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SHAKESPEARE ALLUSIONS. The following do not appear in the ' Shakspere Allusion- Book ' :

1. " From thence passing on to Black -fryers and seeing never a Play-bil on the Gate, no Coaches on the place, nor Doorkeeper at the Play-house door, with his Boxe like a Church- warden, desiring you to remember the poor Players, I cannot but say for Epilogue to all the Playes were evor acted there :

Poor House that in dayes of our Grand-sires, Belongst unto the Mendiant Fryers : And where so oft in our Fathers dayes We have seen so many of Shakspears Playes. So many of Johnson's Beaumonts. & Fletchers,

R. Fleckno, ' Miscellania,' 1653, p. 141.

2. More oi Venice. O but lago, when we think on thee,

Not to applaud thy vice of Flattery ;

Yet must that Part never in our thoughts dye,

Since thou did c t Act, not mean that Subtilty.

' An Egley [.vie) Upon the most Execrable

Murt her of M r Clun .... 1664,'

broadside, folio.

3. The " full-acorn' d boar" of ' Cym- beline,' II. v., appears in Lee's ' Princess of Cleve,' 1689, V. i. G. THORN-DRURY.

ST. MARK'S EVE : " WATCHING THE SUPPER."- In the extracts from The Hull Advertiser of 1796 printed ante, p. 245, is one referring to girls watching their supper on St. Mark's Eve. Old persons used to speak of this as a common practice in houses where there were several female servants. Supper was laid just before midnight, in the kitchen- place, the girls sitting away from the table. As the clock struck midnight " the shadow " of one or more of the girls' future husbands or sweethearts would come in, and sit down on one of the chairs. My mother had seen tables thus set out in the kitchen of her father's farmhouse about one hundred years ago. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

THE LETTERS OF JUNIUS : ANNOTATED FILE OF ' THE PUBLIC ADVERTISER.' Some years ago I purchased a set of The Public Advertiser for 1766-72, which I subse- quently handed over to the London Library. These volumes are of special interest to students interested in the Junian controversy, as their margins are annotated copiously by some one who has taken much trouble to investigate the mystery. Although I have not identified the handwriting, I take it to be that of John Wade or Dr. John Mason Good probably the latter.

By reference to these files one can perceive the methods adopted by the writer of these marginalia to identify the numerous letters

that Junius is supposed to have written under other pseudonyms ; and if an attempt is ever made in some new edition to eliminate the many apocryphal letters which Dr. Good introduced into his edition (as I trust it may be), these volumes will be of great help in such a work. For this reason I think the fact should be stated in ' N. & Q.' HORACE BLEACKLEY.

BISHOP FASTTDA AND FARMHOUSE BREAD. We have heard a great deal about whole- meal bread in London recently, so the good opinion of it uttered by the last metropolitan bishop of Londinium Augusta whose name has come down to us may prove interesting. Fastida or Fastidius, who filled the see in about A.D. 430, is writing ' De Vita Chris- tiana ' to a widow named Fatalis. He tells her, with spiritual intent, that no one can be really (satis) hungry who longs for bread that is clear and bright, when he has his ration of common bread (panis cibarius) before him. He gees on to say he hopes the bread he has will not be disliked, even though it seems to be panis rusticus. For country bread, he continues, though it looks rather coarse, has more body, and streng- thens and satisfies the fatigued and hungering stomach quicker, than that which is made of flour from winter wheat, and looks refined :

' Rusticus enim panis incultior uidetur esse, sed fortior et celerius esurientem stomachum satiat, fessum corroborat, quam qui siligineus uidetur et nitidus." Apud Migne, 'Patrolcgise Cursus/ tome 1., col. 384.

ALFRED ANSCOMBE. 30, Albany Road, Stroud Green, N.

RICHARD LELY. A little volume of mediocre verse, with a few translations from Horace and other ancient poets, has just come into the possession of the London Library, and has excited my interest. It is by one of the crowd of minor versifiers of the early eighteenth century, but it was the name of the author rather than the verses which attracted me. " Richard Lely, Esq.," the author of ' Poems and Translations on Several Occasions,' 1727 (there was an earlier edition in 1723), at once suggested Sir Peter Lely the artist, and there seems to be no doubt that the " poet " was the grandson of the painter. By piecing together various scattered bits of evidence we shall arrive at something like a convincing con- clusion.

Sir Peter Lely (who died in 1680) had a son and heir John Lely, of Kew Green and ~reetwell, co. Lincoln ; he married Anne,