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and uncle to the first Baron Haversham. He had been a member of Richard Cromwell's Parliament ; was Alderman of Portsoken Ward in 1653, until removed to Walbrook in 1659, from which he was discharged " for infirmity of body " in 1661 ; received knighthood in May, 1660 ; sat M.P. for London all through the lengthy Parliament 1661-79 ; and died 17 Dec., 1680.

William Love was Alderman of Portsoken Ward from 7 Jan., 1659, till discharged by the Commissioners for carrying out the Cor- poration Act in May, 1662 ; had been Sheriff of London 1659-60 ; was first elected M.P. for London in 1661, and returned to every Parliament of Charles II. ; was re- elected in 1689 to the Convention Parliament of William and Mary ; dying about April of that year, at the age of about 68. I have failed to ascertain his parentage or anything further about him beyond the name of his wife. He married lie. Fac. Office, 1 Feb., 1650/51 Elizabeth, fourth daughter of Sir John Burgoyne, first baronet of Sutton, co. Bedford. Further information about him will be acceptable. W. D. PINK.

Lowton, Ne\vton-le- Willows.

There is some interesting information respecting Sir William Thompson (or Tomp- son) and William Love in the Journals of the House of Commons. On 13 May, 1661 (not 10 May, when the business was purely formal), an order was made that the members should receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper at St. Margaret's on Sunday, 26 May. On 3 July report was made that twenty-one named members had not complied with the order. Of these Mr. Hamden, Mr. Henly, Mr. Love, Mr. Radcliff., and Sir William ^Tompson were in their places and made their excuses. All except Love were allowed till the following Monday to communicate. " But, as to the said Mr. Love, this House being much unsatisfied both with the Matter and Manner of his Excuse," he was suspended from sitting until he had communicated. He was evi- dently in no hurry to conform, for on 5 March, 1663, it was resolved that a month's time be given him to receive the sacrament (Commons' Journals, viii. 247, 289, 444). There are no further entries relating to the subject, so that it is impossible to say whether Love ^ver took his seat. It is clear that he was not expelled, as in that case a new election would have been necessary.

It is not, I think, difficult to see how the mistaken form " Tenison " has arisen. People were not very particular about

spelling in those days, and just as we have " Thompson " in the Blue-book and " Tomp- son " in the Journal, so no doubt Sir Stephen Charlton wrote " Tomson," which has been wrongly transcribed as " Tenison."

F. W. READ.

"FELIX OPPORTUNITATE MORTIS " (11 S.

xii. 10). From Tacitus's ' Life of Agricola,' xlv. 3. The beginning of the next chapter, " Si quis piorum manibus locus," &c., has been introduced by Swinburne in his lines on J. W. InchboldC Poems and Ballads,' Third Series),

Whatever heaven, if heaven at all may be, Await the sacred souls of good men dead, &c.

EDWARD BENSLY.

"Felix opportuiiitate mortis" is said by Tacitus of Agricola : " Tu vero felix, Agricola, non vitae tantum claritate, sed etiam op- portunitate mortis " (' Agricola,' xlv). It is perhaps founded on a somewhat similar sentence of Cicero, applied by him to Crassus the orator (' De Orators,' III. iii. 12).

ACCA WALKER. [MR. R. A. POTTS also thanked for reply.]

WOOLMER OR WOLMER FAMILY (11 S. xi.

208, 269, 349). The pictures of the Rev. J. Woolmer and Mrs. Joseph Woolmer now in MR. LANE'S possession were most probably the property of Mr. Shirley Foster Woolmer of Brighton, barrister-at-law. After the death of his daughter. Lady Bowyer, they were sold out of the family.

Joseph Woolmer of Keynsham (?) and Exeter, born 1716, who married Elizabeth Hubbard, was the son of the first Shirley Woolmer, and grandson of Benjamin Woolmer of Stratford-on-Avon, born 1659, who married in 1687, at the Church of St. Laurence Pountney, London, Elizabeth Shirley.

The sons of Joseph Woolmer and Elizabeth were Shirley, who married Susanna Gattey ; Joseph, who married Catherine Leakey, and who was father to Shirley Foster Woolmer ; Samuel, who married Jare, daughter of Dr. Gray of Kingsand, and who was my grandfather ; and William, father of Alfred Woolmer, R.B.A., the well-known painter, who died in 1892.

The late Rev. C. E. Shirley Woolmer, mentioned at the second reference, was grandson of the first Exeter Shirley Woolmer, and father of the present Mr. Shirley Worth- ington Woolmer mentioned by MR. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

In a letter in my possession from the Rev. C. E. Shirley Woolmer I read : " There were