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the well-known title of Osiris; that the hare-god Tin was only another form of Osiris ; and that the name Un was applied to Osiris because he ' sprang up ' like the hare, which, as the rising sun, is said to be the ' springer.' "

As it is only too well known that the Easter Day customs include several survivals of the primitive sun-worship (Cox, op. cit., p. 138), is it not more likely that a similar idea to that of the ancient Egyptians led the Anglo-Saxons to associate the hare with their goddess of light and spring, Eostre, because of their being both the " springers " ?

KUMAGUSU MlXAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

JOHN CHAPMAX, PUBLISHER, 1822-94 : ' THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW ' (11 S. xii. 67). In the interests of literary history may I call attention to the following facts and dates ? I have before me the first number of The Westminster Review, dated January, 1824, published by Baldwin, Craddock & Joy ; it is the third edition, so the review must have begun well. The first editor was Sir John Bowring ; William Johnson Fox wrote the first article in the first number, and James Mill was a contributor from the first. About May, 1832, General Thomas Perronet Thompson became the editor and pro- prietor.

John Chapman was born in Nottingham in 1822, and in 1851 he became editor and proprietor of the Review ; and the January, 1852, issue (No. Ill) appears with his im- print as follows : " John Chapman, 142, Strand." R. W. Mackay was his associate editor. In 1842 he married Susannah Brewitt of Nottingham, who predeceased him in March, 1892. In March, 1860, John Chapman retired from his publishing business in favour of George Mainwaring, and he died in Paris on 25 Nov., 1894. R. N.

" FORTH SHALL COME AN ASKE," &c. (11 S. xii. 28). This is a modernized version of a prophecy which was current among the rebels cf the Pilgrimage of Grace. The original prophecy is as follows :

Forth shall conie a worm, an aske with one eye,

He shall be chief of the meiny ;

He shall gather of chivalry a' full fair flock,

Half capon and half cock ;

The chicken shall the capon slay,

And after that there shall be no may.

The prophecy is printed in a metrical account of the Pjlgrimage of Grace with th9 following title :

" The fall and euill successe of Rebellion from time to time Wherein is contained matter, moste meete for all estates to vewe Written in old English verse by Wilfride Holme Imprinted at

London by Henry Binneman dwelling in Knight- riders streate at the signe of the Mermaide And are to be sold at his shop at the Northwest doore of Paules Church Anno 1572 Februarie 9." Although not printed until the Rising of the North in 1569-70 had revived interest in the Northern Rebellion, it appears to have been written immediately after the events with which it deals. The last verse gives its date as follows :

The xiii day of July componed and compiled,

In the xxix yeare of the raigne of the viii Henry

royall

By Wilfride Holme unlearned, simply combined, As a pigmie to writing with Hercules for triall, In Huntingdon in Yorkshire commorant patri- monial, Pretending and intending with Goda grace to

endeuer

My selfe to worship the Lord sempiternal, Whereby I may be iust to my God and Prince for

euer.

For a further discussion of the songs and prophecies connected with the Pilgrimage of Grace, see my forthcoming book on ' The Pilgrimage of Grace and the Exeter Con- spiracy,' to be issued shortly by the Cam- bridge University Press. M. H. DODDS. Home House, Low Fell, Gateshead.

NEW STREET, MANCHESTER SQUARE (11 S. xii. 48).

" New Street is in Baker-street, North, Mary-le- bone, about ten houses on the left hand from the New-road." ' Topographical Dictionary of Lon- don,' by James Elmes, M.B.I.A., 1831.

W. B. H.

SWEEDLAND OR SwEDELAND COURT,

BISHOPSGATE (11 S. xii. 48). Elmes's Topographical Dictionary of London * has :

Sweed's Court, Trinity Lane. Swede's Court, Cripplegate. Swedeland Court, Bishopsgate Without. Swedeland Court, Trinity Square.

W. B. H.

PUBLIC FASTS, 1756 AND 1776 (11 S. xii. 86).

The fast on 6 Feb., 1756, was to implore God's blessing upon our fleets and armies, and for humbling, in view of His late visita-

ion by earthquake, " more particularly in neighbouring countries in alliance and friend- ship with us." (The earthquake at Lisbon, was on 1 Nov., 1755.) The fast on 13 Dec., 1776, was for success of our arms in America. Both the Forms of Prayer are before me as I write. The Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of Jews in London issued a form in Hebrew and Spanish for use on 13 Dec., 1776. W. D. MACRAY.

[MR. A. R. BAYLEY and MR. J. PATCHING thanked for replies.]