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a, disgraceful intrigue with Anne Anderson, wife of Robert Gibson of Linkwood. This loan led Lewis to " keep a club " in Arthur's house. Lewis, in a piquant autobiography <now in the possession of the Duke of Port- land, and printed privately for the first time last year at The Elgin Courant and Courier office) says :

"When the club was made everie one that spoke to one other of me told I would not drink with any uritill the club-day, & then they did not leat me allpn. I 'm sorie I have not the articls of the club heir, if ther be any that is need to be explaint & that I might distinguish their subscriptions with thair designations, places wher they live, with thair imployments and traids. Seing I have not the articls of this club I shall guese as near as possabill to them."

He mentions eleven members (all of the name of Gordon), including Thomas Gordon, " a doctor and dextrous in cutting of the ston ; he is known throu the whole kingdoms of Irland ; he

told he was maried in Countie of Cork Many

others wad a [would have] come in, but we had no roume in the house to hold them: ho we euer I tooke in those as folio we th "

six names, mostly officers. Alexander "" Dunckon " was made " dark to the said club : he leivs in Bryds Ally : keeps a scoall there." " All of the said club was of the Church of England," except Alexander Gordon, stationer in Plunket Street, a friend of the Duke of Ormonde.

It may be added that The Huntly Express (Aberdeenshire) began on the 17th of last month a series of articles on the Gordon families of Ireland, a little-known subject : more especially the families of Spring-Garden, Clonmel, Ballintaggart, Florida, Delamount, .and Sheepbridge. J. M. BULLOCH.

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SHAKESPEARE ALLUSIONS. The following are not to be found in the new edition of the ' Allusion Book ' :

The witty Fletcher, and Elaborate Ben, And (Shakespeare had the first Dramatique Pen : In most of their admired Scenes we prove, Their Busines or their Passion turns to Love.

'Poems, And Essays : ' by a Gentleman

of Quality (? Hon. Edward Howard),

London, 1673, p. 13.

Thus Johnson's Wit we still admire, With Beaumont, Fletcher's lasting fire : And mighty Shakespear's nimble vein, Whose haste we only now complain. His Muse first post was fain to go, That first from him we Plays might know.

Ibid., p. 66.

"Shakespear, Beaumont, Fletcher, and Johnson, must be nothing with them, though such majestick strength of Wit and Judgement is due to their Dramatique pieces." Ibid., 'Miscellanies,' p. 24.

" Ben Johnson said of Shakespear's Works, that where he made one blot, he wish'cl he had made a thousand." Ibid., 'Miscellanies,' p. 81.

"If he [i.e., Dryden] tells us that Johnson writ by art, Shakespeare by nature ; that Beaumont had judgment, Fletcher wit, that Cowley was copious, Denham lofty, Waller smooth, he cannot be thought malitious, since he admires them, but rather skilfull that he knows how to value them." ' A Description of the Academy of the Athenian Virtuosi,' London, 1673, p. 32.

In the second of the Shakespeare allusions I quoted at 10 S. xi. 465, " Sweating like butter'd Moors " should be " Sweating like buttered Moons."

In the Index, 10 S. xi. 545, col. 2, 11. 6-7 stand : " allusion in House of Commons, 1659, 305." The 'Speech' in which the reference occurs is a burlesque, and was not delivered in the House of Commons or anywhere else. G. THORN-DRURY,

THE GLOBE THEATRE : ITS SITE. In the discussion concerning the site of the Globe raised by the publication of Dr. Wallace's letters in The Times of the 2nd and 4th inst., one point seems to have been forgotten, i.e., that in the sixteenth century the river was much broader than now, and allowed to rise as far as its tides inclined. We must allow for the increase of the Bankside by the embankments and the deepening of the channel when we try to measure spaces. Further, we are sure that "The Swan" was built on " Old Paris Garden," and that gives a clue to buildings represented on the plans of the period. RESEDA.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" TACKLE-HOUSE " : " TACKLE-PORTER." In Strype's ed. of Stow's ' Survey of London' (1754), p. 518, it is said "divers controversies and differences have hereto- fore been betwixt the Tackle-house porters of this city and the Ticket porters." The " Tackle-house porters " were probably the same as the " Tackle porters," who are said in 'New Guide to London,' 1770, p. 258, to be " such of the ticket porters as are furnished with weights, scales, etc., to weigh goods." But why the distinguishing epithet tackle ? What had this to do with weighing ? " Tackle - house porter " also implies a " tackle-house." Was there such a building in London, and why was it so