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 ii. JULY so, 1904.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

that the replies were of much value, and led indirectly to still further information. I should now be very grateful for any par- ticulars with regard to the following, who were of still earlier date, with any notice of their writings or possible likeness : Gilbert Xeuton, 1529-60; Henry Adams, 1660-6; Jacob Hadley, 1566-1623; Richard Hadley, 1623-38; William Hansom, 1638-68; Anthony Barr, 1668-73 ; Thomas Skinner, 1673-90.

WM. STOKES SHAW. The Vicarage, Twerton-on-Avon, Bath.

SPORTING CLEROY BEFORE THE REFORMA- TION. Wanted references to any instances of sport amongst the clergy of pre-Reformation

days.

P. C. D. M.

"COME, LIVE WITH ME." May I point out what I conceive to be a "corrupt" rendering in Marlowe's well-known pastoral, "Come, live with me and be my love"? I have examined several copies of the poem, and find the error has been transmitted quite pleasantly enough. I cannot say what copy Calverley had before him when he sat down to translate the lines into Latin, for, curiously he breaks off at the very point where his assistance is most desirable, and leaves one in the dark. Perhaps the line

Fair-lined slippers for the cold gave him pause. At any rate, I cannot help thinking that Marlowe, who was a shoe- maker's son, knew some of the elements of his father's trade, and often observed him using "fur" for lining shoes and slippers. My suggestion is that the line would read better, and be in accordance with sense and circumstances, if printed :

Fur-lined slippers for the cold.

M. L. R. BRESLAR.

[To talk of "error" in such a case is surely extravagant. We see no reason to improve what is sensible : but we should first like to ascertain what is the MS. authority, or earliest record of the poem. Collections of those before us read "fair- lined," both in this way and as two words. In the latter case the sense that the slippers are both beautiful and lined seems excellent. Jzaac Walton, according to the facsimile edition of the * Compleat Angler,' read, "Slippers lin'd choicely for the cold," but we daresay that he was quoting from memory.]

HARLSEY CASTLE, co. YORK. This was in the fifteenth century the residence of a branch of the Strangways family. Can any one inform me whether it was situated at East Harlsey or at West Harlsey, and whether its site is still distinguishable ? There is some information concerning this branch of the Strangways family in Blore's
 * History of Rutland,' pp. 8 and 9, and also in

Hutchins's * History of Dorset,' but in neither work is it stated to whom Eliza, daughter of Sir Richard Strangways, was married. Is the * Golden Grove Book ' correct in stating that she married Robert Byrt, of Shrophouse (? in Dorset), and was ancestress of the Byrt family of Llwyndyris in the parish of Llandygwydd, co. Cardigan ?

G. R, BRIGSTOCKK.

CLOSETS IN EDINBURGH BUILDINGS. In the old town of Edinburgh remains still exist of the flats of the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries. The plan of one building strongly resembles another ; a distinctive feature is the small window at each end of the building, facing the street and on each floor. This -was the window of a small closet opening off a large room. What was the use of this closet? It has been suggested that it was used as an oratory; but most of the buildings were erected after the Refor- mation. It seems more likely to have been used for sanitary purposes, for in all the buildings examined there is no other place suitable for a garde-robe. Is there any refer- ence in contemporary writings that might-

settle the question

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SYDNEY PERKS.

5, Crown Court, Cheapside, E.G.

PAMELA : PAMELA. (9 th S. xii. 141, 330 ; 10 th S. i. 52, 135, 433, 495 ;

ii. 50.)

As DR. G. KRUEGER(IO UI S. i. 433) refers to the few lines I was able to give to this sub- ject in my 'Samuel Richardson,' 1902, p. 4C, perhaps I may be allowed to say that my authority for the guarded statement that Sidney made the name Pamela is the very " Description of Three Beauties " in the Musarum Delicirs ' of which MR. HORTON SMITH quotes the opening couplet. In the tenth or 1655 edition of 'The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia,' that poem occupies the inal pages preceding the ' Alphabetical Table.' It begins :

Philodea and Pamela sweet

By chance in one great hous did meet ;

and it is headed, "A Remedie for Love. Written by S r Philip Sidney, Heretofore omitted in the Printed Arcadia." Dr. A. B. jrrosart also includes it, with variations, n the "Arcadia pieces "in his 'Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney,' 1877, iii. 59 ; and he prints it from Harleian MS. 6057, p. 10 B. where it is said to be called " An old dittie of Sir Phillipp Sidneye's, omitted in the printed