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NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. i. MAE. 12, 1910.

Rossall. 1844-94. T. W. Ashworth, 1895. Rugby School. 1675-1849. 1881. 1842-74

A. T. Michell, 1902. 1874-87. 1891.

Naval and Military. T. L. Bloxam (1865).

Companion, 1675-1870. T. L. Bloxam

1871.

Sedbergh School. 1546-1895. B. Wilson, 1895 Sherborne School. 1823-92. H. H. House, 1893 Tiverton, Blundell's School. 1770-1882. A-

Fisher, 1904. Tonbridge School. 1820-93. A. O. Hughes

Hughes, 1893.

Uppingham School. 1824-1905. Third issue, 1906 Wellington College. 1859-73. 1873. Westminster. 1561-1851. J. Welch, new ed

!852. 1764-1883. G. F. R. Barker and

A. H. Stenning, 1893. William's, King, See Isle of Man. Winchester. Scholars, 1393-1887. T. F. Kirby

1888. Commoners, 1836-90. C. W. Holgate

1891. Register, 1836-1906. J. B. Waine

wright, 1907. Woodhouse Grove. By J. T. Slugg. See under

Kingswood.

W. C. B.

SIB ROGER DE COVEBLEY'S POBTBAIT GALLEBY. In the essay on the Coverley portraits in The Spectator (No. 109), in which Sir Roger shows the Spectator round his gallery, Steele has made an amusing mistake, which I have not yet seen pointed out. ' ' If you please to fall back a little, n says Sir Roger,

" because it is necessary to look at the three next pictures at one view ; these are three sisters. She on the right hand who is so very beautiful, died a maid; the next to her, still handsomer, had the same fate, against her will ; this homely thing in the middle had both their portions added to her own, and was stolen by a neighbouring gentle- man "

What about " she on the left hand " ? It seems neither fair nor honest to describe "this homely thing in the middle' 1 twice, and with two different accounts, and then pass on. DONALD A. MACKENZIE.

The University, Manchester.

SHAKESPEABE AND THE MOUNTJOYS. How came Shakspere to know and dwell with the French Mount joys of Silver Street in the way so excellently worked out by Prof. Wallace ? One can only surmise, but it seems to me very possible that the first con- nexion was through Richard Field.

On 21 Aug., 1592, John Shakspere was one of the appraisers of the goods of Henry Field, tanner, of Stratford-on-Avon. Henry's son Richard, like many another youth of those days, and these, came to seek fortune in London, where be became apprentice to Vautrollier, the French printer. The end of that apprenticeship, like the end of Stephen Billott's, was that in 1588 he

married into the family, and let us hope, with happier results. In any case, Field, having wedded Vautrollier's daughter (some say widow; but that, on the point of age, seems impossible.), finally took up his business on Vautrollier's death (see Mrs. Stopes on this, 'Shakespeare's Warwickshire Contem- poraries,' pp. 6, 7).

That Shakspere knew Field is certain. Field it was who entered ' Venus * in the Stationers'' Registers on 18 April, 1593, and assigned it to Master Harrison, sen., on 25 June, 1594, and who published ' Lucrece.'

If Jacqueline Field and Vautrollier knew the Mount joys and it seems likely it would be thus that the Shakspere-Mount- joy connexion started. JOHN MUNBO.

SHAKESPEABE ALLUSIONS. The following have not, I believe, been collected at least they do not appear in the ' Allusion Book ' :

1: Leu[casia]. . . .it seem' d to me as preposterous as to see the Bear making Love to the Gentle- woman with the Bears-face, or the Woman in Shakespeare, kissing the Fellow with the Asses- head. ' The Folly of Priest-craft : a Comedy,' London, 1690, p. 18.

2. " Then, when we have mix'd all these noble ingredients, which, generally speaking, are as bad as those the Witches in ' Mackbeth ' jumble in the caldron together to make a Charm, we fall too [sic] contentedly, and sport off [sic] an afternoon." ' A Collection of Miscellany Poems, Letters, &c. By Mr. Brown,' &c., London, 1699, p. 318.

3. " I can answer for nobody's palat but my own : and cannot help saying with the fat Knight "n ' Harry the Fourth,' If sack and sugar is a sin,
 * he Lord have mercy on the wicked." Ibid..

p. 327.

4. " Even that Pink of Courtesie, Sir John ?alstaff in the Play, who never was a niggard

of his lungs, yet wou'd not answer one word when }he must was put upon him. ' Were Reasons,' jays that affable Knight, ' as cheap as Black- berries I wou'd not give you one upon compulsion,' which is but another word for Dutv." Ibid., . 338.

The letter containing Nos. 2 and 3 is dated " June 2, 92. " G. THOBN-DBUBY.

CATALOGUES or MSS. In * N. & Q.' for 6 July, 1892 (8 S. ii. 44), MBS. C. A. WHITE expressed a wish that curators of private ibraries should catalogue the MSS. in their ustody. As I am not aware of anything laying been done to carry out her sugges- ion (though if this is a mistaken impression, '. shall be glad to learn that it is so), may I herefore reiterate that wish, and also that he catalogues should be published ?

Probably I shall be told that if owners of 1SS. published catalogues of their collec

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