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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAT IS, 1913.

CONTENTS. No. 125.

NOTES : The Rev. George Borlase, 381 Charles Dickens, 383 A Runic Calendar, 384 Snake poisoned by a Man's Blood Lured from Paradise Nelson's Coffin, 386 Bampfylde arid Bowles " Ash " Coincidence "The Gold Lion" in Lombard Street, 387.

QUERIES : Early Fountain Pens " Babbylubie " - Snake Poison Voltaire in England Cambridge Boating Song Author of Quotation Wanted Milgrove, 388 ' The Battle of Brimpton ' Beauclerk Family Mrs. Eliza Fay " Marching Regiment "Poet's Road, Canon- bury Pike of Market Harborough Disney : Garden : Kidd : Seymour Rollo Gillespie Mary Wpllstonecraft : ' Appeal to the Men of England ' Missing Words Wanted, 389 Counts of Gordon Logic "Telling" Numbers 'Twice a Traitor' Almanacs in Dialect Grant of Duthil : Miller of Rotterdam Barnards of Pirton ' The Gentile Powers ' Sy vetare, Syvekar Massacre of St Bartholomew, 390.

BEPLIES : Relics of London's Past, 391 Miss Buss and Miss Beale, 392 Bishop Thomas Tanner, 393 Stephen Grellet Forlorn Hope at Badajos, 394 Dogs in Churches

Fines as Christian Name - Constables' Staves Tobacconists' Highlanders, 395 Thomas Gower The Batheaston Vase and the Olympic Games -Stone's End, Borough, 396 Tooley Street : Tooley Family " Master

of Garraway's "Women and Tobacco English Bards and the Scottish Language Mary P. Jacobi : Mrs Ellis Dragoon Regiments : Band, 397 Duchesse de Bouillon

Diseases from Plants Americanisms Municipal Records Printed, 398.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Upper Norwood Athenaeum State , Papers at Venice relating to English Affairs, 1621-3 The

Tragedies and Histories of Shakespeare' The Western

Rebellion.'

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THE REV. GEORGE BORLASE, B.D.

THE REV. GEORGE BORLASE, B.D., was for many years a leading figure in the Univer- sity life at Cambridge.

He was the sixth son of the Rev. Walter Borlase (bapt. 5 Nov., 1694; d. 26 April, 1776), Vicar of Madron 1720-76, and of Kenwyn 1731-76, two of the best livings in the county of Cornwall, Prebendary of Exeter Cathedral 1757-76, and Vice-Warden of the Stannaries. His mother was Mar- garet, only daughter of the Rev. Henry Pendarves, Vicar of Paul. She died 8 April, 1743. He was sent to the Grammar School at Exeter, and when 16 years old was admitted, on 9 Oct., 1759, as a pensioner at Peterhouse. Cambridge. His brother Samuel had become a fellow-commoner there on 20 April, 1757.; and another brother,

William, was also admitted as a pensioner on 9 Oct., 1759. George was Hale Scholar of his college on 15 Dec., 1759, and Cosin Scholar on 31 March, 1763. While an undergraduate he contributed, in 1762, a set of Greek verses to the collection of the University on the birth of the Prince of Wales.

In 1764 George Borlase graduated B.A. as seventh senior op time in the Mathe- matical Tripos, and proceeded M.A. 1767, and B.D. 1780. He was confirmed in his fellowship at Peterhouse on 3 July, 1766, having by that time passed his year of pro- bation, and for many years was a popular tutor with the undergraduates and a " dpn " much beloved by his contemporaries. In February, 1778, after a severe contest, in which he polled 113 votes against 102 cast for his competitor, he was elected Regis- trary to the University. From 1773 to 1789 he was minister at Little St. Mary's, Cam- bridge. His fellowship became vacant in 1792, a year after his marriage.

His name came prominently before tiie public in 1787. The Master of the College, Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle, died on 14 Aug. The fellows, eleven in number, assembled on 31 Aug. for the election of his successor. All voted for Borlase, " then and for many years past the Tutor to whom the care of the College had always been entrusted by the late Master during his absence or indisposition"; eight voted also for Francis Barnes, Vice-Provost of King's College, and three for Daniel Longmire, who had been a fellow and tutor of Peter- house, but had taken a college living ten years previously. By the statutes the Visitor of the College, the Bishop of Ely, was to appoint from one of two persons nominated by the fellows, who in such nomination were to prefer fellows, if qualified. The then occupant of the see was Dr. Yorke, a zealous Tory, who was known to be no friend of Borlase, a keen Whig. The fellows therefore gave him the alternative of Borlase, the efficient and popular tutor, or Barnes, "a personal friend of Borlase, but.... universally regarded as altogether unfitted for the vacant headship " (T. A. Walker, ' Peterhouse,' 1906, p. 179). Longmire, a connexion of the Bishop and the man whom he was desirous of appointing, appealed against the choice of the fellows, and the Visitor, pronouncing their nomination not in conformity with the statutes, declared it null and void, and by instrument under his hand and seal appointed Longmire to the vacant headship.