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by the later prints) has not before been no iced.

The Cambridge portrait of Peters was reproduced recently by Dr. John Willcock in his ' Sir Henry Vane the Younger.'

J. B. WILLIAMS.

PRINTERS' PHRASES : " SET," " DISTRI- B -TE," " CORRECT." The ' N.E.D.' gives 1^83 as the earliest instance of the word distribute with reference to distribution of t T -pe. 'See Cyril Tourneur's ' Funerall Poeme ' on Sir Fra. Vere, 1609, c. iv. :

That, when the thunder of a hotte Alarme Hath cald him sodainly from sleepe to arme, Vpon the instant of his leaking, hee Did with such life, and quicke dexleritie, His troupes direct, the seruice execute, As practis'd Printers Sett and Distribute Their Letters : And more perfectly effected, For what he did was not to be corrected.

I have ventured to amend the faulty punc- tu ition ; otherwise, the copy follows the original. RICHARD H. THORNTON.

REFERENCE TO ' CHEVY CHASE.' The fo' lowing late testimony to the popularity of th -} ballad of ' Chevy Chase ' has, perhaps, not yet been noticed. In

<: A Scourge for Paper- Persecutors, or Papers Co'iiplaint, compil'd in ruthfull Rimes. Against the Pa^er-spoylers of these Times, by I[ohn]. D[avies]. With A Continued Inquisition against Paper- Persecutors. By A. H. Printed at London for H. H. and G. G. and are to be sold at the Flower Deluce in Popes-head Alley, 1624," quarto (Bodl. Malone 296),

occur these lines at verse 67 of the ' Con- tinued Inquisition ' : As in North- Villages, where every line Of Plumpton Parke is held a worke divine. If o're the Chymney they some Ballads have Of Chevy-Chase, or of some branded slave Hang'd at Tyborne, they their Mattins make it, And Vespers too, and for the Bible take it.

The ' Continued Inquisition ' is ascribed by Wood ('Fasti,' ed. Bliss, i. 245) to Abraham Hartwell. H. SELLERS.

Oxford.

MURDERER REPRIEVED BY MARRIAGE. ( See

II S. v. 18, 136. ) A couple of years ago there was a discussion in ' N. & Q.' on this subject. Perhaps this cutting from a Western paper, The Edmonton Journal, may be of interest. It relates to a Saskatchewan murder case. Whether the law in the Austrian province of Galicia is as alleged I cannot say, but here is a twentieth-century illustration of the belief :

" PRINCE ALBERT, June 24. A double execu- tion will take place here on Thursday, July 16, if the sentence of death passed upon Anton

Drewnick and John Peter Hanson some time ago is carried out. So far no intimation has been received here of a commutation of sentence in either case.

" Drewnick, who is 20 years of age, also was sentenced to die for the murder of a compatriot on the railway at Peterson last winter. A pathetic incident connected with his incarceration occurred when the condemned man's sister, who resides in another part of the province, came to see him at the jail here and requested that he be given his freedom, as she had found him a wife. It seems that it is the custom in their native Galicia that if a man under sentence of death can obtain a wife he can also obtain his freedom. Drewnick's sister apparently complied with the letter of the law as it obtains in her own home land, and brought the news here that she had been successful in securing a woman who had consented to become the wife of her brother. Naturally, she was shocked upon arrival to learn that the custom of her native country did not extend to the Dominion.

" No petition has yet been circulated for Drewnick's reprieve, although an application for clemency has been forwarded to the minister of justice, according to C. E. Gregory, K.C., who defended the condemned man at his trial at Hum- boldt. So far no reply has been received in the city."

PERCY A. MCELWAINE.

Edmonton, Alberta.

" HUCKLEBERRY." The ' N.E.D.' ascribes this word to the United States. It sejems, nevertheless, to be of English origin, as shown by the following passage from Cham- berlayne's ' Present State of Great Britain ' :

" Here is great Plenty of excellent Fruit. Fields, Woods, and Hedges are stored with Apples,

Pears Blackberries, Huccleberries, Dewberries,

Elderberries, Services, and the like."

My copy is the 22nd ed., 1708, biit doubtless the passage is in earlier editions. The fruit intended is that of Vaccinium myrtillus, the bilberry or whortleberry. If, as is con- jectured, " huckleberry " is a corruption of " whortleberry," it seems that we cannot ascribe the corruption to America.

J. S. Westminster.

THE MONTHLY CATALOGUE, 1714-17. Prof. Arber in his reprint of the Term Cata- logues from 1668 to 1711 has called atten- tion to their importance as an index to the life and thought of the period. This im- portance is fully shared by the Monthly Catalogue which Bernard Lintott began to publish in May, 1714. The only copies known to Messrs. Growoll and Eames when they published their ' Three Centuries of English Book-Trade Bibliography ' in 1903 were the first eight parts represented in the British Museum. The periodical, however, continued to appear for at least three years more. The London Library possesses the