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provided in order that no miner should sell his ore without having previously had it measured by the barmaster's dish and paid the king's duties. The original " brazen dish," taken as the standard, was dated 1513. WALTER W. SKEAT.

James Mander in his ' Derbyshire Miners' Glossary ' (Bakewell, 1824, 8vo), gives the following under the word boles, from which it would seem possible that the word may have meant bowl rather than bulla :

" Boles were places where the miners smelted or run their ore before the invention of mills and furnaces. A bole was a round cavity made on the top of a high hill that had a westerly exposure, and filled with ore and wood, which, being kindled, was blown by the wind ; and they generally lighted them when the west wind blew, which the miners preferred for its constancy."

The "definition of 1670" alluded to is apparently that quoted in the ' N.E.D.' The second quotation given in the ' Dic- tionary ' is not mentioned in Miss E. LEGA- WEEKES'S note, but runs as follows, and it seems to be opposed to the bulla idea :

"1785, ArchcKologia, VII. 170 (D). There was a

bole where in ancient times miners used to

smelt their lead ores."

Mander' s definition would incline one to the belief that the bole was a bowl-shaped cavity for smelting. JOHN HODGKIN.

[MR. HOLDEX MAC MICHAEL also thanked for reply-1

REV. THOMAS DELAFIELD'S MANUSCRIPTS (11 S. iii. 347). The manuscripts on sale by Hayes of Manchester were on Suffragan Bishops, Stoichologia, Greek and Latin Writers on Immortality, Use of Beads in Worship, Account of the Regicides who signed the Death -Warrant of Charles I., on Medicine, on Earthquakes, and Copy of a Letter from Arthur Bedford to the Bishop of Salisbury on Spirit - raising, 2 August, 1703.

There is a notice of Thomas Delafield in Ellis' s ' Account of Great Milton,' 1819.

W. C. B.

FRANCIS FAMILY (US. iii. 348). ' Notes on the Surname of Francis,' in all its forms, were printed at Boston, U.S.A., by A. D. Weld French, in 1893. The same gentleman in 1896 privately printed in a volume of 594 pages extracts from English county records, collections relative to persons with the names of Francus, Franceis, and French, from A.D. 1100 to 1350. They are arranged under the headings of the various counties, but without any classification.

W. D. MACRAY.

DRAWING THE ORGAN : COPES (11 S. iii. 349). It seems clear enough that the parish owned certain copes, the use of which had been discontinued, and that they sold them to Richard Vyvyan, who was to pay for them by instalments, as stated. There was not the same prejudice against copes as there was against chasubles and other Mass vestments, perhaps not much more than there was against surplices. Even Peter Smart, the Puritan Prebendary of Durham, did not press any objection to what he regarded as " decent " copes.

J. T. F.

Durham.

'BRITONS, STRIKE HOME!' (11 S. iii. 367.) Britons, strike home, revenge your country's

wrongs ! Fight, and record yourselves in Druids' songs !

These words are from 'Bonduca; or, The British Heroine, a Tragedy acted at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesty's Servants. With a new entertainment of musick, vocal and instrumental.' The libretto, pub- lished in 1696, notifies the fact that it was founded on Fletcher's play by George Powell. The music for the performance was the composition of Henry Purcell, who died soon after he had finished it in 1695. The score contains some of the best music he ever wrote. The above lines were sung as a solo by the Chief Druid, and repeated in chorus by the British soldiers.

WILLIAM H. CUMMINGS.

SHAKESPEARE : TALLIS & Co.'s EDITION (11 S. iii. 367). Shortly before 1850 J. O. Halliwell decided to publish a purely American edition of our national poet perhaps through the agency of Tallis & Co., as they became possessed in some way of his editorial matter. They appear to have broken faith with Halliwell, and used his notes for an English edition, published in 1850 in 3 vols. 4to, one volume of which (Comedies) your correspondent describes. This edition was edited anonymously by Henry Tyrrell, and the use of Halliwell's name and matter was entirely unsanctioned. (For fuller account see my ' Shakespeare Bibliography,' pp. 527-8, *530, and 531.) Notwithstanding Halliwell's protest, Messrs. Tallis repeated the offence in a second impression, in 52 serial parts, 1850-53 (forming 4 vols. 4to), and in a third undated impression (1853), also forming 4 vols. 4to, which bore the imprint of the London Printing and Publishing Company.

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