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p. 319, and also in ' The Ingoldsby Lyrics,' p. 174. At p. 108 of the latter work will be found another parody of the same original, written eight years earlier, and referring to the new Custom House.

E. G. B.

G. QUINTON, 1801-3 (11 S. x. 108). George Quinton, engraver on copper or aquafortist of the eighteenth century, born at Norwich in 1779, was an autodidact. In 1796 he made engravings for The Gentleman's Magazine. H. KREBS.

"MASTER" AND "GENTLEMAN" DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND (11 S. ix. 510; x. 36, 94). The following extract from a will dated 21 Feb., 1648, shows that the title " Master " was used at that period : " My will is that Master Seaman, Parson of Snoring parva, may bury me."

CECIL GWYN.

Sheringham.

ANTHONY MUNDAY, DRAMATIST (11 S. ix. 181, 235, 274). In 'A Chronicle of Friend- ships,' by Luther Munday, the author writes :

" One Anthony Munday, a roystering com- panion of Shakespeare's who, according to recent revelations, appeared with him at the Police Court, wrote three books and some plays between 1570 and 1610. He had a brother a monk, and they both settled in Cornwall in 1540, coming from Calvados, in Brittany. In 1509 he wrote a "hook which was first published with the name of ' William Shakespeare ' on the title-page, but the ascription to Shakespeare was promptly withdrawn. This is all I can discover, even with the aid of two friends at the College of Heralds, as to the origin of my name and family ; as the last Visitation in Cornwall was in 1620 and my forbears for four generations, which is as far back as I can trace them, descended in single line ; o that at my death the race becomes extinct, I having no brother nor any male relation."

In the above statement there are several errors. In the first place there is no evidence to connect Anthony Munday the dramatist wii 1 1 the Mundys of Cornwall, who were sons of Sir John Muiidy, Lord Mayor of London. Moreover the Mundys of Cornwall (by whom arc probably meant Thomas Mundy, the last Prior of Bodmin, and his brother John, who both settled in Cornwall) descended from a family settled in Buckinghamshire prior to tic' Lord Mayors acquiring the manors of ttarkeaton, Mackworth, and Allestrey, co. I > rhy.

In my notes on Anthony Munday the dramatist (II S. ix. 181), I commented on th<' fact that both Shakespeare and Munday were connected with the Hall family. I

should be glad to know the authority for the statement that these two appeared together " at the Police Court," also whether it is known that they were " companions," and what book by Munday was published with Shakespeare's name on the title-page.

Mr. Luther Munday's connexion with the dramatist is vague, considering that he can only trace his ancestry for four generations. On these other points he has been, no doubt, misinformed. PERCY D. MUNDY.

WILLS AT ST. PAUL'S (11 S. x. 12, 117). Reference should also be made to ' Manu- scripts of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's,' described in one of the earlier reports of the Historic MSS. Commission, as these contain still earlier records of bequests, &c. R. B.

SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE ON HUNIADES (US. x. 107).

" They [John Huniades and Scanderbeg] are ranked by Sir William Temple in his pleasing ' Essay on Heroic Virtue ' (' Works,' vol. iii. p. 385) among the seven chiefs who have deserved, with- out wearing, a royal crown : Belisarius, Narses, Gonsalvo of Cordova ; William, first Prince of Orange ; Alexander, Duke of Parma ; John Huniades, and George Castriot or Scanderbeg." Gibbon's ' Roman Empire,' chap. Ixvii., author's note (Bonn's edition, vol. vii. p. 270).

WM. H. PEET.

SCOTT: 'THE ANTIQUARY' (11 S. x. 90). 9. The lines, " O weel may the boatie row," &c., open the Scottish song 'The Boatie Rows,' by John Ewen (1741-1821). It is in all worthily representative antho- logies. See, e.g., Mary Carlyle Aitken's ' Scottish Song,' p. 127 (Macmillan).

THOMAS BAYNE. [T. F. D. also thanked for reply.]

SAFFRON WALDEN (US. ix. 87, 177, 217, 295, 334, 414). ' Essex : Highways, Byways, and Waterways,' by Mr. C. R. B. Barrett, 1892, has the following on the names of the above town :

" In days of Edward Confessor the town was called Walden simply.... As at Witham so at Walden, the name of Chipping or Cheping occurs, and this probably originated when, by the license of the Empress Matilda, the market was removed to Walden from Newport, a village a few miles distant, it was not until the reign of Edward III. that the additional name of Saffron was given to the town, a name which still remains, though the saffron plant is no longer cultivated in the neighbourhood."

The eight months' " reign of Matilda " in 1141, and the reign of Edward III., 1327-77, sufficiently fix the date given for each change of name. W. B. H.