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703) occurs, among other plainly fabulous legends relating to Wales, in certain spurious additions to the Laws of Edward the Confessor in the ' Liber Custumarum ' (pp. 632-3, ed. Riley, 1860) belonging to the Guildhall of London, a compila- tion (according to Mr. Riley) of the latter part of the reign of Edward II., from which it was first made public by Harrison and Stow, and then by Lambard, ' Apxaiovofj.., pp. 142-3 (Cantab., 1644)."

The above remarks are probably from the pen of the learned A. W. Haddan, who was in charge of the Keltic portion of the great work of " Haddan and Stubbs " (unluckily never completed), and are repeated more briefly in Haddan's ' Remains ' (edited by Bishop Forbes of Brechin, Oxford, 1876, p. 228).

As to the curious, but impossible connexion of the British king Lucius with Coire in the Orisons, see my edition (1904) of ' Murray's Handbook for Switzerland,' p. 407.

W. A. B. COOLIDGE.

Grindelwald.

" THOUGH CHRIST A THOUSAND TIMES BE SLAIN" (11 S. iv. 28, 97). MB. FORREST MORGAN inquires about this hymn, sup- posed to be a translation from Johann Scheffler (Angelus Silesius). I have never seen the English hymn, but I should think that it must be a version (probably ex- panded) of three couplets from the ' Cheru- binischer Wandersmann ' (Buch I., Nos. 61, 62, 63) :

Wird Christus tausendmal zu Bethlehem geboren, Und nicht in dir, du bleibst noch ewiglich ver-

loren. Das Kreutz zu Golgotha kann dich nicht von dcm

Bosen,

Wo es nicht auch in dir wird aufgericht, erlosen. Ich sag, es hilft dir nicht, dass Christus auf-

erstanden, ' Wo du noch liegen bleibst in Simd- und Todes-

banden.

HENRY BETT. Lincoln.

LANGLEY HILL (11 S. iv. 169, 239). MR. HIPWELL'S guess is an unfortunate one. Langley Hill, whose marriage in 1746 MR. HIP WELL refers to, was appointed clerk to the Grocers' Company in 1720, the same year in which the Westminster boy was admitted to the school, aged 11. G. F. R. B.

Miss HOWARD AND NAPOLEON III. (11 S. iv. 347, 430, 473). Clarence Trelawny was third son of Capt. Harry Brereton Trelawny of Shotwick Park, Cheshire. According to the books of reference he was born in 1826, and married in 1870 Mary, daughter of W. S. Campbell. The earlier marriage is not mentioned R. S. B.

CIBBER'S 'APOLOGY' (11 S. iv. 381, 475). I must thank PROF. BENSLY for the further light he has thrown upon this subject. I think the identity of " Tom " Earle with the second of the " two persons now living " may be taken as established. With regard to " a certain gentleman," I should be glad to know if any description can be found of a " villa " belonging to Henry Pelham which would correspond with the language of Gibber's Dedication. My books are not accessible at present, and I cannot hunt up the matter for myself. With regard to the " Integrity " argument, I do not attach much weight to it. Henry Pelham was doubtless a straighter statesman than Bubb Dodington, but the virtues of a politician depend very much upon the point of view. Integrity, and a reputation for integrity, are two very different things, and I question whether Cibber was a very good judge of the former.

I am glad that PROF. BENSLY agrees with me in thinking that the ' Apology ' is worthy of a reprint. My note was written before I had had the opportunity of reading Mr. Rendall's delightful article in the December Nineteenth Century entitled ' Some Reminis- cences of Joseph Knight,' and I was therefore pleased to find that this was also the view of our late editor. One of Knight's favourite articles in the ' D.N.B.' is said to have been that on Colley Cibber, " whose ' Apology ' he thought worth a cheap reprint, and used to quote with gusto."

I may add that my annotator makes repeated references, by way of corroboration or comparison, to ' An Apology for the Life of Mr. T[heophilus] C[ibber],' which is often attributed to Henry Fielding. Mr. Lowe makes little or no use of this book, but it should certainly not be neglected by any future editor of Colley Gibber's work.

W. F. PRIDE AUX.

Villa Paradis, Hyeres.

TATTERSHALL : ELSHAM : GRANTHAM (11 S. iv. 269, 314, 455). Uneducated people use the traditional pronunciation. With them ham has no aspirate because there is no strong accent on the syllable. Persons of education, dreading a dropped h probably avoid the difficulty of sounding it in a slurred syllable by combining the

Freeman condemned the Gran-tham and El-sham type of pronunciation in round terms, since the component parts of the words are Grant-ham and Els-ham. As