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'beautiful prints at the sign of " The Golden Buck "; but I am open to correction on that matter. One of the brothers was buried in the churchyard of St. Clement Danes, and probably his remains were among those removed elsewhere when the Strand widening (necessitated the step recently.

JOHN A. RANDOLPH.

ENGLISH CROWN JEWEL (10 th S. iii. 429). 'This jewel may be the " hat band " referred to by Madame (Princess Henrietta, daughter of Charles I., and Duchess of Orleans) in her letter to Charles II., dated Versailles,
 * 24 October, 1664 ; also in her letter to Lord

Hollis, as having been stolen from her father Charles I. with other jewels, including a Barter, a great many rings, a portrait of Prince Henry set in very large diamonds, a very fine sapphire, a wonderful crystal ship enriched with pearls and rubies, besides various curious tapestries. Cardinal Mazarin had purchased some, others had been hidden -away in thieves' quarters, and had been either sold or stolen during the Commonwealth. (See ' Madame,' by Julia Cartwright, London, 1894, pp. 169, 170.) C. MASON.

29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.

'CORYATE'S CRUDITIES' (10 th S. iii. 426). Besides those mentioned by LORD ALDENHAM, there are three copies of the 1611 edition in the British Museum ; Mr. G. F. Barwick, of -the Reading-Room, also tells me he knows of one or two others.

The three in the B.M. Library are in excel- lent condition, particularly the one in the 'Grenville Collection, which is unusually in- teresting. An inscription on the inside, un- doubtedly written by Mr. Grenville, says :

" This book is the Dedication Copy presented by the Author to Prince Henry, by the Prince it was .given to his Chaplain Mr. Pomfret, from whom il descended to Mr. Pomfret Williamse, who in 1796 death it was given in 1816 by his brother Thos Cholmondeley, Esq., of Vale Royal, to Thomas Grenville."
 * gave it to the Rev. Hugh Cholmondeley; and at his

Surely this is a very good pedigree. The foook is handsomely bound in crimson velvet, with the initials E.P. impressed on the covers; the plates are coloured (but certainly not improved) ; and at the end is an auto ,graph letter signed "Thos. Coryate."

CHAS. G. SMITHERS.

47, Darnley Road, N.E.

CHESTER PLEA ROLLS (10 th S. iii. 388). MR ESAN KENNY should consult the Thirty Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy-Keepei of the Public Records (1875), Appendix II. No. 1, ' Welsh Records : Calendar of Recogni

zance Rolls of the Palatinate of Chester, rom the Earliest Period to the End of the ieign of Henry IV.,' pp. 1-548. This calendar s continued in the Thirty-Seventh Report 1876), Appendix II., No. 1, from 1 Hen. V. ,o 24 Hen. VII., pp. 1-819; and in the Thirtv-Ninth Report (1878), Appendix, No. 1, from 1 Hen. VIII. to 11 Geo. IV., pp. 1-306. W. McB. MARCH AM. 69, Beechwood Road, Hornsey, N.

PARLIAMENTARY QUOTATION (10 th S. iii. 206, 294). In the review of Lady Dilke's 'Book of the Spiritual Life' one of her felicitous sentences quoted ante, p. 438, ran : " To seek is nearly as good as to find, for in seeking one finds also things one did not seek." A happy illustration of the truth of this saying enables me to answer MR. GRIGOR'S question as to the authorship and correct reading of the lines quoted by John Bright and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. While search- ing in 'N. & Q.' for a quotation I did not find, I came across the following lines cited at 5 th S. vii. 219 by the late MR. VINCENT S. LEAN from Wither's 'Vox Pacifica,' 1645, p. 119 :

Let not your King and Parliament in one,

Much less apart, mistake themselves for that Which is most worthy to be thought upon :

Nor think they are, essentially, the State. Let them not fancy that th' authority

And privileges upon them bestown, Conferr'd, are to set up a majesty,

A power, or a glory of their own ! But let them know, twas for a deeper life Which they but represent That there's on earth a yet auguster thing, Veil'd though it be, than Parliament or King.

J. R.

WILLIAM TYNDALE'S ORDINATION (10 th S. iii. 428). George Offor, in his ' Life of Wil- liam Tyndale,' stated that the ordination of William Tyndale took place at St. Bartholo- mew's Priory, Smithfield, on 11 March, 1502. This was found not to apply to William Tyndale the martyr, but to one bearing his name. For further particulars see 3 rd S. iii.

133, 160, 418. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

FANSHAWE FAMILY (10 th S. iii. 327). The MS. mentioned by MR. FANSHAWE is that which was formerly in the possession of his father, the late Mr. J. G. Fanshawe, and of which several modern transcripts exist, one being, I believe, in the collection of Mr. E. J. Sage, of Stoke Newington. The former was inspected by me in 1880 with a view to pub- lication, with copious annotations from my own extensive collections, made from original