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 s. v. JUNE 9, 1906.1 NOTES AND QUERIES.

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includes Hopton's own narrative of his cam- paign in the West (1642-4), and other papers relating to the same from the Clarendon and Tanner MSS. The account begins with the outbreak of the war in Somerset, 1 August, 1642, and ends with the Royalist defeat at Alresford of 29 March, 1644. On 11 May,

1645, when Taunton was relieved the first time by Col. Welden, the Royalist com- mander was the notorious Lord Goring. Lords Hopton, Wentworth, and Capel were the Royalist commanders on 16 February,

1646, when Fairfax stormed Torringtou. Again on 14 March, 1646, Lords Hopton and Wentworth represented the defeated side at the Treaty of Truro (see Joshua Sprigge's

Anglia Redivisa,' 1854, pp. 197, 229,^0.) A fine portrait of Hopton in his peer's robes is reproduced in Godwin's * Civil War in Hampshire.' A. R. BAYLEY.

GALABANK, I think, will fee interested in a note of mine on Ralph, Lord Hopton, as "A Frequently 'Killed' Royalist General," inj th S. xi. 46. ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

ROPES USED AT EXECUTIONS (10 th S. v. 266, 315, 375, 418). On 23 May the Daily Mail reported a sale of " torture and punishment implements" as having taken place at Messrs. Stevens's Rooms in Covent Garden the day before. The account contained the following sentence :

"There was bub little competition for a rope that had been used by Berry, the public execu- tioner, and eventually it was knocked down for Is."

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

When Mr. Calcraft retired from his office of executioner he said that relics of ropes were not to be relied on, because the same rope was used until worn out. The skeleton of William Corder, in West Suffolk Hospital at Bury St. Edmunds, is hung up in a wall- case with an old rope reported to be that with which he was executed. This is quite .possible, as it was a very old rope, and he may have been the last person executed with it. * Corder was hanged in 1828 at Bury St. Edmunds ; and I saw the skeleton in 1840. WALTER SCARGILL.

Colchester.

ABBEY OR PRIORY (10 th S. v. 327, 378, 417). I am quite aware that the custom of mis- naming abbeys and priories sometimes both titles being used indiscriminately in one -account of a monastic establishment was general ; but that is no reason why such mistakes should be perpetuated, and it is well

that the correct state of things should be made clear once for all.

With regard to Mr. W. Stevenson's remarks, quoted ante, p. 417, even he is wrong in stating that Newstead was a priory. The Notts Abbeys were Newstead, Stafford, and Welbeck. Lenton, however, is correctly called a priory, among which class it be- longed to the " Greater " category (200. net or over at the Dissolution), Blythe and Wallingwells and a few others belonging to the " Lesser " category (under 200. net at the Dissolution).

I have, with a considerable amount of pains, prepared a classified list of the Abbeys and of the Greater and Lesser Priories of Great Britain, and, of course, the Isles of Wight, Man, and Scilly, and the Channel Islands, and am, therefore, in a position to speak authoritatively on the matter. I have also a list of the Scotch and Welsh Abbeys.* JOHN A. RANDOLPH.

128, Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, S.W.

HAFIZ, PERSIAN POET (10 th S. v. 68, 115). According to Ethe (* Grundr. der Iran. Phil./ ii. 304) the edition by Brpckhaus is "eine der meisterhaftesten Editionen persischer Texte." Ethe's bibliographical notes will no doubt be of service to MR. PLATT. They were written in 1896, but I have seen a con- siderable number of booksellers' catalogues lately, and none of them mentions any com- plete edition of Hafiz published since then.

F. E. NUTTALL.

Manchester.

THE GUNNINGS OF CASTLE COOTE (10 th S. v. 323, 374, 395, 436). An elegy was written on the death of Catherine Gunning, the daughter of Barnaby and Anne Gunning, of Holy well, co. Roscommon. It will be found in the Brit. Mus. Cat., 1414 e. 4. 2, and the title-page runs as follows :

"A | Poem | On the Late | Miss Catharine Gunning, | In the Small Pox, | At Carlinstown in the | County of Westmeath, | the seat of her Uncle | James Nugent, ;Esq re ; | Inscribed to | Miss Hannah Nugent. | 13y a Young Gentleman. | Ab miseram Eurydicen ! Virg. | Dublin : j Printed by S. Powell, | in Crane Lane. | 1752."

The interesting communication of COL. POLLARD-URQUHART, ante, p. 395, shows that Barnaby Gunning resided at Holy well in 1751. According to Burke, he had another daughter Anne, who married Charles Blakeney, of Holy well.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

Abbeys, 17; "Greater" Priories, not including those in immediate vicinity of London, 58 1 "Lesser" Priories, about 500.
 * County Abbeys, 224 ; Scotch Abbeys, 37 ; Welsh