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 ii s. xii. OCT. 9, 1915.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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The most interesting parallels, I think, are those from ' The White Devil ' and ' A Monumental Column ' the latter (a wretched rhapsody) could hardly tempt any borrower but its own author.

One point, at least, MB. SYKES must grant that the last thirty-two Characters were written by one man :

1. Because they are carefully separated from the other ten, first published on the same occasion.

2. Because the quotations from ' The White Devil ' and 4 A Monumental Column ' occur, not in definite groups, bat at intervals, namely, in the 1st, 7th, 15th, 17th, 27th, and 29th Characters.

3. Because Florio's * Montaigne ' is quoted inJNos. 7, 8, 13, and 15.

4. Because Sidney's ' Arcadia ' is echoed in 7, 8, and 9.

Now, considering how constantly John Webster has borrowed from Sidney and Montaigne, who (as far as I know) were ignored by the other characterists consider- ing also that in essays 13 and 23 of the fourth set the author quoted passages from 'Westward Hoe' (I. ii.) and 'The Mal- content ' (IV. ii.), in both of which Webster had been a collaborator I think Webster's authorship is pretty probable, a probability confirmed by the evidence of thought and style in these Characters.

B ON A. F. BOURGEOIS.

RACING FOB LAMBETH ' (11 S. xii. 182). The vacancy in the See of Canterbury on the death of Archbishop Potter, in October, 1747, gave occasion for many satirical prints in which the supposed candidates are represented as racing on the Thames towards Lambeth Palace, while in one the disappointed candidates are pulling away with lugu- brious expressions. A description of eight such engravings is given on pp. 656-62 of vol. iii. part i. of the ' Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum : Division I. Political and Personal Satires,' by F. G. Stephens and Edward Hawkins. That mentioned by CANON CBUICKSHANK corresponds to the 'description of No. 2868 or 2869.

No. 2868, < For Lambeth,'

vigorously across the Thames and towards Lambeth Palace, which is on the further bank of the stream ; including the Bishop's Walk, now absorbed in the Southern Embankment, Lambeth Church, the Palace Gardens, the Library built by Archbishop Juxon, the Lollard's Tower, and Cardinal More- ton's Gateway. One of the bishops is considerably ahead of his competitors; this is probably meant
 * shows three bishops in sculler's boats rowing

for Sherlock. The next, who looks behind him while he sculls hard, is probably Herring; the third and hindmost prelate was probably intended for Mawson, or Hoadley ; ' Codex,' or Gibson, Bishop of London, haying given up the race, does not appear. This print is in the 'Crowle,' Pen- nant's * Sonie Account of London,' Part i., no. 130, preserved in the Print Room." It measures 6| by 6 in.

No. 2869 is a copy of the above, has no stop after the title (' For Lambeth ' ), and measures 9 by 6| in.

In No. 2867, a broadside with a woodcut, probably copied from 2868, and three columns of letterpress, the bishops are named H[oa]d[l]y, G[i]b[so]n, and Y-r-k (= Herring, Archbishop of York). In another there are four bishops : Sherlock, Herring, Mawson, and " Codex." None of the descriptions speak of " canoes." Is this word, p. 182 ante, an error ?

Sherlock and Gibson are both said to have declined the Primacy. If we assume that the print is one of those published in Octo- ber, 1747, it is possible, I imagine, that the pencilled initials may have been suggested by some later vacancy.

EDWABD BENSLY.

ARCH AT HEAD OF CONSTITUTION HILL (11 S. xii. 241). A very long acquaintance with this arch convinces me that the answer to the question whether it has a distinctive name must be in the negative, and MB. PIEKPOINT himself conclusively proves this by his quotations. Each author apparently refers to it by the name which he personally prefers, and has done so since its first erection in 1828.

On the general subject, however, it may be interesting to note that, when in 1908 it was removed to its present position, three illustrations of the " Arch as it ought to have been, was, and will be," appeared in The Daily Graphic of 18 September with a short explanatory article. The first was from a photograph of a design then hanging on the walls of the Royal Institute of British Architects, to which body Burton himself bequeathed it. It was his original design for this arch, and it shows also, in proper perspective, the Hyde Park Corner triple archway and screen, which (and not Apsley House) was exactly opposite to it on the other side of the road. This drawing clearly shows his ideas, and in it the arches are ornamented alike with statues, sculptured friezes, scrollwork, &c., none of which ever appeared on either of them.

In 1846 the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington was placed on the top