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 ii s. vii. ¥kh. i5, i9i3.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 125 Thirteen men to be posted " outside the chevux dc frieze, 10 paces from each other. No part of the fence to be removed, or any person pass in or out." Thirteen men to be posted •' outside the C'oventory [? Conservatory] and a long gardin walls Palmall. To prevent any person approaching the windows in the Gardin or coming over the wall from the street." Seven- teen men to be posted " in Side the gardin next the Coach Hoad inside the Park. The men to [be] stationed 30 Paces from each other. No person to clime or attempt to get over the Wall." Thirteen men " to be posted at 7 o'clock at the Kitchen Entrance with orders that no person pass except in the Royal Livery or with a ticket for each person ; and two sentrys at Passage leading to Warwick House." " One sentry to be posted at the Airy [sic] Steps right and left of the Grand Portico One sentry to be posted at the tempary [temporary] steps next to Col. Mac- mohone House." The Guards to be relieved " at 12 o'clock at night and 3 in the morning." 19 July, 1813. " The Brigade of Guards will furnish the following detail to march from the Parade at 1 past Two o'clock to Vauxhall to- morrow." In all four officers and 160 non- commissioned officers and men. " The Com- m anding Officer of the Detachment will receive instructions on his arrival at Vauxhall from Lord Yarmouth, the acting Steward." On several later dates small details were provided for Vaux- hall Gardens. 22 July, 1813. " The usual Guard of a Sargeant, Corpl., and 12 Privates to be furnished by the Battalion in Portman Street Barrack on every Evening on [? of] Performance at the Panteen [Pantheon] Theater in Oxford Street till further orders. The duty to commence this Evening." 22 July, 1813. "A detachment according to the following details to proceed to t'xbridge to-morrow morning. They have to take charge of 220 Prisoners of War and escort them to Alton." 29 July, 1813. The Pantheon Guard dis- continued. 12 Aug., 1813. "The field officer in waiting orders a Guard consisting of a Sargeant, Corpl., and 12 Privates, to be furnished by the Batt" in Knightsbridge Barracks, to attend at Vauxhall at 7 o'clock this Evening, there to remain until dismissed by the manager." 13 Aug., 1813. The Bank Picket to march off so as to arrive there at 8 o'clock. I Sept., 1813. The Bank Picket to arrive " at past 7 o'clock 'till further orders." 3 Sept., 1813. The Brigade of Guards to furnish a draft to leave for their Battalions in the Peninsula. In all 700 men and officers. "The detachment lo assemble in marching order to- morrow morning in Hyde Park at 11 o'clock for M. General Disney's inspection." 6 Sept., 1813.' " The field officer in waiting orders the usual Guard to Covent Garden Theatre .. . .this and every Evening of performance during the season." II Sept., 1813. " The usual guard to Drury I.ane Theatre... .this and every Evening of performance during the season." The date of the last entry is 7 Oct., 1813. Aleck Abrahams. The Rastells of Coventry.—Sir Thomas More's sister Elizabeth married John Rastell, lawyer and printer, and supposed author of ' A New Interlude and a Mery of the Nature of the iiij Elements.' Their daughter, Eliza Rastell, married John Heywood, of ' Foure P.P.' fame, and — remarkable instance of the transmission of hereditary ability—their daughter Elizabeth was mother of John Donne, the poet. In the ' Dic- tionary of National Biography ' article on John Rastell nothing is said of the Coventry origin of the Rastell family ; it is, however, a Coventry name. One Thomas Rastell lived in Cross Cheaping in 1430, and Henry in Spon Street in 1444 ('Coventry Leet Book,' 128, 211). Towards the close of the fifteenth century the name is found among the brethren of the Corpus Christi Guild. In 1489 the entry occurs " De Johanne Rastell per manus Johannis Seman vjs. viijrf." (' C.C. Guild Book,' fo. 10 dorso; see also fo. 28 dorso, "De Johanne Rastell, filio Thome Rastell, vjs. viijd.'"). One of Rastells guild brethren was Robert Shakespier (#>., fo. 13 dorso), the earliest mention (1489) I have found of the name in Coventry MSS. Thomas Rastell was Coroner of the city in 1505-6, and John, possibly succeeding his father, in 1507-8 ('Leet Book,' 603, 604, 605, 619). That, this John Rastell was More's brother-in-law seems certain, because More in a letter denouncing the excesses of a Coventry friar (Nichols, ' Bibl. Top. Brit.,' iv. xvii. 40-42) mentions that he was on a visit to his sister in that city when the facts came before his notice. The connexion of Rastell, and incidentally of his son-in-law Heywood, with a city so renowned for its pageants is an interesting point, when we remember the latter's allusion in the ' Foure P.P.' to the devil who "oft in the play of Corpus Christi " had " played the deuyll at Coventry." The city was so much given over to drama that at Christmastide there was mummery, it seems, within the Priory itself about the time of Thomas RasteH'a coronership. " Delivered to the lord prior on the Sunday after the Feast of the Cir- cumcision of our Lord for the interlude 1/. 0s. Orf.-' is an item in the pittancer's accounts from Michaelmas to Michaelmas, 1505-6 (Reader MSS. Coventry). Mary Dormer Harris. Bibliography of Theses : Duncan Liddel. (See 10 S. xii. 27; 11 S. i. 447; iii. 247 ; iv. 163.)—Certain of the theses maintained at the University of Helmstadt under the presidency of Prof. Duncan