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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1913.

CONTENTS. No. 200.

NOTES : "The Freeman's Journal,' 321 Emanuel Sweden- borg's Manuscripts in Facsimile, 322 The Forged 'Speeches and Prayers 'of the Regicides, 324 Fire and New- Birth, 325 Will of Katherine, Countess of Warwick

\nglo-Irish Use of " Tuition "Sir Henry Gage, 326 "Vitremyte" Earliest English Newspapers Carnwath House, 327.

QUERIES : Braddock Statue of William III. at Hoghton

Godiva and Horse - Toll Bergamot Consecration Crosses near Piscinae -Smith Family in Royal Artillery, 328 -Ancient Religions Decoration of Military Order Colonial Governors Knight's Cap worn underneath Helmet Authors Wanted " Democcuana " Mount Krapak, 329 Acheson of Gosford " Better give a land- lord corn to feed his horse," &c. A Church Bell The Defenders of Clonmel Capt C. J. Moore Mansfield Me Funn Malcolm of Grange Alberic de Vere Henry Pettitt, 330 Folkestone Cross Portrait of Thomas Brad- bury Baddesley Clinton Hall, Warwickshire Age of Yew Trees English Regiments in Canada, 1837 Watts's Catechism, 331.

REPLIES : Seen through Glass: the Jewish Calendar, 331 Clockmakers in Bristol, 332 Almshouses near the Strand "Tramways" Checkendon The Milkwort in Literature Octagonal Meeting- Houses Sir John Platt, 333 "Men, women, and Herveys " " Trailbastpn " Ancient Wit and Humour Pictures of the Deity in Churches, 334 Irish Family Histories Roding or Roothing "Ask"=Tart Wreck of the Royal George, 335 - Quaritch MSS. Whistling Oyster 'The Bonny Brown Bowl' "Marriage" as Surname Heart -Burial in Church Walls Throwing a Hat into a House, 336 Gas as a Street- Name Mr. Dennis and 'The Conscious Lovers' "Transept" Ralph Beilby "The Five Wounds," 337 Markyate " Mister " as Surname, 338.

NOTES ON BOOKS: 'Anthony Trollope'' A Plea for the Study of the Classics '"The People's Books."

Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notices to Correspondents.

'THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL,' 1763-1913.

The Public Register, or Freeman's Journal, founded by Dr. Charles Lucas, appeared for the first time on the 10th of September, 1763 ; and its third jubilee was celebrated on the 27th of last month by the issue of a number containing many extra pages, giving its history and a summary of events from 1763 to the present day.

The original paper was only sixteen inches in length by ten in width, and it appeared twice a week at the price of one penny. The opening address declared it to be "of no Party, of no Sect, of no Faction what- ever." A vignette representing Hibernia, with the legend " A Wreath or a Rod," adorned the head-piece of the title-page, and the moral is emphasized in the first article : the Disloyal, the Injurers of Innocence ;
 * ' We bear the scourge alone for the Immoral,

for the enemies of Virtue, of Liberty, and of our Country."

The second number contained the pro- spectus of the enterprise, which sets forth explicitly the objects of its iounders in establishing a Free Press and appointing a committee of thirteen chosen from the sub- scribers to direct its affairs, three to form a quorum. Irish type and Irish paper were to be used.

The reason assigned for giving in the Jubilee number much detail as to the origin of the paper is " because the late Dr. R. R. Madden, in his ' History of Irish Periodical Literature,' has written, in a very superior tone, a very confused and confusing account of the origin of The Free- man's Journal." As a contrast to " the carping criticisms of Dr. Madden," the judgment of the late Sir John Gilbert is quoted : " The Freeman was incomparably superior to its Dublin contemporaries, and had the merit of being the first Irish news- paper which published original and independ- ent political essays."

The editor of the paper was Henry Brooke, a prolific writer of poems and plays. His tragedy ' The Earl of Essex ' has been long forgotten all but the one line

Who rule o'er freemen should themselves be free, which provoked Dr. Johnson's parody

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat. Brooke is best known for his novel * The Fool of Quality,' which appeared in 1766, and ran to many editions. It was reprinted in 1859 by Charles Kingsley, who said that, notwithstanding all the defects of the work, readers would learn from it " more of that which is pure, sacred, and eternal than from any book published since Spenser's ' Faerie Queene.' ' One of the youngest of his family of twenty- two children was Charlotte Brooke, whose ' Reliques of Irish Poetry ' " first revealed to the English colonists in Ireland that the aborigines had once pos- sessed a native literature of their own."

That The Freeman's Journal had attained the position of leader amongst the popular newspapers opposed to the Castle policy is evinced by the fact that Flood, Grattan, Sir Hercules Langrishe. and the other opponents of the Administration of Lord Townshend chose it in 1769 as the medium for the publication of their attacks upon that Viceroy.

" Under the disguise of a history of the affaii of Barataria, the Administration was fiercely assailed and remorselessly satirised. Flood's