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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. JULY 27, 1907-

the aliquot part of a peny, viz. , for 6 times 4 is 24, and so many mites merchants assigne to 1 peny."

But my query relates rather to another point. I remember many years ago the issue of a coin called a mite, of the value of half a farthing (corresponding, therefore, to the Greek coin mentioned in Mark xii. 42), which it was thought would be useful for the smallest purchasers, but was soon dropped, as not really meeting a need. What was the date of its issue ?

W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

ROBIN HOOD PLAYS. Could any reader supply me with a list of such ? I possess one by John R. Wise, published, I should say, in the early forties or fifties, and founded, according to the author, upon an earlier one by Anthony Munday. Where could I either purchase or see a copy of Munday's drama ? Wise's is not a bad piece of literary workmanship, though incomplete historically, ending in the fifth and closing act with Robin Hood's wedding, but perhaps lengthy enough for a play qua such.

J. B. McGovEBN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER. The fame of the Hon. W. R. Spencer rests now mainly on the ballad in which he has given the Welsh legend of ' Beth Gelert,' but there are other verses of his that have spirit and talent. To the edition of his ' Poems ' published in 1835 there is prefixed a long and interesting biographical introduction. Is it known by whom this was written ?

WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Manchester.

HORACE, VIRGIL & CICERO, PUBLISHERS. An edition of Pope's ' Iliad ' and ' Odyssey,' dated 1759 and 1760, has the names of the following publishers :

" London, printed for A. Horace, P. Virgil, and C. Cicero in Paternoster Row; J. Milton, St. Paul's Churchyard; and A. Pope in the Strand." What is the explanation ? Is the edition of any particular value ? W. O.

BTJRNS'S "MENSURATION SCHOOL."

What is known of the Mensuration School mentioned in the history of Burns's school- days ? Was it a school apart from the local parish Kirkoswald School ? Are its MS. registrations of attending scholars from its beginning still in existence ?

J. G. CUPPLES. Boston, Massachusetts.

SIR JOHN HARINGTON: BARON FRECHVILE. (10 S. vii. 510.)

SARAH HARINGTON, who in 1630 became the second wife of John, Lord Frescheville, was the daughter and heir of Sir John Harington of Bagworth, co. Leicester, who was either the eldest or eldest surviving son of Sir Henry Harington of Bagworth and of co. Kildare, the well-known commander in Ireland in 1596-9 (H.M.C. seventh Rep., 658. Cecil MSS., vi. 543), by Cecily, daughter and coheir of Francis Agar of Elmsthorpe, co. Leicester. Sir Henry, who was knighted at Athlone by Lord Deputy Fitzwilliam, 7 Oct., 1578, died in 1613 (will dated 16 May, 1612 ; cod. 21 Dec., 1612 ; pr. in P.C.C. 16 Aug., 1613, by his son William). By his two wives he had a numerous issue, including, as stated, an eldest son Sir James, said to have been killed in Ireland unmarried. Sir John was his second son, and evidently succeeded his father in his Leicestershire estate ; but beyond the fact that he was either the Sir John Harington knighted by the Earl of Essex, 30 July, 1599, after the fight at Ophaley, or the Sir John " of York " knighted at the Charterhouse, 11 May, 1603, I have discovered nothing. I do not know even his wife's name, nor when he died ; but his daughter Sarah appears to have carried Bagworth to her husband, and afterwards to her three daughters and coheirs.

Sir Henry Harington was second son of Sir James Harington of Exton (will pr. 1592), and next brother to Sir John Harington of Exton (knighted 9 Jan., 1583/4), who in 1603 was created Baron Harington of Exton. It was, I believe, this last Sir John who translated the ' Orlando Furioso.'

Any help in unravelling the fate of the descendants of Sir Henry Harington will be most welcome. I am disposed to believe that the male descent failed with his sons, but lack proof as to two, Henry and Thomas. I should also be glad to know something of his alleged eldest son Sir James, who must have been knighted and killed in Ireland at a very early age, and before 1599.

W. D. PINK.

The Sir John Harington whose daughter and heiress Sarah married Baron Frechvile or Frescheville was not Sir John Harington the writer ('D.N.B.,' xxiv. 385), who was