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poet to Henry VIII., on the evidence of Add. MS. 31,922, ff. 53-54, where it occurs over his name. This manuscript is a fine old volume composed of songs chiefly t>y Henry VIII. and Cornish, together with music, and there seems no reason to doub that the latter was the author of the one in question. Only the first three stanzas however, are given ; but the wording oi them is practically the same as the Percy version, except that the first seems to be used as a kind of introductory refrain to th< others. The music is altogether differeni -from that given in the Variorum Shakespeare Considering Shakespeare's well-known in debtedness to the Court drama, especially through Lyly, it is interesting to find a direct connexion, however slight, between the great Elizabethan and the earlier Tudor master, the development of whose art Lyly repre- sented. C. L. POWELL.

THE OBSERVANT BABE. Reviewing Canon Watson's ' Life of Bishop John Wordsworth,' The Morning Post of 18 November re- marked :

" The Bishop-to-be was a precocious infant whc could observe and judge long before he could talk. To the end of his life he remembered forming the resolution : ' So soon as I have learned to speak I will tell what that naughty housemaid was doing with the jam in the cupboard.' "

In * Personal Reminiscences of Sir Frede- rick Pollock, Bart.,' vol. ii. pp. 188, 189, it is recorded that

"Dugald Stewart was once asked what was the earliest thing he could remember. He said it was being left alone by his nurse in his cradle and resolving to tell of her as soon as he could speak " ;

and he was probably the gentleman referred to by Herman Merivale in an article in Temple Bar, ' About Two Great Novelists,' vol. Ixxxiii. p. 200 :

" Somewhere have I read of a wag who, when one

asked him what was his earliest memory,

answered him gravely that it was of thinking, when his nurse went for gin and water and left him alone in his cradle, 'O, won't I tell my mother when I know how to talk ! ' "

In one of Frederick Locker's little poems, of which I have for the present lost sight, he embodies himself as an infant who, observing his nurse's flirtation with a soldier, resolves to tell mamma as soon as he can speak.

I wonder if Dugald Stewart's mot sug- gested the idea to the budding bishop and the poet. As far as my own poor memory Carries me, I never wanted to say anything until I had the gift of speech.

ST. SWITHIN.

PURITAN NAMES IN NEW ENGLAND, 1794- 1830. (See ante, pp. 399, 419.)

Earl Stimson; 6 Oct., 1824

Eber Eager. 2 May, 1804.

Elam Clark, jun. 3 March, 1824.

Electa Carpenter. 23 May, 1827.

Eliab Stone. 11 Sept., 1822.

Eliakim Morse. 25 Aug., 1802.

Eliazah Clay. 8 March, 1826.

Elihu Ely. 4 Sept., 1805.

Eliphalet Loud. 20 June, 1798.

Eliphaz Chapman. 15 June, 1808.

Elizur Goodrich. 21 May, 1806.

Elkanah French. 29 May, 1811.

Elnathan Sherwin. 4 March, 1801.

Enos Goss. 28 Feb., 1827.

EpaphrodituS Chapman. 21 July, 1813.

Esaias Stillman. 22 March, 1826.

Esek Hopkins. 15 April, 1807.

Etheel Parmenter. 18 Nov., 1829.

Evander Morse. 3 Feb., 1830.

Experience Gates (woman). 8 Nov., 1826.

Ezbon Carter. 25 Nov., 1801.

Ezrell Swet. 21 Oct., 1801.

Fansell Jones. 2 March, 1803.

Festus Stebbins. 9 Dec., 1829.

Finis Gookin (woman). 24 April, 1816.

Fisco Shailer (man). 29 July, 1829.

Fraly Deaves (man). 28 Jan., 1829.

Freegrace Marble. 24 Oct., 1827.

GadWhithed. 14 March, 1802. -\

Gaius Conant. 9 May, 1813.

Galacius Fisk (Lieut.). 22 May, 1816.

Gamalian Bayley. (1772.)

Gamaliel Church. 7 Oct., 1812.

Genera Taft (man). 19 Sept., 1827.

Gershom Chapin. 11 Nov., 1801.

Gideon Bridges. 19 March, 1817.

Gill Gibbs. 28 July, 1824.

Gratitude Marble (woman). 17 April, 1822.

Hadassah Cowee. 12 April, 1826.

Hananiah Whitney. 5 April, 1815.

Hannibal Hamlin the elder. 14 June, 1809.

Haran Eager. 4 Oct., 1820.

Harren Leach. 4 April, 1827.

Hazel Wiley (man). 8 Oct., 1823.

Heber Nutter. 4 Feb., 1824.

Heman Fay. 23 June, 1802.

Hephsy H. Biglow. 24 March, 1819.

Hephzibeth Sawyer. 31 Aug., 1814.

Hepsa B. Delano. 2 June, 1830.

Hepzibah Barber. 12 Dec., 1821.

Hezediah Felton (woman). 17 March, 1819.

Hiram How. 20 March, 1811. (Hiram, spelt Hyrum, is fairly common in Utah, many boys being " named for " Hyrum Smith.)

Hitty Gould (woman). 15 Aug., 1810.

Hosea Willard. 2 Jan., 1811.

Huldah Penniman. 4 Sept., 1805. Hunking Wentworth. (1774.) Ichabod Bliss. 15 Oct., 1800.

[cybinda Wheelock (woman). 3 Oct., 1827. Increase Stearns (man). 4 Oct., 1820.

ndependence Whipple (man). 4 Feb., 1824.

ssachar Adams. 8 July, 1829.

thamar Biglow. 5 March, 1800.

vory Bosworth. 25 Nov., 1801.

zanna Wilson (woman). 11 Aug., 1830.

RICHARD H. THOBNTON.

8, Mornington Crescent, N. W.

(To be continued.)