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 io* a. iv. OCT. 7. iocs.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 293 This farce, produced at Covent Garden Theatre on 17 Sept., 1781, was made out of the underplot of Charles Dibdin's comic opera 'The Islanders.'produced at Covent Garden Theatre on 25 November, 1780. The text of the latter was not printed. Two pieces by St. Foix, ' L'Isle Sauvage' and 'La Colonie,' were drawn on for the plot. EOW. RlMBAULT DlBDIN. Morningside, Sudworth Road, New Brighton. [Several other correspondents supply the refer- ence. We have forwarded to MR. KINO the long extract from Beloe's translation copied out by PRINCIPAL SALMON.] BROUGHAM CASTLE (10th S. iv. 229).—MR. BIRNBAUM will find a very good paper upon this castle in the Archceologia of the Society of Antiquaries, vol. Iviii., by Mr. E. Towry Whyte. The owner is Lord Hothfield. F. G. HILTON PRICE. In the time of Edward the Confessor the lord of the manor was Walter de Burgham, whose male descendants held it till the reig_n of Edward III., when the succession ended in three coheiresses, whose issue inherited it in three portions till 1676, when it was united in James Bird, Esq. At his death the estate was sold to John Brougham, Esq., descended from a younger branch of the ancient lords, and apparently it thus became the property of the distinguished statesman Henry, Lord Brougham. Much concerning the old castle will be found in James Dugdale's 'British Traveller,' 1819, vol. iv. p. 441; W. Hutchinson's 'Excursion to the Lakes. with u. Tour through Part of the North of England in 1773-4,' also his 'History of Cumberland '; Lewis's ' Topographical Dic- tionary,' s.v. ' Brougham'and 'Penrith'; and last, but not least, Burke's ' Peerage.' There is also a ' History of Penrith,' which I have not seen. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. 6, Elgin Court, W. MR. BIRNBAUM will find two papers on this interesting castle in the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society—(1) by the Rev. James Simpson, F.S.A., M.A. (vicar of Kirkby Stephen), vol. i. (O.S.), p. 60; (2) by G. T. Clark, F.S.A., vol. vi. (O.S.), p. 15. The castle was visited by the Society in 1893. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A, F.S.A. Lancaster. There is a view of Brougham Castle, drawn in 1774, in 'The Antiquities of England and Wales,' by Francis Grose (London, 1776), vol. iv., with more than a page of letterpress, wherein the river is called "Eimot, vul- garly pronounced Yeoman." Most of the account is taken from " a late publication, in titled 'An Excursion to the Lakes.'" In that the river's name is spelt "Yeoman." See also Murray's ' Handbook to Westmore- land, Cumberland,' &c. ROBERT PIERPOINT. [S. H. and W. B. H. are also thanked for replies.] SWEDISH ROYAL FAMILY (10th S. iii. 409, 456; iv. 91, 196).—Failing any possible de- scendants of Prince Gustavus, the son of Eric XIV.—the eldest son and heir of Gus- tavus (Vasa) I.—the Czar is undoubtedly heir general of the original house of Vasa, the wife of his ancestor Frederick IV., Duke of Holstein Gottorp, having been the eldest daughter of Charles X., and sister, and in her issue heir, to Charles XI. The descend- ants of Charles X.'s sisters can have no claim to the representation of this family while those of his daughter exist. Eric XIV. was dethroned by his brothers in 1568, and his son took refuge with the Emperor, and, I believe, died unmarried, but I have never been able to ascertain this for certain. RUVIGNY. Oalway Cottage, Chertsey. A NAMELESS BOOK (1001 S. iv. 123, 176).— Since I sent a note about this volume, a brier surcease from business has afforded me an opportunity of looking through Simon Wilkin's edition of Sir Thomas Browne's 'Works,' first published in 1836, and re- printed ten years afterwards in Bohn's "An- tiquarian Library." In the second of these, 071 pp. 171-2, mention is made of the book, which bears the following title, " Uepia^fia. 'ETriSimiov: or, Vulgar Errors in Practise Answered. London, Royston, 1659, pp. 112." Then follows a summary of the seven chapters, but the author's name is not stated. All this proves that the volume had an independent existence when first published. Further- more, the dates do not favour the sug- gestion of our learned correspondent MR. EDWARD BENSLY, who, to our advantage, is no longer an Antipodean, for it is clear that a book printed in 1659 could not have accompanied another that ap- peared three years before, the original title of which is, according to Lowndes, ' A Discourse of Auxiliary Beauty, or Artificiall Handsomeness, in Point of Conscience be- tween Two Ladies. London, 1656." The words "With some Satyrical Censures on the Vulgar Errors of these Times" woula seem to have been added to the edition or 1662 by the publisher, R. Royston, who may have reprinted the little work as being of a similar character to the larger book, and,