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As touching W. I.'s query (10 th S. i. 469), 4 1202, datura apud Bonam Villara supe Tokam." According to the ' Itinerary ' Johi was not at Bonneville in 1202. In spite o this he may have been there in this year, fo in many instances no names of towns ar placed against the days of the month.

When Richard died in 1199 John was i; France. He landed at Shoreham in Susse: on 25 May ("apud Schorham applicuit octav Kalendas Junii," Roger of Wendover), am was crowned at Westminster 27 May. Oi 20 June he was again at Shoreham for th return voyage to France. The first date afte this which has the name of place attachei is 29 June, the place being Roche-Orival. H returned to England, sailing from BarHeur on 24 February, 1200, and on the 27th he i At Portsmouth. On 28 April he went back to r ranee.

MR. H. SPARLING (ante, p. 57) speaks o John lying at Vaudreuil in 1203, at the time he dismantled Pont-de-PArche. I can fine no reference in the 'Itinerary' (see above to John's residence at Vaudreuil in 1203 But he appears to have paid three visits to Pont-de-1'Arche in this year. He was there on 21 May, coming from Molineux and re turning thither. From 31 May to 5 June inclusive he stayed there, coming from Rouen and returning to the same. His third visit lasted from 9 June to 11 June inclusive. On 5 December of this year he came to Barfleur for the crossing to England.

Searching in Matthew Paris and Roger Wendover under this date 1203, 1 find that, whilst John was wasting his days in Rouen in noting and idleness, castle after castle was taken from him by Philip II. Amongst these the Castle of Vaudreuil was surrendered by Robert Fitz- Walter and Saher de Ouinci without a blow being struck. When he was spoken to on the subject of his losses, John replied, " Let him [Philip] do it ; I in one day will recover what he now seizes." 1203 was also the year of Arthur's death. At the end ot this year the only towns remaining to John were Rouen, Verneuil, and Arques I exceptis civitate Rothomagi, et duobus castns, Vernolio atque Archis," * Ypodigma JNeustriw'). In the same work it is men- tioned, under date 1418, that Henry V. attacked Pont-de-1'Arche: "Movit Dominus Kex exercitum versus Pount de la Arche."

Jii4, Worple Road, Wimbledon ' WATSON '

DIADEMS (io^ S. ii. 65). -Before misquoting the "splendid line," the writer cited might .have done better by referring to the 'Comedy

of Errors.' From the "carcanet" which figures therein it appears probable that Shakespeare used the word in its strictly correct sense of " necklace " in the sonnet as well. J. DORMER.

THOMAS NEALE : " HERBERLEY " (10 th S. i. 509 ; ii. 58). I thank H. C. for his suggestion at the latter reference, but think that the clue to the mystery lies in another direction.

In my opinion Holywood and every one since his day have confused Thomas Neale, Regius Professor of Hebrew, with John Neale, M.A. 1560, first perpetual Rector of Exeter College, who was deprived 12 October, 1570 (see O.H.S., vol. xxvii. pp. Ixxx, Ixxxviii, 68, 74, 297). After his deprivation he was imprisoned for some time, but even- tually arrived at the English College, then at Rheims, 1 June, 1578, and left on the follow- ing 17 August for Rome (' Douay Diaries/ pp. 142, 143). He came Iback from Rome 19 December, 1579, and left for England 7 January, 1580 (op. cit., p. 159). It must have been during this period of a little under four weeks that he had his conversation with Thomas Haberley or Huberley, formerly a beneficed "Calvinist" clergyman and an Oxford man, who arrived at Rheims 29 November, 1579, and was ordained and sent on the mission in 1580, as to whom com- pare Strype, * Ann.,' III. ii. 600. It is note- worthy that, in a list of priests sent on the missionduring the pontificateof Gregory XIII. printed in the 'Douay Diaries,' pp. 288-96, John Neale, ex-Rector of Exeter, is at p. 291 miscalled Thomas, and similarly at p. 290 John Wright, S.T.L., is miscalled Thomas. I hope to call to attention to the result of this latter mistake in a separate note.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ANTICIPATED (10 th S. i. 66). Since making my communication at

the above reference, 1 find the following

at p. 112 of Joseph Blagrave's 'Astrological D ractice of Physick,' 1689, as one of what he erms " two pretty Secrets in Philosophy." "t bears a striking resemblance to the entry

"n Heneage Finch's MS. commonplace book >f 1647, in my possession. Blagrave was 4 of Reading [Berks], Gent., Student in

Astrology and Physick " :

" How to know each others Mind at a distance, it >eing done by Sympathy of Motion, as followeth ;

" Let there be two Needles made of one and the anie Iron, and by one and the same hand, and ouched by one and the same Load-stone ; let them e framed Xrth and South, when the Moon is in 'riii< to Mm-*, and applying unto one of the \jrtunes : the Needles being made, place them in oncave boxes, then make two Circles answerable