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Lord Warden [of the Cinque Ports, Lord Cobham], therein his honor maketh request to have the nomynation and election of one of the Burgesses to the Parliament w ch goe out of Hethe uppon the next Sumons for the same, whereuppon the sayd Mayor, Juratts, and Comon'ty have uppon good consideration granted his honor's request, and 4ihat his honor shalbe answered accordingly.

"Memorandum That the first daye of November, 1584, Mr. Mayor, Juratts, and Comon'ty being assembled in the Town Hall there, to choose and appointe Burgesses to the Parliament to be holden the xxiij* 1 day of this instant of Novem- ber at Westm r accordinge to the Sumons in that behalfe directed, as also accordinge to the effect of a 1're sentt to the sayd Mayor, Juratts, and Comons from our Lord Warden in the behalfe of one Mr. Thomas Bodyly, whoe is ellected to be one of the said Burgesses by the Lords of Her Ma*?* Privie Councell, and also p'ferred unto us by y* Lord Warden as a man very meet for the ame, and lykewise allowed to be one by the sayd Assembly. And for the Election of y* other JBurgesse for the sayd towne, the sayd Assembly have no'iated, elected, and chosen, Christopher Honiwood, gent, Mayor there, together with the sayd Mr. Bodyly, to be and appeare at Westm' at the day above sayd."

From this it appears, not that Bodley was unsuccessful, but that he was elected.

The next election was in September, 1586, when two fresh candidates were elected.

R. J. FYNMORE. Sand gate.

OBDINABIES OF NEWGATE. (See 10 S. vii. 408, 454; viii. 10, 278; 11 S. ii. 325.) In The Pvblic Advertiser, Wednesday, 20 October, 1773, there is a report of the pro- ceedings at the Court of Aldermen at Guild- hall, when, the resignation of the Rev. John Wood of the office of Ordinary of New- gate being announced, a curious debate took place. The Lord Mayor, James Towns- end, recommended Mr. Silas Told for the vacant post,

"because for above 20 years the said Told had repeatedly of his own accord gone in the cart with the condemned prisoners to Tyburn to sing and pray with them and give them spiritual food.

This recommendation, however, did not meet with the approval of the Court.

Silas Told, whose portrait appears in Hogarth's ' March to Tyburn,' is a familiar name to students of the history of crime, and a full account of him is given in Major Griffiths's * Chronicles of Newgate.'

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

[See also the references to Told sited by MR. A. L. HUMPHREYS at 10 S. x. 390.]

" THE OLD MOGUL," DBUBY LANE. The destruction of this old public-house, with the Middlesex Music -Hall adjoining it, removes another ^.London landmark

familiar to all who know Drury Lane. Those who can remember the Drury Lane of the seventies will note how completely and entirely it has altered since that time. In a very little while virtually the whole lane will have been rebuilt, and what was at one time a most disreputable thorough- fare will become as respectable as Gharing Cross Road.

" The Old Mogul " occupies the ground formerly covered by " The Mogul's Head," which was a well-known tavern in the reign of Charles II. ; and Nell Gwynne lived on the opposite side of the lane. The music- hall has twice been rebuilt within the last sixty years, and is notable only as the place where many artists who afterwards became famous made their first appearance. George Augustus Sala described a night there some thirty years ago.

FBEDEBICK T. HIBGAME.

" VAIL " : ITS USE BY SCOTT. Reprints of Scott's poems and novels persistently give " veil " where " vail " was undoubtedly the form intended and duly written by the author. " Vail," to lower, which is distinct from " veil," to cover, is well illustrated in Shakespeare. Typical examples are those in ' Venus and Adonis,' 1. 956, where the amorous goddess is said to have " vail'd her eyelids " ; in * The Merchant of Venice,' I. i. 28, in which passage a noble vessel comes to the mind's eye as " vailing her high-top lower than her ribs " ; and in ' Hamlet,' I. ii. 70, where the Queen of Denmark deprecates the " vailed lids " of her per- plexing son.

Scott seems to have liked the word, and he uses it appositely in various circumstances. One well-known example is in ' Marmion,' iii. 234, in the expression "Princes vail their eyes." Reprints after Lockhart's time frequently have the reading " veil " in this passage. In special editions, however, critical experts have restored the original version, and their example is beginning to be followed by those who superintend a com- plete issue of the poetical works. A reading in ' The Lord of the Isles,' which has not been so widely and closely considered as the earlier poem, has not had the same good fortune. This occurs in i. 239, where the Lady Edith is asked to notice how Ronald's galley stoops her mast to the gale,

As if she vail'd its banner'd pride, To greet afar her prince's bride. " Veil'd " is the reading presented here in what is virtually an excellent edition of Scott's poems in a single volume. In the