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Camden, William (1551-1623), antiquary and historian. At Christ's Hospital and St. Paul's, and, according to Wood ('Ath.,' i. 480), in 15G6 a chorister at M.C.S. under Thos. Cooper; author of 'Britannia'; Head Master of Westminster School ; Clarenceux King - of - Arms ; buried in Westminster Abbey; a portrait belongs to M.C.S., and others to Bodleian and Provost of Worcester College.

Capel, Daniel (d. 16791), Puritan divine. Son of Richard Capel (v. 'D.N.B., 3 a Demy of 1604); chorister in 1643 (as was also his elder brother Christopher in 1635); lost living of Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire, after Restoration, practised medicine at Stroud.

Carkesse orCarcasse, James (fl. 1679), verse- writer. Student Ch. Ch.; sometime Usher, and later Master of M.C.S., 1663-4 (succeed- ing Timothy Parker) ; joined Church of Rome ; published * Lucida Inter valla, 1 a volume of doggerel rime's. Wood ('Life,' i. 500) gives an account of his quarrel with Thomas Gilbert, another schoolmaster. Both Carkesse and his Usher, Thomas Brattle, had been pupils of the celebrated Dr. Busby at Westminster School. Carkesse was, soon after giving up his Mastership, one of the four clerks of the Ticket Office, being assigned to Sir .John Minnes for the signing irregularities, principally through the action of Pepys, whom he reviles in his verses ; v. Pepys, whom he reviles in his verses ; v. Pepys's Diary,' 1666-7, and I 3t S. ii. 87.

A. R. BAYLEY.

St. Margaret's, Malvern.

(To be continued.)

May I be allowed to enter a courteous caveat against MR. BAYLEY'S statement that the arms of Eton College were "apparently borne, in yet earlier days, by Winchester College"? Correspondence upon the arms of these colleges was printed at 9 th S. ix. 241, 330; x. 29, 113, 233, 437; xi. 332 ; and I know of no trustworthy evidence that Winchester College at any time used arms containing lilies. If MR. BAYLEY be right in his suggestion that the white roses of King's College, Cambridge, were "borrowed" or " conveyed " from the red roses of Winchester College, it follows necessarily that at the date of the "conveyance" Winchester College was using the arms borne by the founder, William of Wykeham. Eton College and King's are said to have received grants of arms in the same regnal year, 27 Henry VI. See Lipscomb's * History of Bucks,' iv. 461, n. 3 ; and Dyer's 'History of Cambridge University,' ii. 181. H. C.

I believe that there is an omission in the list of masters of this school, namely, that of the Rev. Henry Cadwallader Adams (preceding Mr. Henderson in 1844), a very voluminous writer, afterwards chaplain at Bromley College. My informant was my old Oxford friend the Rev. Edward Hill, ab that time a Demy of Magdalen, who had been educated in the School when a chorister. Perhaps Mr. Adams's tenure of office was very brief. The Rev. W. J. Sawell was then the Usher, and one of the chaplains of the College. His beautiful tenor voice in chant- ing the service will long be remembered.

On May Day, 1851 (the opening day of the Great Exhibition), I was present at the ceremony of the opening of the new School. I had attended at 5 o'clock in the morning the singing of the 'Hymnus Eucharisticus " on the tower, and have a distinct remem- brance of the beautiful pieces which were sung in the School as a dedication, though fifty - four years have elapsed since that time.

A simple slab with the initials G. G. y at the entrance to the chapel, marks the resting-place of the Rev. George Grantham, for many years Usher.

Mr. Cobbold, who twitched the ears of the boy, as recorded, might have said with Horace^

Cy nth ins aurem Vellit et admonuit.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Wood bridge.

EASTER EGGS. (See 10 th S.iii. 303.) In 1262 the customary tenants and cottagers of the manor of Saperton, co. Glouc., gave to the

lord at Easter five eggs each, 120 eggs in "lort., Gloucestershire,' iv. 32).

all (' Inquis. post M

In 1587 the 'Parish Register, St. Michael- le-Belfrey, York, 3 i. 101, records "certayne egges at east'r, due to the clarke by anncyent custome."

In 1726 "tythe of eggs on Good Friday'* belonged to the curate (* Parish Reg., North Burton, York,' p. 69). W. C. B.

BARREL OR DORRELL'S DEED. In your review of the recently printed Cambridge ' Jonson' you ask (ante, p. 59) what was this deed, and suggest it is perhaps an allusion to some prank of John Darrell, the exorcist. Your conjecture is right, and the quotation in question is not the only one in which Jonson mentions Darrel. In 'The Devil is an Ass,' Act V. sc. iii., is this : Did you ne'er read, sir, little Barrel's tricks With the boy of Burton and the seven in Lancashire