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his will some time ago. He died in 1503, and his will was proved 30 March, 1503.

Peter Breynans, 1504. His will is un- dated, but is supposed to be about 1504.

John Skarlett, 1502. This date should be 1551.

John Sought, 1553. Is the name correctly printed ?

Nicholas Spyryne, 1545. This is Nicholas Spierinck.

The wills of Breynans, Skarlett, and Spierinck are printed, with information of other earlier Cambridge booksellers, in G. J. Gray's ' Earlier Cambridge Stationers and Bookbinders and the First Cambridge Printer,' 1904 ; whilst R. Bowes's ' Bio- graphical Notes on the University Printers from the Commencement of Printing in Cambridge,' 1886, gives particulars of the printers. Any one working at this subject should consult these works, and also R. Bowes's ' Catalogue of Cambridge Books,' 1894. G. J. GRAY.

The Elms, Chesterton, Cambridge.

JOHN NEWBERY' s GRAVE (10 S. vii. 27). I can inform MR. P. E. NEWBERRY that the grave of John Newbery, the publisher, is in the churchyard of the Berkshire village of Waltham St. Lawrence, his native parish. Goldsmith's punning epitaph was not placed on the tombstone. The following is the inscription on the gravestone :

Here lieth the body of

John Newbery,

Of St. Paul's Churchyard, London, Bookseller Who died December 22 nd, 1767,

Aged 54 years.

Stay, passenger, and contemplate

Virtues which arose on this spot ;

Urbanity that adorned Society ;

Knowledge that instructed it ;

Sagacity that discerned, and

Skill that introduced, The most powerful discovery

In the annals of medicine ;

Ihe humble Wisdom that taught

And still teaches moral lessons

To the rising generation.

Lament

lhat a breast inspired with such virtues Is sunk in dust.

Rejoice

That through Christ It is immortal.

The reference to the "most powerful dis- covery in the annals of medicine " is to the

James s Powders " which Newberv placed upon the market.

N ;f^ e ry's daughter Marv and her hus- band Michael Power are buried in the same grave as John Newbery.

An article on Newbery by the present

writer appeared in The Maidenhead Adver- tiser on '21 November last.

HENRY E. BANNARD. Littlewick Lodge, nr. Maidenhead, Berks.

According to ' A Bookseller of the Last Century,' by Charles Welsh, 1885, p. 70, John Newbery was buried at Waltham St. Lawrence, near Twyford, Berks, with an epitaph by the Rev C. Hunter, author of the life of Christopher Smart.

WM. H. PEET.

In a reprint of an article in The Chemist and Druggist of 25 July, 1896 a copy of which Mr. Lionel Newbery, of the firm of Francis Newbery & Sons, in Charterhouse Square, kindly gave me on an occasion when I was making certain inquires about the history of the firm the year in which John. Newbery died was 1776, not 1767.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

[Much information about Newbery and James's

B'lls was contributed at 9 S. viii. 11 by MR. EDWARD ERON-ALLEN, who had then in his possession the original autograph account-book of F. Newbery as agent for James's fever powders and pills.]

QUEEN VICTORIA OF SPAIN : NAME-DAY (10 S. vii. 30). Princess Ena of Battenberg, the consort of Spain's young king, is now officially known in that country by the titla of Queen Victoria. In the Nuevo Mundo (Madrid, 20 December) a portrait of her is given in an illustrated article, which supplies all the information required by HELGA. We are told that when the princess was received into the Catholic Church, she chose as her advocate (abogada), or patron saint, St. Victoria, Virgin and Martyr, whose feast is celebrated on 23 December, which is there- fore the Queen's name-day (fiesta onomdstica),. and has been duly honoured in her adopted country. It is the first of her baptismal names, which are Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena, by which last she was known before her marriage. Whilst she must have been greatly pleased when she was asked to assume the title of Queen Victoria of Spain, as she was thereby reminded of her illustrious grandmother, she was also pleasing the Spanish nation. It appears that St. Vic- toria's remains, though she was born in Italy and there received the crown of martyr- dom, are in Spain, in the town of Vinaroz, in the province of Castellon. " How did this come to pass ? " asks the writer, who lives in the same place. So long ago as 1782, the then Bishop of Solsona, who was a native of Vinaroz, through an inter- mediary, requested Pius VT. to grant him one of the bodies of the saints in the cata-