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^.lr. Thomas Brown, who died in 1869, was , generous benefactor to Christ's Hospital {where he had been educated), and to the Booksellers' Provident Institution and the Booksellers' Retreat. He also gave a stained- glass window to St. Paul's.

It is pleasant to record the long services of many members of the staff. These include Mr. W. Bartram (since 1857), Mr. Reader (1863), Mr. Greenway (1872), and -our frequent contributor Mr. W. H. Peet <1878). JOHN C. FRANCIS.

I have noticed a slip in the chronological account of the Longmans which would perhaps be immaterial if it were not con- nected with the great writer whose long association with the firm forms one of the most pleasing incidents in its history. It is stated that in 1839 Macaulay's ' England,' Vol. I., was published. Macaulay did not sit down to write the work which he had had long in contemplation till March, 1839, and the first two volumes were not published by Messrs. Longman till the end of Novem- ber, 1848. Seven years were occupied in the preparation of the third and fourth volumes, which were issued by the same firm in the middle of December, 1855.

There are also one or two slight errors in the quotation given by MR. FRANCIS from Sir George Trevelyan's speech at the Booksellers' Dinner : that is to say, if the paper headed ' A Budget of Memories ' in the December number of The Cornhill Magazine is to be accepted as the authorita- tive report. Sir George did not say the " old family connexion" with the firm was " as prolonged as any recorded in literary history." His words were that it was "more prolonged than any recorded," &c. He did not say that " it began in 1842. . . . when Lord Macaulay's books were pub- lished," the phrase in The Cornhill being " when Lord Macaulay's first books were published." I suspect Sir George really said "first book," for in 1842 only the ' Lays of Ancient Rome ' was published. The volume of ' Collected Essays ' was not issued till the following year.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

I should be glad if MR. FRANCIS could say when the firm of Longman & Broderip was in existence. I presume this Longman will have been at any rate one of that family.

My reason for asking is that I have a copy of sheet music of ' The Marseillaise,' which I think must be one of the earliest

published in England, if not the actual first edition. It is headed :

" The Marseilles March sung by the Marseillois going to Battle by General Kellerman's Army instead of Te Deura as ordered by the National Convention and at the different Theatres in Paris."

It was printed by Longman & Broderip, 26, Cheapside, and 13, Haymarket.

On the fourth page is a version in French. The music and words are printed from an engraved plate.

I believe the song was only written in 1792, and I think this sheet of music cannot be much later than that year or the follow- ing. A. H. ARKLE.

Elmhurst, Oxton, Birkenhead.

FIRST ENGLISH BISHOP TO MARRY : BISHOP BARLOW (10 S. x. 366, 412, 474). MR. JONAS has confused two different men. As stated at the second reference, one William Barlow, Prior of Bisham, and suc- cessively Bishop of St. Asaph, St. David's, Bath and Wells, and Chichester, died as Bishop of Chichester, 10 Dec., 1569.

Another William Barlow, also a Doctor of Divinity, was, while Dean of Chester, elected Bishop of Rochester 23 May, 1605. He was translated to the See of Lincoln in 1608 (election took place 21 May, 1608), and died at Buckden 7 Sept., 1613. This date is open to question, as in his wife's epitaph in Easton Church, near Winchester, 13 August, 1568, is given as the date of the Bishop's death.

I can produce no evidence of the date on which the first-named William Barlow was married. He was elected Bishop of Bath and Wells 3 Feb., 1547/8, it is said without even the form of a conge cTelire, and it is further said under an arrangement with the Protector (the Duke of Somerset), in return for which, and for certain money payments, he made over a large portion of the episcopal estates to that nobleman, and also secured for his own family the epis- copal manor of Wookey. The presumption is that he was married while Bishop of St. Davids, to which he was translated 10 April, 1536, though he may not have openly avowed his marriage. But whether his marriage took place in 1550 or between 1536 and 1548, he certainly was not the first member of the episcopal order in England to be married, as Thomas Cranmer was consecrated 30 March, 1533, as Archbishop of Canterbury, having been nominated to that see by a Papal Bull dated 21 Feb., 1532/3, and he was un- doubtedly then married for the_second time.