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hers, being naturally more' newe-fangled then th Athenians to heare newes and gaze vpoii euery toy< as there be, in my opinion, more Playes in Loncfo then in all the partes of the world I haue seen( so doe these players or Comedians excell all other

in the worlde," &c.

F. J. F.

It should also have been stated that Col. (then Capt.) Henry Somerset kept a pack of harriers in the fifties when he lived at Olivers, near Painswick, and hunted part of the country which belonged to the Brockworth harriers.

The latter pack (which was only known in

the fifties as the " Brockworth," and not as ELIM CHAPEL, FETTER LANE. Fette the " Cottiswold or Brockworth" harriers), Lane and Bream's Buildings in former times was owned between 1864 and 1868 by two I with their old courts and alleys, were we] brothers, Messrs. Charles and John Codring- supplied with churches and chapels, a ton, who lived at Tocknells Court a house already shown in the pages of ' N. & Q.. which Mr. Charles Codrington had built in and the fire of Monday, the 2nd of Septem 1863. They removed the kennels from Cober- I ber, showed that the Baptists must b ley to Tocknells Farm. Mr. John Codrington [ added to the list. The Baptist Times of th (who became successively master of theS. and I 13th contains an interesting account o W. Wilts and Cattistock foxhounds), acted as j" Elim," the old Baptist chapel, gutted ii huntsman. Between the mastership of Sir j the fire. It was built in 1790 as a Genera Francis Ford and Mr. Gibbons, the Brock- i Baptist chapel, but the church worshippinj

worth harriers were owned for one season by Mr. Rome.

Misspellings (such as those already pointed out), occur also in the notice of the V. W. H. hounds on p. 294. Chester Master is twice written Chester Masters, and Sir T. Bazley

is called Sir T. Bazeley. Painswick House.

F. A. HYETT.

ENGLISH PLAYERS IN GERMANY IN 1592. Fynes Moryson in his ' Shakespeare's Europe ' as its editor in 1903, Charles Hughes, has entitled it has a passage on p. 304 worth quoting in ' N. & Q.' :

" Germany hath some fewe wandringComeydians more deseruing pitty then prayse, for the serious parts are dully penned, and worse acted, and the mirth they make is ridiculous, and nothing lesse then itty (as I formerly haue shewed). So as I remember tat when some of our cast despised Stage players

wi

that when some

came out of England into Germany, ancTplayed at Franckford in the tyme of the Mart, hauing nether a Complete number of Actours, nor any good Apparell, nor any ornament of the Stage, yet the Germans, not vnderstanding a worde they sayde, both men and wemen, flocked wonderfully to see theire gesture and Action, rather then heare them, speaking English which they vnderstoode not, and pronowncing peeces and Patches of English playes, which my selfe and some English men there present could not heare without great wearysomenes. Yea, my selfe Comming from Franckford in the 0901-

Eany of some cheefe marchants, Dutch and Flemish, eard them often bragg of the good markett they had made, only Condoling that they had not the leasure to heare the English players.

On p. 476 Fynes Moryson says that English players are the best in the world :

"The Citty of London alone hath foure or fiue Companyes of players with their peculiar Theaters Capaole of many thousands, wherein they all play euery day in the week but Sunday, with most strong concourse of people, besydes many strange toyes and farces exposed by signes to be scene in priuate houses, to which and to many musterings and other frequent spectacles the people flocke in great num-

in it was founded some years earlier by th< Rev. John Green, a Calvinistic clergyman one of Whitefield's friends, who died ir 1773. Among its ministers was Ebenezei Smith, at one time assistant to Dr. Gifforc at Eagle Street chapel. However, he hac to leave Eagle Street because he gave uj his belief in the doctrine of the Trinity For a time he held services in a chapel ir Oxford Street. Then he removed to Eliir Chapel in Fetter Lane. Towards the middle of the nineteenth century the church became extinct, and the chapel passed into the hands of the Methodists. They, too, founc it impossible to carry it on successfully, anc for some years it had not been used foi public worship.

" In clearing away the debris of the fire, a curiou; tank was discovered, which was evidently the old baptistery. It was of brick, cemented over, and was a little more than six feet square, with a depth of five feet. There were no steps outside or inside, but at one end was a small arch, leading into 8 smaller tank, the purpose of which is not clear, The architect suggested that perhaps the officiating minister stood in the smaller tank, or that it was connected with a spring from which the baptisterj was filled. At one side some steps had been cul down into the basement of the chapel, but these were evidently a later addition, as, with such an opening, the tank would not have held any water, From the curious shape of the baptistery the archi tect supposed that the candidate must have stood or knelt in the water, the minister simply bending the head so as to secure complete immersion." JOHN C. FRANCIS.

ANONYMOUS SONG ATTRIBUTED TO BURNS. In his ' Selected Poems of Robert Burns,' which he has contributed to the series known as " The Dry den Library," Mr. Andrew Lang includes not only the poet's ' Braw Lads on Yarrow Braes,' but also ' Braw Lads of Galla Water,' which appeared in David Herd's