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" It should also be remembered that Weston is close to Stratford, and therefore not far from the old Heath-way, which, as we suspect, gave a sur- name to the various Hathaways in that neighbour hood."

A. R. BAYLEY.

The confusion between the names Agnes and Anne, which MR. STRONACH doubts upon such very inadequate and negative evidence, must be well known to every searcher of old records ; but not every one will take the trouble to look up the instances for the sake of confuting the Baconians.

In the will of Thomas Hayne, of Sullington, co. Sussex, dated 14 November, 1557, a legacy is left to Anne Hayne, the daughter of John Hayne. But her baptism is thus given in the Sullington registers : * c 8 October, 1557, Agnes Hayne, daughter of John Hayne."

In the account of the administration of the goods of Richard Hayne, a descendant of the above Thomas, dated 1 March, 1638, we find, " Item to Agnes Gruggen, daughter of the said deceased, V H ." But Robert Grug- gen, in his will dated 17 July, 1657, leaves his wife Anne executrix.

The wife of the above Richard Hayne was Agnes (Hurst), and the probate of her will, under the name Agnes, was granted to her son Gregory in 1638. Yet in the Bishop's transcripts of the registers of Binsted, co. Sussex, we find her burial registered on 27 February, 1638, under the name Ann Haine.

In fact, Agnes was habitually pronounced Annis, and easily became Ann.

REGINALD HAINES.

Uppingham.

MR. STROXACH need go no further than to the will of Richard Hathaway, whose daughter Agnes is believed to have been Shakespeare's Anne, to find an exactly parallel case. There Agnes, daughter of Thomas Hathaway, is mentioned ; her name appears twice in the parish registers as Anne. In the register of Bishopton, near Stratford-on-Avon, " Thomas Greene and Agnes his wife " are entered in 1599 and 1602, and the same people in 1605 as "Thomas Greene and Anne his wife." On one of the tombs in the Clopton chapel of Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, is an inscription to " William Clopton, esquier, and Anne his wife," which once continued "the said Agnes deceased," &c. I say "once continued" because part of the inscription has been removed in altering the chanel. Agnes Henslowe, wife of Philip Henslowe, Shake- speare's contemporary actor-manager, was recorded in the entry of her burial and on

her gravestone as Anne. The village of St. Agnes, in Cornwall, and its neighbouring St. Agnes Head and St. Agnes Beacon, are still called St. Ann's by the natives ; and it is, or was fairly recently, a fact that some of those natives would have been quite unable to direct a stranger to St. Agnes, because they would not have known what place he meant. Many parallel cases can be quoted from records before, during, and after the time of Shakespeare, but these may suffice. H. SNOWDEN WARD. Hadlow, Kent.

Two instances can be adduced in confirma- tion of MR. SIDNEY LEE'S statement that the name of Agnes occasionally appears as Anne in early records :

1576. Marriage licence. Thomas Elliott and Agnes Underhyll, widow, of S. Laurence, Old Jewry.

1576. Indenture of settlement on Tho. Elliott's intended marriage with Anne Underyll, of London, widow.

1605. Marriage at S. Martin's, Birmingham. Humph. Coop' and Agnes Sansom.

1609. Chancery proceedings. Robert Elson v. Humphrey Cowper and others. Reference to Anne, widow of Thomas Saunsom and wife of said Cowper.

Thus it seems very possible that Agnes Hathaway and Anne Shakespeare may have been one and the same person.

WM. UNDERBILL.

170, Merton Road, Wimbledon.

THE PELICAN MYTH (10 th S. ii. 267, 310). The literature of this subject is very extensive, and while it is being discussed it may be worth while to give a sample of various illustrations which have come under my own notice, but have not yet been mentioned. Mrs. Bury Palliser, in * Historic Devices,' <fec. (1870), p. 243, gives as the device of Alfonso X. the Wise, King of Castile, a pelican in its piety, with the motto ** Pro lege et grege," and quotes passages from Drayton, Shak- speare (* Hamlet,' Act IV. sc. v.), Skelton, ' Bibliotheca Biblica,' and a Bestiarium which gives a French translation of the passage From ' Physiologus.' She also notices that the pelican was the sign of the printers H. de Marnef and Guill. Cavellat, of Paris (c. 1587- 1610), with the motto " En moy la mort, en moy la vie," or " In me mors, in me vita." Mrs. Palliser (p. 222) says that the pelican was also adopted as one of his devices by Pope Clement IX., with the motto "Aliis ion sibi cleraens," and that William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, bore as motto on some of