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to record. On the morning of Waterloo, as the Enniskillings were on the point of advancing across the Wavre road to charge, an individual in plain clothes on their left called out : " Now's your time 1 " This was the Duke of Richmond, who even rode into the square of infantry while under the fire of the enemy. The Duke of Wellington said to him : " You are the father of ten children ; you have no right to be here. You should go, and you may go now, but a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes hence you could not do so ; it would no longer be right ! "

The " two Ladies Lennox " mentioned in the letters were my aunts, Lady Georgina and Lady Louisa Lennox (afterwards de Ros and Tighe), with both of whom I had many interesting conversations respecting their stay at Brussels during this momentous time, and I made careful notes of all that they remembered. I see MB. SPENCEB MADAN does not mention that on the eventful night of the historic ball, all the tables having been requisitioned for the entertainment, the Duke of Wellington had to go into the Duchess of Richmond's bedroom, where he laid out the maps on the bed and discussed his plans.

CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

DR. LUZZATO (11 S. xi. 380 ; xii. 73). The very interesting reply invites addenda. Of the distinguished family of Luzzato the best known to literature was the brilliant poet Mosheh Chayim Luzzato, the author of Guarini's dramas. When I was a boy my father used to delight me by reading passages of it. Another was Samuel David Luzzato, known mnemonically as " Shedal," one of the finest literary critics of the nineteenth century, and a power in modern Hebrew literature of the first status.
 * Migdal Ouz,' a play founded on one of

M. L. R. BBESLAR.

FAULTS OF INDEX-MAKING (11 S. xii. 7). Some of the strangest vagaries of indexing I know are contained in Cassell's ' Familiar Wild Flowers,' ' Familiar Wild Birds,' and ' Familiar Trees.' In the first of these the Avens, Orchis, and some other plants are found under C, i.e., Common Avens, Common Orchis, &c. In the second certain birds, e.g., Grouse, Gull, Snipe, Wren, are indexed in the same way under C. None of these are cross-indexed. In the third several trees are also selected for appearance under C, e.g., Elm, Maple, Osier, &c. In this case only is trouble avoided by the cross-index under E, M, O, &c. J. T. P.

SHAKESPEABE AND BLACKFBIABS THEATRE (11 S. xii. 47). This playhouse, which was- created out of a dwelling-house by James Burbage at the end of 1596, was for many years afterwards leased out to the Queen's Children of the Chapel ; it was not occupied by Shakespeare's company until the end of 1609 or the beginning of 1610, when his acting days were nearing their end. The pleas in the lawsuit of 1635 show that the Burbages, the owners, bought out the lessee at the end of 1609, and then " p laced " in it " men-players, which were Hemings, Condell,. Shakespeare, &c." To these and other actors they allotted shares in the receipts,, the sha>res numbering eight in all. But the profits were far smaller than at the Globe, and it is probable that in 1611 Shakespeare disposed of his shares in the Globe and the Blackfriars Theatres. He owned none at the date of his death.

The above resum6 is gathered out of Sir Sidney Lee's ' Life of William Shakespeaie ' (Library Edition, 1899). It appears that the poet may have acted at the Blackfriars Playhouse, but the assertion that he un- doubtedly did so is, I suppose, incapable of proof. A. R. BAYLEY.

AUTHOB AND TBANSLATOB WANTED (11 S.

xii. 69). ' The Secret Memoirs of Napoleon/ &c., was written by Charles Doris ; and in the second edition (1815) the account added of the Regency at Blois, and itinerary of Napoleon Bonaparte from Fontainebleau to- Elba, was by Jean Bapt. Germain Fabry. I do not know the name of the translator.

A. R. BAYLEY.

EASTER OFFEBTNGS (11 S. xii. 49). See Blunt's 'Book of Church Law,' p. 351 :

"Dues and offerings are of two kinds Easter dues or offerings, and mortuaries. As to Easter dues, one of the rubrics at the end of the Com- munion Service provides thus : ' And yearly at Easter every parishioner shall reckon with the parson, vicar, or curate, or his or their deputy or deputies ; and pay to them or him all ecclesiastical duties, accustomably due, then and at that time to- be paid.'

" The distinction between dues and offerings is not very precise, and the two words are often inter- changed. It seems, however, that, strictly speak- ing, offerings are gifts made at Easter in excess of the amount legally due.

" In the case of Carthew v. Edwards [Ambler, 72} it was decreed by the Court of Exchequer that Easter offerings were due of common right. The- usual offering is at the rate of twopence per head for every person in the house of sixteen years of age and upwards ; but by oust om it may be more. r;, T? pv.i'iii'ivmT'a < T?I r.a-nr 1K471*

[Sir R. Phillimore,

Eccl. Law, p. 1547. _

WM. H. PEET.