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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vi. NOT. 2, 1912.

JOHN HARDY AND SAMUEL 'GAUNTLETT, VICARS OF HURSLEY, HANTS (11 S. vi. 270). One John Hardey, Dorset, gen. fil., aged 16, matriculated from Trin. Coll. Oxon on 21 March, 1616/17 ; adm. B.A. (as Hardye) 28 June, 1620, det. 1620/21 ; lie. M.A. 26 May, 1623, inc. 1623.

Samuel Gauntlett, s. John, of Winchester (ity), gent., Trin. Coll. Oxon, matriculated 31 March, 1762, aged 17 ; New Coll. B.A. 1767, M.A. 1771, B. and D.D. 1794, Warden 1794 until his death (1822). He was made a Canon of St. Paul's by his nephew, Bishop William Howley (afterwards Primate).

G. V. Cox in his ' Recollections of Oxford ' (p. 184) says of Gauntlett, who was elected as a compromise after a contest between Le Mesurier and Sissmore :

" On his election to the Wardenship, he as- sumed the ' big-wig ' (though of a moderate size), and with his quiet and rather solemn deportment looked, as he stood statue-like in the Chapel, the beau-ideal of a Warden. The only difference at morning and at evening service was that at the latter the statue had a slight glow on its face, which was wanting in the morning."

A. B. BAYLEY.

The Rev. Samuel Gauntlett, Vicar of Hursley (1780-94), was son of John Gaunt- lett, an alderman of Winchester. A Scholar of Winchester College (1757) and a Fellow of New College, Oxford (1763), he became a Fellow of Winchester College in 1777, and returned to Oxford as Warden of New College in 1794. He died there on 12 Sept., 1822, of cholera contracted at Portsea. He was for a while Rector of Lainston, Hants (1778), and was Vicar of Andover from 1778 until 1788, when he became Vicar of Portsea, a living which he retained until his death. The prebendal stall of Mora in St. Paul's Cathedral was given to him in 1819. His sister Mary was Archbishop Howley's mother (see 9 S. viii. 333, 426). His wife, whom he married in 1803, was widow of the Rev. Edward Cranmer, of Queen's College, Oxford. H. C.

THE GUILDHALL LIBRARY (11 S. vi. 264). I think John Brand's name can hardly be included (if that is the inference) among possible writers of the interesting pamphlet described. At the time that brochure appeared he was a boy of ten years only, and, being in humble circumstances, was afterwards apprenticed to his uncle, Anthony Wheatley, shoemaker, in Back Row, New- castle-on-Tyne. It was some thirty years lateo tHat he removed to London as resident

Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries. I happen to possess his private correspondence with his lifelong friend and attorney, Na- thaniel Punshon of Newcastle-on-Tyne, from the time he arrived in London until his sudden death by apoplexy in 1806.

MR. ABRAHAMS says there is no library answering mercantile purposes within the City, except that at the Chamber of Com- merce. Although without the City limits, does not the London University Library of Economics largely answer the purpose, with its handsome donations from the Goldsmiths' Company ?

WILLIAM JAGGARD.

Rose Bank, Stratford-on-Avon.

MORRIS DANCERS (11 S. vi. 106). The pamphlet in question is entitled

'Old Meg of Herefordshire for aMayd Marian and Hereford-towne for a Morris-dance ; or twelve Morris-dancers in Herefordshire of 1200 years old ' ; quarto, 1609.

The British Museum does not appear to have a copy. The pamphlet is described in W. Chappell's ' Ballad Literature and Popu- lar Music of the Olden Time,' i. 134; and Sir William Temple's reference to it is quoted by Lamb in ' The Genteel Style in Writing,' one of the ' Last Essays.'

PERCEVAL LUCAS.

SIR WALTER RALEGH'S DESCENDANTS (11 S. vi. 101, 236, 314). As bearing upon this subject, can any of your readers kindly inform me if the Joseph Burchett, Secretary to the Admiralty, mentioned in ' Burke ' as having married one of the daughters of Sir William Honywood, second baronet, was an ancestor of that Burchett family some members of which were Admiralty proctors ? CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

PLANTS IN POETRY : IDENTIFICATION SOUGHT (11 S. vi. 191, 254). See ' The Life of Robert Browning.' by W. Hall Griffin, 2nd ed., p. 55 :

" On his [James Silvei't home's] death Browning wrote the tender lines ' May and Death,' in which he refers to.... a 'certain wood,' the favourite Dulwich Wood, where grew the spotted Persicaria which he so touchingly introduces into this poem."

" Polygonwn persicaria, an erect or spreading branched annual .... leaves often marked in the centre with a dark spot." ' British Flora,' Bentham and Hooker.

" Polygonwn maculatum, spotted Persicaria : leaves generally blotched." ' Flowers of the Field,' C. A, Johns.

C. W, FIR.EBRACE,