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j parks and warrens south of Trent, also Lord (Lieutenant of tl>e Counties of Oxford, Bucks .md Westmoreland. In the next reign he was e was made lord privy seal, one of his privy- ((.uiuil, created Marquis of Wharton, and Marquis t inn- rival rd Baron of Trim, Earl of Rathfarnham, and Marquis of Catherlough, Irish honours ; and ai length created, on Jan. 20, 1717-18, Duke of Wharton, in which titles he was succeeded by his ~un Philip, who leaving no male issue, they .expired " [in 1731].
 * of Malmesbury, Dec. 24, 1714, also at the same

T. P. DORMAN.

MAGISTRATES WEARING HATS (11 S. ix. J189, 253, 315). To the notes containing in- Istances of this usage I should like to add the [following, which appears in a description of jthe Kaiser's entrance into the hall of the jroyal castle of Berlin, where he was to jaddress the members of the Eeichstag there assembled :

" The Kaiser entered the hall in the simple gray

fit-Id uniform, without the usual pomp, unaccom-

panird by chamberlains and court officials and

Ages in glittering court dresses. Only state

Jministers, generals, and admirals followed him to

he throne from where he read his speech, after

liovering his head with his helmet."

T take this from ' Truth about Germany: Pacts about the War,' New York, 1914, ';). 15, published (principally for American consumption, be it said in passing) by a con- Mderable and distinguished committee of jperman financiers, statesmen, savants, &c. WM. A. MCLAUGHLIN. I Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A.

].)i NSTABLE LARKS (11 S. viii. 469,

>15 ; ix. 15, 93). The following extract

j'rom Part I. of ' The Journal of William

iFori-, Prior of Worcester, 1518-35,' which

lias been recently published by the Wor-

arn\v a pecocke. Edward Atwocl of tedyngton iij dosen of larks. Robert Luntbache of ye same i do-. -a of larks. Robert Walker of overbury dosen of larks and a woodcocke."

A. C. C.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE AND HIS BOOKS 1 1 S. x. 321, 342). MR. LETTS will find an it cresting account of Father Athanasius virc -her, S.J., from the pen of Father Adolf liillcr, S.J., in the ' Catholic Encyclopedia.' HARMATOPEGOS.

"BROTHER JOHANNES" (US. x. 370) is probably the same as Joachim, Abbot of Fiore, who lived in the twelfth century. His 'Vaticinia,' published in Venice in 1600, contains quaint emblematic pictures, in some of which the symbols mentioned are em- ployed. He also prophesied the overthrow of the Turk. The book can be seen at the British Museum, or by members of the London Library. C. J. P.

PLACE-NAMES : SHRAPE, THRUNGE (US. x. 348). Y. T. describes the Thrunge at Cowes as a narrow alley-close, or wynd. I have heard Wiltshire people speak of any such place as a drunge. B. B.

Jlofcs on 380oks.

The Bayeux Tapestry. Introduction by Hilaire

Belloc. (Chatto & Wind us, 10s. Qd. net.) MOST of us at least in youth have wished that Harold could have been victorious at Hastings ; hence the ancient story of English perfidy and Norman vengeance, depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is slightly tinged with melancholy. This indulgence in sentiment, however, does not diminish our admiration of that sole remaining example of early pictorial needlework, the in- comparable " telle a broderie " with which for centuries the Bayeux clergy adorned their cathe- dral nave at the time of the feast of the Relics. By a miracle the Tapestry has escaped destruction by zealots and barbarians all these hundreds of years, though it was actually seized by the military as cover for a baggage wagon in 1792. In the peril of 1871 the authorities concealed it in all haste. May they be equally prompt and secret should the foreign enemy quod absit ! again approach the ancient town that was Bishop Odo's seat.

This book has a great many good points : the arrangement whereby pictures and letterpress march together step by step has been skilfully contrived, and is most convenient ; the coloured illustrations give the impression of the length and narrowness of the original, and also reproduce its delightfully unnatural hues, outcome, in all probability, of the limited variety of shades in the worsted the artist had at his command. Mr. Belloc's preface and commentary are interesting Mr. Belloc is always interesting; but there was surely no need in a preface containing some learning to adopt a colloquial lecture-room style, or bring the whole essay down to the level of farce by inserting in an imaginary inscription such a name as that of " the Rev. I'harles Woodle."

It is safe to expect that as a comiin-ntator Mr. Belloc will incline to desert the obvious and bookish, but keep for company personal impres- sions or self -gathered information. Thus he dismisses with a word the enigma of the clerk and JEltgyva, ordinarily a theme for pages of annota- tion, but inserts small items of French topography, or reminds us apropos of Odo's rally of his follow- ing (ptieros) that the French army term for men is " mes enfants." Highly characteristic, too, is