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well recollect that it was said at the time that "old Fin " (as he was affectionately called) denied the authorship, and I attach more importance to this than to any marked difference of literary style, upon which Mr. T. E. Crispe, in his lately published book of legal ana, is disposed to rely in support of the same conclusion. I hope it may be within the power of some of the contributors to author was. W. B. H.
 * N. & Q. J to say with certainty who the

" A MUTATION OF THROSTLES.*' In a recent number of the Transactions of the Philological Society (Part III., 1908-9) the above expression was discussed among other proper terms in * The Book of St. Albans,' 1486, and a quotation was given illustra- tive of this characteristic name from Science Gossip, June, 1867. This was to the effect that thrushes acquire new legs and cast the old ones when about ten years old, with a further statement that a correspondent writes in the number of the same periodical for August, 1867, " explaining the matter.' 1 I wish to know the point of this explanation, having referred the question to two fairly good naturalists, with no result beyond derision. H. P. L.

' THE RACERS UNHORSED,' 1753. I have a satirical print with this title (not in the British Museum Catalogue), and the inscrip- tion "The Hon e Fanny Killigrew Inv fc ad Vivum Del. et Sculp."- The characters are : 1, Maecenas ; 2, Hen? 9th ; 3, Ekud of Nineveh ; 4, Ekud of Ophir ; 5, Noedig y e Dupe ; 6, Mellchizedek ; 7, Orator Hum- bugg ; 8, Strength of Eng d.

No. 3 is, I think, the Duke of Newcastle ; 5, Sampson Gideon; 6, Thomas Seeker, Bishop of Oxford ; 7, Orator Henley. The squib has reference to the Jews' Naturaliza- tion Bill. I shall be glad to have the others identified and my suggestions con- firmed. ISRAEL SOLOMONS.

GAMALIEL HOLLO WAY. Can any reader give me information as to the family of Gamaliel Holloway ? He is described in Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses ' as " of Oxford, gent.," and appears to have resided at jKislingbury, Northants, of which parish he was rector, holding at the same time the rectory of Wigginton, Oxon.

Possibly he was a member of the family of Holloway of Oxford, a pedigree of which is given in the Heralds' Visitation ; but I can find no trace of his connexion with them. EDWARD R. MARSHALL.

Furnace Mill Farm, Hawkhurst, Kent.

GEORGE BUBB DODINGTON AND HIS

LITERARY CIRCLE.

(10 S. xii. 461, 504.)

MAY I supplement MR. W. P. COURTNEY'S account of Bubb Dodington's early life and taste for the classics by stating that, before his matriculation in 1707 from Exeter College, Oxford, he had been a commoner at Winchester College, where Dr. John Nicholas then ruled as Warden and Dr. Thomas Cheyney as Head Master ? The name of Bubb appears on the annual school "long rolls" of 1704 and 1706; and he perhaps entered the school in 1703, but there is no known extant copy of the roll either for 1703 or for 1705. On the roll of 1706 Bubb, as one of two " commoner prefects " in " sixth book," heads the list of the forty- seven commoners, the other prefect being- George Abington, afterwards of Hart Hall, Oxford, the last of the Abingtons who owned the Manor of Over-Compton, Dorset.

Among such of the other commoners of 1706 as I can identify from their surnames, which alone are given on the roll, were Robert Thistlethwaite, who became Warden of Wadham College, Oxford (1724-39) ; Philip Rashleigh, of Menabilly, Cornwall, M.P. for Liskeard (1710-22); Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons (1727-61); Carew Reynell, afterwards a scholar, who became Bishop of Down and Connor (1739-43) and of Derry (1743-5) ; Sir Richard Mill, of Mottisfont, Hants, (5th) Bt., M.P. at times between 1721 and 1747 for Midhurst, Penrhyn, and Horsham ; George Chaffin or Chafin, of Chettle, Dorset, M.P. for that county from 1713 to 1754 ; Thomas Cheyney, afterwards a scholar, Dean successively of Lincoln (1744) and Winchester (1748-60), who was the Head Master's son ; William Elson, M.P. for Chichester (1713); Sir William Halford or Holford (afterwards a scholar), of Welham, Leicestershire, (3rd) Bt. ; and John Harvey or Hervey, M.P. for Reigate (1739-41) and Wallingford (1754-64) and a puisne judge of Brecknock from 1745 until his death in 1764. To illustrate the system then in vogue at Winchester, it may be mentioned that out of the forty-seven commoners on the roll of 1706, fifteen eventually became scholars on the foundation.

Bubb Dodington's " literary circle," as described by MR. COURTNEY, seems to have been to a considerable extent Wiccamical;