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NELSON: "MUSLE" (11 S. iv. 307, 351, 373). I must thank MB. CLAYTON for his satis- factory answer (p. 351) to my query. I would ask him to increase his kindness and say what part of the country his mother came from. According to Bonn's ' Hand- book of Proverbs ' and to Lean's ' Collec- tanea ' which I have consulted since seeing MR. CLAYTON'S reply the expression is Scottish. It is difficult to see the Scottish connexion with Nelson. I feel little doubt that the bivalve was meant Bonn's editor seemingly had some, and gave the double spelling ; but can any one except in a medical sense talk of " life in a muscle " ? J. K. LAUGHTON.

SIB, FRANCIS DRAKE, " UNUS DE CON- SORTIO MEDII TEMPLI " (11 S. iv. 347). If it is doubtful whether Sir Francis Drake was a member of the Middle Temple, it is still more open to question whether " he was actually a member of the Inner Temple." His name is not included in the list of mem- bers (1547-1660) published by the Inn. The entry of 28 Jan. (not July), 1582, states : " Admission of Sir Francis Drake, Knight, upon ^a fine at the discretion of the Trea- surer " ; but Mr. Inderwick remarks in his Introduction (p. Ixxxviii), " Whether Drake ever took up his admission the records do not show." Not one of the other great Elizabethan seamen has his name inscribed on the books of the Inner Temple, while Frobisher, Hawkins, Vere, Norris, and Raleigh were all members of the Middle Temple. Drake, of course, might have been the exception to the rule, but Mr. Inderwick' s observation is weighty against the probability. C. E. A. BED WELL.

Middle Temple Library.

MARY JONES'S EXECUTION, 1771 (11 S. iv. 347). The contemporary account of the trial of Mary Jones is to be found in the Proceedings,' &c., held at the Old Bailey, 11-24 Sept., 1771, being the seventh session in the Mayoralty of the lit. Hon. Brass Crosby, Lord Mayor, No. 7, Part I. p. 418. From the evidence it appeared that Mary Jones, in conjunct ion with another woman, who was acquitted, went to about fifteen shops and attempted to steal various articles. She succeeded in taking 52 yards of worked muslin, value 51. 10s. One of the witnesses gave evidence as to there being three other confederates waiting outside the shops that the prisoners entered. They were occupied in these attempts at theft from three till six o'clock. The report of the trial is com- pressed into about 60 lines of double column,

and is therefore somewhat meagre. There is sufficient, however, to show that the crime was not one occasioned by sudden impulse, and in those days the punishment of death was the usual sentence. Sir Harry Poland, in his lecture on ' Changes in Criminal Law and Procedure since 1800' ('Century of Law Reform : Lectures delivered at the request of the Council of Legal Education,' 8vo, 1901), states that " over 200 cases were capital at the beginning of the nineteenth century." The case of Mary Jones doubt- less occasioned special Sympathy on account of her youth, good looks, and the fact that her husband had been pressed. I am afraid, however, that the Old Bailey Sessions Papers, to which I have referred, contain far more pitiful incidents.

J. E. LATTON PICKERING. Inner Temple Library.

The report of the trial of Mary the wife of William Jones, and Ann Styles, spinster, who were indicted for stealing " 4 pieces of worked muslin, containing 52 yards, value 5l. 10s., the property of William Foot, pri- vately in his shop, August 7," will be found in the ' Sessions Papers,' vol. xlvii. p. 418. Mary Jones was found guilty and condemned to death, but Ann Styles was acquitted.

G. F. R, B. [J. T. is also thanked for reply.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. iv. 329).

When I lie in the cold brown earth. Mrs. Dinah Maria Craik (nee Mulock), in poems, 1852, has,

Say not that she did well or ill. Only, " She did her best."

R. A. POTTS.

Surely MR. TUDOR' s quotation should be written in one ten-syllabled line It chanced Eternal God that chance did guide.

G. R.

GROSVENOR SQUARE : ITS ORIGIN (11 S. iv. 327). Sir Thomas Grosvenor of Eaton, Bart. (ob. 1700), married, 1676, in her twelfth year, the wealthy and unfortunate Mary, dau. and h. of Alexander Davies (or Davis) of Ebury, co. Middlesex, scrivener, whose father, John Davies of Old Jewry, draper, married Mary, dau. and h. of Stephen Peacock, husband of Elizabeth, coh. of her brother, Hugh Audley of the Inner Temple, the usurer, who died " great," by repute, and " infinitely rich," on 15 Nov., 1662 ; his land in London was fairly co- terminous with the later Mayfair. Mary