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SCOTT-CHRISTIE DUEL (11 S. i. 228). This very question received seven replies, giving references to eleven sources of information, at 10 S. iv. 252. W. C. B.

[We have forwarded to MR. LANGLEY detailed replies from several contributors. ]

MEDICAL MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT ( 1 1 S . i. 64). Addenda and corrigenda will be found in The British Medical Journal for the following dates : 22 and 29 Jan., 5 and 12 Feb., and 26 March.

S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.D.

HOCKTIDE AT HEXTON : ROPE MONDAY

(10 S. xi. 488 ; xii. 71, 139, 214, 253, 514). The section just issued of the ' New English Dictionary ' deals with ' Hope Monday, 1 to which article, and to the reference there, I beg to direct your correspondents' attention.

Q. V.

SCHEFFELDE IN COM. CANTIJE (11 S. i. 208).

The query of R. B. would be more easily answered if he would state the number of the page of Burton's ' Monasticon Ebor.' at which the reference occurs. I suspect that the reference should read " Scheffelde in Com. Ebor." W. F.

HARTLEY WINTNEY NUNNERY, HAMP- SHIRE (11 S. i. 150). This was a nunnery of the Cistercian Order, of which hardly a trace is left. It is reputed to have been founded in the time of the Conqueror, and contained a prioress and seventeen nuns about the time of the Dissolution, when its possessions were valued at 43Z. 3s. per annum, though Speed says 59Z. Is. See Dugdale's ' Monasticon Anglicanum,' quoted by Brayley and Britton, ' England and Wales,' 1805, vol. vi.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

Among some notes from the College records of St. John's, Cambridge, kindly given me by Mr. R. F. Scott, is a curious declara- tion concerning a dispute between the Abbot of Chertsey and the Prioress of Bromhall, Berks, entitled, " The saying of Dame Anne Thomas, some tyme prioress of Bromehalle, and now prioress of Wyntoney." If MR. COPE would care to have a copy of the " saying,' 1 I shall be pleased to furnish it. FREDERIC TURNER.

Esmond, Egham, Surrey.

[F. K. P. also thanked for reply. ]

MODERN NAMES DERIVED FROM LATINIZED FCRMS (11 S. i. 186). I should be grateful to MR. G. H. WHITE if he would tell me the surname of the "unfortunate man in the

eighteenth century who was named Galfrid,'' also in what respect he was unfortunate. I have not the family tree out here, but I believe the name Galfrid occurs several times before the eighteenth century. I have never heard of the name outside our family. but I recollect seeing in The Standard about two years ago the death of an elderly clergy- man whose surname I have forgotten, but whose first name was " Galfridus."

GALFRID K. CONGREVE. Vermilion, Alberta, Canada.

Shakespeare Folios and Quartos : a Study in the Bibliography of Shakespeare's Plays, 1594-1685. By Alfred W. Pollard. With 37 Illustrations, (Methuen & Co.)

MR. POLLARD'S volume is issued as a companion to Messrs. Methuen's series of reproductions of Shakespeare Folios, which are expensive, and the property of the fortunate few. It is, however, apart from these facsimiles, of great interest to the student of Shakespeare. His position at the British Museum gives Mr. Pollard an exceptional opportunity of examining the rarest Shake- speariana, and we find here printed facsimiles of a host of title-pages which are now the subject of a good deal of dispute.

As a sound and learned bibliographer, Mr.. Pollard is well able to hold his own. He and Div W. W. Greg and Dr. Sidney Lee have had some animated discussions concerning the merit of recent suggestions involving a revision of important dates in Shakespearian quartos. Tin- matter is one for the expert in bibliography, and not for the general reader. Still, we remark that Dr. Lee was a pioneer in these investigations,, and deserves, in our view, more recognition tlia' : Mr. Pollard has thought proper to accord. In any case, Mr. Pollard should have mentioned in his Preface and first chapter the work or works of Dr. Lee to which he refers, and the pages cited. We find absence of exact references and details elsewhere. Thus we are told concerning ' 2 Henry IV.' that " Mr. Evans speaks of the Quarto as representing," &c. W T e may ask which of the Evanses known to letters this is, and where his remark is to be found.

A chief point in Mr. Pollard's views is that the Elizabethan printers and publishers were not so bad as they have been painted in the way of fraud and piracy,- and consequently the early editions of Shakespeare not so deeply tainted as has been supposed.

The title-pages reproduced are often instructive in themselves, e.g., in suggesting that ' The Merchant of Venice ' is not a tragedy ; and the additions concerning details of their printing 'and publication are wonderfully complete. The average reader may, perhaps, be more interested in the First Folio than in the copies of separate plays which preceded it. Here he will find that great and, on the whole, very satisfactory text examined with all possible care, and discussed with a good deal of ingenuity, for Mr. Pollard is not