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 310 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. iv. OCT. M, 1905. resembled the spelling used by Virgil and his contemporaries, it seems to me, in opposi- tion to MR. McGovERN, that the preponder- ance of opinion clearly favours Vergil. See Sellar's ' Roman Poets of the Augustan Age : Virgil,' ch. iii. sect. ii.; sect. 40 of the ' Life and Writings of Virgil' in Kennedy's edition of Virgil; and Ribbeck's one-volume edition of Virgil, p. viii, note 1. Nevertheless, Sellar and Kennedy, while holding that Vergilius is right in Latin, think that there is no reason for giving up Virgil in English. KENHEW. Vergilius is, apparently, the proper spelling of the poet's own day. In modern English Virgil is decidedly more usual than Vergil, and, if usage makes correctness, may be called more correct. Some of those who are alive to the true Latin spelling are inclined to use the « in the English word also. Per- haps this is "hyperpedantic." But it is not hyperpedantic to protest when Horace's well- known (and well-worn) words appear as sub judice adhuc Us est. EDWARD BENSLY. Aldeburgh-on-Sea. "CHRIST'S HOSPITAL" (10th S. iv. 247).— While search was being made among the archives of Christ's Hospital in 1888 for evidence in support of the Hospital's case before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a MS. written in 1582 by John Howes, which had been mislaid and forgotten for at least two centuries, was discovered. It is a beautiful specimen of calligraphy, bound in white vellum, and in perfect pre- servation. It has lately been reproduced in facsimile at the charges of Mr. Septimus Vaughan Morgan, one of the present governors, with an introduction and notes by Mr. William Lempriere, the senior assist- ant clerk of Christ's Hospital. A copy is now in the Guildhall Library, and a fas- cinating volume it is. John Howes was a citizen and grocer who had been "apprenticeand servant" (i.e., clerk or private secretary) within the Greyfriars to Richard Grafton, the first Treasurer-General. In his old age he bethought himself of com- mitting to writing his recollections of the circumstances attending the foundation of the three great charities, and this MS. was the result. It commences thus :— "To the Righte Won>pfull M' Norton M' Awdeleye & Mr Bauckes Treasurer & Governo™ of Chryste His Hospital!," &c. " Righte Worshipfull I have uppon good occasion collected & gathered together a brefe note of the Order & manner of the processings in the fyrste erec'con of the Hospitalles of Chrystes, Brydewell and St. Thomas the Apostle, wherein," &c. John Howes and Mr. Lempriere may there- 'ore be considered as probably the best pos- sible authorities on the question raised by four correspondent, and I find that in the MS. the charity is invariably referred to except in the single instance given above) as "Chrysts Hospitall" or "Chrystes Hos- critall," and in the introduction and notes it s as invariably called "Christ's Hospital." [t seems probable, therefore, that Leigh 11 nut was wrong. ALAN STEWART. As one of those who are criticized for writing "Christ's," not "Christ" Hospital, [ hasten to reply that I used that form advisedly, because there is excellent reason for considering it to be correct. I am aware bhat Leigh Hunt and the late Henry Sam- brooke Leigh omitted the genitive. On the other hand, the manuscript of John Howes, 1582, is addressed to "The Righte Woeful! Mr Norton Mr Awdeleye <fe Mr Banckes Treasurer <fe Governo™ of Chryste His Hospitall," &c. John Stow, in his 'Survey of London,' 1598, speaks of " Christ's Hospital" ; so do Howell (copying, no doubt, from Stow) in his ' Londinopolis,' 1657, and Hatton in his ' New View of London,' 1708. I should add, perhaps, that the manuscript by John Howes has lately been reproduced in facsimile for private circulation at the ex- pense of Mr. Septimus Vaughan Morgan, with an introduction and notes by Mr. William Lempriere, the text being printed on an opposite page. It relates to " The Three Royal Hospitals of Christ, Bridewell and S' Thomas the Apostle.'' Howes was the father of Edmund Howes, who continued Stow's 'Annales.' Among moderns, Charles Lamb, with his 'Recollections of Christ's Hospital' and 'Christ's Hospital Five-and- Thirty Years Ago,' is at least as good an authority as the not very accurate author of ' The Old Court Suburb.' PHILIP NORMAS. SARAH CURRAN, ROBERT EMMET, AITD MAJOR SIRR'S PAPERS (10th S. iii. 303, 413,470; I iv. 52, 111).—I have perused the contributions under the above heading with considerable interest, and several pertinent reflections and questions arise. Who would presume to say that Sarah Curran was not influenced and misguided by Emmet, and that she did not excitedly write much which she probably forgot afterwards, and would have regretted if she had recol- lected ? VVhen distracted, evidently she be- came penitent. As the Attorney - General said, Emmet's " Proclamation " to the citizeM of Dublin, having aroused them, threw out » few words of composure, and, having affected