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lonely wooded shores that stretched seaward. East Cowes Castle was then built from the ruins of a religious house late in the posses- sion of Beaulieu, and known as East Sham- Word.

The " anchorage " now called Cowes .Road bore the name of " Ye Cowe," and it is only after the two forts were built that the plural form of the word appears. The Port Books of Southampton, 1429-30, refer to " the an ko rage " in the roadway.

In the Close Rolls for 1340 is the following order to Sir Bartholomew de Insula one of the keepers of the maritime lands in co. Southampton, and one of the wardens appointed at the time to safeguard the island

" to stay in the Isle of Wight with the men of his power, and with the king's other lieges there, for the defence of the island against hostile invasions, knowing that the king will have worthy considera- tion for those who behave well in this, as although the king ordered him and other lieges of the island to prepare themselves and their men and to stay there for its defence, yet Bartholomew, as the king has learnt, withdraws himself from the island with his men, to its great danger, and it is not becoming for belted knights to eloign them- selves from places where deeds of war may take place, but rather to go to those places and stay there for their honour's sake."

Vent nor.

JOHN L. WHITEHEAD, M.D.

NOVALIS (11 S. xii. 280). See Carlyle's vol. ii. pp. 208, 216, 220, for translations of passages from ' Lehrlinge zu Sais,' &c.
 * Miscellaneous Essays,' People's Edition,

Volumes bearing on the subject are :

' Novalis : Life, Thought, and Works,' by M. J. Hope. Stott, 1891.

' Hymns and Thoughts on Religion,' translated by W. Hastie. T & T. Clark, 1888.

' Disciple at Sais, and Other Fragments,' trans- lated by F. V. M. T. and U. C. B. With Intro- duction by Una Birch. Methuen, 1903.

WM. H. PEET.

SHEFFIELD : GRIFFITH : HUNT : COLE : Cox (11 S. xii. 280). Joseph Hunt, s. step, of " Kingslere," Hants, gen. ; Balliol Coll. matric. 16 March, 1696/7, aged 16; B.A. 1700, M.A. 1703, B.D. 1718, D.D. 1721, Master of Balliol 1721-6 ; Vicar of Nether Stowey, Somerset, 1716; Rector of Fillingham, co. Lincoln, 1723, until his death 15 March, 1725/6, at Astrop ; buried at Kong's Sutton, Northants ; will at Oxford, proved 28 April, 1727. He was a confirmed invalid, most of whose time was spent at Bath and other health resorts ; but the college was tolerably well governed during his reign by the Vicegerent whom he

nominated, a senior Fellow of the name of Best (see ' Balliol College,' by H. W, Carless Davis, 1899, p. 179).

The Cox mentioned may be John Cox, son of " Joh." (apparently altered to " Jos.") cf Stamford, Berks, gen.; Pembroke Coll. Oxon. matric. 6 Nov., 1724, aged 19; B.A. 1728, M.A. 1732. A. R. BAYLEY.

HISTORY OF ENGLAND WITH RIMING VERSES (US. iv. 168, 233, 278, 375, 418, 517; v. 34; x. 267, 393; xi. 306, 436; xii. 75). I have ' The History of England in Easy Verse : from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Beginning of the Year 1806,' by W. R. Johnson, A.M., published in 1806. It commences :

Before the Romans, conqu'rors of the world, On Britain's coast their hostile flags unfurl'd, Its name was scarcely known to foreign lands ;

and has prefixed to it ' An Historical Map of England with the Scites of all the Battles.' This seems earlier in date than most of those previously mentioned, and perhaps should be recorded in connexion with the subject. URLLAD.

KNOPWOOD'S DIARY (11 S. xii. 154). The writer of the note on the Rev. Robert Knopwood's diary is to be congratulated on having discovered a forgotten MS. of that singular document, and on being thereby enabled to supply the entries missing from the MS. used by the editor of ' Historical Records of Pert Phillip,' which he says was formerly in the possession of Mr. V. W. Hookey of Hobart. When visiting Hobart in 1909,1 was courteously allowed the freedom of the library of the Royal Society of Tas- mania ; and there I read through "a MS. of Knopwood's diary, which I understood to 'be in his own handwriting. I do not positively remember whether it bore his signature or no ; but I am strongly under the impression that it did. If L. L. K. cares to pursue the point as to which is the real original, no doubt the secretary or librarian of the Society would be able to assist him.

B. GLANVILL CORNEY.

" HEY FOR CAVALIERS " (11 S. xii. 277). Scott was very fond of this old ballad, and uses it not only in * Woodstock,' but in ' Peveril of the Peak ' also. In the former he writes " Oliver smokes for fear," and in the latter, " Oliver shakes in his bier." Shadwell quotes it in ' Epsom Wells.' The tune and verses appear in Chappell, though many of the lines are in wrong order. Chappell also gives a list of books in which