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How were these foundations known to be those of the theatre ? The only clue given is this :

"Many Elizabethan objects of small interest were collected from within the walls of the theatre."

I am afraid that no one, unless he had already and finally made up his mind, could regard this " find " as having any evidential value in regard to the matter in question.

In concluding this lengthy comment upon MR. HUBBABD'S reply, I desire to repeat that I am not setting out the full case for the attribution of the site to the south of Maid Lane ; I am not construing the passage on the Coram Rege Roll ; I have been merely commenting upon MR. HUBBARD'S reply to MRS. STOPES, and in doing so I have based my remarks chiefly on MR. HUBBARD'S own premises. Incidentally the strength of the case for the tradition, unchallenged until 1 909, has become apparent that the Globe Playhouse of Shakespeare was built upon land to the south of Maid Lane. This site is within the boundary of land now the pro- perty of Barclay, Perkins & Co., Ltd., near the spot where a pictorial bronze proclaims to passers-by the site " of the most celebrated theatre the world has ever seen."

WILLIAM MARTIN.

The Temple, E.G.

MARIA SOPHIA, QUEEN OF PORTUGAL (US. xii. 120). Di. Kamill von Behrs's ' Genealogie der in Europa Regierenden Furstenhauser ' (Leipzig, 1870) gives the second wiie of Dom Pedro II. (Peter II.) of Portugal as Marie Sophia, daughter of Philip Wilhelm von Pfalz. She was born 6 Aug., 1666, and was married, by proxy, 2 July, personally 11 Aug., 1687. She died 4 Aug., 1699.

A. FRANCIS STEUART.

79, Great King Street, Edinburgh.

In 1687, at the request of his minister, the Duke of Cadaval, Dom Pedro consented to marry again, in order to have an heir to the throne. He selected Maria Sophia of Neuburg, daughter of the Elector Palatine. A. R. BAYLEY.

JAMES HOOK AND HIS WIVES (US. xii. 119). James Hook died at Boulogne in 1827. His first wife, Miss Madden, died 19 Oct., 1795. She was the author of the eminent divine Walter Farquhar Hook. FRED. E. BOLT.
 * The Double Disguise.' His grandson was

WILLIAM CONSTANT : DUTCH Swiss GUARDS (US. xii. 118). Guillaume Anne, Baron de Constant -Rebec que de Villars, son of Davis Louis and Louise de Seigneux, born at the Hague, 24 April, 1750, a Swiss citizen. He took service in a Swiss regi- ment in Holland, and later became a lieutenant-general in the Dutch army. He died at the Hague, 11 Aug., 1838.

For further particulars about him and his family see Dictionnaire biographique des Genevois et des Vaudois,' Lausanne, 1877, vol. i. pp. 191-2.

EMILE RITTER.

22, River Street, B.C.

One of the most likely sources of information about the " Dutch Swiss Guards" would appear to be May's ' His- toire Militaire de la Suisse et celles des Suisses dans les different s services de FEurope ' (Lausanne, 1785) ; but I have not seen the book.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

ORIGIN OF QUOTATION WANTED (11 S. xii. 28, 76). To take an example of a Latin motto that is confessedly not an exact quotation, but an adaptation, in ' Part of King James's Entertainment, in passing to his Coronation ' (Ben Jonson, ' Works,' 1838, p. 528), the " word " of Agrypnia or Vigil- ance, " Speculamur in omneis," is said ^to allude to that of Ovid :

Ipse procul montis sublime cacumen Occupat, unde sedens partes speculator in omneis.


 * Met.' i. 666-7.

And in the same piece, p. 531, the " word " of Doulosis or Servitude, " Nee unquam gratior," is said to allude to Claudian, ' De Consul. Stilichonis,' iii. 114:

Numquam libertas gratior extat Quam sub rege pio.

Such instances are a useful warning against the belief that every Latin motto must be found verbatim ct litteralim in the text of some Latin author.

EDWARD BENSLY.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED (11 S. xii. 10). The philosopher is Berkeley. In his paper in The Guardian, No. 70, beginning " As I was the other day taking a solitary walk in St. Paul's," he compares a fly upon one of the pillars, to which " nothing could appear but small inequalities in the surface of the hewn stone," to a Free-thinker. John Nichols in his note on the passage points out that this is probably the origin of Thomson's critic-fly, ' Summer,' 321 sqq.

EDWARD BENSLY.