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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL S, 1911.

CONTENTS. No. 67.

NOTES : Gabriel Harvey's Letter-Book, 261 A Welsh Printing Society, 263 Black Hole of Calcutta: Henry Lushington " Long home "An Indian Aerial Post, 265 Colley Gibber's ' Apology ' " Anon " Genealogical Society of Great Britain Ananias as a Christian Name- Horses taken to Church" O.K. " : New Explanation, 266.

QUERIES : Cobbett at Kensington ' Nine Tailors of Tooley Street,' a Skit Mediaeval " Oberammergaus " Percival Banks Sir Richard Hotham : Mary H. Chol- mondeley Reynolds's Pocket-Books Man in the Iron Mask Dramatized Pitti Gallery Portrait ' Hamlet' in 1585 ' Pickwick ' Difficulties Spurgeon's Knowledge of Greek, 267 Samuel Rogers and Disraeli's Baptism Catherine Hyde John Bagnall Cambridge University Costume Plats T. Lea and Brandon, Duke of Suffolk - The Grange, Shropshire Pheasant Penny, 268 Tony Lumpkin and his Uncle Machyn's Diary City Lands : Ancient Tenure Rosamond Spong " Vexation gives understanding" Mansel Bransby W. Bressey A. Brett "Put a beggar on horseback "" Never swap horses when crossing the stream " " Skolpyne " Boothby Family Quarterings, 269.

REPLIES : Murder on Gad's Hill in 1661, 270 'A Voice from the Bush ' " When she was good " " Mouner," 271 Thomas Jenner of Ascot 'Guide for the Penitent' Roeites of Calverton J. Pigott : J. Power "Teapoy" : "Cellarette,"272 Long Barrows and Rectangular Earth- worksUnicorn on Royal Arms, 273 Authors Wanted 4 Renascence,' 274 H. M.S. Pactolus C. F. Henningsen and Kossuth Departed Hero and the Sun's Light "Probability is the very guide of life "Magpie's Death, 275 Stage History Capell= Warner Indexes Locorum 'Big Ben' Walker of Derry, 276 -Lady O'Looney's Epitaph' The Prick of Conscience 'Harvest Supersti- tions, 277 Macaulay's Allusions Last Mail Coach D'Israeli of Dublin-Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 278.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' The House of Lords during the Civil War 'Reviews and Magazines.

Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notices to Correspondents.

GABRIEL HARVEY'S LETTER-BOOK.

GABRIEL HARVEY'S ' Letter-Book ' (MS. Sloane 93) was edited for the Camden Society by Mr. E. J. L. Scott, and printed in 1884. Those who know the book will remember the curiously minute account which Harvey gives of the dishonourable pursuit of his sister Mercy by a young nobleman. The latter has not, I believe, hitherto been identified, though, as Mr. Scott remarked, there are materials for an identification. He is called " Milord A. S." (fo. 74 b) ; he signs a love-letter " Phil." (fo. 83) ; he has an aunt " Mieladie of W." (fo. 72 b) ; he is married ; and he is living about Christ- mas, 1574, within a few miles of Saffron Walden.

The person who satisfies these conditions is Philip Howard (b. 28 June, 1557), at that

time called by courtesy Lord Surrey, in spite of the attainder of his father, Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, in 1572. Through his mother, Lady Mary Fitzalan, he was heir to his grandfather, Henry, Earl of Arundel, whom he eventually succeeded in 1580. By a covenant made previously between Henry, Earl of Arundel, and Thomas, Duke of Norfolk (G. E. C.'s 'Peerage,' 1887, p. 153), it was provided that after Philip had become Duke of Norfolk, his son and heir apparent should be called " the Earl of Arundel and Surrey" (the former of these titles, as the older, having precedence). Although Philip in the lifetime of his grandfather, Lord Arundel, had no claim to be called anything more than Earl of Surrey, Harvey's " Milord A. S." no doubt is due to Philip's eventual right to the Earldom of Arundel. A sister of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, was Jane, wife of Charles Neville, Earl of Westmorland.

Philip was married at the age of 14, in 1571, to Anne, daughter of Thomas, Lord Dacre of Gillesland, stepdaughter to his father the Duke of Norfolk, who had taken as his third wife, in 1567, Lord Dacre' s widow. The Duke's second wife whom he married in 1558, and who died in 1563 was Margaret, sole heir of Thomas, Lord Audley of Walden. Through this marriage Audley House or Audley End* came to be the home of the Duke of Norfolk, though it belonged in fact to his eldest son by this second marriage, Thomas Howard, who was restored in blood as Lord Thomas Howard in 1584, and created Lord Howard de Walden in 1597, and Earl of Suffolk in 1603. I imagine that, even after the Duke of Nor- folk's death, his family continued to occupy Audley House, and that Philip, Lord Surrey, and his young wife were living there in 1574 with his stepmother (his wife's mother), and his stepbrothers and stepsisters by his father's second and third marriages.

Lord Surrey was perhaps already studying at Cambridge. The University conferred the degree of M.A. on him under special conditions in 1576 (see Cooper's ' Athenae,' ii. 188). There is a portrait of him after Zucchero in Lodge's ' Portraits.' Both he and his wife eventually became Roman Catholics, and their sufferings for their new faith are matter of history. That such a man should have played in his youth the part which the ' Letter-Book ' assigns him is at least curious.

not built till later.
 * The great house known as Audley End was