- ences supplied by Collier, who is never reliable, and who often trusted to his imagi- nation for his references.

A brief summary of the errors of assign- ment in ' Englands Parnassus,' as known to me, will form a fitting conclusion to these papers. CHABLES CRAWFORD.

(To be continued.)

BEATING THE BOUNDS IN 1763. The near approach of the Rogation days and of the festival of the Ascension suggests that an account of the " Beating of the Bounds " of -a Dorset parish in 1763 may prove of interest.

Before the eighteenth century the old religious service, in which litanies and

prayers were used in the fields, invoking the blessing of the Almighty upon the seed which had been sown in the ground, had for the most part degenerated into a perambu- lation of the parish, when the boundaries were carefully noted : though the proceed- ings probably usually commenced with a service in church, and perhaps often concluded with a convivial meal. The accurate maps, published in connexion with the various Ordnance surveys made during the last century and a quarter, have rendered such marking of the parochial boundaries un- necessary, and in the few places where the perambulation is still carried on, it survives merely as a quaint custom.

The following extract is taken from a note made in the parchment burial register, for the years 1729-90, of the parish of Winterbourne Whitchurch, near Blandford :

"Mem'. This year on Ascension Day, 1763, after Morning Prayer at Whitchurch, was made a Publick Perambulation of y e Bounds of y e Parish of Whitchurch by me Rich d Cobbe Vic r, M r Will" 1 Clancott Churchward" and 7 Whitch. Boys, viz. J 110 Davis, Mat. Davis, J no Molton, J no Davis, Will" 1 Devol, John Hanimett & Jam 8 Shetler ; beginning at y e Vicarage House, and cutting a great W T at 4 y Principal Bounds of y e Parish, viz' between Whitch. and Abby Milton ; between Whitch. & Clenston ; between Whitch. & Charlton, betwixt y e 2 Barrows going to Blandford ; and between Whitch. & Kingston ; whipping y c Boys at every Place we stopt at, by way of Remembrance, and stopping their Cry w th some Halfpence, we finished our Circuit.

" Which Perambulation or Processioning round y" Bonds of y e Parish had not been made for above 40 years before."

JAS. M. J. FLETCHER. The Vicarage, Wimborne Minster.

PROPER NAMES IN SCHROER'S ' ENGLISH- ERMAN DICTIONARY.' At the end of the rieb-Schroer ' English-German Dictionary ' published by Mr. Frowde) there is an ap- Dendix of proper names, with their alleged English pronunciation, which has often filled me with wonder. The editor appears o have collected every possible pronuncia- tion of each name, and solemnly prints them all, without giving his readers any clue as ,o which are correct and which are not. The consequence is that names with three .o six variant pronunciations are found on very page. Does the studious German vish to know the pronunciation of Sach- iverell ? He looks it up, and does not know tvhich to choose out of six. Ranelagh seems a simple name, but the industrious Schroer las discovered four ways of saying it. Vfenzies and Methuen have four each, but Jhicago and Carnegie have only three, which s manifest injustice to America.