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12 Eight public libraries are named on p. 496 of my 'Bibliography' where copies of the 1632 edition can be consulted.

Referring to the number of existing copies. It is not for me to say whether a census of known exemplars would repay the time and trouble necessary to compile it, but a hint as to the probable number is to be found in the quantity appearing on the market.

The first edition of 1623 probably consisted of 500 copies, of which about half are certainly known to survive. Of these 250 copies, exactly one-fifth appeared at auction in the twenty years 1886-1906.

The second edition of 1632 doubtless consisted of 1,000 copies, of which probably half survive, for in the same twenty years 1886-1906 there appeared at auction 111 copies.

HISTORY OF CHURCHES IN SITU (11 S. vi. 428, 517; vii. 55, 155, 231, 298, 377). St. Peter's Church, Droitwich. A good Church Guide is published, price 3d., and is sold in the porch. It is written by the Vicar, Rey. E. H. B. Price. It contains four good illustrations, including one of the interesting monument, of 1616, of Sergeant George Wylde, recumbent, in robes and coif. The pamphlet gives a good description of this curious composite building, with its sixteenth- century half timber additions. The early tiles, carefully preserved round the font and in the vestry, probably from the Droitwich or Malvern kilns, are noted ; these resemble closely those preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, and I have recently preserved similar tiles discovered in the foundations in the restoration of an old house near Droitwich.

This Church Guide has run into a second edition. I regret to see that the editor has now dropped the pleasing reference to the tombstone of Capt. Samuel Evans, of the 89th Foot, who died in 1829. On this tombstone some kindly friend, evidently with the leanings of an historian, caused a later inscription to be engraved : " Whose name is associated with the double murder at Oddingley." From my copy of the scarce pamphlet of 1830, published by T. Eaton, this remarkable tragedy, commencing with the murder of the Rector of Oddingley, Rev. George Parker, and ending with the killing of the murderer, Richard Hemming, by his associates, occurred in June, 1806. Hemming's skeleton was found in a barn in Oddingley on 21 Jan., 1830.

W. H. QUARRELL.

ST. GEORGE'S, HANOVER SQUARE : ELY CHAPEL (11 S. vii. 428). Licences for marriages which took place at St. George's, Hanover Square, at any time between 1754 and 1812, must have been issued from one of the three following offices, and may be- seen there :

Faculty Office, Knightrider Street.

Vicar- General's Registry, Creed Lane.

Bishop of London's Registry, Dean's Court.

With regard to the registers of the old Ely Chapel, they have been printed with ' Ely Episcopal Records,' published by A. Gibbons. IVY C. WOODS,

Librarian-IS ecretary.

Society of Genealogists, 227, Strand, W.C.

It is quite possible that Mr. C. Maisey, clerk, St. George's Church Vestry, Maddox Street, W., may be able to supply the in- formation required by MR. L. E. MORIARTY for his first inquiry. CECIL CLARKE.

LONGFELLOW'S * COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH ' : COPYRIGHT LAW (11 S. vii. 389). My copy of the " Author's Pro- tected Edition " (5th ed.), published by W.. Kent & Co. (late D. Bogue), in 1859 does not contain the notice mentioned by Civis. I presume, therefore, it only re- ferred to the first edition.

STATUE IN QUEEN SQUARE, BLOOMSBURY (US. vii. 425). This statue is fully dealt with in the L.C.C. ' Return of Outdoor Memorials in London ' (1910). It is indexed under " Queen Charlotte (?)," and extracts from contemporary newspapers, &c., are cited as evidence. The writer (Sir Laurence Gomme) then proceeds :

"\Vriting at about that time (1775), Walter Harrison, in describing Queen Square, states that at the north end of it is a very handsome statue of tier present majesty, Queen Charlotte.' There seems, lowever, to be some reason for doubting whether the statue then erected is identical with that at Dresent standing in the square. The features of of Queen Charlotte, and the style of dress is hardly compatible with the assumption that the latter ia represented. Moreover, when recording the erec- tion of Queen Charlotte's statue in 1775, the Morn- ng Post and Daily Advertiser mentions that under- neath ' is the following inscription : Virtuti* Decus ft Tntamen? There is, however, no trace of such an inscription on the present pedestal. It would therefore seem necessary to take into account th& possibility that Queen Charlotte's statue has been- removed, and some other substituted. Whom iti& supposed to represent is uncertain ; perhaps Anne v though thfe name of Mary II. has been suggested."
 * he statue in no way resemble any of the portraits

JOHN T. PAGE.

[MR. WILMOT CORFIELD also thanked for reply.}