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" Paradise Regain'd. | A | Poem | In Four Books. I To which is added | Samson Agonistes. | And | Poems on several Occasions. | With a Tractate of -Education | The Author | John Milton. | The Fifth Edition. Adorn'd with Cuts. | Printed for J. Ton- son at Shakespears Head," &c. 1713.

In this too the signatures of the plates are scraped out, but on one I can read "Pigue" or "Pigrie." Each section in this latter volume has a separate title-page, all dated 1713. EDWARD HERON-ALLEN.

The volume mentioned by CANON HEWITT cannot be a composite volume pieced together by some collector, as I have found just the same volume, with all the details described by this gentleman, in the Munich Hof- und Staatsbiblipthek. Here this volume figures as tome i. Tome ii. contains 'Paradise Regain'd,' 'Samson Agonistes,' ' Poems,' and the 'Tractate of Education,' "the eighth edition,'' printed for J. & R. Tonson, R. Ware, J. Hodges, &c., 1743. Tome ii. has the same types and quality of paper, but only one title copper-plate, without other illustrations. Also the pages are one or two millimeters shorter than in tome i. Roth Munich volumes, in the original brown leather binding, bear the arms of the Princes of the Palatinate ; they came from Mannheim or Heidelberg to Munich with the library of Charles Theodore, Elector of the Palatinate.

(Dr.) M. MAAS.

Munich.

SPELLING REFORM (10 th S. ii. 305, 450; iii. 31). At the last reference I mentioned, from memory, the instances of the verbs forgo and forego in Milton ; and as I am now able to consult the first editions and the concord- ance, I can give the exact references. Forgo, meaning do without : ' Paradise Lost,' vii. 1134 (modern editions, via. 497), viii. (modern editions, ix.) 908, x. 538 (modern editions, xi. 541); 'Samson Agonistes,' 1. 940, 1. 1483; 4 Hymn of the Nativity,' 1. 196. Forego, meaning go before: 'Paradise Regained,' dv. 483. ALDENHAM.

VERSE ON A COOK (10 th S. iii. 89). This half-stanza is from a poem called 'A Table of Errata,' by a poet named Thomas Hood. WALTER W. SKEAT.

CLERGYMAN AS CITY COUNCILLOR (10 th S. iii. 24). Surely there must be some error in the statement made by The Times of 22 De- cember, 1904 (quoted by MR. UNDERDO WN), that the Rev. Percival Clementi-Smith, rector of St. Andre\v-by-the-Wardrobe, had been

unanimously elected as a City Councillor for Castle- Raynard Ward, and that he was the first clergyman who had been elected to the Corporation since the Reformation. An inquiry addressed to the Town Clerk of Hull (Mr. E. Laverack), who is also a solicitor, brought the following reply :

"In reply to your letter of 20 January, I beg to inform you that section 12 of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, provides that a person shall be disqualified for being elected, and for being, a councillor if and while he is in Holy Orders, or the regular minister of a dissenting congregation. This disqualification, however, does not apply to those members of the Councils of the City of Oxford and the Borough of Cambridge who are elected to represent the Universities."

RONALD DIXON.

THE NAIL AND THE CLOVE (10 th S. iii. 41). MR. NICHOLSON may beinterested in the article in The Gentleman's (referred to in a recent part of the ' New English Dictionary,' s.v. ' Paul ') as to " Paul's foot." See also ' Pes Pauli ' in Willis and Clark's 'Architectural History of Cambridge,' Glossary. As to wool weights, I shall be glad toknow whether MR. NICHOLSON'S investigations lead him to accept Thorold Rogers's statements (e.g. in the appendix to vol. ii. of 'Agriculture and Prices') as to most extraordinary variations in the number of stones in a sack not only between different localities, but in the same locality at different times. My own impression is that the Pro- fessor consistently read "sack" every time he found an s., and that the letter, as a fact, frequently stands for " sarpler." Q. V.

COUTANCES, WINCHESTER, AND THE CHANNEL ISLANDS (10 th S. ii. 68, 154. 231). In view of the obscurity of this subject, perhaps it may be of interest to summarize very briefly MR. LEE'S paper in the twenty-ninth Bulletin of the Societe Jersiaise, which he very kindly sent me. On 28 October, 1406, Alexander VI. transferred Jersey and Guernsey to the diocese of Salisbury, and on 20 January, 1499, the same Pope transferred all the islands to Winchester diocese. Henry VII. wrote to the Bishop of Winchester on 25 October, 1499, with reference to the Bull of the latter date ; and on 1 January, 1500, the Winchester register records the admission of a priest to the living of St. Brelarde's, Jersey. This admission is also recorded in the Coutances register. No further act of jurisdiction of the Bishop of Winchester in the islands, is recorded in the register of that see before 14 June, 1569. The last act of jurisdiction registered by the Bishop of Coutances is dated 31 May, 1557. In 1565 the Privy Council supported the claims of the Bishop