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 NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. x. JULY n, 1914.

\\ ay. or at St. Patrick's, Soho, where, I think, the Registers date back beyond 1795.

The Registers of the Bavarian Chapel, now the Church of the Assumption, Warwick Street, go back to 1797, so it would be worth examining them.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

L'nthank Road, Norwich.

WILLIAM BAKER (11 S. ix. 369), THOMAS CRANE (10 S. vi. 189), and Robert Watton were each of them admitted twice to a Fellowship at Winchester College. Baker was admitted first on 16 Feb., 1537/8, and must have resigned before 1 Oct., 1543, when he was admitted again in succession to William Sparkman. He resigned again be- fore 6 July, 1549, when Crane came in as his successor. That was Crane's second ad- mission, for he had been admitted previo\isly on 19 Nov., 1548, on the death of Elisha Warham, but had resigned before 8 March, 1548/9, when Mathew Cole succeeded him. Robert Watton was first admitted on 26 July, 1561, when a vacancy had arisen

" per deprivationem domini Thome Crane recu- santis subscribere quibusdam articulis in visi- tatione Episcopi Winton. exhibit is."

In the December of the same year Watton resigned on the 19th, but he was readmitted two days later as successor to William Adkins, who had died on the 18th. On the 24th John Taylor was admitted to the Fellowship which Watton had vacated on the 19th.

The above facts come mainly from the College Register called " O," which contains the notarial acts relating to the swearing"- in of the Fellows. This little- known Register is marred by some unfortu- nate gaps and omissions ; but, even so, it gives much information not to be found in the Register of Fellows, which is more often consulted, and which occurs in the book called ' Liber Albus.'

William Sparkman, who is mentioned above, is not in the list of Fellows which Kirby printed in his ' Winchester Scholars,' and, so far as the two Registers referred to above are concerned, I can find nothing about him beyond the fact that he ceased to be Fellow (cause not disclosed) in 1543 [Reg. O). It appears, however, from the Bursars' Account Roll of 1539-40, under

Stip.-ndia socionim," that he was ad- mitted Fellow on John Chubbe's death in 1 540. T should be glad to learn what became of Sparkman after 1543.

Another Fellow who is not in Kirby's list though in both the Registers, is 'Walter

Colmere, M.A., of Marshwood Vale, Dorset. He was admitted together with John Scott on 2 Sept., 1554 (when there were vacancies due to resignations by Nicholas Smith and James Bay ley), and he resigned before 31 Aug., 1558, when John Dolber succeeded him. He is presumably identical with the Walter Colmer who graduated M.A. at Oxford in March, 1541/2 (see Foster, and also Boase) ; but the record apparently does not name the Oxford College to which he belonged. Is anything known of him after 1558 ?

The troubles which arose at Winchester in 1559, upon the passing of the Act of Uni- formity, have already been noticed in these columns (10 S. ii. 45, 115). So far as I can. ascertain from the College records, Crane was the only Fellow who actually suffered deprivation for recusancy.

A later Thomas Crane, who became a Winchester Scholar under the election of 1603, is sadly lost in Kirby's book, because he is there miscalled " Thomas Evans " (p. 161).

H. C.

LETHE : PLAIN OR RIVER ? (11 S. ix. 326.) Your correspondent MR. F. W. ORDE WARD may, perhaps, be surprised to learn that Lethe Plain, AI^TJS TreSiov, is, and was, perfectly well so understood by scholars even in the Middle Ages. The fact that well-read Grecians among Roman poets, such as Vergil, Tibullus, or Horace, mis- understanding mythology, made errors is surely not astounding any more than Shakespeare speaking of clocks in his plays of ' Julius Caesar ' and ' Coriolamis.' Vergil's

Omnia uel medium fiant mare for Theocritus's

TTO.VTO. 6" fvaXXa yevoiVTO is known to boys of much less attainment than Macaulay's schoolboy.

Your correspondent might consult the Ravenna Scholia to Aristophanes 's ' Frogs ' (B.C. 405), 1. 166 (188) Dindorfs edition: " Ti's eis | T^> Avy$7j 7re8iov ; " ywpiov ev AiSov Ai'6\y*os r)<riv, a place or district in (the realm of) Hades.

We cannot afford to neglect works such as Stephanus or Tzetzes or Du Cange ; but Liddell and Scott have not made error as to Lethe, even in 1869, as the Editor has pointed out.

The date of Plato's ' Politeia ' compared with the ' Frogs ' would hardly solve the question. Your correspondent may re- member that the Greeks were heirs to a