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one (' Nicholas Ferrar,' ed. J. E. B. Mayor, pp. 378 and 382). Martha was b. 15 Oct., bapt. 4 Nov., 1729 ; married about 1752 Peter Peckard (afterwards Master of Mag- dalene Coll., Camb., and Dean of Peter- borough), and died at Fletton 14 Jan., 1805. Some lines by her husband and her on the parish clerk of Fletton are in Gent. Mag. for 1789, pt. ii. 748.

31-13. Ode to Cynthia. By the same. Thomas Edwards, in Richardson's ' Corre- spondence,' ed. Barbauld, iii. 90, speaks of her " charming ode to the spring " ; her ' Ode to. Cynthia ' is inserted in ib., iii. 93. The latter is also included in Sir S. E. Brydges's ' Censura Literaria,' iv. 194-5.

313-14. Ode to a thrush. By Miss P*** [Pen- nington].

Daughter of Rev. John Pennington, rector of All Saints', Huntingdon, 1733-62. She died in 1759, aged twenty-five. She wrote a parody, 'The Copper Farthing,' on Phillips's ' Splendid Shilling,' which is printed in Dilly's ' Repository,' vol. i. (1777), pp. 136- 141, and is referred to by Duncombe in ' The Feminead.' Two other poems by her are in Nichols's collection of poetry, vi. 27-30.

314-16. Elegy. [Authorship not given.] 316-23. Poem to the memory of Thomas, late Marquis of Wharton. Lord Privy Seal [bur. Win- chendon, Buckinghamshire, 22 April, 1715]. The authorship is not given. It was pub- lished separately in 1716.

323-4. Paraphrase upon a French song. By the late William Somervile, Esq. ('D.N.B.').

325-32. Tomb of Shakespear, a vision. By J. Gilbert Cooper, Esq. ('D.N.B.').

W. P. COURTNEY. (To be continued.)

SOUTHWARK CANONS. It will be interest- ing for future inquirers to know something about the first holders of the canonries in the cathedral of the new diocese of South- wark. The ' Southwark Diocesan Chronicle, for, I believe, November, 1905, stated that the Order in Council, in giving effect to the Act under which the diocese was constituted, provided for a body of twenty-four honorary canons. It prescribed that those holders of canonries in Rochester Cathedral who, after the division of the diocese, held bene- fices in the Southwark diocese, should, their consent having been first obtained, be trans- ferred to, and become honorary canons in, the Cathedral Church of Southwark. Those to whom this provision and regulation applied were communicated with by the bishop,

and as a result the following became honorary canons of Southwark : Canons E. J. Beck, G. H. W. Bromfield, C. E. Brooke, J. H. Browne, C. E. Escreet, J. W. Horslejv J. W. Marshall, W. A. Moberly, and J. H. Potter. |*

Under a further provision of the said Order in Council, eight honorary canons could be appointed, and the bishop com- municated with Canon John Erskine Clarke, vicar of Battersea, as to whether he would resign his canonry in Winchester Cathedral,, with a view to accepting the bishop's first nomination to a canonry of Southwark ;. and the reply stated his readiness to do so. There were thus remaining seven canonries,. to which the bishop appointed the following : the Rev. A. W. Jephson, vicar of St. John's,. Walworth ; the Rev. C. P. Greene, rector,, and late Rural Dean, of Clapham ; the Rev. T. B. Dover, vicar of Maiden with Chessing- ton ; the Rev. C. S. Wallace, vicar of the Church of the Ascension, Lavender Hill ; the Rev. A. E. Barnes-Lawrence, vicar of St. Michael and All Angels', Blackheath Park ; the Rev. A. W. Maplesden ; and the Rev. R. H. Borradaile, Rural Dean of Godstone. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

YORKSHIRE MEMORIAL SACRIFICE. The following paragraphs from The Yorkshire Herald of 25 July have already interested one reader of ' N. & Q.,' and will probably attract the attention of others :

" In connection with the coming of age of Miss St. Quintin, celebrated at Scampston on Tuesday, a curio in the possession of Mr. J. W. Rawlinson, of Driffield, becomes of special interest. The curio ia question is a large piece of a china dinner dish used at the coming of age of Miss St. Quintin's paternal grandfather, at Lowthorpe, near Driffield, some sixty or seventy years ago. The fragment, which in some places is as much as a quarter of an inch in thickness, measures nearly two feet across, and is apparently nearly the half of a round dish, or the round end of an oval one. It is surrounded by a border of Oriental design in rich, dark blue. The whole of the bottom of the dish is covered with exquisitely painted Chinese figures in very rich colours.

" On the back of the fragment, on a label, is the following : ' This piece of old china is part of the dinner service used at the coming of age of the late Colonel St. Quintin, at Lowthorpe, and was brought to Driffield by Neddy Hall, the drummer. All the pieces belonging to the above dinner service were ordered to be smashed as soon as the repast was finished. Given to J. W. Rawlinson by Thomas Hodgson, 1870.'

"Thomas Hodgson was the son of Mrs. Charity Hodgson, who, for a great number of years, kept ' The Queen's Head ' Inn at Driffield. Not only was the china broken, but the drum end was broken also, and when the Driffield band of that day, who had been assisting at the celebration, turned up at,