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recent edition of 'The Golden Treasury ' sent out by the Oxford University Press. Which of them has Rossetti's final imprimatur ? Is the second text the effect of later altera- tions by the poet ? If this conjecture be correct, the result would seem a noteworthy instance of excessive revision. Two stanzas from each text may be quoted. I designate Palgrave's text I., the Oxford University Press, II. Of the first stanza there are these two versions :

I.

The blessed damozel lean'd out

From the gold bar of Heaven ;

Her eyes were deeper than the depth

Of waters still'd at even ;

She had three lilies in her hand,

And the stars in her hair were seven.

II.

The blessed Damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven :. Her blue grave eyes were deeper much Than a deep water, even. She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.

The two versions of the ninth stanza are as follows :

I.

And still she bow'd herself and stoop'd Out of the circling charm ; Until her bosom must have made The bar she lean'd on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along her bended arm.

II.

And still she bowed herself and stooped Into the vast waste calm ; Till her bosom's pressure must have made The bar she leaned on warm, And the lilies lay as if asleep Along- the bended arm.

There are not a few other variations in the texts, as (Palgrave's reading is quoted first) "rampart" and "terrace," "fix'd place " and " fixt lull," " level flight " and "level lapse," &c. Each editor must have worked from a different copy. The history of the divergences would be worth learning.

W. B.

AECHBISHOP OF DUBLIN IN 1349 (10 S. viii. 210). There were two Archbishops of Dublin in this year. Henry Marleborough in his ' Chronicle ' (a continuation of Dr. Mery- dith Hanmer's ' Chronicle of Ireland ') says :

1317. "And Alexander Bignor was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin. (He was made Lord Justice the following year.) "

1349. " Deceased Alexander Bignor upon the 14th of July, and the same yeere was John de Saint Paule consecrated Archbishop of Dublin."

1362. "Deceased John de Saint Paule, Arch- bishop of Dublin, on the fift [sic] day before the Ides of September."

J. H. MURBAY.

John de St. Paul (1295 ?-1362) was Arch- bishop of Dublin from 1349 to 1362, the date of his death. He was advanced by a papal provision in 1349 to the archbishopric, having previously been a canon of the see. See 'D.N.B.,' vol. 1. p. 173.

FBANCIS G. HALEY.

On 14 July, 1349, Alexander de Bicknor, having governed the see of Dublin for almost thirty-two years, died. As his suc- cessor, John de St. Paul, Prebendary of Donnington in the Cathedral of York, was not appointed until 1350, there must have been an " interregnum " of several months ; but De Bicknor, who in 1320 established a university in St. Patrick's Church, was un- doubtedly Archbishop of Dublin at the time in question. This prelate had a short way with mendicants. See ' Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin,' by John Dalton, M.R.I.A., Dublin, 1838, pp. 133-4.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

[MB. J. S. CRONE, MR. W. D. MACRAY, and MR. J. B. WAINE WRIGHT also thanked for replies.]

" ABBEY " : " ABB AYE," A Swiss CLUB (10 S. viii. 148, 257). Some informa- tion regarding " L'Abbaye des Echarpes- Blanches " is given in a paper at 9 S. vi. 141, under the heading ' A Swiss Rifle Club.' I have not met with the word " abbey " in the sense of a club elsewhere than in Switzerland, and especially in French Switzerland. The " Hell-Fire Club " was certainly founded by Dashwood, Wilkes, and the rascally crew who aped the monks of Medmenham Abbey ; but this was a very different kind of society from those in which the patriotic and continent Swiss show an example to other nations.

W. F. PBIDEAUX.

GEOBGE FITZBOY, DUKE or NOBTHUMBEB- LAND, AND HIS DUCHESS (10 S. viii. 289). According to ' Regum Pariumque Magns& Britannise Historia Genealogica,' by Jacobus- Wilhelmus Im-Hoff, Norimbergse, 1690, he married Catharine, daughter of Robert Wheatley of Brecknall, Berkshire, who had before married Thomas Lucy of Cherlcote, Warwickshire, Esq. See the appendix (dated 1691) " ad partem priorem."

See also Granger's ' Biographical History,' 5th ed., 1824, vol. iv. p. 162, where the town names are Bracknol and Charlecote, and 1685 is given as the date of the marriage of the Duke.

In the above ' Historia Genealogica,' Table XIII. (the natural children of Charles II. and James II.), in the main part of the