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.as they are often represented fawning on thei mistresses, as at Harpham, Yorks, 1418 ; Arundel Sussex, 1430 ; Bigbury, Devon, c. 1460 ; Raven ingham, Norfolk, 1483 ; and two instances hav been noticed in which the name has been added ' Terri,' at Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, 1400 and ' iakke",' on a fine brass formerly at Ingham Norfolk, 1438. A dog, on which rest the fee of a sculptured effigy of one of the Reynes family .at Clifton Reynes, Bucks, bears its name ' Bo on its collar, the date probably being the end o the fourteenth century. Perhaps these examples may explain the reason of the introduction of horses' heads at the feet of effigies of knights at Minster, Isle of Sheppey, and at Exeter Cathedral.

" Lions are rarely found at the feet of eccle jsiastics, civilians, or ladies ; instances of each respectively may be seen at Herne, c. 1450 Graveney, 1436, Kent ; Childrey, Berks, 1444.

" Crests and badges within wreaths on the helmets beneath the head of knights are common They are occasionally placed beneath the feet . e.g., a bear muzzled, Iselham, Cambridge, 1451 ; an elephant, Tong, Salop, 1467 ; a whelk, Wollaton, Notts, 1467(?) ; a boar, Sawley, Derbyshire, 1467, 1478 ; an elftphant and castle Wivenhoe, Essex, 1507, &c."

To these instances many might be added from stone and wooden effigies. For ex- ample, the wooden effigy of Sir Robert du Bois (ob. 1311) at Fersfield, Norfolk, has at the feet a spotted buck, the knight's crest. At Brancepeth, co. Durham, the wooden effigy of Ralph Neville, second Earl of West- morland, has at the feet a collared dog, and beneath the head a helmet surmounted by the bull's-head crest. His countess, Margaret Cobham, has two small dogs at her feet.

A. R. BAYLEY.

In the church of Acton Burnell,Vnear Watling Street, Shropshire, there is a monu- ment erected in 1591 to the memory of Sir Richard Lee, Kt. Beside his effigy lies a gauntlet, inside which a small dog is repre- sented. L. G. R.

Reform Club.

In Gloucester Cathedral there is a re- cumbent figure of Edward II., the feet of which rest on what appeared to me to be a wolf. N. W. HILL.

New York.

ABEBDONIAN will find a short explanation of the use of animals on tombs in F. E. Hulrne's ' Symbolism in Christian Art,' 1891, p. 176. IDA' M. ROPEK.

4 HAMLET' TN 1585 (US. iii. 267). The older and lost play of Hamlet ' or Hamblet' (upon which Shakespeare pro- bably founded his immortal tragedy) is re-

ferred to by Thomas Nashe in his ' Epistle to the Gentlemen Students of both Universities ' attached to Greene' s " Menaphon,' 1589. The sentence runs : " He will afford you whole Hamlets; I should say, handfulls of tragical speaches."

In Henslowe's Diary, under date 9 June, 1594, is recorded the fact that the Lord Chamberlain's company, which included Shakespeare, acted with the Lord High Admiral's men at Newington Butts, when Henslcwe took joint management, and in payment of his share of the proceeds " Re- ceived at [the performance of] 'Hamlet,' viii s r "

In Thomas Lodge's 'Wit's Miserie,' 1596, is this reference ;

" A foule lubber, and looks as pale as the visard of ye ghost which cried so miserably at ye theator like an oisterwife Hamlet, revenge I"-

A copy of the *' Hystorie of Hamblet, Imprinted by Richard Bradocke for Thomas Pauier, and are to be sold at his shop in Corn-hill, neere to the Royall Exchange, 1608," small quarto, black-letter, will be tound at Trinity College, Cambridge. It is a translation from the third * Histoire ' of Franois de Belief orest's collection, .\nd an account of it is worth reading in Farmer's Essay on the Learning of Shakespeare,' 1767, p. 59.

In conjunction with the foregoing should studied Henry Chettle's * Hoffman ; or, A Revenge for a Father,' 1631 (acted in 1602), reprinted by Lacy in 1852 : " Shake- speare's Hamlet. . . .with extracts from the old * Historic of Hamlet ' .... by John 3unter," 1865, 12mo, reprinted 1869, 1870, 1878 ; and above all, the appendix 2 vols. WILLIAM JAGGABD.
 * o Dr.Furness's variorum edition of 'Hamlet,'

S tratf o rd-on -Avon.

A play with this title was acted by the

ord Admiral's and Lord Chamberlain's

servants at the Newington Theatre on

June, 1594. This would be some two

ears prior to the date when Shakespeare

3 believed to have written his play of that

lame.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

A writer in the " Henry Irving Edition " >f Shakespeare's works, referring to the ntry in Henslowe's Diary on 9 June, 594, remarks :

" This seems to have been an old play Tfc> r lenslowe does not put the letters ne to it, as he Iways does in the case of new plays."

R. VAUGHAN GOWEB.