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the same church as her sister on 13 May, 1610. Her will, wherein she describes herself as spinster, was dated 23 Oct., 1635, and proved 9 March, 1635/6. She left her New River share to her sister Elizabeth, who gave it to her nephew John, younger son of their brother Sir William Myddelton, second baronet. W. M. MYDDELTON.

St. Albaus.

In the ' Notes of the Middleton Family,' by Mr. W. Buncombe Pink, it is stated that Elisabeth Middleton was unmarried in 1643, and that Anne died unmarried in 1635.

RICHARD LAWSON.

Urmston.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE (10 S. vi. 422). In his most interesting and useful note on the above subject W. C. B., in the sixth paragraph from the end, writes : "In

' S'too Him Bayes ' we find ' He crys

out like king Harry in Shakespear, My conscience, My conscience !.' " and indicates that this is to be found in ' K. Hen. VIII.,' II. iv.

The following are the references to con- science :

This res] dte shook

The bosom of my conscience. LI. 179-80. . Thus hulling in

The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer

Toward this remedy. LI. 197-9.

I meant to rectify my conscience, which

I then did feel full sick. LI. 201-2. None of the above quotations seems to be quite applicable. I venture to suggest that the passage referred to is to be found earlier in the play, Act II. ii. 143 :

Conscience, Conscience !

O ! 'tis a tender place

S. BUTTERWORTH.

ANDRE : INGLIS : DOWNIE : BARCLAY : KEMPT (10 S. vi. 387). T would suggest that MR. McCoRD write to Mrs. Sarcelles Andre, Hurst Road, Horsham, for information re Major John Andre. The late Mr. Lewis Andre, F.S.A., a correspondent of ' N. & Q.,' died 9 Aug., 1901, at Horsham. He was a great-grandson of John Lewis Andre, uncle of the unfortunate major. See a note of mine at 9 S. viii. 216.

CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 5, Grove Villas, Wanstead.

GEORGE ELIOT AND DICKENS (10 S. vi. 449). Why should George Eliot have been indebted to Dickens for the absurdity of Mr. Trumbull's remark ? Mrs. Malaprop is of long descent, and coincidence of thought among humourists must date from the Stone Age. Moreover, in the eighteenth century

" chastity " was used to denote purity of style and the like, in cases where people- might now prefer " chasteness," and the habit lingered into the nineteenth.

ST. SWITHIN.

ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL YARD, OXFORD- ROAD (10 S. vi. 469). This must surely be the old St. George's burial ground in the- Bayswater Road, near the Marble Arch.

E. W. B.

St. George's Chapel Yard, i.e., the grave- yard of St. George's Hanover Square, is in> the Bayswater Road, a little to the west of the Marble Arch. It contains the graves of several eminent persons. The mortuary chapel was recently beautifully restored and embellished at the expense of Mr. Russell' Gurney. S. D. C.

OSCAR WILDE BIBLIOGRAPHY (10 S. iv. 266 ; v. 12, 133, 176, 238, 313, 355 ; vi. 296). In my Bibliography in Mr. Sherard's ' Life of Oscar Wilde ' I expressed a doubt as to the genuineness of ' The Rise of His- torical Criticism.' I have, however, quite recently learned that the original manuscript of this work is in the possession of a collector in Philadelphia, and I have no longer any doubt as to the authenticity of this early essay of Wilde's. STUART MASON.

Shelley House, Oxford.

RICHARD HUMPHRIES, THE PRIZEFIGHTER (10 S. vi. 388). An account of Richard Humphries (not Humphreys) is given in. ' Pugilistica : being One Hundred and Forty-Four Years of the History of British Boxing,' by Henry Downes Miles (London,. Weldon & Co., no date : I bought my copy (new in 1 88 1 ), vol. i . p. 84 . He was popularly called " The Gentleman Boxer." " His manners were conciliatory, and he endea- voured through life to enact the gentleman.'* He " lived for many years after their [Humphries and Daniel Mendoza's] last contest [29 September, 1790], and died in respectable circumstances, his calling being that of a coal-merchant in the Adelphi, Strand." The dates of (presumably) his fighting time are 1784-90.

A plate, " to face p. 75," represents the third fight between Mendoza and Humphries, referred to above, which took place at Don- caster. In the title of the plate Humphries is called George instead of Richard, ani obvious error. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

MONKEYS STEALING FROM A PEDLAR (10 S. vi. 448). In a manuscript of the four- teenth century (MS. Reg. 10 E. IV.) a tra-