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but if not, who was the donor, and who was his friend Edward Bratt ? It has occurred to me that the first two volumes may have been published before the other two, early in 1774, but, it being foreseen that the work could not be completed until 1775, they were postdated. As the two inscrip- tions do not exactly correspond, the two volumes were not probably issued together. If this hypothesis be correct, the books may have been sent, and inscribed by the publisher, at the donor's request.

Unfortunately, no entry of this edition of Chaucer is to be found in the Register of the Stationers' Company, so the actual date of publication cannot be ascertained ; but the work was noticed in Gent. Mag. for March, 1775. Can any of your readers help me to clear up these points ?

J. S. ATTWOOD.

Reading.

MONTAGU GERHARD DRAKE was admitted on the foundation at Westminster School in 1725, and died young. He is described in the parentelce of that year as the son of William Drake, " Abberburiae," co. Oxford. I should be glad to obtain further particulars of his parentage, and the date of his death.

G. F. R. B.

RICHARD HEYLIN was elected from West- minster School to Christ Church, Oxford, in 1644. I should be glad to ascertain anything about him. In the last edition of Welch's ' Alumni Westmonasterienses ' he is erroneously identified with Richard Heylin, Canon of Christ Church, who died 26 April, 1669, aged 72. G. F. R. B.

WILLIAM JOSEPH LOCKWOOD is stated in ' Burke' s Landed Gentry ' to have been " shot blind by the mob at Westminster School," where he was admitted 1 Feb., 1773. Where can any account of this occurrence be found ? I should be glad also to obtain the respective dates of his birth and death. G. F. R. B.

THOMAS CORYAT AND WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. What ground has Mr. John W. Cousin for saying in * A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature ' (" Every- man's Library," 1910) that Coryat (1577- 1617) was educated at Westminster and Oxford ? The ' D.N.B.' and the * Pub- lishers' Note ' to ' Coryat's Crudities ' (MacLehose & Son, 1905) both state that he entered Gloucester Hall, Oxford, in 1596, but are silent as to his earlier education.

URLLAD.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Captives of his (or my) bow and spear.

(Rev.) S. SLADEN. 63, Ridgmount Gardens, W.C.

" The penalty of not taking an interest in the Government you are under is to live under the government of bad men."

Quoted in 'The Citizen's Handbook,'

prepared by a Committee of the Enfield Public Welfare Association.

T. F. HUSBAND.

" TEETOTAL " : EARLY USE. (See 8 S. xi. 384; xii. 74, 154.) Mr. F. W. Cornish writes in his * English Church in the Nine- teenth Century' (1910: at II. v. 97):

" In February, 1830, the ' Bradford Society for Promoting Temperance,' the first society to which the name ' Teetotal ' (i.e. ' total ') was given, was founded by Henry Forbes."

Can information be given as to when Dicky Turner's word migrated to Yorkshire in this way ? Q. V.

HACKNEY AND TOM HOOD. In a very amusing letter of Tom Hood's (quoted in Walter Jerrold's biography), the poet describes his adventures in Hackney. He had been invited to a ball, and just when (as he humorously parodies Sir Walter, I think)

Hackney had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry all bright, And there were well-dressed women and brave men,

a chimneystack was blown down and hurled through the house, which stood close to a private asylum. Can any one identify the persons and the locality for us ? Who was proprietor of the madhouse ?

M. L. R. BRESLAR. Percy House, South Hackney.

Miss PASTRANA. In a foreign dealer's recent catalogue I find this once famous lady described as " Miss Julia Pastrana, the well-known bearded Mexican danseuse. Middle of last century." Were there two ladies of that name and fame ? I dis- tinctly remember having seen as a small boy an exceedingly ugly, monkey-like creature, but she performed in a circus on a regula- tion " paste-board " strapped on the back of the usual plump grey cob, and jumped through hoops, over ribbons, &c.

L. L. K.

LADY ELIZABETH PRESTON, FIRST DUCHESS OF ORMONDE. I should be grateful for information of any existing portrait of this lady, who is frequently mentioned by