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WILLIAM SYDENHAM, M.D. Dr. William >\ (icnham, eldest son of Thomas Sydenham, M.D. (1624-89), the English Hippocrates, was born in London about the year 1659 or 1660 (the record of his baptism has yet to be traced). He was admitted to Pembroke <'o liege, Cambridge, " ad secundam men- sam," 18 Feb., 1674, " annosque habens 15." He married Henrietta Maria Banister of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, at the parish church of St. James, Duke's Place. Aldgate, London, 19 June, 1684, and by her had issue eight or ten children, six of whom were bap- tized at St. James's, Piccadilly, January, 1685/6 October, 1704. She was buried at St. James's, Piccadilly, as Mrs. Maria Sydenham, 31 Dec., 1741.

Dr. Sydenham was living in Soho, 1706-9; in 1716 he was at Kingston-on-Thames, and in 1719-29 at Richmond, Surrey. He died 10 April, 1738, and was buried seven days later at St. James's, Piccadilly. His will, as of St. Ann's, Westminster, dated 12 Sept., 1731, proved 17 June, 1738, by his son John, the widow renouncing, is filed in the P.C.C., tut not registered. He owned estates at Allexton, Leicestershire, and at Yardley and Clothall, Herts.

This note will supplement the brief account of him in ' D.N.B.,' Iv. 250.

DANIEL HIPWELL.

84, St. John's Wood Terrace, N.W.

FENIMORE COOPER : A COINCIDENCE. MR. J. A. JACOBS of Sandwich sends me the following :

" 1 find among the Wingham registers, circa 1750, Fennimore Cooper. I have been wondering if the above was a coincidence, or if the American novelist was a connexion."

The late Mr. W. P. W. Phillimore informed me that Fenimore Cooper derived the name from his mother, a daughter of Richard Fenimore of Burlington County, New Jersey, and that a family of Fennimores were settled at Christchurch, Philadelphia, as ^arly as 1749. R. J. FYNMORE.

bandgate.

VANISHING CITY LANDMARKS : RECTORY

HOUSE OF ST. MICHAEL, CORNHILL. (See

S. vii. 247 ; viii. 446.) The following from

The City Press of 13 June will be read with

interest :

f has b T e r en some dela y in the rebuilding

of the Rectory House of St. Michael, Cornhill, by reason of the dispute in the building trade. The new structure, like its predecessor, will be of red brick, with stone facings, and it is now about half- completed. Meanwhile, a temporary iron building in the graveyard is used as the Vestry Room The tenants of the old Rectory House-Messrs. Parker,

Garrett & Co., solicitors have arranged to

take a lease of the main portion of the new Rectory House as soon as it is completed, and in this connection it may be of interest to state that they entered into occupation of the old Rectory House in September, 1863. That building was erected soon after the Great Fire of London. Its successor, while covering the same quantity of ground, will be one storey higher, and altogether more adapted to modern requirements. As before, provision will be made on the ground floor for a Vestry Room for the parish of St. Michael, Cornhill, which will also be used for the Cornhill Wardmotes."

Many must regret the disappearance of this picturesque old Rectory.

CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.

IDENTIFICATION OF LINES QUOTED IN JONSON'S ' POETASTER.' Amongst other passages in Jonson's ' Poetaster ' ridiculing the bombastic drama of his day, there occurs the following :

Tucca. Now, thunder, sirrah, you the rumbling player.

2nd Pyrgiis. Ay, but somebody must cry " Murder," then, in a small voice.

Tucca. Your fellow-sharer there shall do 't ; cry, sirrah, cry.

1 Pyr. Murder, murder.

2 Pyr. Who calls out murder ? lady, icas it you '* Histrio. O admirable good, I protest.

' Poetaster,' III. i.

It seems to have been generally assumed that Jonson is here parodying the famous scene of the murder of Horatio in ' The Spanish Tragedy.'

Prof. Boas (''Thomas Kydy p. 400) and Prof. Penniman (' Poetaster/ Belles-Lettres edition, p. 225) both state that the passage is aimed at Kyd's play. The assumption is not unnatural, seeing that the lines of the player's speech immediately following are borrowed from an earlier scene of ' The Spanish Tragedy.' Kyd's Bel-imperia does, indeed, cry " Murder, murder !: ; but her cry is followed by the entrance of Hieronimo with the famous speech, " What out-cries pluck me from my naked bed. . . .Who calls Hieronimo ? " &c.

It is not Kyd, but Chapman, who is the subject of Jonson's ridicule. The lines are from ' The Blinde Begger of Alexandria.' Count Hermes murders Doricles, and Aspasia exclaims :

Go, wretched villain, hide thy hated head, Where never heaven's light may shine on thee, Who 's there, Come forth, for here is murder done, Murder, murder of good prince Doricles.

[Enter Euribates.] Who calls out murther, Lady was it you ?

' Chapman's Dram. Works,' Pearson, i. 40.

H. DUGDALE SYKES. Enfield.