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My copy of this bears no date, but a remark on p. 58 referring to 1824 as " this year " leads me to suppose that may have been the date of issue. Many of the descriptions of places are copied verbatim from its prede- cessor. JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

I have a copy of what is apparently the first edition of this book : " London, printed for J. Bew in Pater-noster Row, 1774." It is said to be " collected by a gentleman for his private amusement." It has no map, and consists of title, preface (one leaf), de- scription of London, Westminster, &c., and list of the Companies' Halls in London (pp. i xxiv, sheets b, c) ; the text follows, paged 1-223, with a last page of advertise- ments (sheets B-TJ, of which all but u are of 6 leaves each, u being only of 4). It is, therefore, what De Morgan (' Arithmetical Books ') says should be called a sexto, or a duodecimo printed on half -sheets.

J. F. R,

Godalming.

ST. PAUL AT VIRGIL'S TOMB (US. viii. 8). In e Thesaurus Hymnologicus,' by H. A. Daniel (Lipsise, 1855), torn. v. p. 266, I find the following :

" (Ad Maronis mausoleum. Fragment um Se- quentise de S. Paulo, Puteolos advecto.) Ad Maronis mausoleum Ductus fudit super eum Pise rorem lacrimae : Quantum, inquit, te fecissem Vivum si te invenissem Poetarum maxime.

Schlosser, Lieder der Kirche, I. p. 416 : Au s miindlicher Mittheilung meines seligen Bruder 8 vom Jahre 1812. Doch 1st dieser Vers und die Sequenz, welcher er angehoren soil, nirgends aufzufinden. Auch wurde mir auf mein Befragen dariiber die Existenz derselben im Jahre 1835 zu Neapel und zu Pozzuoli ausdrucklich in Frage gestellt. Die Aechtheit derselben ist daher auf alien Fall unerweislich.

" Fortasse stropha deprompta est ex ilia sequentia, quae Bettinellio teste (Del risorgi- mento d' Italia, torn. ii. p. 18, not.) per nonnulla medii aevi ssecula apud Mantuanos decantata est in honorem Virgilii."

A. R. BAYLEY.

The stanza beginning

Ad Maronis masoleum

is included in H. A. Daniel's ' Thesaurus Hymnologicus,' 1856, vol. v. p. 216, under the heading ' Fragmentum Sequential de S. Paulo, Puteolos advecto.' An extract is added from J. F. H. Schlosser, who, in his work * Die Kirche in ihren Liedern durch alle Jahrhunderte,' 1851, vol. i. p. 416, gives the lines as an oral communication

from a deceased brother in the year 1812. He says, however, that this verse and the " sequence " to which it was supposed to belong could not be discovered anywhere, and that his own inquiries at Naples and Pozzuoli in 1835 met with sceptical replies. Daniel refers also to Saverio Bettinelli, ' Del Risorgimento d' Italia negli studi, nelle arti e nei costumi dopo il mille,' 1819, part i. vol. ii. p. 18, where we are told that " E scritto in unCodice Estense da Giovanni Francesco Piccinardi Cremonense," and that the lines in question were part of a sequence in the mass of St. Paul. I find the same statement in the 1775- edition of Bettinelli's work. Comparetti, ' Virgilio nel Medio Evo,' i. 132, says that the lines were sung in the mass of St. Paul at Mantua up to the end of the fifteenth century. He refers to La> Villemarque, ' La Legende Celtique ' (1864), 202 sqq., for a story of St. Cadoc's pity and prayers for the pagan Virgil. This story is not found in the ' Vita Cadoci ' in W. J. Rees's ' Lives of Cambro - British Saints,' Welsh MSS. Society, Llandovery, 1853, to which Comparetti reifers. The absurd Kees for Eees is repeated in the English transla- tion of Comparetti 's book.

EDWARD BENSLY.

ATTAINTING ROYAL BLOOD (US. vii. 469 ; viii. 35). There seems no doubt that a Parliament could have removed the attain - ture from Clarence's son if Richard had at any time thought fit to propose the re- moval, or if Richard had died without issue, and not in battle against the second con- queror of England. The close confinement of Warwick and the nomination of the young Earl of Lincoln as heir to the throne both seem very doubtful after w*hat Sir Clements Markham says in his ' Life of Richard III. 1 :

" King Richard, after the death of his own soil* declared his nephew Edward, Earl of Warwick, son of his brother Clarence, to be heir to the throne. It was no doubt intended to reverse the attainder in due time. Meanwhile young War- wick was given precedence before all other peers. He resided sometimes at Sheriff Hutton, some- times with his aunt, as a member of the King's household.

" It is asserted by Rous that the King changed his mind soon afterwards, and declared his nephew the Earl of Lincoln [son of Richard's sister Elizabeth, Duchess of Suffolk] to be his heir, closely imprisoning young Warwick. Rous was a dishonest and unscrupulous writer, and this particular statement is disproved by docu- mentary evidence. For on May 13, 1485, the Mayor and Corporation of York determined to address a letter to the Lords of Warwick and Lincoln and other of the Council at Sheriff Hutton. The precedence here given to young Warwick above Lincoln, and the fact of his being addressed