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 278 NOTES AND QUERIES. [u & vn. April 5, ins. 4. iv. Gilbert Peche, son and heir, died in the year 1291. Barony by Writ:— 5 v. Gilbert Peche, summoned to parliament December 29, 1292; died about 1323, leaving two sons, John and Edmund, who were never summoned to parliament. Peche of Wormleighton. Barony by Tenure :— 1. i. Richard Peche, was lord of Wormleighton, in the county of Warwick, in the right of his mother, Petronill, daughter and heir of Richard Walshe, temp. Hen. ILL ; died. Barony by Writ:— 2. ii. John Peche, son and heir, summoned to Jarliament May 15, 1321; died about 1339, leaving ohn Peche, his grandson, his heir, who died in the year 1376, never summoned to parliament. Peche of Barony by Writ :— 1. i. Robert Peche, summoned to parliament May 15, 1321, but never afterwards. Ronald Dixon. 46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull. Markland (11 S. vii. 229). — George Markland was born 18 Nov., 1678, entered Merchant Taylors' School 11 March, 1688/9, and was elected to St. John's College, Oxford, in 1696, whence he matriculated on 30 June in that year. It is doubtful whether he proceeded B.A. Foster says he did in 1700, but his name is not in the Catalogue of Graduates. R. M. seems to say he claims it in the title of his book. C. J. Robinson (after H. B. Wilson) credits him with a 'Poem on the High Wind' (1705), as Well as with ' Pteriplegia,' which he dates 1717, not (as R. M.) 1727. His father Was the Rev. Dr. Abraham Markland, Fellow of St. John's, Canon of Winchester, and Master of the Hospital of St. Cross. Hearne (ii. 56) implies that George Markland was dead before 1707. John R. Magrath. Queen's College, Oxford. The ' D.N.B.' gives an account of Abra- ham Markland (1645-1728), scholar and Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford; also of James HeyWood Markland (1788-1864), who edited for the Roxburghe Club ' Chester Mysteries'(1818). R. A. Potts. [The ' D.N.B.' states that George Markland died in 1722, aged 44, and gives the date of publication of ' Pteryplegia' as 1727. Mr. A. R. Bayley and C. W. b. are also thanked for replies.] " The Sport of Kings " : William Somervtlle (US. vii. 7, 138).—-An addition to William Somerville's phrase was made by Whyte Melville, who, replying to a farmer's remark on the glories of the chase during a hunt with the V.W.H., said in my. hearing, "Yes, 'tis the sport of kings and cornets." Harold Malet, Col. " Hastie Roger"' (11 S. vii. 208).— Scrophidaria nodosa is so glossed in Britten and Holland's ' Dictionary of English Plant- Names,' and the name is allocated to West- morland. " Stinking Roger " is another of its many titles. St. Swithin. Round Wincanton, Somerset, the plant Lapsana communis is called " hasty ser- geant." Ida M. Roper. Bristol. Hofes on fBoohs. History and Historians of the Nineteenth Century. By G. P. Gooch. (Longmans & Co.) In this volume of six hundred pages, we have for the first time, a summary of the achievements of historical research during the last hundred years. In his Introduction Mr. Gooch traces the various reasons for the slow advance of historical study. The atmosphere of the Middle Ages was saturated with theology, and " in view of the constant interposition of Providence, the search for natural causation became needless, and even impertinent. History was a sermon, not a science ; an exercise in Christian evidence, not a disinterested attempt to understand and explain the course of civilisation." Although history was regarded as essential to the education of rulers, it formed no part of ordinary teaching, and Fenelon gave it no place in his ' Educa- tion des Filles.' The Cartesians disparaged it, and Malebranche declared there was more truth in a single principle of metaphysics than in all historical books. Thus children were brought up in ignorance of history, although there were protests. Fleury wished that every one should know the history of his town and province; and Rollin lamented that no time was allowed in school for the teaching of the history of France, " which it ii a disgrace for every good Frenchman to ignore," and he added that " he felt himself a stranger in his own country." It was not, how- ever, until 176U that a Chair of History and Morals was created at the College de France. Mr. Gooch devotes his opening chapter to " the first commanding figure in modern historio- graphy, Niebuhr, the scholar who raised history from a subordinate place to the dignity of an independent science, the noble personality in whom the greatest historians of the succeeding generation found their model or their inspiration.' He accomplished so much that it is hard to believe that he died at the early age of fifty-six, " in the fullness of his powers and at the height of his influence." Accounts of Wolf. Bockh, Otfried Muller, Eichhorn, Savigny, and Jacob Grimm follow. The pages devoted to Hanke and to his critics and pupils, as well as the chapter on the Prussian School, we find of special interest. Six chapters are given to France, opening with the great Revolution. What historical treasures must have perished when " the National Assembly ordered a holocaust of papers relating to the noble families of France in the Place Venddmc