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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. m. MAY 27, IMS.

of John Byrom,' published by the Chetham Society, a series, I should say, in that library. Dr. Byrom (1691-1763) invented a system of shorthand, was the author of the well-known Christmas hymn ' Christians, Awake,' and a contributor to The Spectator.

JOHN PicKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

A facsimile of the writing of Asmodeus is given in Didron's 'Christian Iconography' (Margaret Stokes's edition), vol. ii. p. 148. This, as the book suggests, was probably obtained from some document found among the properties pertaining to a religious play. The date, recorded in diabolic script, is 19 May, 1624. ST. SWITHIN.

ALL FOOLS' DAY (10 th S. iii. 286, 333). Tom Brown wrote :

The First of April 's All Fools' Day, You '11 grant me this fact ? nay, sir, nay, The first of every month 's the same, Ditto the last the more 's the shame. Each year past or to come 's fools' year Folly ne'er halts in her career. When time is o'er, and worlds have fled, Then -only then, is folly dead.

J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL.

The couplet used hereabouts by way of a rejoinder, if any one tries to make an " April fool" after midday on 1 April, is : April 's going, May 's a-coming, You 're the fool for being so cunning.

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

HENRY TRAVERS (10 th S. iii. 346). A bio- graphical notice of the above-named, and reference to his 'Miscellaneous Poems,' have already appeared in ' N. & Q.,' see 7 th S. i. 409, 473 ; also The Gentleman's Magazine for 1731. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

JOHN BUTLER, M.P. FOR SUSSEX (10 th S. ii. 129; iii. 257, 311). He was eldest son of James Butler, of Warminghurst, also M.P. for Sussex, died 1741, who was grandson of James Butler, of Sandwich, deacon of the Dutch Church in London, who purchased Amberley Castle, Sussex, in 1648, was M.P. for Arundel, and died in 1660.

I note an error in MR. R. L. MORETOS'S communication (p. 311) respecting the Butlers of Rye. According to the pedigree of that family issued from the Heralds' College in 1898, Richard Butler, Town Clerk of Rye, was the eldest son by his first marriage, and Daniel only son by the second marriage, of Richard (not Daniel) Butler, of Claines, Worcester, a civilian proctor, who died in

1715. Daniel Butler, attorney first at Rye with his brother, and subsequently at Mar- gate, was great-grandfather of the present Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. There is no Daniel of prior date in the pedigree. Several of that name are recorded in Buck- inghamshire in the seventeenth and eigh- teenth centuries, the earliest instance with which I am acquainted being that of Daniel Butler, of Eton, c. 1600, who bore the Bewsey arms. It also occurs at Chester, 1662 ; St. Nicholas Aeon, London, 1625; and in a rant of lands in Yorkshire and Derbyshire y King John. I should be glad if any of your readers could furnish other instances of early date. C. E. BUTLER.

POLONIUS AND LORD BuRLEIGII : CECIL AND

MONTANO (10 th S. iii. 305). Since sending the note with this caption I have found the following, which may lead to light on the subject. In Hepworth Dixon's ' Personal History of Lord Bacon,' at the beginning of chap, v., is this :

"Under the eyes of Blount, Essex parts more and more from the good cause and from those who love it. His horses are not now seen in Gray's Inn Square. The correspondence with Anthony Bacon drops. The barges which float to Essex stairs bring other company than the Veres and Raleighs, the Cecils, Nottinghams, and Greys. To sup with bold, bad men ; to listen when he ought to strike ; to waste his manhood on the frail Southwells and Howards, have become the feverish habits of his life. Sir Charles Danvers, Sir Charles and Sir Jocelyn Percy, Sir William Constable, Captain John Lee, all alike discontented and disloyal Ronian Catholics, are now his household and familiar friends. The young apostate Lord Monteagle sita at his board ; though merely, as is guessed from what comes after, in the shameful character of Cecil's tool and spy."

This, of course, refers to Robert Cecil, but the year of the occurrence is 1598, the year of Lord Burleigh's death, and Robert fol- lowed very closely in his father's footsteps especially in his system of espionage. The Lord Monteagle or Mountegle referred to was also known as Sir William Parker. Sped- ding calls him apparently by mistake Sir Henry Parker. The name Monteagle is curiously suggestive of Montano. Can it be shown that Parker was employed as a spy by Burleigh, or suspected of being so employed ? The 'Dictionary of National Biography' does not help. ISAAC HULL PLATT.

New York.

ADDITION TO CHRISTIAN NAME (10 th S. iiL 328, 374). The custom, universal in the Roman Catholic Church, of persons taking another Christian name at confirmation in addition to those conferred at baptism may