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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vi. OCT. 12, 1912.

It is clear that Grenville's second thoughts were the better, for when Tandy was tried in Dublin as an attainted rebel, the judge ordered him to be acquitted, and finally Tandy had to be given up to Napoleon, who claimed him as a French general, and held a British general as hostage for his safety. Tandy was handed over to France in 1802, so that the British Government gained no- thing by compromising the neutrality of Hamburg. Meanwhile, the result of our association with the Czar arising out of Tandy's seizure was that unlucky Anglo - Russian invasion of Holland which was a complete failure. R. S. PENGELLY.

12, Poyiider's Road, Clapham Park.

WOODVILLE FAMILY (11 S. vi. 170). If this is a Catholic family, perhaps there may be some clue in the following entry from the Liverpool Catholic Registers : " 1773, Feb. 16. Francis, son of Wm. and Ann Woodville, baptized ; sponsors, John Kaye and Helen Beetham."' In June, 1771, Wm. Wood- ville stood sponsor at the baptism of John Cleveland, " a black," together with Dorothy Hall. The name Kirbey also occurs in these registers ; e.g., 1769, 23 or 24 April, Thos., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ann Kirbey, baptized, the sponsors being Mr. and Mrs. Morris " ye Elder " ; and Ann Kirby was sponsor at the baptism of Dorothy, dau. of Win. and Dorothy Morris, 12 Jan., 1772.

LEO C.

BALLAD OF LORD LOVEL (11 S. v. 330 ; vi. 37, 115, 171, 217). At the penultimate reference is an allusion to a comic parody on ' Lord Lovell ' entitled ' Joe Muggins.' I am anxious to get a copy of this, and have written, to Glasgow without result. Perhaps one of your other readers or MR. JONAS himself 'Could furnish the words.

J. W. ARROWSMITH.

' CHURCH HISTORIANS OF ENGLAND ' (11 S. iii. 308, 373 ; iv. 58, 117, 154, 253). At the last reference I gave a list of volumes and parts of the " Pre-Reformation Series " and of the " Reformation Series," all which had been published. As I lacked vol. i. part i. of the " Reformation Series," I was unable to describe it fully.

Since I wrote that reply I have obtained a copy of the missing part from Mr. James Thin, 54, South Bridge, Edinburgh. I men- tion the address because other correspondents may wish to complete their sets. The part is dated 1870. It contains ' Life of Foxe ; and Vindication of his Work,' i.e., ' Life of

the Martyrologist,' ' Defence of his Work against Objectors,' and ' Appendices to the Life ' ; also ' Foxe's Prefaces ' ; ' The Kalender ' (i.e., of martyrs), Addenda, Appendix to vol. vi., &c. Its illustrations are Portrait of Foxe ; Facsimile of Foxe's Letter to the President of Magdalen College, Oxford ; Facsimile of Title-page of the First Latin Publication, Strasburg, 1554 ; Re- duced Copy of Title-page of the Latin Edition, Basil, 1559 ; and Reduced Copy of Title- page of the First English Edition, London, 1563.

There are eight title-pages with their false titles, evidently issued so that each volume, being originally in two parts, might be re- bound in one with a full title. The title is :

" The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe. With a Life and Defence of the Martyrologist, by the late Rev. George Townsend, D.D. of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Prebendary of Durham. Third Edition : Revised and Corrected, with Appendices, Glossary, and Indices, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt, M.A. of Trinity College, Cam- bridge, and Vicar of St. Stephen's, Coleman Street, London. London : George Seeley, 32, Argyll Street, Regent Street. MDCCCLXX."

" Third Edition " presumably means that it is the third edition of ' The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe' with the Life, &c., by Townsend.

I cannot, however, reconcile this with the extract from a letter written in 1856 by Thomas Hartwell Home, D.D., to S. Austin Allibone (see Allibone's ' Dictionary,' i. 626, col. 1). Home mentions two such editions, and then says that the best edition

" will be found in the Reformation Series of the Ecclesiastical Historians of England, published at London also in 8 vols. 8vo, in 1853 and following years. The editors (the Rev. R. R. Mendham, M.A. and Josiah Pratt, Jun., M.A.) have most carefully corrected the whole work .... Dr. Townsend's Life and Vindication of Foxe are retained, with some corrections."

Even if for " Ecclesiastical Historians ' we may read " Church Historians," it is difficult to reconcile this statement written in 1856 with the fact that the dates of pub- lication of ' The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe ' in the ' Church Historians * range from 1853 to 1868 inclusive, and that part i. of vol. i., containing the Life by Townsend, did not appear till 1870. Perhaps, seeing that Home says " will be found," he had seen the manuscript of the revised Life, as well as that of ' The Acts and Monu- ments.'

I do not find R. R. Mendham either on the title-pages or in the editor's note of thanks. (Vol. i. Pt. i. p. 3.)