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resembles an entry in Lowndes : ' Great Britain's Glory, or a brief Description of the Splendor and Magnificence of the Royal Ex- change presented to the Merchants of

London,' 1672.

2. " Raleigh served during many years as a

soldier in France, the Netherlands, and Ireland." P.' 300.

Did Raleigh ever serve in the Nether- lands ? and can his service in France and Ireland be said to extend over " many years " ?

3. " From him [Sir Christopher Mings] sprang !)>- a singular kind of descent a line of valiant and expert sailors. His cabin boy was Sir John Narborough, and the cabin boy of Sir John Nar- borough was Sir Cloudesley Shovel." P. 303.

Is there any proof that Narborough ever was

and is there any proof his career under Nar-

cabin boy to Mings that Shovel began borough ?

4. "Patrick [preached] at St. Paul's, Covent Garden." P. 330.

John Patrick, the champion of Protestant- ism, was a preacher at the Charterhouse from 1671 till his death in 1695. When was he connected with St. Paul's ?

5. The Christian name of Heming, the " ingenious projector n who devised a plan for lighting London, is given (p. 361) as Edward. The ' D.N.B.,' which quotes Macaulay's account as sole authority, gives the name as Edmund. Which is right ? Neither Christian name nor surname is mentioned in the lines ' On the Late In- vention of the New Lights,' published in ' State Poems continued from the time of O. Cromwel to the year 1697 * (1719), p. 243.

6. "If the King notified his pleasure.... that a liU-i-tine baronet should be made a peer the gravest counsellors after a little murmuring submitted." P. 304.

Macaulay supports his statement by

not want his readers to realize it did not want his pet Halifax to be associated in their minds with a discreditable incident.

7. " Ray made a new classification of birds and fishes.'" P. 409.

Did he ? Was not Macaulay misled by the title of the duodecimo that Ray pub- lished in 1674, ' A Collection of English Words not in General Use. . . .with Cata- logues of English Birds and Fishes ' ?

8. " Even the designs for the coin were made by French medallists." P. 412.

Were not the engravers to the Mint during the Stuart Period Nicolas Briot (a French- man), Thomas Rawlins (an Englishman), Thomas Simon (possibly an Englishman, certainly not a Frenchman), and John Roettiers (a Dutchman) ?

I have said nothing of the opinions that some people may deem erroneous, nor have I noted the many instances of Macaulay's characteristic fault making a statement more general than the authority quoted for it warrants. DAVID SALMON.

Swansea.

foot-note

See .... Clarendon's account

of the way in which Sir George Savile was made a peer."

Clarendon gives (' Life,' ed. 1759, iii. 566) an account of the unsuccassful attempt of the Duke of York to induce Charles to make Savile a viscount. Does he anywhere give an account of a successful effort ?

Miss Foxcroft in her ' Life of the First Marquis of Halifax l *(i. 39) quotes the pas- sage from Clarendon to which Macaulay refers, and adds in a foot-note : " He does not seem to realize that the Savile in ques- tion is identical with Halifax.' 1 To me it is inconceivable that Macaulay did not reahze the identity. My own theory is that he did

THE CRADLE OF HENRY

OF MONMOUTH.

OWING to a question asked me by Mr- Lionel Gust early in last year concerning the asserted, and not unsuspected, pedigree of
 * he fine fourteenth-century cradle formerly

in the possession of W. J. Braikenridge of Clevedon, Somerset, and now at Windsor Castle, it has seemed appropriate that such particulars as I have gathered regarding its former owner and a rival cradle (that now at Badminton) should find a place in. 'N. &Q.\

The main fact is that there are two ancient cradles which have long belonged to Glou- cestershire, and both have equally claimed to be that in which Henry V. was rocked as an infant. Since, however, the Bad- minton cradle, though extremely interesting, cannot be older than the sixteenth century (and is probably no earlier than Elizabethan days), it would seem unnecessary to refer- further to it in this connexion. Neverthe- less, this Tudor cradle came from the Vaughan family at Courtfield, near Ross, co. Mon- mouth, whither Henry V. was taken to be nursed as a weakly infant. Probably to this fact has been due the tradition that this cradle had been the royal one. Courtfield lies at a distance of about seven miles from Monmouth. The cradle left Courtfield about 1830, and became the property of the Duke of Beaufort at Troy House,