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porations Act, on 9 November ; but the City of London alone continues to choose its chief magistrate on the original day, 29 September, and presents him on 9 November.

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

SAMUEL WHITCHURCH, POET (10 th S. iv. 429, 516). With reference to PRINCIPAL SALMON'S inquiry about Samuel Whitchurch, I may say that he was my husband's grand- father on the mother's side, and I possess a small volume of his poems, called * His- paniola, and other Poetical Pieces/ printed by Meyler, Bath, 1804. He also wrote * The Battle of the Dogger Bank,' at which he himself was present, and, as G. F. R. B. men- tions, contributed to The Monthly Magazine in the beginning of the nineteenth century. He was an admiral's secretary in the Royal Navy, and it is supposed 1 that in later life he entered trade in Bath. He belonged to a Somersetshire family, and his great-uncle John Whitchurch owned Nunney Castle, near Frome, in the middle of the eighteenth century, at the same time that another Samuel Whitchurch was rector of Nunney. His father fought at Dettingen and Fontenoy, as he mentions in a poem addressed to ' My Father.' The poet married a Miss Reed, whose father was a friend of Coleridge and Southey. M. E. S.

BEN JONSON AND BACON (10 th S. ii. 469; iii. 35, 94). This is a very interesting ques- tion, and I should be glad to see what further information on the point Rawley gave to Tenison. But neither the British Museum nor the Bodleian Catalogue records Tenison's so good as to give particulars of the part of Tenison's works to which he refers titles, volume, page, edition, &c. Q. V.
 * Baconiana.' Perhaps MR. STRONACH will be

SPLITTING FIELDS OF ICE (10 th S. iv. 325, 395, 454, 513). To keep matters in order, it may be well to say that the passage from Lowell to which MR. JARRATT directs atten- tion is precisely that on which this whole discussion hinges. The quotation and criti- cism of it at the first reference stimulated all that has followed. To prevent the possibility of advancing a thing in illustration of itself, it would be useful if readers would carefully examine all that has previously been said before offering fresh contributions to a subject under dispute. MR. JARRATT mean- while is quite justified in his assumption that Lowell misunderstood Wordsworth, and it is interesting to have his corroboration of the view expressed in the initial note, which, apparently, he has not seen. Thomson's

growling river is a different matter from the roaring ice at a time of thaw, to which it bears no resemblance whatever. It may be observed, however, that it is not the whole river, but " the whole imprison'd river," to which the poet's description refers, and that what he says is illustrative at once of his accurate observation and his felicitous use of expressive phraseology. The allusion to the roaring and howling ice of 'The Ancient Mariner ' is apposite and useful.

THOMAS BAYNE.

"THESE ARE THE BRITONS, A BARBAROUS RACE " (10 th S. iv. 510). The book your American correspondent inquires about was entitled 'The History of England in Rhyme from the Conquest to the Restoration,' and was published in 1854 by Hope & Co., 16, Great Maryborough Street. It was really very cleverly done in parts. It is a crown 8vo of 332 pages, and was published at 5s. R. B. MARSTON.

St. Dunstan's House, Fetter Lane, E.C.

PRISONER SUCKLED BY HIS DAUGHTER (10 th S. iv. 307, 353, 432). Lempriere's 'Classical Dictionary' includes Perone, the daughter of Cimon, a prisoner. The legend may be of Greek origin, but was common to the Romans, who, if memory plays me not false, are recorded to have called the heroine Euphrasia (name identical with that of the plant we call " eyebright " Milton's "euphrasy," Dray ton's " eyebright for the eye"). I have what is perhaps one of the oldest extant "portraits" of the lady, figured in her act of filial piety on a frag- ment of Samian ware, part of a bowl used in Britain when Rome ruled the world.

I. CHALKLEY GOULD.

I have seen a broadside with a representa- tion of this subject and appropriate verses underneath. I think there is a specimen among the unbound broadsides in the library of the Society of Antiquaries.

K. P. D. E.

BAYHAM ABBEY (10 th S. iv. 448). In Francis Grose's ' Antiquities of England and Wales,' 1773-6, vol. iii., is a view of ' Bege- ham, or Bey ham Abbey, Sussex,' engraved by Godfrey in 1774, together with a short account of the abbey. According to a note at the end, this view was drawn in 1761, but in 1760 according to the county index of vol. iii. at the end of vol. iv. The latter mentions a view by S. and N. Buck (north aspect) taken in 1737.

There is a small woodcut of Bayham Abbey on the first page of vol. ii. of 4 The Anti-