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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. NOV. 23, 1907.

it was the custom for publishers to postdate their title - pages, and I believe a copy of the book in my own possession which is dated 1723 is really the first edition, and that Lowndes is mistaken. In corroboration of this view, I may state that in Scott's edition of Defoe's ' Works ' a facsimile of the title-page dated 1723 is given as that of the first edition.

My only doubt on the subject arose from the fact that this title - page consists of a single leaf, and might possibly be a "cancel." But as " The Preface " begins on the first page of sheet A, the title - page, in the absence of a half-title (of which there are no signs in my copy, which is in the original binding, nor is it included in the pagination), must necessarily be a single leaf.

Mr. W. M. Voynich, of Shaftesbury Avenue, whose last catalogue was reviewed ante, p. 360, and whose knowledge of scarce books is perhaps unrivalled, assures me that he has no record of a copy with the 1722 title-page, and that in his belief it has no existence. Other booksellers whom I have consulted have confirmed me in this view.

My own experience is that ' Colonel Jacque ' with the 1723 date is a far rarer book than ' Robinson Crusoe,' ' Moll Flan- ders,' or any of the much - sought - after first editions of Defoe. The British Museum copy, which is dated 1723, has " Second Edition " on the title-page. The collation of the first issue is as under : Title, verso blank, pp. [i. ii] ; Preface, pp. iii-vii ;

E. [viii] blank ; text, pp. 1-399 ; p. [400] lank. There are no head-lines, the pagina- tion being within brackets in the middle. P. 311 is misnumbered 411 ; on p. 317 the figure 7 is duplicated in place of a bracket ; and p. 358 is misnumbered 316.

W. F. PBIDEATJX.

GOSLING FAMILY (10 S. viii. 209, 255). It may be useful to MB. THUBSTAN MAT- THEWS in the task he has before him to give the conclusion of the quaint inscription quoted by MB. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL from Weever's ' Funeral Monuments.' The Rev. W. J. Loftie in his ' Memorials of the Savoy ' (1878),p. 166, winds up the epitaph as follows: " He was servant to the Right Honourable the Lord Hunsden, Lord Chamberlain, and deceased the 22d July, 1586."

Perhaps it may not be considered beside the mark to allude to Sir Francis Gosling, who was Alderman r of the Ward of Farring- don Without ; to whom the statue of Queen Elizabeth on the old Lud-gate, on its demolition in 1760, was given ; and who

presented it to the Church of St. Dunstan- in-the-West. This City worthy died 29 Dec., 1768.

I would also add that at 7 S. i. 268, 354, will be found some remarks on this family ; and at 7 S. ii. 349 a communication about the Sheffield collections of Ralph Gosling. W. E. HABLAND-OXLEY. Westminster.

The date of the death of Humphrey Gosling (ante, p. 256) is given with the last two lines of the epitaph in ' A New View of London ' (Hatton's), 1708, p. 403, s.v. ' St. Mary le Savoy (alias Strand) Church ' : " Ob. Dec. 1586." In the ' Index to the Monuments,' &c., the name appears as Goslin.

According to ' The English Baronetage,' 1741 (by Wotton, aided by Collins), Thomas Goslyn, of Westminster, Esq., Master of the Signet Office, married Anne, widow of George Killegrew, Esq., son and heir of Sir Peter Killegrew, of Arwenack, in Corn- wall, Bart., and daughter of John St. Aubyn, Esq., who was ceated a baronet 24 Car. II., i.e., 1672-3 (vol. iii. part ii. pp. 545-6). Sir William Gosselin held the Shrievalty of London, 1684, by commission jointly with Sir Peter Vandeput (ibid.,

vol. IV. p. 205). ROBEBT PlEBPOINT.

KILMABNOCK DOCUMENT OF 1547 (10 S. viii. 271). With respect to the " earliest document " known re Kilmarnock, might I refer MB. GEMMELL to my ' Kilmarnock and its More Ancient History,' which appeared in the Kilmarnock local paper during 1903-4? From this he will learn that Kilmarnock Church and its " clerk " are mentioned in 1299, &c.

ALFBED CHAS. JONAS, F.S. A.Scot.

Thornton Heath.

ENGLISH PLAYEBS IN GEBMANY IN 1592 (10 S. viii. 305). It would appear from Fynes Moryson, as quoted at the above reference, that only the baser sort of English players visited Germany ; but was this the case ? Mr. Hedderwick, in the introduction to his version of the old German puppet play of ' Doctor Faust ' (London, 1887), does not give one this impression. He has a list of dates from 1586 to 1683 at which various companies of English players were performing in Germany (several of them at different Courts), and in other parts of the Continent, and attributes to them great influence upon the development of the drama in Germany, down to the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. C. C. B.