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calendar of marriage licences to supply their place, for though the issue of a licence is not an absolute proof that a wedding followed, there is in almost every case an overwhelming probability that it did so. In those times, as it is to-day, the poor could snot afford licence-fees, so were content with banns ; ibut it is probable that nearly all those who were well-to-do were married by licence, therefore it is afe to assume that we have here an almost com- plete catalogue of the marriages which took place .among the upper and middle classes in the Arch- deacpnry of Suffolk during sixty-one of the most ^stirring years of the seventeenth century, except during the time when marriages took place before the justices of the peace, and some years in the reign of Charles II. for which the entry books are missing.

To the student of surnames, as well as the genealogist, this calendar must prove of much interest. For example, in 1640 we have mention of .a Nicholas Ulfe, of Beccles. Can this be the name -of some Scandinavian settler that had become here- ditary ? In 1630 mention is made of a Thomas Mawe, seemingly of Burgh. There were persons of that name at Rendlesham in 1577, and a man bear- ing the same surname was churchwarden of Epworth, in the Isle of Axholme, in 1566. We have met with the name in earlier documents with the prefix atte, which indicates a local origin, but have failed to discover where or what is Mawe.

There has been a continuous movement south- -wards of the younger sons of northern families, but we have come upon very few undoubted examples Ihere. A William Swinburne, of Stratford, occurs in 1619, and an Elizabeth Swinborne, of Eyke, in 1640. These persons, we may be pretty confident, were of the same race as Thomas Swinburne, who wrote a treatise on wills, which was long of great authority and is at the present by no means useless. 'There was also Henry Swinburne, whose travels in Spain in the earlier years of George III. are still of interest, and, by far the most noteworthy of all, the great poet who is still with us. There was at Aldeburgh in 1628 a Richard Lilborne, who it is safe to conclude was a cousin, near or remote, of "Freeborn John." The "Thomas Raynsborrow,
 * gent., of London," who in 1639 married Margaret

Cole, of Woodbridge, was the son of William Rainborowe, a sailor who waged successful warfare on the Salee pirates, for which good service Charles I. offered him knighthood, and on his declining the honour presented him with a valuable chain and medal. When the Civil War broke out Thomas served the Parliament both on sea and land. He was killed at Doncaster on 29 October, 1648, by a 'body of desperate men from the Royalist garrison at Pontefract, and was buried at Wapping. As he was held to be one of the most important leaders of the Independent party, his death caused much

excitement. The body was met at Tottenham High Cross, and all the "well affected" of London were requested to join the funeral procession. The Mer-

curius Impartially of the time says the funeral was joined by 1,500 horse and upwards of fifty coaches. This valuable calendar has for the first time dis- closed his wife's surname.

The National Review and The Gentleman's Maga- zine reached us too late for inclusion in our earlier note. The article of most general interest in the former is that by Mr. A. C. Benson on ' An Eton .Education.' Few individuals are more competent

to speak on the subject. Mr. Benson finds the disadvantages to consist in the "absence of ade- quate intellectual stimulus in the prescribed work

a disproportionate belief in the rewards of

athletics [a curious ellipsis that], and the pressure of an immature code of morals." Pretty much the same could be said of most great scnools. Dr. Francis Bond has an article on ' The Bath Cure,' and Mr. U. S- MacColl one on ' The Royal Academy and National Art.' There are important papers on Russian affairs. In The Gentleman 's Mr. Holden MacMichael continues his 'Charing Cross and its Immediate Neighbourhood,' Mr. Henley J. Arden has a paper on ' The Duchess of Feria,' and Mr. William Miller an account of 'A Tour through Thessaly,' which, at the outset at least, is full of interest and suggestion. Mr. Forest Ridge's 'The Discoverer ' opens out a pleasing and original vein of humour.

MESSRS. A. BIIOWN & SONS, of London, Hull, and York, will publish shortly a work entitled ' Forty Years' Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds of East Yorkshire, including Romano- British Discoveries and a Description of the Ancient Entrenchments on a Section of the Yorkshire Wolds,' by Mr. J. R. Mortimer, founder of the Mortimer Museum at Driffield. The book will con- tain over 1,000 photo - illustrations (from pencil drawings by Agnes Mortimer) of interesting relics found in the district, and upwards of 150 other illustrations, diagrams, &c.

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MENTOR. 1. For "County Guy " see chap. iv. of Scott's ' Quentin Durward.' 2. "Needy knife- grinder, whither are you going? " is the first line of Canning's ' Friend of Humanity and the Knife- Grinder,' which appeared in The Anti- Jacobin Review. ' The Poetry of the Anti- Jacobin Review ' has been republished recently by Messrs. Sampson Low & Co.

R. L: MORETON (" Beaconsfield's Birthplace "). MR. VINCENT'S article appeared 7 th S. iii. 441.

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