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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. iv. JULY 8.1005. probability, at Magdalen—of which College, according to Wood, he was a benefactor— Foxe was in early life (17-22 Edward IV.), as Mr. A. F. Leach has demonstrated, master of the ancient Grammar School of Stratford-on- Avon, afterwards refounded by Edward VI. {vide 'Holy Ghost Gild Book,' f. cvii). In later life he held with distinction the office of Lord Privy Seal under Henry VII. and Henry VIII. In his statutes he ordains that the two choristers at C.C.C. are to be taught grammar and instructed in Rood authors, either within his College or at M.C.S. These two choristers were, at first, probably seldom matriculated : in process of time their specific functions ceased, and they became simply ordinary students (Dr. T. Fowler's ' History of C.C.C.,' 1893, pp. 48,429,430). An examina- tion of the list of these C.C.C. choristers sug- gests certain names as those of possible students at M.C.S. In 1552, for example, one Roach is found, his name being written "Roche" in a catalogue of the same year of those resident in College, wherein he comes twenty-third among the subgraduati (Boase's 'Register of Oxford University,' pp. xxii, 240). He is, unless I mistake, the Walter Roche who matriculated at C.C.C. on 16 Feb., 1554/5 (from Lancast., says Boase); was Devon Scholaris or Probationary Fellow 1558; and B.A. 1559. He, like his founder, became master of the Stratford-on-Avon Grammar School in 1570, and was succeeded in 1577 by Thomas Hunt. But he, apparently, con- tinued to live in that town; for, moving into a house in Chapel Street in 1582, he replaced the tiles with old-fashioned thatch (Sidney Lee's ' Stratford-on-Avon,' p. 131). In all probability during his years of teaching there he had among his pupils a small boy named William Shakespeare. It is, at least, certain that Shakespeare had studied to some purpose his Lily's Latin grammar—a book familiar to Magdalen men (cf. ' Love's Labour's Lost,' IV. ii., V. i. ; 'Shrew,' III. i.; •Merry Wives,' IV. i.; J. Churton Collins's •'Studies in Shakespeare," pp. 12, 14 ; S. Lee's •Life of Shakespeare,' p. 12; 'Stratford,' p. 176). In 1604 we find the name of Francis •Garbrand—doubtless akin to the Thomas mentioned later, several of whose family were at Magdalen. About the year 1609, or earlier, occurs the name of Tobias Giles, perhaps a relative of Nathaniel the composer, sometime a Magdalen chorister. In 1648 Nathaniel Vincent, aged ten, was appointed chorister of C.C.C. by the Parliamentary visitors. He became an eminent Noncon- formist divine, and, as such, enjoyed the rare .honour of being praised by Anthony Wood (' D.N.B.,' Iviii. 360). Wood thinks ('Athenas,' iv.) that Richard Eedes, the Presbyterian divine, was either clerk or chorister of C.C.C. in 1626 ('D.N.B.,' xvii. 141). In 1685Charles Manwaring Pullman and in 1687 William Manwaring Fullman were choristers of C.C.C. They were sons of the antiquary William Fulman noticed later. A. R. BAYLEY. St. Margaret's, Malvern. (To be continued.) THE DUKE'S BAGNIO IN LONG ACRE. AT the sale of Mr. Julian Marshall's en- gravings a print was included of an interest and extreme rarity entitling it to a mention in the columns of 'N. & Q.' It must be classed among the shopbills or handbills of the period. The upper portion is occupied by an engraving 6| in. by 5 in. in height, illus- trating, in section, a building consisting of a semicircular dome supported on seven columns. The dome is perforated by a num- ber of circular openings; on the chequered floor appears a circular bath, apparently some 10 ft. in diameter, on the raised edge of which are seated two female figures, the upper part of whose bodies is nude, while the lower extremities are clothed. The height of the building is stated to be 40ft., length 32ft., breadth 28 ft. Above this is a representation of the royal arms, and at each side appears the cipher J. R., under which are the words "The King's Bagnio." Then follows letter- press as under:— Upon the great Encouragement I received from the King's Most Excellent Majesty ; from His late Majesty of Ever Blessed Memory; from the Nobility and Gentry, and from many Eminent Physicians and others of great Learning and Travel!, 1 erected a Bagnio in Long-Acre, known by the Name of the King s-Sagnio ; and by His Majesty, the Nobility and Gentry highly Approved. And by Experience of Thousands, found to be of great Use and Benefit for all Man-kind ; not only to such as are in perfect Health, to continue it and prevent Distempers; but of wonderful and sure Relief, to all Aged, Weak, and Consumptive Persons of both sex, and to all in General, who are afflicted with any Chronical Diseases ; Bed-rid per- sons, and such as by Rheumatisms, Ach, &c., have had no Use of their Limbs, have been Restored to admiration. Now for that, the constant price hath hitherto been Five Shillings and Sixpence. That now, all manner of persons may receive so great a Benefit with less Charge, I have thought tit, notwithstanding the great Expense of Building, and daily Charge attending it, to retrench the Prizes, and do hereby declare, that from, and after the Date hereof, That if two come together in Company, they shall pay but Eight Shillings; if three, but Eleven Shillings: that if one single Person conies three times in 14 Days, he shall have the like Advantage.