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NONJURORS: REV. BENJAMIN WAY (10 S. viii. 229). A list of the Nonjurors appeared in ' The Legitimist Kalendar ' for 1899, pp. 122-41, with many valuable notes by the late Rev. C. F. S. Warren. This was iounded on the original list in the ' Life of Kettle well,' 1718, App. VI., p. xii et seq., but contained many additional names, prin- cipally taken from a MS. list written (date 1733) on the fly-leaves of a copy of Kettle- well's ' Life,' in the hand of an amanuensis of Bishop Rawlinson. The name of the Rev. Benjamin Way, however, is not among them. RUVIGNY.

Chertsey.

Deprivation appears to have been prac- tised with regard to ministers of the Estab- lished Church of Scotland as well as the beneficed clergy of the Church of England, for .in Scott's ' Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae ' it is noted with regard to the Rev. James Wemyss, A.M., D.D., minister of the parish of St. Leonard's, Fife, and at the same time Principal of St. Leonard's College, St. Andrews, that he

"was deprived by the Privy Council, 4 th Sep', 1689, for not reading the Proclamation of the Estates, and not praying for their Majesties William and Mary."

ALEX. THOMS.

Way is not found among the long list of Conjuring clergy at the end of Canon Over- ton's book < The Nonjurors,' 1902.

W. D. MACBAY.

HAYLEY AND BLAKE (10 S. viii. 231). 'The article to which P. M. refers appeared nearly two years ago (November, 1905) in the now - defunct Monthly Review. Its correct title is ' William Blake at Felpham.' S. BUTTERWOBTH.

SWIFT'S WORKS: ANNOTATED EDITIONS (10 S. viii. 231). An excellent annotated edition of the best of Swift's work, both in prose and verse, is published by the Clarendon Press. The notes, which are full, admirably elucidate the text. The book is described on the title - page as follows : -" Swift : Selections from his Works. Edited, with Life, Introductions, and Notes, by Henry Craik." It is in two volumes, and -was originally published in 1892. W. B.

ST. ANTHONY'S BREAD (10 S. viii. 230).

"St. Anthony's Bread" is the special

designation given to alms which are col- lected in churches for the purpose of feeding the poor. They are thus named in memory of Antonio of Padua (1195-1231) who was

declared a saint by Gregory IX. in 1232. By means of such gifts devoted to this saint, pious people desire to invoke his help in all wants of human life. X.

'OLD TABLTON'S SONG' (10 S. viii. 188, 235). Another version runs : The gallant Duke of York, He had ten thousand men, &c.

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Streatham Common.

MRS. QUENTIN (10 S. viii. 230). It will interest MR. GILBERT to know that there exists a small tract of seventeen pages, entitled : " Memoirs | of the | Life of the Celebrated I M re QTuentin]. | By Edward Eglantine, Esq re | London | Printed and Published by Mr. Benbow, Castle | Street, Leicester Square, | 1822." A portrait of Mrs. Q. appears as a frontispiece. This is a reproduction of a coloured stipple engraving by Mr. Blake after a drawing by Huet Villiers, published on 1 June, 1820, by I. Barrow, Weston Place, St. Pancras. Since it is stated in the ' Memoirs ' that the heroine's maiden name was Harriet W n, it has been suggested that Mrs. Q. and Harriet Wilson were one and the same person ; but I can discover no evidence for this conjection, and the able biography in the ' D.N.B.,' written by Mr. Thomas Sec- combe, does not favour the supposition. Another statement in the ' Memoirs,' which informs us that Mrs. Q.'s sister, Jane W n, married Lieut. B g (who suc- ceeded his elder brother as Earl of T e, and became an admiral), does not seem to be verified by Burke. It is hinted that Mrs. Q. enjoyed the favour of George IV., and the fact that a beautiful portrait should be published shows that she was a celebrity. Still, there is no mention of her in the pages of Angelo, Creevey, Huish, Gronow, or John Taylor. The publisher of the ' Memoirs,' Benbow, "the Radical Cobbler," said to have been a friend of W. Cobbett, was a well-known dealer in scurrilous literature, and got into trouble through printing the ' Memoirs of Faublas.' In 1823 he was the proprietor of a scandalous periodical which bore the generic title of The Rambler's Magazine. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

LITHUANIAN FOLK - LORE : LEGLESS SPIRITS (10 S. viii. 168). As a lad I heard from the country folk many tales about ghosts and " ghostesses " spirits which stood at lane corners in white, some with shining faces, others with beckoning hands and arms, but never a one where legs were