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IRISH ( ANGLO -IRISH) FAMILIES : TAYLOR OF BALLYHAISE (11 S. vi. 427; vii. 16). According to the Blue-book of Members of Parliament, Brockhill Newburgh was one of the two members for Cavan County in the Irish Parliament of 1715-27. His resi- dence is not given. Hardly any are given in the list of this Parliament. Possibly he was a grandson of Brockhill Taylor, M.P. for Cavan Borough, 1634.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

HORACE PEARCE (US. vii. 30). I have a memorandum that Mr. Horace Pearce died at his house The Limes, Stourbridge in February, 1900. W. P. COURTNEY.

AUTHOR WANTED (US. vi. 330). One ship drives East, and one drives West, By the selfsame wind that blows, is bv Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

T. F.

"THOU ASCENDED" (11 S. vii. 48). Similar instances may be found in Milton and Shelley. See Landor's ' Imaginary Conversations ' and Swinburne's ' Notes on the Text of Shelley ' (' Essays and Studies,' ed. 1875, p. 198). I know no instance in Shakespeare, though he writes " the hand of she " and " upon deceased I."

H. DAVEY.

ARMORIAL (11 S. vii. 91). The arms of the Stevenson family, who bear a rose-bush for a crest, are Argent, on a chevron between three fleurs-de-lis azure, a cross moline of the first ; on a chief gules, as many mullets or. S. D. C.

THE DIARY OF TIMOTHY BURRELL OF CUCKFIELD (11 S. vii. 30). I am informed by MR. D. D. BURRELL of Oxton that in vol. iii. of the Sussex Archaeological Collections there are sixty-one pages of extracts from this Diary, by Mr. Robert Willis Blencowe. WILLIAM GILBERT.

35, Broad Street Avenue, E.G.

" THE SPORT OF KINGS " : WILLIAM SOMERVILLE (11 S. vii. 7). As a Staf- fordshire man I am bound to demur to Somerville being described, without qualification, as the " Warwickshire " poet. He was born at Wolseley Hall, near Rugeley, the seat of his uncle Sir Charles Wolseley, and did not settle down at Edstone, in Warwickshire, until his thirtieth year, when his father died. At Wolseley there is a portrait of him when a boy.

S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.

Walsall.

" TOPPING OF THE LAND " (11 S. vii. 68). Does not this simply mean the highest point of the land on the coast-line ? A prominent hill near Guisborough is called Roseberry Topping. M. H. DODDS.

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Admissions to Peterhouse, 1615-1911. By Thomas

Alfred Walker. (Cambridge, University Press. ) THIS .biographical register of the sons of Peter- house is an exact transcription of the entries in the College admission books from 1615 to 1887, with an abstract of the entries in the academic register from 1887 to 1 Oct., 1911. In addition there is an Index of Names, and a most valuable Handlist of the MSS. and printed books (works by or concerning Peterhouse men) which are to> be found in the College Library. This is offered as a nucleus, or beginning, of a full Peterhouse bibliography, such as Dr. Ward suggested at the time of his accession to the Mastership of the College, and the author tells us that, side by side with this, there has been undertaken a collection of engraved portraits. The volume, as a whole,. is the resxilt of the occupation of leisure hours for some twelve years.

In 1615 the year with which it starts Thomas Turner was Master, and the first name in the book the only one for that year is that of " M r Henricus Holford Londinensis," who, " Martii 13, Anno D ni, admissus fuit in sociorum coilieatu'. Tutore M ro Peerson." He, we learn, did not graduate. He belonged to the Holfords of Purfleet, a junior branch of the Cheshire Holfords of Holford. Dr. Walker has collected from many sources particulars not only con- cerning the earlier history and subsequent career of each man on the books, but also concerning his lineage. Hardly a name occurs which is not thus illustrated often fully, and, where occasion serves, pithily and humorously.

For the most part the interest of the book is of a secondary or semi-domestic character. In the later years two new elements commingle with the sedate monotony of the college tradition : on the one hand, sport Peterhouse seems to have its full proportion of " blues " ; and, on the other hand, the introduction of foreigners. Of the names, familiar to the student of this or that learning, but vaguely known to the general reader or beyond our own confines, the out- standing ones are of such rank as Fynes Moryson, Heywood, Cosin, Barrow, Campion, Henry Fawcett. Of more curious interest is the name of Charles Babbage, who passed to Peterhouse from Trinity in April, 1812. Dr. Walker recites in full, with a well-deserved note of exclamation,. the twenty-five or so titles of distinction, beginning with " EsqV and ending with " Etc.," which follow his name on the titlepage of his ' Passages from the Life of a Philosopher.'

The scandal of the Barnes appointment makes the worst chapter in the public history of Peterhouse. Barnes's carelessness as a recorder throws some additional light on the discontent of the College with him. He leaves numerous blanks in the Admission-book, and, coming to 1823, Dr. Walker tells us that, for some seven OP