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FKEDERICK MADDEN, and (b) epitomizes a note by J. E. JACKSON. MADDEN (p. 12) quoted in full the passage which Walcott refers to from Gilbert Cousin, " better known" (says MADDEN) as Cognatus. JACK- SON (p. 495) suggested that Aubrey's " Serjeant " was Sir John Hoskins, who became Serjeant-at-law in 1623 and died in 1638 ; and this suggestion is duly recorded in the * D.N.B.'s ' life of Hoskins (xxvii. 397). The third correspondent, W. H. GUNNER (p. 417), was inclined to think that Hoffman used " Apelles " as "a metaphorical ex- pression for a painter " ; in other words, that it is the complimentary equivalent of " pictor ignotus."

4. The idea of the Trusty Servant did not originate with Gilbertus Cognatus. In The Wykehamist for February, 1906 (No. 431, p. 288), Mr. W. H. Wrench, writing from the Edinburgh University Press, announced that he had " met with a full description of the Trusty Servant " in reprinting Pierre Grin- goire's ' Chasteau de Labour,' which was first published at Paris in 1500. Alexander Barclay's translation of this work was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1506. I have not myself seen either Gringoire's book or Barclay's translation, nor yet the reprint of it which, according to the ' Victoria History of Hants,' v. 18 (where " Gringoire " has degenerated into "Grignon"), was edited by Mr. A. W. Pollard for the Roxburghe Club. In the ' V.H.H.' (loc. cit.) Arthur Francis Leach whom I cannot allude to without an expression of sorrow for his death quotes part of Barclay's description of the Servant, and says that Barclay " was beneficed in Hampshire about this time." More definite information on that point would be welcome. In the ' D.N.B.'s ' life of Barclay (iii. 156) he seems to be connected with Hampshire only by the fact that, upon his death in 1552, some legacies under his will were contingent upon debts being paid by one Cutbeard Croke of Winchester. We possess in our Fellows' Library here a good copy of 'The Ship of Fooles ' (1570), but apparently none other of Barclay's works.

5. Hoskins became Winchester Scholar in 1579. In February, 1591/2, while he was Fellow of New College, Oxford, " he served as terrce filius, but with such bitterness of satire that he was forced to resign his Fellowship and was driven from the Uni- versity." Perhaps some Oxford correspon- dent will kindly look up Aubrey's letters to Wood (which JACKSON spoke of as being in the Ashmolean), and see whether better light can now be thrown upon the question

whether " the Serjeant " meant Hoskins, and also upon the question whether " done by the Serjeant " related to a painting or drawing, or only to verses accompanying it.

6. Walcott' s "Holloway," as an alternative to Hoskins, is, I suppose, Charles Holloway, who became Serjeant in 1660 and died in 1679. It seems from * Wood's Life and Times' (A. Clark, Oxf. Hist, Soc.), ii. 123-6, v. 48, 316, that this Charles Holloway may have been known as " the Serjeant " to Wood and his correspondents. He had become Winchester Scholar in 1607, and was of the family, strongly Wykehamical, which included Sir Richard Holloway, the judge who shared with Sir John Powell the honour of being dismissed from the Bench for opinions expressed at the trial of the Seven Bishops. " The Serjeant " cannot mean Sir Richard, as he did not obtain the coif until 1675. Besides, the Trusty Servant was certainly " done " both in picture and in Latin verse before 1640, when the future judge came to this School.

7. There is the entry, already quoted, which occurs in the Bursars* Accounts for 1636-7, under ' Custus coquinse ' (fourth quarter), and that is not the earliest reference to the ' Servant.' In 1627-8 (' Custus aulse,' fourth quarter) there is : " Hieronimo pictori pro reparanda effigie domini Fundatoris nostri in aula et Servi ante culinam, xxs." Leach stated (loc. cit.) that the 'Servant' is also mentioned in 1619, but, after perusing the Accounts of 1618-19 and 1619-20, I am unable to confirm this statement. In the earlier of those years the Founder's portrait is mentioned, but not the ' Trusty Servant ' : " Solut. Middle ton pro restauranda effigie domini Fundatoris, Us. vie?." (' Custus aulse,' fourth quarter), and " . . . .eidem [Tong] pro 2obus uncis pro pictura fundatoris, iirf." ('Custus domorurn,' first quarter). The Founder's portrait was acquired for 41. I2s.6d. (1596-7, 'Custus necessariorum,' second quarter). My search from 1579 to 1627 has elicited no item relating to the ' Servant.' As for the statements which MB. WAINE- WRIGHT quoted from Mr. Warren's ' Guide,' I can only say that I cannot find any refer- ence to the ' Servant ' in the Accounts of 1559-60 or 1560-61, and that the "tradi- tion " of the picture having been a gift from " a German Monk " to William of Wykeham is not one with whi h I am familiar. My own sad experience about traditions of that sort leads me to attach small value to them.

8. CANON DEEDES suggests that the ' Trusty Servant ' reached the College as a gift either from Bishop Sherborne or from