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Addison announced that Queen Anne was dead long after the news had become common knowledge. In 1889, says Dr. Brewer (' Historic Note-Book'), his letter containing the announcement was sold by Sotheby & Wilkinson at a literary sale.

J. HOLD EN MACMlCHAEL.

Even a few days ago I heard " Her Majesty," followed by " Queen Victoria is dead," and no one who sees much of Ministers and ex-Ministers can fail to understand "how the phrase arose." E. A. F.

As reference is being made to the death of Queen Anne, I think it may be of interest if I state that my sister remembers a lady who was on intimate terms with an old gentleman born more than ten years before Queen Anne came to the throne.

At first it sounds hardly ppssible, but the fact is as stated. I append the dates :

Old gentleman, b. 1690, d. 1784.

Old lady, b. 1764-5, d. 1857.

My sister, b. 1851.

All three were relations of mine.

C. ST. J. M. [Other correspondents thanked for replies.]

HENRY BOYLE, 1826 (11 S. i. 290). To the best of my knowledge no biographical dictionary throws any light on the personality of Henry Boyle. In addition to ' The Universal Chronologist,' he is credited With the authorship of ' Chronology of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.' As this, however, may only be the " continua- tion " referred to on the title-page of 4 The Universal Chronologist,' it may merely prove that Boyle's work Was issued separate from his translation. In the absence of any evidence to the contrary, it may perhaps be conjectured that the author was a cadet of the family of Boyle in Ayrshire, that he had settled in London, and that he did literary work there. W. S. S.

PUBLIC SCHOOL REGISTERS (11 S. i. 203, 269, 294). The following are schools of the Society of Friends : Ackworth (boys and girls). Ackworth School

Catalogue, 1799-1831. List of Ackworth Scholars, 1779-1879. Croydon (boys and girls), now at Saffron Walden ;

founded at Islington. A list has been

published.

Saffron Walden. See Croydon. Sidcot (boys and girls). Sidcotians, 1808-90. Tottenham, Grove House. A high-class boys'

school that flourished circa 1845-70. A list

has been published. York, Bootham School (boys only). List of

Masters and Scholars, 1829-78. List of Masters and Scholars, 1829-1905.

Many of the registers mentioned in the foregoing lists, being privately printed, have not got into the British Museum Library. May I, as a user of this class of record, appeal to school librarians, and others having spare copies, to see that the national library is supplied ?

The Museum authorities are not con- sistent in their method of cataloguing these books. For this reason, doubtless, none of your London bibliographers have mentioned W. D. Parish's ' List of Carthusians l which held the field alone for Charterhouse from 1879 till 1903. This book is catalogued under * Parish,* but not under * Charter- house.'

The arrangement of these registers, is, as a rule, chronological, this being the way in which the original records present them- selves to the compiler. They are primarily intended, too, for old scholars, who naturally like to be reminded of their contemporaries at a glance, so to speak. May I point out, however, to future compilers, that an alpha- betical arrangement, as in the case of Messrs. Barker and Stenning's ' Westminster Regis- ter * (such a book being its own index), is much more convenient to the outside reader, who ultimately forms a far larger clientele than do the alumni of the school in question? PERCEVAL LUCAS.

Westminster. A List of Scholars of St. Peter's College, Westminster, as they were elected to Christ Church College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge, from the foun- dation by Queen Elizabeth, MDLXI., to the present time, including the admissions into the first-named College from MDCLXIII. Lon- don, MDCCLXXXVII.

This gives the ages of the pupils admitted into Westminster, and notes as to the preferments gained by former pupils.

W. C. S.

University Club, Dublin.

The press-mark for the NeWcastle-upon- Tyne Register is 1077 f. 84. It will be found under ' Reprints, 5 with a cross-reference from E. H. Adamson. A. RHODES.

I should like to correct a mistake. What is alluded to as a register of boys educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, is nothing more than, as it claims to be, ' A Short Chronicle.' It was but a preliminary canter to the Register (1824-74), which was published in 1898 by Clarke, States Arcade, Guernsey, 8s. It is almost exhaustive, giving full names of fathers with their rank, &c., mothers' names, Christian and surnames