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he joined the Dominican Order. Fr. Persons, writing 1 Dec., 1598, of the year 1595, says :

" At this same time the unruly Fryar Sacheverell, the boldest and most violent actour of all the reste to the Pope, Cai'dinals and other great menn for the seditiouse in Rome, was taken him- selfe in Gods iuste iudgmente in vitiouse deamean- oure, and being for the same firste put in prison by the secular magistrate and afterwardes punished also by the religiouse of his owne order in Rome ; and then confined for his further Prison and punishmente to the Cittie of Vitterbo ; hee fledd from thence in Englande and is now an Apostata.' ' Catholic Record Society, ii. 208.

On 1 March, 1596/7, Sir Richard Fiennes, Sacheverell's uncle, writes to Sir Robert Cecil :

" I send you the knowledge of John Sacheverel of things done only since September last ; and if herein, as also in renouncing popery, he become not a loyal subject as his brother is, who is a most religious preacher in Leicester, unto whom he desireth to go although he be my near kinsman, I Avill be no suitor for him." ' Cal. Cecil MSS.,' vii. 87.

This brother must "be Thomas, who had resigned his New College Fellowship in 1590, on his marriage with Mary, daughter of Alderman Robert Herrick of Leicester. Sir Richard Fiennes in the same letter makes mention of Sacheverell's brother-in- law Stringer. This was Henry Stringer of London, who had married Margaret Sache- verell, and was by her . the father of the Henry Stringer, who entered Winchester College in 1603 and 1605 respectively.
 * ' Consanguinei Fundatoris " Robert and

I know I have read somewhere, though I cannot now find the reference, that John Sacheverell married and obtained a benefice in Hampshire, wiiere he quarrelled with the Bishop of Winchester.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

FIRST COLOURED MAN AS ENGLISH MAYOR. There should be a record in ' N. & Q.' that on the 10th of this month Mr. J. R. Archer, a " man of colour," was elected Mayor of Battersea by thirty votes to twenty- nine. This is the first instance of a man of colour being elected to serve as Mayor of an English borough. Mr. Archer had been twice elected to the Borough Council, and twice to the Board of Guardians. In his address to the Council he related that he was born in Liverpool, and was the son of a man born in the West Indies, his mother being an Irishwoman. He said :

'' His election meant a new era. For the first time in the history of the English nation, a man of colour had been elected Mayor of an English borough. Tnat would go forth to the nations of

colour -" A. N. Q.

' THE CANADIAN BOAT SONG.' Is the correct rendering of this poem never to come into its own ? Norman Macleod mis- quoted it in Good Words ; Stevenson mis- quoted it in ' The Silverado Squatters ' ; William Black also in ' Craig Royston ' ; Mr. J. Chamberlain in a speech at Inver- ness in 1885; Sir Henry Lucy in The Corn- hill (December, 1909); and many others. On 3 Nov. inst. it was printed in The Daily Chronicle with the incorrect fourth stanza about " fortified keeps " and " degenerate lords," just as it had appeared in Blackwood (September, 1829). This reading of the fourth stanza is not in order. The original version is : When the bold kindred, in the time long vanish'd

Gather'd on many a Scottish battle-field. No seer foretold the children would be banish'd,

Proscrib'd the tartan plaid and studdied shield : Pair these broad meads, these hoary woods are

grand. But we are exiles from our fathers' land.

LONE SHIELING.

[See also the numerous contributions at 9 S vii. 368, 512; ix. 483; x. 64; xi. 57, 134, 198; xii.364; 10S.i.l45.]

CABLYLE QUOTATION. " The eye sees only what it brings the means of seeing." I have always understood this was a quotation from Carlyle or Goethe, but until recently I have never been able to trace it. It is not in the text of Carlyle's work, but a mere note in the summary of his review of Varn- hagen von Ense's ' Memoirs ' ; see p. 241 of ' Miscellaneous Essays,' vol. vi. I send this as it may be worth noting in ' N. & Q.' Lucis.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct..

SEVENTEENTH - CENTURY SCHOOL- BOOKS.

I AM in hopes that some readers of ' N. & Q.' may be able to help me to identify some seventeenth-century schoolbooks, of which the short titles are contained in a list of books which were at Sedbergh School with some ''of the younger sons of Sir Daniel Fleming towards the end of the seventeenth century. The list is extant among the Rydal Papers in three different versions, which are severally dated 10 Jan., 1690/1, 23 Jan., 1692/3, and 2 Dec., 1693, and the variations in the versions, which are sub- stantially identical, have been occasionally