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Sudeley and Winchcombe ' (Murray, 1877) the alleged marriage between Mary Seymour and Sir Edward Bushell is referred to. According to Strype, " after remaining a little while at her Uncle Somerset's house at Sion," Mary Seymour was conveyed to Grimsthorpe in Lincolnshire, where the Dowager Duchess of Suffolk lived. It is interesting to note that there were Bushells at Broad Marston in Gloucestershire claim- ing descent from Sir Alan Bushell, Knight, who died in 1245. The manor was sold in 1622 by Thomas Bushell to Sir Thomas Bennett. Subsequently it passed by mar- riage to James, fourth Earl of Salisbury, and remained in the hands of his family until they sold it in 1791. A. C C.

COPPER MINE IN DEVONSHIRE (11 S. vi. 29). I do not know why the copper mine referred to was so named ; but it is quaint to recall that it was one of those which were extensively " boomed " in the early seventies under the striking titles of " The King," " The Queen," and " The Virtuous Lady." ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

REFERENCES WANTED (11 S. vi. 109). 1. See Boswell's ' Johnson,' under date 21 July, 1763 (Hill's edition, i. 446). Dr. Johnson quotes the remark as having been made to him when he was at Oxford.

M. LETTS.

AN OXFORD JACOBITE PLOT (US. vi. 90). Gordon's Christian name was John. There is an account of the conspiracy, with the trial and execution of the conspirators, in ' Political State of Great Britain,' x. 343, 535, 595 (September, November, and Decem- ber, 1715). ALFRED B. BEAVEN.

EDWARD BOATE, M.P. (11 S. vi. 68). A Rawlinson MS. in the Bodleian Library, A. 184, contains, at f. 370, a petition in 1653 from Rebecca Boate, widow, to -the Navy Commissioners for rent for the house in which they met at Portsmouth, followed by a report thereon by the Commissioners. She was no doubt the widow of the member for Portsmouth. W. D. MACRAY.

The following facts, gathered from the ' Calendar of State Papers, Dom. Series,' for the years 1649 to 1653 inclusive, may be helpful.

Edward Boate was married, and his wife survived him. She was sister to John Holt, victualler at Portsmouth. Boate died just before 17 April, 1650; on that date John Tippett was appointed to the position of master shipwright, which had

become vacant by the death of Boate. The house at Portsmouth then became vested in widow Boate, possibly by will, and the negotiations for the disposal of it were continued by her. She offered to grant a lease of her house and orchard for the residue of her term ten years at 221. 10s. a year, she paying all taxes, and the Navy Commissioners accepted those terms.

A. T. W.

REGENT'S CIRCUS (11 S. vi. 109). I can certify that, both before and after the year 1850, I frequently walked from Regent's Circus, Oxford Street, to Regent's Circus, Piccadilly. At that date there was cer- tainly r.o Regent's Circus in the Marylebone Road. WALTER W. SKEAT.

Regent Street and the Circus was designed and carried out by John Nash, 1813-16. Portland Place was built by the brothers Adam, and begun in 1778. In ' An Itinerary of London and Westminster,' by G. A. Cooke (no date, but written in the latter part of the reign of George III.), reference is made at p. 321 to

" Portland Place, allowed to be one of the most regular and spacious streets in the world, ter- minated at the northern extremity by a neat iron railing, which separates it from a field inter- posed by it and the New Road : Foley House forms the termination of the southern extremity .... From its salubrious air and its delightful prospects towards Highgate and Hampstead, it is' a most agreeable promenade, crowded every evening during the summer with all the beauty and fashion of the vicinity." It is explained that the width equalled the extent of Foley House, so that no building should interrupt the prospect of the country to the north of it. TOM JONES.

THE ENGLISH PARTICIPLE PRESENT AND GERUND (11 S. vi. 65). The distinc- tion between the participle and the gerund was maintained in Scottish literature as late as the seventeenth century, as may be seen in the following extract from the Intro- duction to Skene's ' Regiam Majestatem : the Auld Lawes and Constitutions of Scot- land,' &c., published in 1607 :

" Congregations of men dwelland together be the Law understands their office and dewtie, ilk ane to other. Crude and obedient subjects are re- warded for their gude doings. . . .But manie yeares bygane, the subtill cautellis and gredie ambition of them quha were called kirkmen that they. . . . wer not conte:vo therewith, but also did exeme themselfes and all their sect from the jurisdiction of Kings, allegand them to be subjects to the Pape of Rome onlie....as thou (gentle Reader) mair plainlie may understand be the reading of the samine."