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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. x. AUG. is, 191*.

Egill. . . .All of sable the self, quha the suth leris, The beke bypertit breine of that ilk ble."

Cachesiidl, -)tulr, the game of tennis (' O.E.D.,' 1568). 1557-8, ' F.dinb. Rec. (T. Tr. Accts.),' i. 271 : " twa dosoun of cachepull balls."

Cogue, Cog, a small drinking-vessel of wood (' O.E.D.,' 1690). 1504-5, ' Ld. H. Treas. Accts.,' iii. 57 : " Item, the xx day of March, Cena Domini [the usual alms clothes given to 33 poor men and 16 women], with 'stopes, cogis and pLitis.' "

Cradden, -on, a craven, coward (' O.E.D.,' 1513). 1505, Dunbar, ' Flyting,' 76 : " Cukcald cradoun."

Lunt, a slow match (' O.E.D.,' 1550). 1532, 1 Ld. H. Treas. Accts.,' vi. '38.

Edinburgh. R " L ' G ' RICHIE.

JOHN HEYWOOD THE DRAMATIST A FREE- MAN OF LONDON. I lately received kind per- mission to consult the arcliives preserved at the Guildhall, and in doing so came across the following items, which refer, I have little doubt, to John Heywood. the author of ' The Four P.P.' I am not aware that Heywood'. ? connexion with the City has been noticed before.

Repertory IV., fo. 141 : " Jovis 22 die Januarij 1,1522/3] Isto die lecte sunt Kferae downni Regis pro quodam Joftanne Heywood vno senriente domini Regis admittendi in libcrtatem Ciuitatis et super hoc concessum est et ei re- sponsmn quod sine communi consilio nil inde possunt facere & ad proximum commune con- siliuiu niocio net."

There is a similar statement in Reper- tory VI., fo. 13, under the same date.

Letter -Book N, fo. 222 (1522-3): "John Heywode & Tho. Tyrwhytte for whom the King directed letters to be made freemen been denyed to be made free except on payment of 10Z. according to the new Act.

Journal XII., fp. 235 b : " xviij die Junij anno regis henr. via xv [1523]. John Heywode. Itm. at the contemplacon of the Kynges 1're John Heywode is admytted in to the liberties of this citie paying the olde Haunse."

A similar statement in Letter-Book N, fo. 2.'55. G. C. MOORE SMITH.

" CHATTERBOX.'' No satisfactory deriva- tion of this word having been suggested as yet, it may be well to note that, before being applied to a noisy person, the word " chatter- box " was applied to a noisy carriage. This appears from the following quotation from ' Wine and Walnuts,' bv Ephraim Hard- castle (W. H. Pyne, 1769-1843), second edition, 1824, vol. ii. p. 64 (n.) :

" Chatterbox ; a name given to a post-chaise by the wags of the last century. For certain, these vehicles, in my remembrance, were uneasy carriages, being usually obsolete, four-wheeled, rattling, crazy concerns.

M.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

MACHIAVKIXI: TESTINA EDITIONS. The five (according to Gamba) editions of the ' Opere ' of Machiavelli, all dated 1550, are well known. Critics are not agreed as to their authority in regard to the text. Macri Leone, the editor of the last critical edition of the ' Principe,' does not allow them much value. None of the ordinary copies of these editions has either name of printer or place of publication.

In Mr. T. Thorp's catalogue recently pub- lished at Guildford a copy was included, with " presso Pietro Alberta in Geneva." Before my order reached the bookseller the copy had been sold over the counter to some unknown purchaser.

I wish for information as to what copies of the Testina (1550) edition are known having name of printer and place of printing, and to which of Gamba's classes they belong. He does not mention any such copy, but Bmnet mentions one.

The copy sold at Guildford was probably one of Gamba's No. 3. J. F. ROTTON.

Godalming.

ELEANOR NEEDHAM. Does any reader remember who purchased a portrait of this lady a few years ago 1 There was a reference to it in London Opinion in 1908, I believe. I shall be grateful for any information concern- ing both the picture and the lady. Very little is known of this mistress of the Duke of Monmouth, except that she bore him four children, one of whom became Duchess of Bolton, and another was Major-General James Crofts. She afterwards married John South, who died in Dublin, 1711, leaving a daughter, who married Philip Doyne of Wells, Wexford, in 1709. Eleanor died on. 31 Dec., 1717, place unknown.

Mrs. Evan Nepean, author of ' On the Left of a Throne,' has favoured me with a very interesting theory, viz., that possibly it was Eleanor Needham who commissioned the painter (unknown) of the recently discovered portrait of the Duke of Monmouth, painted just after his execution, and now in the National Portrait Gallery, having beea removed thither from a Kentish farm-house.

G. W. SOUTH.