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of the neighbouring Daventry, which they suppose to be built by them. The road hereabouts, too, being overgrown with Dane- weed, they fancy it sprang from the blood of Danes slain in battle ; and that, if upon a certain day iii the year you cut it, it bleeds." Vol. ii. p. 362.

There is a full account of the tradition in The Gardeners' Chronicle, 1875, p. 515. See also Prior and Britten, s.v.v. Dane wort, Dane weed ; Aubrey's ' Natural History of Wilts,' p. 50 ; ' Natural History and Anti- quities of Surrey,' iv. 217, cited in ' Flowers and Flower Lore,' by the Rev. Hilderie Friend. 1884. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. 4, Hurlingham Court, S.W.

[G. F. R. B. also thanked for reply.]

HIGH STEWARDS AND RECORDERS AT THE RESTORATION (US. ii. 488). Sir Orlando Bridgeman was Lord Keeper of the Great Seal 1667-72, during which time there was no one with the title of Lord Chancellor.

Lord Campbell in the introduction to his ' Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England,' 1845, vol. i. p. 20, cites 5 Eliz. c. 18, which declares that " the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal for the time being shall have the same place, pre-eminence, and jurisdiction as the Lord Chancellor of England."

He continues :

" Since then there of course never have been a Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal concur- rently, and the only difference between the two titles is, that the one is more sounding than the other, and is regarded as a higher mark of royal favour."

Will MRS. SUCKLING give her reference for the statement that Roger Gollop was M.P. for Southampton in 1659, and say whether Southampton means the county or the borough ? There is no Roger Gollop in the Index of the Official (Blue-book) Return of Members of Parliament. This does not prove that there was no such member, as the seventeenth-century lists are not perfect. George Gollopp, or Gollop, or Gallopp, alderman, sat for Southampton borough in the Parliaments of 17 May, 1625 12 August, 1625 ; of 6 February, 1625/615 June, 1626 ; of 17 March, 1627/810 March, 1628/9 ; and of 1640 (Long Parliament).

In the Parliament of 13 April, 1640 5 May, 1640, Southampton borough was represented by Sir John Mill, Bt., and Thomas Levingstonne, Esq. In the next the Long Parliament one of the two mem- bers was George Gollopp (see above). In the next, 3 September, 1654 22 January, 1654/5, John Lisle, Esq., one of the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, and Re-

corder of Southampton, appears alone as member for the borough.

In the lists of the next three Parliaments, viz., of 1656, 1658/9, and 1660, the borough does not appear. It reappears in that of 1661 with two members.

In the list of the Parliament of 1658.9, which lasted less than three months, there were two members for Southampton county : one of unknown name ("Return torn"), the other Robert Wallopp, Esq., of Fare Wallopp, co. Southampton. About that time a Wallopp generally sat for the county. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

There was no Lord Chancellor in 1671. Clarendon surrendered the Great Seal on 30 August, 1667. It was given to Shaftes- bury on 17 November, 1672. During the intervening period Sir Orlando Bridgeman was Lord Keeper. EDWARD BENSLY.

A great deal of valuable matter relating to High Stewards will be found in Webb's ' English Local Government, vols. ii. iii.

ROLAND AUSTIN. Public Library, Gloucester.

[G. F. R. B., DIEGO, M., and MB. W. SCOTT also thanked for replies.]

DANTE, RUSKIN, AND A FONT (11 S. ii. 469). Dante says himself (' Inferno,' xix. 1920), when speaking of the punishment of the Simonists :

" I saw the livid stone, on the sides and on the bottom, full of holes, all of one breadth ; and each was round. Not less wide they seemed to me, nor larger, than those that are in my beauteous San Giovanni made for stands to the baptizers ; one of which, not many years ago, I broke to save one that was drowning in it :

L'un delli quali, ancor non e molt' anni, Rupp' io per uri che dentro ri annegava."

A. R. BAYLEY.

Miss SUMNER : MRS. SKRINE OR SKREENE (11 S. ii. 389, 475). I have a copy of the Chippendale book-plate of Wm. Brightwell Sumner of Hatchlands, East Clandon, Surrey, with a bequest label attached, " The Bequest of my Brother, the Rev d D r Rob Carey Sumner," which is enclosed in a floral wreath, c. 1770. The arms are : Ermines, two chevronels or, a crescent gu. for difference, impaling. . . .a stag trippant . . . .for Holme. Crest, a lion's head erased .... ducally gorged ....

There is another book-plate of this family, viz., a festoon armorial, c. 1780, for Geo. Holmne Sumner, armiger, of Hatchlands ; but I have not a copy of it.