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that the merit of Canon Kewley's translation may be appreciated :

O vraar tou scarrit vooin son tra Ny smoo cha glinn mayd dy churaa

Choud vees mayd bio syn eill Gys fagys mayd yn thie dy chray As roshtyn gys yn boal dy fea Raad nee mayd oo veeteil.

brother, for a time not near, Thy voice no longer shall we hear,

While we in flesh reside : Until we leave the house of clay, And reach the place of rest for aye,

And there with thee abide.

A hundred years hence philologists will value such documents. The Manx language is fast dying out, with its wireless message from the prehistoric past of the Northern Kelts. The apathy of the Manx people must be attributed to the superior advantages for commercial purposes, especially outside their island, of the world-wide English beorla of their conquerors. Have any Manx inscrip- tions been set up outside the Isle of Man 1

E. S. DODGSON.

WINCHESTER COLLEGE VISITATION, 1559. Little is known for certain about the Visita- tion of the four south-eastern dioceses in this year, except the names of the visitors, at whose head was William, Marquis of Win- chester (Gee's * Elizabethan Clergy,' pp. 100-1). It appears, however, from * S. P. Dom., Eliz.,' iv. 72, that on 30 June, 1559, the Visitation was in progress at Winchester, and that the Warden and Fellows of New College and the Master of St. Cross, as well as the Dean and Chapter, were recalcitrant, and that order must be taken against them. This note will be restricted to what happened at Winchester College. The Warden, Thomas Stempe,D.C.L., elected in 1556, and others appear to have been imprisoned. For in Machyn's 'Diary,' p. 205, we find the entry (anno 1559) :

" The xxv day of July, was sant James day, the warden of Wynchaster and odur docturs and prestes wher delevered out of the towre and marsel- say and odur."

One of these others was probably Robert Reynolds, D.C.L., who was deprived in this year of the prebend of Milton Ecclesia, Lin- coln, the mastership of St. Cross, and the rectory of Fawley, Hants ('Victoria Hist.

Warden, and so kept his other preferments, including a fellowship at Winchester College and a prebend at Winchester Cathedral. The Informator, Thomas Hyde (' D.N.B.,' xxviii. 401), and the Hostiarius, John Marshall

('D.N.B.,' xxxvi. 269), were eventually de- prived, but I do not know whether they were imprisoned at this time. Sanders's List of 1571, printed in Gee, pp. 225 sqq., contains a good many names which have not been identified, and which, I think (as Sanders waa a Wykehamist), are very likely the following:

1. William Atkins = the William Adkins, scholar of Winchester 1534, Fellow 1546, Canon of Lincoln 1556 to 1560.

2. Thomas Crane = the Fellow of Win- chester 1548. A priest and doctor of this name arrived at the English College, Rheims* from Rome in 1580, then aged about sixty, accompanied by William Giblettand Edward Bromborough (both Wykehamists) among others (Douay Diaries).

3. John Durston=the Fellow of Win- chester 1553, Fellow of Eton 1555, ejected- from Eton 11 Sept., 1561.

4. Thomas Hawkins=the Fellow of Win- chester 1555.

5. Nicholas Langridge = the Nicholas Langrysshe, Fellow of Winchester 1550.

The recusant Roger James mentioned in- Strype, 'Ann.,' II. ii. 596-7, may be the Fellow of Winchester elected in 1540, and possibly the Ricardus Jacrfbi of Sanders.

Some of the above probably were Fellows still in 1559, and accompanied the Warden to prison. Any light on them woula be wel- come. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S Music MASTER. Although it is on record that, at certain Galashiels festivities, Scott used to chant ciation, it is the case that he was anything but an accomplished musician. He is him- self the authority on this point, for in the- autobiographical fragment prefixed to Lock- hart's 'Life' he says that he could never manage to sing, although when young and receptive he was given the opportunity of learning. " My mother," he says, " was anxious we should at least learn Psalmody : but the incurable defects of my voice and ear soon drove my teacher to despair." To this teacher he pays a warm tribute in a foot- note, crediting nim with ample professional ability and accomplishment, but expressing mrprise at the persistency with which he icld to the contention that, if his pupil did not understand music, it was because he did not choose to learn it. The singing-lessons, on Scott's showing, must have had a thrilling effect. "When he attended us in George's Square," the affectionate pupil recalls, "our leighbour, Lady Gumming, sent to beg the x>ys might not be all flogged precisely at the
 * Tarry Woo ' with captivating zest and appre-