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effect than what it is usual for beauty to excite : a desire not only to view, but to appropriate.

" With respect to mere embellishments, it is hoped, as none were promised in the proposals, that those which my ambition to render the work as acceptable to the public as I was able, has tempted me to add, at a considerable expence, will be the more welcome to my readers, from their appearing unexpectedly.

" After each of these plates had fulfilled its destination of serving as a concert ticket for one performance only, it seemed a hardship upon the admirable artists who designed and engraved them, as well as upon the public, that such pro- ductions should be buried in oblivion. This idea, and the want of sufficient time to have others executed, suggested to me a desire of ornamenting my History with them, and a wish to publish and preserve them in a work to which they seem naturally to belong."

In the 1776 edition plate i., ' Apollo and the Nine Muses,'- faces the title, whereas in the second edition it faces p. 1, and the frontispiece to this edition is a fine portrait of Burney by Bartolozzi after Sir Joshua. In both editions plates iv., v., and vi. are bound at the end ; plate vii. faces p. 205 in the first edition, and p. 196 in the second edition; plate viii. faces p. 222 in the first, and p. 212 in the second ; and plate ix. faces p. 252 in the first, and p. 256 in the second. It is quite usual to find this volume mutilated by the excision of the plates by Bartolozzi, and sometimes the folding plates are damaged.

In the second edition there is no mention of the portrait, dated. 1784, and plate i. the binder is expressly directed to put " facing the title. n In my copy, which is in con- temporary calf, it faces p. 1. Moreover, when the second edition of vol. i. was re- issued I think a trifle larger in size than the original quarto the list of plates was revised, to suit the revisions in the paging ; but in the other three volumes, issued the same year, there is no further list of plates, although many occur engraved on copper, being chiefly illustrations of music, paged in with the letterpress, and also two more fine plates by Bartolozzi.

PHILIP ROBSON.

HENRY BARNEWEIX, PREBENDARY OF ROCHESTER (10 S. x. 448, 516). He was probably a nephew of Robert Barnwell of Stamford Baron, whose will, dated 16 March, 1563/4, proved P.C.C. (13 Stevenson) 30 April, 1564, mentions his mother Agnes Wells ; his wife Ann and son Anthony (under age) ; and his brothers William, John, Richard, Thomas, and Henry. Castor register contains the marriages in 1539 of Agnes Barnwell to William Wells (3 Oct.)

and of William Barnwell to Margaret Wcod- cock (6 Nov.).

In connexion with the bequest of George Barnwell, the Prebendary's " cousin, n to the Nassington poor, it may be noted that John Barnwell of Nassington is described by John Barnwell of Wakerly in his will dated 22 June, proved (Peterborough) 27 July, 1609, as his brother ; and that the former's son John was an executor of the latter' s son Laurence, whose will was proved (Peterborough) 29 May, 1619.

Edmund Barnwell of Porterose, only son of George Barnwell, died 15 May (Inq. P.M. 30 Nov.), 1627, his heirs being his sisters Bazill and Elizabeth (cp. Morant, ' Essex,* 1766 ed., vol. ii. p. 276). G. B.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S xii. 448). The line in question, recte

Come live in my heart and pay no rent, is by Lover, and will be found in his song beginning

Vourneen ! when your days were bright, which appears in the 8vo edition of his poems issued by Routledge, n.d.

EDITOR ' IRISH BOOK LOVER.' Kensal Lodge, N.W.

The prose quotation about the stars, which MR. PAGE asks for, is from Carlyle's ' Sartor Resartus, 1 Book II. chap, viii., entitled ' Centre of Indifference,'- near the end. L. R. M. STRACHAN.

Heidelberg.

[MB. TOM JONES and I. M. L. also thanked for replies.]

LYNCH LAW (10 S. xi. 445, 515 ; xii. 52, 133, 174). M. asks : " What would have been the difference in pronunciation between ' Lynch's law J and ' Lynchy's law * ? " I frankly concede that as " lynch law " is a shortened form of " Lynch's law," so no doubt " Lynch's law " might be a shortened form of " Lynchy's law." But I would repeat what I have already said, either in words or by intimation : First, there is no evidence that the term " Lynchy's law " ever existed, and in the absence of proof we cannot assume its existence. Secondly, it is safe to assert that such a term as " Lynchy's law n could not have arisen in connexion with the case of the Irishman Lynchy who was killed in 1816. Where the name of a person precedes the word " law," it is that of the person who discovered the law. Thus we have " Boyle's law," " Gresham's law,'* "Grimm's law," "Kepler's laws," &c. Similarly there can, I think, be no doubt that, as Wirt stated in 1817, Lynch's law " took