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the Honourable East India Company, at FETTIPLACE (10 th S. i. 329, 396, 473, 511 ; 7 th S. v. 87, to which no reply was given, but ii. 234). In vol. iv. of the 'Antiquarian from it MR. DEWAR may learn further par- and Topographical Cabinet,' 1808, under the ticularsof him. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. heading of 'Ifley Church,' occurs a letter 71, Brecknock Road. | which is described as in " the epistolary style

. of the reign of Henry VIII." It was from

RULES OF CHRISTIAN LIFE (10 th S. ii. 129, Kateryn Wells, Prioress of Littlemore, to 255). The words quoted by MR. GEORGE J hn Fettiplace, Master of Queen's College,

ANGUS from chap. xxm. of The Wide, Wide Oxford

World' are taken from Charles Wesley's R IGHT 'R E UERENT AND WORSHIPFULL MASTER,- hymn, written in 1/62. In the 'Wesleyan I recommend me unto you as a woman unknowen, Hymn-Book' it appears in two verses of eight desyring to here of yowr good prosperity and lines, but in some others in four verses of ] welfare, the which I pray Allmighty God to pre- serve to hys pleasur. The cause of ray wrytyng to your mastershippe at this time is this : hit is so, that Master Walrond bequethed unto the pour hows of Lityllmore, as I understand, xx?. yff hit wold like your mastershyppe to be so good frend unto your powr beyd-woman, off the f oreseid plays. Wer moche bound unto your mastershyppe, for we had neur more nede of helpe and comfort of soche jentyl-

four lines. The first three verses only are given in * The Wide, Wide World.' I quote it from the ' Wesleyan Hymn-Book ' (No. 318)

1. A charge to keep I have,

A God to glorify ; A never-dying soul to save,

And fit it for the sky. To serve the present age,

My calling to fulfil; O may it all my powers engage

To do my Master's will !

As in Thy sight to live ; And O Thy servant, Lord, prepare
 * 2. Arm me with jealous care,

A strict account to give. Help me to watch and pray,

And on Thyself rely, Assured, if I my trust betray, I shall for ever die.

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

men as ye be that [sic] we have nowe ; for I under-

stand ye be a syngler lou r of relygus plaeys. Y pray

" >nge con tine we to Goads nys kepyng eu r more By yowr beyd-woman dame,

God that ye may Ibnge con tine we to'Godds plesur, he have yow in hys kepyng eu r more. Amen.

KATERYN, Proress of Lyttylmore. CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Baltimore House, Bradford.

' PRAYER FOR INDIFFERENCE' (10 th S. ii. 268). The rococo style of this poem has perhaps caused it to lose its favour in the

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London, 1882). Surely it might stand on its merits as one of his, rather than as being quoted in that egregious child's story 'The Wide, Wide World,' which Dr. John Hill Burton takes in his 'Book-Hunter' fai-

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eyes of modern anthologists, though it was highly thought of in the eighteenth century. McGovERN will find it in Pearch's 4 Col-

s well as in. Poets' and

in Locker's ' Lyra Elegantiarum.' The author was Frances, daughter of James Macartney, who had marriea in January, 1747, Fulke Greville, son of the Hon. Algernon Greville and grandson of Fulke Greville, fifth Lord - 1 Brooke. Mr. Fulke Greville, who resided at SPSS H* T ^ Blsh P TS re ? diesfc Wilbury in Wiltshire, was educated at Win-

scribed readers - could not get Lhester, and in 1765 was appointed Envoy-

^ as Extraordinary to the Elector of Bavaria, ?y I and minister to the Diet of Katisbon. He was the author of a book which was published anonymously in 1756, called 'Maxims. Cha-

The lines which are quoted by A!R ANGUS racters, arid Reflexions : Critical, Satyrical, as from ' The Wide, Wide World ' a book and Moral.' This book excited the scorn of which, fifty as * Uncle

by Charles Wesley, __. .

collections of hymns. Years ago the hymn lfc Mr - Greville was assisted by his wife, who was iu special favour in Dissenting meeting- figured in it under the character of Flora, places, used every Sunday ; and at weekday She had several children, the most celebrated and camp meetings was almost certain to be f w h<> m was Mrs. Crewe, the beautiful Whig heard, sung with a fervour and vigour seldom hostess. Mrs. Greville died in 1789. known nowadays. THOS. RATCLIFFE. W. F.

Workiop. HEACHAM PARISH OFFICERS (10 th S. ii. 247).

.[Replies also from K. (',. U. and Mi:. K. B. SAVACI:.] ' Is MR. HOLCOMBE INGLEBY quite correct