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at 3" 1 S. i. 89. I am unable to refer to his annotated edition of Ascham's book.

28. '* Scientia non habet inimicum prater

inimica," p. 304 ot the 'Adagia,' ed. oy Grynaeus (1629) : " Galli prouerbialiter dicunt: Scientiam habere iniraicum ignorantem." Biichmann ('Gefliigelte Worte,' tenth ed., p. 225 this part is omitted in the twentieth ed.) says : " In des Tunnicius altester nieder- deutscher Sprichwortersammlung lautet die Lateinische Uebersetzung des 1212. Spruches: Ignarus tantura prreclaras oderit artes."

31. "Deorum sunt omnia." See Erasmus, under " Amicorum communia omnia " we
 * Adagia,' s. v. 'Amicitia,' p. 42 (1629), where

read "Tot TWV  KOIVO, Ex hoc pro-

uerbio Socrates colligebat omnia bonorum esse virorum non secus quam deorum. Deorum, inquit, sunt omnia."

34. "Ibi incipit fides, ubi desinit ratio." Cf. John of Salisbury, 'Policraticus,' vii. 7, " Vt enim sacramentis, vbi ratio deficit, ad- hibeatur fides, multis beneficiis, magnisque miraculis promeruit Christus" (p. 365, ed. 1595). EDWARD BEN SLY.

The University, Adelaide, IS. Australia.

BENBOW (10 th S. ii. 29). A correspondent stated at 6 th S. ix. 175 that "Vice- Admiral Benbow left many sons, all of whom died without issue ; his two surviving daughters consequently became co-heiresses ; the eldest of these married Paul Calton, Esq., of Milton, near Abingdon, co. Berks." Another corre- spondent said at 7 th S. x. 4 that Catharine, the youngest daughter, married Paul Calton at St. Peter's, Cornhill, on 23 July, 1723, to whom a son was born, and baptized Benbow Calton at Milton on 15 December, 1726.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

COUNTY TALES (10 th S. i. 505). A similar story to that of the Mayor of Grimsby is told of one of the bailiffs (by courtesy mayors) of Pevensey. Having received a royal procla- mation against the unlawful firing of beacons with intent needlessly to alarm the district, the mayor apprehended an old woman whom he accidentally found frying some bacon for her husband's dinner. Among other stories told of these officials is one of a certain mayor, who one day, engaged in thatching his pigstye, had brought to him a letter of some importance. Putting on his spectacles, he broke the seal, and endeavoured to glean its contents by perusing the missive upside down. The messenger, with all due respect, suggesting that it would be better to read the letter in the way common among people of

inferior rank, was cut short by the reply, " Hold your tongue, sir ; for, while I am Mayor of Pemsey, I'll hold a letter which eend uppards I like." But the greatest and the standing jest against the municipality of Pevense^ is that which charges the bailiff and jurats with having found a person who had stolen a pair of leather breeches guilty of manslaughter. Mr. M. A. Lower, who gives these stories in his 'Chronicles of Pevensey,' says they probably originated from "that celebrated townsman of Pevensey, Andrew Borde, the greatest of Merry Andrews," who was a native of Sussex.

JOHN PATCHING.

An old newspaper cutting thus refers to Folkestone :

"I have read somewhere that in days of old Folkestone Town had for its Mayor a gentleman who rejoiced in the Christian name of 'Steady,' surname Baker. On one occasion Mayor Steady Baker had brought before him a boy charged with stealing gooseberries ; he was caught in the act, with some of the fruits of his venture on his person, and these were produced in Court. After hearing and weighing the evidence. Mayor Baker took down from the shelf Burn's * Justice ' and such other legal compilations as were within his reach, and having pored over them, he closed the books and thus addressed the prisoner: 'Boy, it's a lucky jawb you are not brought up for stealing a goose, for if you had abin I should have had no bounds but to give you a sixer at Dover. I don't see any- thing about gooseberries, so it's no offence. The gogs are yourn, and you leave the Court without a stain on your karacktur.' "

In a book published by T. Rigden, Dover, 1852, it is stated that

" it would be idle to collect the many other jokes which are related against Folke*tone men such as their setting fish nets round the town to catch the smallpox, and then drown it at once in the sea ; planting beefsteaks to grow young bullocks ; throw- ing sparrows from the church steeple to break their necks ; and their puzzling their brains for a month to find a rhyme for ' Folkestone Church,' when all the Mayor could hit upon was ' Knives and Forks,' or a thousand other like untruth*. They are a plain honest people, much like the other Kentish men, and seem to owe these jokes against them to the maliciousness of wit which discovered that the anagram of ' Folkstone' made ' Kent Fools,' rather than to any individuality of character."

R. J. FYNMORE.

"THERE WAS A MAN" (10 th S. i. 227, 377,

474). I well know the nursery rime in ques- tion, and first heard it at least forty years ago probably in Kent, although I dp not think its use was confined to any particular part of the country. My version agrees pretty closely with that of MR. H. SIRR at the last reference. If there be any moral attached, it is probably that stated by him, or, in other words, "keep your promises."