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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY L', 1911.

CONTENTS.-No. 81.

3JOTES :- West Indians and the Coronation, 41 Sir Nicholas Arnold, 42 "Gifla" : Isleworth : Islington, 43 Robert Burton's Library "J'y suis, j'y reste" "Make a long arm," 44 "Crown Prince of Germany" St. Swithin's Day St. Expeditus, 45 -Tailed Englishmen Whig Club Book Etymology of "Privet "-Spanish Armada: Ship wrecked in Tobermory Bay, 46.

QUERIES : Sheridan's 'Critic' : T. Vaughan Dickens and Thackeray : Mantalini St. Sabinus or St. Salvius, 47 Pope and Byron quoted in Court Lieut.-Col. Ollney Tromp in England: John Stanhope, London, Printer, 1664' Lyrics and Lays 'George Eliot on a Magic Ring B. W. Procter Touching a Corpse at Funerals Evatt Family The Three Heavens, 48 Dog's Monument at Quilon Brisbane Family, 49 -Dr. Barnard, Provost of Eton Pitt's Buildings : Wright's Buildings Foxes as Guards instead of Dogs Dublin Barracks, 50.

REPLIES : Guilds of Weavers and Clothiers, 50 -Keats, Hampstead, and Sir C. W. Dilke, 51 Mistress Katherine Ashley Burns and 'The Wee Wee German Lairdie,' 52 Gower Family Lush and Lusbington Surnames, 53 " Nib "=Separate Pen-point St. Dunstan and Tunbridge Wells-Corpse Bleeding Twins and Second Sight, 54- Archbishop Stone of Armagh Wellington Statues in London " Franklin Days": "Borrowing Days," 55 Mummy used as Paint by Artists, 56 Prince Charles of Bourbon-Capua Military Executions " Schicksal und eigene Schuld," 57 Authors of Quotations Wanted D'Urfey and Allan Ramsay Philip Dehany, M.P. ' Churches of Yorkshire ' ' Church Historians of England ' Riddle Port Henderson : Corrie Bhreachan Fielding and the Civil Power, 58.

NOTES ON BOOKS :- Jaggard's 'Shakespeare Biblio- graphy' 'The National Review.' Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

WEST INDIANS AND THE CORONATION.

As a matter of historical interest, it should be noted that, among the multitude that assembled for the Coronation of His Majesty King George V., many are members of families that have been settled in lands overseas from the days of the Stuarts, and for years before the reigning family came to the throne.

Although Americans, who can claim to rank with this class, do not own allegiance to King George, owing to the regrettable circumstances that drove England's eldest daughter to separate from the parent State, our American kinsfolk must feel that they are welcome to rejoice with us, in the old home, on this august occasion, as "their forefathers used to do in the olden time, when the Coronation robe of King Charles II.

was made from silk sent from Virginia, the colony.
 * Old Dominion being then an English

In illustration of the continuance of British dominion in " parts beyond sea," it is noteworthy that at least three of the representatives of West Indian Colonies at the Coronation are members of families that emigrated in Stuart times, and have con- tinued since to dwell overseas. They are the Hon. J. R. Phillips of Barbados, the Hon. B. Howell Jones of British Guiana, and the Hon. B. Shuttleworth Davis of St. Kitts. Among other West Indians now in London are some of the descendants of Sir Thomas Warner, who in January, 1623-4, founded English dominion in the West Indies, on the island of St. Christopher, now usually called St. Kitts. From the date mentioned to this day, in one island or the other of the Caribbean Sea, the Warners have, for ten or more generations, made their home in the West Indies : a cadet of the family from time to time reverting to the Old Country, as in the case of Mr. Pelham Warner, captain of the Middle- sex cricket eleven. The cricketer's brother, the Hon. Aucher Warner, K.C., a member of the Council of Trinidad, and a landowner in that colony, is at present on a visit to the land from which his ancestor set forth about 300 years ago.

Among the country gentry of Great Britain are many descendants of emigrants of the Stuart period; and a few of them, like the Codringtons of Gloucestershire, yet retain a part of their ancestral possessions in the West Indies.

The Secretary for the Colonies is a de- scendant of one of the earliest and most ardent promoters of colonies. His ancestor, Robert Harcomt of Stan ton Harcourt, himself went out to Guiana in 1609 with some of his kinsmen, and endeavoured to establish a colony on the W T yapok river (now in French Guiana). His heavy ex- penditure upon that colonizing project, and his staunch support of Sir Walter Ralegh's second expedition to Guiana in 1617-18, resulted in such great financial embarrass- ment as necessitated the selling of a part of his landed property that had for generations been in the Harcourt family. As Sir Thomas Warner had been engaged in colon- izing in Guiana before he settled in St. Kitts, it is probable that he and Harcourt were acquaintances, if not comrades in adven- ture. N. DARNELL DAVIS.

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