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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1911.

CONTENTS.-No. 77.

NOTES : The King's Champion, 461 Danteiana, 462 William Pitt, "Cornet of Horse," 463 " Shepster" Buckrose : Faircross The Burning of Moscow, 464 "Securitas est tutissimum bonum" The Liberty of Blackfriars "Bacon": "Hobby-horse" Cuckoo Rimes Novel with Three Titles, 465-Greek Churoh, Soho Apparition at Pirton 'The Compleat Angler*' Colour of Sheep Pigtails in the British Army, 466.

QUERIES : Royal Jubilees Forbes-Skellater Royal Society Rarities Crown Agents House of Commons Prayer Lamb's ' Rosamund Gray ' Halfacree St. Patrick : St. George D'Urfey and Allan Ramsay, 467 Authors Wanted "The Gag," "Guillotine," and " Kangaroo " in Parliament ' The Raignp of King Edward III.' : Falconry Envy, "eldest-born of Hell " Scales Family, 468 Jack Ketch Twins and Second Sight Moore of Bankhall Capt. T. Drury Rev. Christopher Stafford Joseph Paul. Surgeon, 469 -Sir Peter Wyche, 470.

REPLIES : Rags and Old Clothes left at Wells, 470 "Great George our King" Coronation Bibliography- Queen Victoria's Maternal Great- Grandmother, 471 Robert Rollo Gillespie at Vellore Sir J. Budd Phear Gower Family ' Edwin Drood ' - ' Britons, Strike Home ! ' Glass manufactured at Belfast, 472 Royal Exchange Paving -Blocks 'Churches of Yorkshire' Church Briefs Vestry held on Lady Day, 473 Authors Wanted' Hamlet ' in 1585 Birthdays and the Change of Calendar, 474 -Kitty Cuthbertson the Novelist -Copes- Bishops' Transcripts Fifield D'Assigny Da Costa, 475 - Spurgeon's Knowledge of Greek William Evatt " Rhubarb "Jeffreys and the Temple Organ Ainsworth the Lexicographer Bishopsgate Street Without, 476- Boole-lead Custom House Cutters Sir William Ashton, 477 James Shipdem Bee-Swarms Marriage of Divorced Persons" Welcome as the flowers in May" Archbishop Vesey Mew Family " Capping " at Universities, 478.

NOTES ON BOOKS:- 'Transactions of the Baptist His-

torical Society.' Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

THE KING'S CHAMPION.

THE CHAMPION'S glove has often been thrown down on our arena, where it has been almost hidden under a pile of unauthenticated gossip. See 5 S. v. 509 ; vii. 401 ; viii. 80, 134 ; x. 289, 454 ; 7 S. iii. 151, 235, 313 ; vii. 482 ; viii. 113, 175, 254 ; x. 391, 494 ; S S. xi. 349, 457 ; xii. 92 ; 9 S. ix. 503, 507; x. 58, 116; xii. 135, 254.

The following historic details deserve to be added to the record :

1429, St. Leonard's Day, 6 November, at the Coronation of Hbnry VI., at the first course of the dinner in Westminster Hall, " the kings of heralds in their coat armour, and their crowns on their heads," 'Jymmoke, that rode in the halle i-armyde clene as
 * ' weute by fore the'kyngys champyon Syr Phylyppe

Syn Jorge. And he proclayniyd in the iiij quarterys of the halle that the kynge was ryghtefulle ay re to the crowne of Ingelonde, and what maner man that wolde nay hyt, he was redy for to defende hyt as hys knyghte and hys champyon. Ande by that offyce he holdy the hys londys, c." ' Collections of a London Citizen,' 168.

1547, Quinquagesima Sunday, 20 Feb- ruary, at the Coronation of Edward VI., after the second course of the dinner in West- minster Hall,

" Sir Edward Dyramocke, knight, came ridinge into the hall in clene white complete harneis, rychlie gilded, and his horse rychlie trapped, and cast his gauntlet t to wage battell against all men that wold not take him for right king of this realme, and then the king dranke to him and gave him a cupp of golde." ' Wriothesley's Chronicle,' i. 183.

1553. Claims at the Coronation of Queen Mary :

" Sir Edward Dymock, knight, clay my the to be the Queenes champion the day of the coronacion, and to haue for his fee one euppe of golde, the horse and furnyture, with tharmoure which he that day wearithe, and all other to his furnyture apperteyn- ing ; and heclaymethe alsoxviij yardesof crymesyn sattin tor his lyvery, and the full servyce of meate and drynk belonginge to a baron to be conveyed to his lodginge." ' Rutland Papers,' 120.

1553. 1 October. " Master Dymmoke the qwyen's champyon " rode up and down Westminster Hall. Machyn's ' Diary,' 45.

1653. " A Funerall Speech vpon the Death and Buriall of Charles Dymoke, Esq., Late Champion to the King and Crown of England, who dyed at Oxford in July, 1643, and was interred at Scrivelsby in Lincoln-shire, September the 6th, 1652. by R. Thornton. London, printed in the year 1653," 4to (Pickering & Chatto, ' Tracts and Pamphlets,' 1906, No. 1326). These dates differ from those given in 'D.N.B.,'xvi. 295 b.

1673. R. Leigh, in his anonymous ' Trans- proser Rehears'd,' satirizes Andrew Mar- vell :

"Our author therefore, the Noncomfqrmists Dimock, throws down his gauntlet, and in the names of John Calvin and Theodore Beza, bids a general defiance to all the miter'd heads in England ; daring them, or any ofHheir dead predecessors, to maintain their ancient rights and dignities, which he is ready to oppose to the last drop of blood. It is a bold challenge, but no body will accept it, none will engage so heroick a champion." P. 54.

1761. Coronation of George III. ;

At the "supper" in Westminster Hall, "be- tween the courses the Champion performed his part with applause." 'Corresp. Gray and Mason,' 1853, p. 275.

The * D.N.B.,' xvi. 294-6, gives an account of the Dymoke family and the Championship. There is a pedigree in the Visitation of Lin- colnshire, 1562-4, printed in The Genea- logist, 1880, iv. 19. W. C. B.