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LONDON. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 191k.

CONTENTS.-NO. 246.

NOTES : Chaplains of Winchester College, 201 The " Monstrous " Possessive Case and Ben Jonson, 204 Holcroft Bibliography, 205 The University of Louvain Louvain Library : Irish MSS. in Dublin, 207 Petrograd " Rack-rent "Insurance of Food Supplies Meredith's Imitation of Peacock, 208.

QUERIES : Fielding Queries : Sack and " the usual words " Palmerston in the Wrong Train Site of the Globe Theatre, 209' The Salogne ' : a Prophecy Patron Saint of Pilgrims Extremes in Stature of British Officers St. George's Chapel, Windsor, East Window " Fuaker," 210 William Jackson, Musician Law against cutting Ash Trees Old Etonians Author Wanted Eudd, Clockmaker, Warminster, 211.

REPLIES : De Glamorgan, 211 Epitaph, Christchurch, Hampshire Meiler Fitz-Henry and Robert Fitz-Stephen, 213 Patagonian Theatre, Exeter Change Sophie Ander- sonFielding's Letters, 214 Early Railway Travelling Henderson s ' Life of Major Andre ' Descendants of Catherine Parr, 215 Seventh Child of a Seventh Child

St. Mary's, Amersham, Churchyard Inscriptions

Lawyers in Literature, 216 Statue of Charles I. at Charing Cross" Wakes " : " Laik "Turtle and Thunder Scott's 'Antiquary 'Reference for Quotation Wanted Old Etonians, 217 Earls of Derwentwater : Descend- antsHenry IV. 's Supper of Hens Result of Cricket Match given out in Church ' The Spirit of the Nation ' John Charnock Gelria : a Place - Name Joannes Renadseus The Calendar" Le sinistre," 218.

JJOTES ON BOOKS : ' A Short History of the Parish of Salehurst ' ' The Library ' ' Congregational Historical Society Transactions ' ' The Antiquary ' ' The Nine- teenth Century.'

'Notices to Correspondents.

CHAPLAINS OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE, 1417-1542.

BY the statutes which William of Wyke- ham made for his College at Winchester in 1400 there were always to be as members of the College, " conductitii et remotivi," three Chaplains in priest's orders, and also three Lay-Clerks, who, with the sixteen Quiristers, would assist the Warden and the ten Fellows (" presbyter! socii per- petui ") in the due performance of the chapel services.

The list here offered of about ninety Chaplains is compiled from the Bursars' Annual Account Bolls, each of which runs, as a rule, from on^ Michaelmas to the next. For a period beginning with the year 1417-18 and ending with the year 1541-42 these Bolls, or rather such of them as remain extant, regularly record the Chaplains' names under the heading

' Stipendia capellanorum et clericorum capelle,' and my list of Chaplains is for the period of 125 years during which the practice was observed of thus recording them.

It is necessary, however, to state that the Account Bolls are now either lost or mislaid for the following years : 141920, 20-21, 22-3, 25-6, 27-8, 35-6, 45-6, 55-6, 58-9, 60-61, 62-3,63-4, 78-9, 80-81, 83-4, 85-6,86-7,88-9,1502-3, 5-6, 6-7, 13-14, 19-20, 37-8. There is in the series no gap which exceeds two years ; but in the absence of these twenty-four Bolls, my list must be somewhat defective as regards both names and dates.

One feature of the list is that it brings to light the fact that from time to time Lay-Clerks were promoted to Chaplain- cies, and Chaplains to Fellowships. More- over, Scholars sometimes became Lay- Clerks, and, as is already known from other sources, Quiristers not infrequently be- came Scholars. Hence we occasionally find among the Fellows men who, in one capacity and another, had been resident members of the College from boyhood. John Erewaker, for instance, who became Fellow in 1507, had been successively Scholar, Lay-Clerk, and Chaplain ; and his known career seems to leave no room for Kirby's suggestion (' Scholars,' p. 7) that Erewaker had been Fellow of New College, Oxford, and had taken the B.A. degree. But this leads to another point.

In the Account Bolls for 1420-21 and later years all the Chaplains are styled " Domini," except four who were " Mag- istri," these four being Simon Smyth (1487-8), Nicholas Hokar (1523-4), Wayte (1528-9), and Thomas Curtney (1529-31). Smyth's degree and Hokar's and Curtney's are known, and it seems safe to say that, in accordance with its usual meaning, " Magister " denoted a University degree above that of B.A. But what did " Domi- nus " denote ? This word, like the English "Sir," has had, among the various meanings assignable to it, one which associated it with the B.A. degree, and another which associated it with priest- hood.* As applied in the College Account Bolls to Fellows and Chaplains, it had, I think, the latter and not the former of these senses, if the choice lies between them. Otherwise, why did the thirteen Lay - Clerks who became Chaplains

Sir.'
 * See ' The Oxford English Dictionary,' under