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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1909.

CONTENTS.-No. 311.

NOTES :-Bubb Dodington and his Literary Circle, 461 Signs of Old London Shakespeariana, 463 Shakespeare Allusions, 465 Montjuich 'D.N.B. Epitome' and Statues at Calcutta Wei tje's House at Hammersmith, 466 Wooden Ships: their Longevity " Busy '^Intri- cate, 467.

QUERIES: "Boeijan" or " Bceijang " Capt. John Mar- shall of Virginia Medmenham Abbey : Hell-Fire Club, 467 Whitby Church Clothes and their Influence Public Schools and Unmeaning Latin Couplets Charter- house Grammar School, 468 Madame D'Arblay's Diary 4 Sketches of the Caffre Tribes 'Little and Barnardiston Families CoppeVs ' La Greve des Forgerons 'Authors Wanted Marriage like a Devonshire Lane Deaneries unattached to Cathedrals Fleetwood of St. John Zachary, 469 Steerage on a Frigate John Potter and Miss Roach, 470.

REPLIES : Canning on "Toby Philpot," 470- Parodies of Kipling " Millet" Swinburne on Irish Nationalists, 472 Lord Mayor's Show -"One lampte"-'The Golden Lyre,' 473-" Dog and Pot" Capt. W. Vaughan "Une Catalogue Raisonne "English Clothing Terms, 474 John Michell, Mayor -"Mar" in Mardyke Joanna Southcott Selby, Yorks, 475 -Sir F. Blake Delaval Casanova Flying Across the Lake of Perugia Jacob Cole" Stripping cows" Fig Trees in London, 476 Yew Tree Yew in Poetry Authors Wanted Vintners' Company "Le" before Trades, 477 ' N. & Q.' Com- memoration Morte St. Bernard Dogs "Lie " in Legal Documents Last Duel with Swords "Old ewe dressed lamb fashion," 478.

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OBITUARY :-W. E. Harland-Oxley.

GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON AND HIS LITERARY CIRCLE.

THE early life of this person is worthy of a description in detail, more especially as the recognized authorities to whom we are accustomed to turn for information fail us. The ' D.N.B.,' both under his own name and that of Edward Young the poet, speaks doubtfully of his connexion with the Univer- sity of Oxford, although the fact that he was an undergraduate for some years at that university is established beyond doubt. The Catalogue of the British Museum Library enters his works under ' Dodington (George Bubb), Baron Melcombe, 1 without making any cross-reference to the poems connected with him while he was at Oxford and bore the name of George Bubb, which are entered in the catalogue under that name.

His father, Jeremiah or Jeremias Bubb, was described in the son's matriculation ntry at Oxford as "of London, Esq." ; but in the ' D.N.B.* the statement is that in general life he was " variously described as an Irish fortune-hunter and an apothecary

at Weymouth or Carlisle."- Presumably all these descriptions were true of him at some time or other. His mother Mary was the only daughter of John Dodington of Lexton, at the western extremity of the Mendips in Somerset, by (according to some) Hester, daughter of Sir Peter Temple, 2nd Baronet of Stowe, or (according to others) " Ann, relict of Boreman,

dau. of Hopkins n (' Complete Peerage,' by G. E. C., v. 288). Such is the statement of Mr. Cokayne, but the second marriage which he gives seems to be that of a previous generation, and Bubb's grandmother was probably Hester Temple, who was buried at St. Giles-in-the-Fields on 2 Feb., 1690/91.

George Bubb matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford, on 10 July, 1707, at the age of sixteen, and was on its books as a gentle- man commoner, from 9 July, 1707, to 23 Nov., 1710. We get a gleam of informa- tion about him from the admission register of Lincoln's Inn (vol. i. 1896, p. 371). He was entered, as a student, at that inn on 28 Feb., 1710/11, as "George Bubb, arm. son and heir of Jeremie B. late of Foy, co. Hereford, arm. deed." Stubbes, his " dear Friend and Acquaintance " (Hearne, ' Col- lections,' ii. 386) in college, published and inscribed to Bubb his poem of ' The Laurel and the Olive' (1710, fol.), and there was prefixed to it "a copy of verses in two pages, 7 ' written by Bubb, " an ingenious young gentleman," says Hearne. The Uni- versity of Oxford bemoaned the death of Queen Anne's husband in a volume entitled ' Exequise. . . .Georgio, principi Danise, 1708.' It contained a set of Latin verses by Bubb addressed ' Ad Somnum,' and praised by Hearne as " very good.' 1 They were re- printed that year in a single sheet folio.

Bubb's uncle, George Dodington (M.P. for Winchelsea 1705-8, Bridgwater 1708-10 and 1710-13, Winchelsea again from 1713 to 1714-15, and for Bridgwater from that date until his death), was born about 1661, and died on 26 or 28 March, 1720, and was buried at Tarrant Gunville, a few miles from Blandford in Dorset, on 7 April, 1720. He was secretary to Edward Russell, after- wards Earl of Orford (Treasurer of the Navy 1689-93), and a Lord of the Admiralty from 8 Nov., 1709, to 20 Dec., 1710, and from 14 Oct., 1714, to 16 April, 1717. At the time of his death he was Lord Lieutenant of Somerset. He married Eleanor Bull, daughter of Henry Bull, M.P. for Bridg- water (who died in 1691), and probably through this marriage obtained his influence in that constituency. She was born 14 March,