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HEIMSKROL. I have two good Dutch pictures : one a skating scene, and the othe a farmhouse scene. They are said to be tn Heimskrol. I should be glad to know some thing of the artist. H. N. E.

QUOTATIONS ON DEATH.

1. He who is near to Death, but turns about, Shuffles a while to make his Pillow easy, Then slips into his Shrowd, and rests for ever.

Lee.

2. Death is not dreadful to a Mind resolv'd, It seems as natural as to be born.

Groans, and Convulsions, and discolour'd Faces Friends weeping round us, Blacks and Obsequies Make Death a dreadful thing : The Pomp o:

Death Is far more terrible than Death it self. Lee.

3. " But a wise Man (as an excellent Author said' in the greatest Enjoyment of Life, looks on Death with an even Countenance ; for as it is the End ol his Pleasure, so it is the Period of his Misfor tunes."

Where can I find the above quotations ? I shall be much obliged for the information Who was the " excellent Author ' quoted ? ISRAEL SOLOMONS.

PLOWDEN OF LASHAM, HANTS. Edmund Plowden of Plowden, Salop, the famous Elizabethan serjeant-at-law, died 6 Feb.,

1584, and was succeeded by Edmund his eldest son, who died unmarried in 1586, and was succeeded by his brother Francis, who married Mary, daughter of Thomas Fermor, and sister of Sir Richard Fermor, Knt., of Somerton, Oxfordshire, by whom he had twelve children. His eldest son, Francis, succeeded to the Shropshire estates in 1652. Another son, Thomas, became a Jesuit. Another son, Edmund styled in hie will (20 July, 1655) Sir Edmund Plowden, Lord Earl Palatine, Governor and Captain- General of the Province of New Albion in America married Mabel, daughter of Peter Marriner of Hampshire. He owned property at Wanstead and at Lasham, both in Hampshire. He was in constant litigation with his eldest son, Francis, whom he disinherited, and was succeeded by his second son, Thomas (see Cath. Rec. Soc. vol. xiv., pedigree opposite p. 342, and Hamilton,

Chronicle of St. Monica's, Louvain,' vol. i. pp. 224-5). Whom did this Thomas Plowden marry, and when did he die ? He was succeeded by his eldest son, James, who in 1692 was residing at Ewhurst, Hamp- shire, and had a Catholic priest named Freeman residing with him (Cath. Rec. Soc., vol. ix. p. 107). He sold the Lasham property in 1705 (' Victoria History of Hants,' vol. iv. p. 83). His descendants,

who became Protestants, were living at Ewhurst Park, Hampshire, till about half a century ago. Did James Plowden himself become a Protestant ? And if so, when ? There were no recusant Plowdens in Hamp- shire in 1715 ('Cosin's List of Catholics, Non- Jurors,' &c., London, 1862).

JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

THE SITE OF THE GLOBE.

(11 S. x. 209, 290, 335 ; xi. 447 ; xii. 10, 50, 70, 121, 143.)

3. The Sewers' Commission Records.

MB. HUBBARD quotes and comments upon these records as set out by MRS. STOPES at 11 S. xi. 447, but without introduc- ing any new information. His strong prepossession in favour of the conclusions, with which I have already dealt enables him to find the confirmation in these quotations which he desires, but which I have been unable to discover. Personally, I should like to have much more detailed contemporary topographical information, such as might be obtained from a manorial map, before I would speak upon them with the assurance that is MR. HUBBARD' s. There is, however, one of the presentments of the Commission to which I may refer specifically. It is dated 1605. MR. HUBBARD 's quotation and comment are as follows :

"'The owners of the Playhouse called the Globe

n Maid Lane shall, before the 20th Aprill next,

pull up, and take clene out of the sewar, the props

or posts which stand under their Bridge on the

north side of Mayd Lane.'

"This seems to me to be fairly conclusive. A nuisance was being created by the fact that the owners of the Globe had put their props or posts n the sewer on the north side."

I quite agree that the nuisance had been created, but how this shows that the Globe was on the north side of Maid Lane I cannot divine. To me it says that, in order to sonduct their patrons from Bankside to the Playhouse on Brand's land, which lay Between the Bishop's Park on the south and Maid Lane on the north, the owners of the >lobe had erected a bridge over the ditches ind quagmire of Maid Lane. This bridge ed from an alley joining the riverside with Vlaid Lane, and opened out upon the short lorth-and-south arm of Globe Alley, at the nd of which lay the Playhouse.

The presentment of the Sewers' Com- nission is, of course, confirmatory of the outhern attribution of the Globe site.