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mother, according to the ' D.N.B.' ; and the ' D.N.B.' is supported by the dates involved. If William did marry, his wife cannot have belonged to the house of Aumale (Albemarle).

Any corrections or suggestions would be gratefully received. G. H. WHITE.

St. Cross, Harleston, Norfolk.

THE THREE HEAVENS (11 S. iv. 48, 158). The terms " CsBlum aerium," " Cselum astriferum," and " Caelum beatorum " were certainly not devised by Thomas Brooks, as was suggested at the latter reference. This triple division is very common and of great antiquity.

" From these passages it appears, that the Hebrews acknowledged three heavens : (1) the aerial heaven. .. .(2) the heaven or firmament, wherein the stars are disposed ; (3) the heaven of heavens, or the third heaven, which is the place of God's residence, the dwelling of angels and the blessed." Cruden's ' Concordance,' under ' Heaven.'

" Fit autem in sacris litteris mentio trium caelorum, aeris, caelestium orbium, & beatorum sedium." Langius, ' Polyanthea,' s. ' Caelum,' ed.'1659, p. 523.

" Quod vero tertium caelum dicat apostolus* ex scriptura discendum est, quae tres tantum caelos agnoscit : Primum, nobis proximum, id estaerium. . . .Secundumstellarum. . . .Tertium caelum est, quod Theologi empyreum yocant, sedes beatorum. .. .Tradit hanc triplicis caeli distinctionem Joannes Damascenus libro 2. de fide orthodoxa capite 6. licet empyraeum etiam non nominet." Gruillelmus Estius, note on 2 Cor. xii. 2 in his ' Comment, ad Epist.,' vol. i., Paris, 1661, p. 520.

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Rapt to the threefold loft of heauens height.

Hall, ' Virgid.,' I. iii. 14.

EDWARD BENSLY.

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

' THE CITY NIGHT-CAP ' : ' PLUTUS '(US. viii. 170). 'The City Night -Cap ' was written by Robert Davenport. Its full title is :

" The City-Night-Cap ; or, Crede quod habes, et habes. A Tragi-Comedy. By Robert Daven- port. As it was acted with great Applause, by Her Majesties Servants, at the Phcenix in Drury Lane. Ja: Cottrel for Samuel Speed. 1661." Davenport flourished about 1623, and this play was licensed as early as 1624. It is reprinted in Collier's edition of ' Dodsley's Plays.'

' Plutus ' is no doubt Thomas Ran- dolph's translation of Aristophanes' s ' Plu- tus.' This was issued in 1651, and entitled :

" A Pleasant Comedie, entituled Hey for Honesty. Down with Knavery. Translated out of Aristophanes his Plutus. By Tho. Randolph. Augmented and Published by F. J. London. Printed in the year 1651."

" F. J." was Francis Jaques.

The bookseller referred to was Francis Kirkman, who in 1661 had the shop known as " John Fletcher's Head," " over against the Angel Inn, on the back side of St. Cle- ments, without Temple Bar." He was afterwards at the " Prince's Arms," Chancery Lane, " under St. Ethelborough's Church in Bishopsgate Street," and other places. He was the eldest son of Francis Kirkman, citizen and blacksmith of London. In 1656 he set up as a bookseller, but, " having knaves to deal with," he abandoned book- selling for a time, and became a scrivener. From his boyhood he had been a collector of plays, and he soon returned to the busi- ness of bookselling, and in 1661 issued the list to which MB. W. NORMAN refers. In 1671 he issued an amplified list. The first list contains 690 plays, and the second one 806. In one of his publications Kirkman says :

" It was not long since I was only a book reader and not a bookseller, which quality I have now lately taken on me. It hath been my fancy and delight (ere since I knew anything) to converse with Books ; and the pleasure I have taken in those of this nature [viz. plays] hath bin so extraordinary, that it hath bin much to my cost ; for I have been (as we term it) a Gatherer of Plays for some years, and I am confident I have more of several sorts than any man in England, bookseller, or other ; I can at any time shew 700 in number, which is within a small matter all that were ever printed. Many of these I have several times over, and intend as I sell to purchase more ; all or any t of which I shall be ready to sell or lend to you upon reasonable considerations."

See Walter Wilson Greg's ' Introductory Essay ' to his ' List of Masques,' &c. (1902), Plomer's ' Dictionary of Booksellers, 1641- 1667 ' (1907), Arber's ' Term Catalogues/ and ' D.N.B.' A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187, Piccadilly, W.

CHOIR BALANCE : ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR (US. viii. 168). When I became a chorister of St. George's in 1859 there were ten boys and eleven lay clerks. In 1860 the boys were increased to twelve, and so they remained till I left in 1866. Later on, I believe, they were increased to either fourteen or sixteen, but not beyond that number till after my schoolmaster retired at Lady Day, 1892. Until then no fees