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were a Dr. Heseltine and a Mr. Cook Dragonetti contributed his own biography (originally written in Italian), and so di J. F. Danneley. Materials were also sup plied for their own biographies by Thoma Forbes Walmisley, J. Davey, Greatorex C. Smith. Shield, W. Hawes, John Braham William Bennett, Thomas Bennett, Bellamy James Sanderson, F. Cramer, and A. F Kollmann ; and William Ayrton (editor o The Harmonicon) contributed a biography of his father, Dr. Edmund Ayrton. This however, did not prevent the editor o: The Harmonicon from subsequently taking action against the 'Dictionary' editor-pub lisher, who

" had in so barefaced a manner copied our pages verbatim et literatim, and appropriated, withoul the slightest acknowledgment, our labours to his own use."

There was also a statement in a portion oJ an edition that the then still -living Samue Wesley " died about the year 1815." But this was partly due to the confusion of names with another member of the same family.

" We may add [says The Harmonicon, vol. ii p. 211] that Mr. S. Wesley was somewhat un- grateful towards Messrs. Sainsbury ; for the article, though inaccurate in one particular, con- tained a very warm, and certainly, we do not deny, a very just eulogy, of the merits of that excellent musician."

ANDREW DE TERNANT. 36, Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W.

INSCRIPTIONS IN THE CHURCHYARD OF ST. JAMES'S, PICCADILLY: ANDRE WES (11 S. vii. 185, 224, 303, 324). In valuable notes like these by COL. PARRY I always regret that little or nothing is known of so many of the persons named. I am able to add a mite of information about the Rev. Gerrard Thomas Andre wes, Clerk in Orders, at St. James's (sixth in- scription). On the incumbency of St. James's becoming vacant in 1845 by the appoint- ment of the Rector, the Rev. J. G. Ward, to the Deanery of Lincoln, strenuous efforts were made to get Andrewes appointed rector, but the Bishop of London would not hear of it. See a pamphlet in the National Library entitled ' St. James's, Westminster : Proceedings of the Parishioners,' printed in 1846 (press-mark 4920 cc. 46 (8).

To show their appreciation of Andrewes. and as a consolation for his disappointment in not being made rector, the parishioners got up a subscription and gave him certain presents. On receipt of these Andrewes issued an illustrated engraved card of thanks ; one sent to my cousin, Miss Fanny

Rowland, as a subscriber probably the only one that has survived is dated 29 Jan.. 1847, and will be found preserved in the National Library copy of ' Notes about the Rowland, Mallett, and Netherclift Families,' &c., 1909.

The Gentleman's Magazine for August, 1851, p. 215. records the death in his fifty- seventh year of Gerrard Thomas Andrew r es, and he is in vol. iv. of Boase's * Modern English Biography.'

The Gentleman's Magazine says the par.'shioners

" presented him with a handsome bookcase and chair, Macklin's Bible, Boydell's Shakespeare, and a chronometer, the total cost of which was 5207."

Now, on the engraved card are represented an escritoire, three quarto volumes with " Milton " written on the back, the coat of arms of the Andrewes family with the motto " Fear God and be merry," seven folio volumes with " Shakespeare " on the back, and a very ornate easy chair.

It appears to me that these articles could never have cost 520Z. ; Andrewes must have been given a cheque as well.

As an instance of the value that is attached to inscriptions in churches, &c., I may men- tion that the Library Committee of the Cor- poration of the City of London are having a list made of every monument, tablet, or tombstone in the City churches. &c., together with emblazoned copies of all armorial bearings to be found on the monuments, in stained -glass windows, or on swordrests.

Up to the present time fifteen churches lave been completed, making 344 pp. of manuscript and 471 coats of arms. There will be an alphabetical index to the whole. RALPH THOMAS

" SLAV SCHOLAR " : " ENGLISH SCHOLAR " 11 S. viii. 249, 316). The ' N.E.D.' seems
 * o me to lend the weight of its authority to

he use of the term " English scholar " to describe an Englishman learned in his own anguage. Under ' English,' B. sb., it says :

" 1. The English language. First in the ad- erbial phrase, ]on (now in) English. Also in ihrase, the king's, the queen's English .... Also ttrib. as English scholar."

The Dictionary does not furnish a quota- ion for " English scholar," but, unless my memory deceives me, the term is used fairly ften in current criticism with reference to Englishmen who have made a study of heir own language and literature. J. R.