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NOTES AND QUERIES. [iis.xn. JULYS, 1015.

Col. Bodens who died on 2 Dec., 1762, and was also "a remarkably fat man " (Gent. Mag., xxxii. 600 ; London Mag., 1762, 723 ; cf. * Biog. Dramatica,' i. 44). He was one of the Gentlemen Ushers to George II., and author of ' The Modish Couple.'

I take him to have been the father of Col. George Bodens.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

AUTHOR WANTED (11 S. xi. 472). c Corinth, and Other Poems,' was written by a Miss Earle, but I can find no other par- ticulars. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

LONDON M.P.'s, 1661 : LOVE : TENISON (11 S. xi. 473). SIGMA TATJ is mistaken as to one of the two mentioned. In the Blue- book of Members of Parliament, in the list of the Parliament summoned to meet at Westminster, 8 May, 1661 ; dissolved 24 Jan., 1678/9, the following appear as members for London City, date of return, 19 March, 1660/61 :

John Fowke, esq., alderman. Sir William Thompson, knt., alderman. William Love, esq., alderman. John Jones, esq.

Perhaps Tenison in the extract quoted by SIGMA TAU should be Thompson, or possibly Thompson in the Blue - book should be Tenison. According to W. Toone's ' Chrono- logical Historian,' 1826, under date 10 May, 1661 :

" The House of Commons ordered all their [sic] members to receive the sacrament according to the prescribed liturgy \vithin a certain time, upon pain of being expelled the House."

There is nothing in the Blue - book to show that any one of the four members incurred this penalty. They all appear to have sat throughout this Parliament except- ing John Fowke, who died, and was succeeded by Sir John Frederick, knt., alderman, 10 March, 1662/3.

One may suppose that the two non- conforming members, Love and (?) Thomp- son, took the sacrament eventually, or possibly that the House did not press the penalty. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

The Official Return of Members of Parlia- ment (1877) gives " William Love, Esq., alderman," as elected M.P. for the City, 19 March, 1661.

As William Love, Esq., he also appears in the lists under date 17 Feb., 1679, 7 Oct., 1679, and 4 Feb., 1681. He was not elected to the Parliament of 1685, but reappears as a member of the Convention Parliament, 9 Jan., 1689.

The surname Tenison, in any form, is- absent from the Index, but it is curious to note that in 1667 Dr. Tenison, afterwards* Primate, married a daughter of Dr. Love,. Dean of Ely.

According to Dr. Reginald Sharpe's ' London and the Kingdom,' William Love was " a godly man and of good parts,. Congregationalist " when first elected, to the discomfiture of City Churchmen. In October, 1661, the King removed two alder- men who had been " faulty in the late troubles." Of these Alderman Love was one possibly he was connected with Christopher Love, a zealous Puritan minister,, beheaded on Tower Hill in 1651. Dr. Sharpe calls him in 1679 " Alderman " Love,, so he may have regained his gown, though he is only officially styled " Esq." He was the only one of the four old members re- elected. Luttrell's ' Brief Relation ' gives us this further information : " Alderman Love, a parliament man for the City of London, being lately (16 May, 1689) dead,. Sir Wm. Ashurst is elected to serve in his room." GEORGE RICKWORD.

Colchester Public Library.

[F. DE H. L., MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, and' LAMBDA TAU also thanked for replies.]

DISRAJELI'S LIFE: EMANUEL (11 S. xi. 301, 390, 477). I may say there is in a small room off the Holbein Room at Windsor Castle a round table made of oak and teak wood. It bears, on a silver plate in the shape cf a ship, the following inscription :

" Made of timbers recovered from the wreck of H.M.S. Royal George sunk at Spithead, Aug. 29 th ,. 1782. Presented to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria by her most obedient and humble servants, E. and E. Emmanuel, Portsmouth, Augst., 1841."

EDWARD SIKES.

THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON (11 S. xi.. 455). It is hard to tell, either from 1 Kings iii. or Josephus's fuller account, which woman got the living child ; but to my mind the plaintiff, who says she slept so carelessly and well as to allow her child to be changed, would be the more likely- mother to overlay her child. " The lady doth protest too much,, methinks."

W. H. PINCHBECK.

"THE ICE SAINTS" (11 S. xi. 451). MR. F. COMPTON PRICE is not quite accurate in asserting, of " Saints Mamert, Servais, and Pancrace," that their festivals " occur successively on 12, 13, and 14 May."

The feast of St. Mamertus, Bishop of Vienne (who instituted Rogation - tide