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As regards the Statutes, the sole right to print was granted on 22 April, 1547, by Edward VI. to Richard Grafton ; on 29 Dec., 1554, by Queen Mary, to John Cawood <for the Statutes in English) ; on 27 Sept., 1577, by Queen Elizabeth, to Christopher Barker for life ; and on 19 July, 1603, by James I. to Robert Barker for life.

As regards common law books, Edward VI. granted a special licence on 12 April, 1553, to Richard Tottel, citizen, stationer, and printer of London, for seven years, and this was renewed by Mary for another seven years on 1 May, 1556, and by Elizabeth, for life, on 12 Jan., 1558/9. The monopoly of printing the common law books passed, on 18 Nov., 1577, to Nicasius Tetsweirt, for thirty years, renewed on 20 March, 1593/4, for a similar period, to Charles Tetsweirt ; whilst on 10 March, 1598/9,, Thomas Wright and Bonham Norton obtained a licence to print all law books for a period of thirty years. R. S. B.

MUNICIPAL, SWORDS. (See 10 S. v. 90, 151.) At the latter reference we are told of s, sword being presented to the city of Exeter by Edward IV., and another by Richard II. to the city of Chester. I sub- join a paragraph from The Daily Mirror of Saturday, 27 Nov., 1909, showing that the Corporation of King's Lynn possess one presented by King John :

"King John's Sword. Using the sword which is said to have been presented by King John to the -Corporation of King's Lynn, King Edward yester- day, at Castle Rising, invested Sir William Ffolkes and Sir Somerville Gurney, both of whom played a prominent part in the recent Art Loan Exhibition at King's Lynn, with the insignia of Knight Com- mander of the Victorian Order conferred upon them on his Majesty's birthday."

R. J. FYNMOBE.

" INCIDIS IN SCYLLAM," &c. (See 1 S. ii. 85, 136, 141 ; x. 274 ; 5 S. vi. 468 ; vii. 77, 478 ; viii. 14.) This familiar line comes from the ' Alexandreid ' of Philip Gualtier. In the Rouen ed. of 1487 the first word is 'Corruis, not Incidis : a variation noted by Mr. King in his ' Diet, of Classical Quot.,' 1904. The printer's signature is i.iii, and the line is

Corruis in syllam cupiens vitare caribdim. But in the Ingolstadt ed. of 1541, p. Iv <Greville Library, Brit. Mus.), it is

Incidis in Scyllam cupiens uitare Chary bdin. ItTis related that Dr. Maltby, Bishop of Lincoln, pointed out the authorship to Charles Stunner (Yale Lit. Mag., 1860, xxv. 350). RICHARD H. THORNTON.

Qtserits.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

CHAUCER AND BOCCACCIO. I am anxious to know whether Landor, who in his ' Ima- ginary Conversations l makes Chaucer and Boccaccio meet and speak together, had any authority for so doing, or whether at his time it was a matter of general belief that the two actually met.

GIULIA CELENZA. Via Faenza, 87 H, Casa Forti, Firenze.

J. H. SWALE, MATHEMATICIAN. Part I. of ' Geometrical Amusements ; or, A Course of Lessons in Construction and Analysis, in Three Parts, 1 by J. H. Swale, was pub- lished in London in 1821. Were Parts II. and III. ever published ? What is known concerning Swale apart from the facts that he was a frequent contributor to mathe- matical periodicals and himself published (1823-4) two numbers of The Liverpool Apollonius ; or, The Geometrical and Philo- sophical Repository ? R. C. ARCHIBALD.

Rue Soufflot, 3, Paris.

SOLLY COLLECTION OF PICTURES. Can any of your readers furnish information as to the " English merchant Solly " whose collection of pictures, purchased by Frederick William III. at Berlin in 1821, formed, with the Giustiniani Gallery, the nucleus of the Royal Picture Gallery in Berlin ? He must have been a wealthy as well as an enter- prising and judicious collector, since his pictures numbered 3,000, of which 677 were assigned for exhibition in the Royal Gallery ; and the collection was especially rich in primitives and early pictures of German and Italian schools.

I can find no notice or mention of Solly in any dictionary of art or biography. Is he perhaps connected with the distinguished surgeon Samuel Solly (1805-1871), himself a considerable artist, whose father, Isaac Solly, was a Baltic merchant ? See ' Diet. Nat. Biog.* under Saml. Solly. Any informa- tion about the collector would be interesting.

W. H. CLAY. Reform Club.

MOST EXPENSIVE ELECTION. MR. PICK- FORD'S last note (ante, p. 47) reminds me that Compton Wynyates was in danger of being pulled down after 1768, as the result of the extravagance of the Lord _ North-