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rhom Mr. Hazlitt says, in his ' Roll of loiiour,' that he " left part of his collection o St. John's College, Cambridge."

It appears from my copy of William Bryant's Catalogue that the date of his sale p-as postponed from 23 March to 5 April, 807, and following days.

H. J. B. CLEMENTS.

Killadoon, Celbridge, co. Kildare.

' COMUS ' AND GRAY'S ' ELEGY ' : A >AR \LLEL (11 S. vii. 206). The alleged >ara.llelism between ' Comus,' 22, 23, and I. 53, 54 of the ' Elegy ' has been frequently >ointed out. See the editions of Gray by totford, W. L. Phelps, and D. C. Tovey. [*he last-named draws attention to its in- ippositeness,

k since the 'sea-girt isles' to which the simile efers are conspicuous and on the surface ; whilst b is of the essence of Gray's thought that the gems re invisible and at the bottom. Milton's thought 3 in fact Shakespeare's ('Rich. II.,' II. i. 46) : This precious stone set in the silver sea."

The passage which Mitford quotes from Jishop Hall's ' Contemplations ' is, as Tovey uggests, a better parallel :

" There is many a rich stone laid up in the >owells of the earth, many a fair pearle in the >osome of the sea, that never was scene nor never hall bee."

EDWARD BENSLY.

The illustration from the gems of ocean, ised in common by Milton and Gray, is duly 10 tod in the Aldine Edition of the later poet's vorks. After a further reference to Young's Ocean,' st. xxiv. :

In chambers deep, Where waters sleep, What unknown treasures pave the floor !

he annotator proceeds thus :

" ' There is many a rich stone laid up in the xnvells of the earth, many a fair pearle in the >osome of the sea, that never was seene, nor never ihall bee.' Bishop Hall, 'Contemplations,' i. vi. ). 872. Hee Quarterly Revieiv, No. xxii., p. 314 ; ad ?r. Barberini Poem., p. 148, Mdpyapa -rrdXXa @a6vs vyKpvTTTfi Kv^aai TTOVTQS ', and see T. Warton, Milton,' p. 234."

THOMAS BAYNE.

[MR. Jon.v B. WAINEWRIGHT also thanked for eply.]

EAST ANGLIAN FAMILIES (11 S. vi. 230, U2, 495). I have to thank your corre- spondents for information, and shall be
 * hankful for more, being resident in a far-

)ff colony where it is very difficult to get at nformation from books.

I shall be glad if any correspondent can n any way connected with the family of
 * ay whether John Hus the Reformer Was

Gosse or Goes also, if anything is known of the family of Elizabeth Stainton of Kirk- lees Priory (1247). TANNITSOW. New Zealand.

FULLWOOD : HALLEY : PARRY : PYKE (US. vii. 203). Le Neve (ed. T. D. Hardy, vol. i. pp. 543, 545) gives Peche, with the variants Peccator, Peccam, and Pethe (or Pecthe), as the surname of the Bishops of Coventry and Lichfield

1. Robert, Chaplain to King Henry I., who was consecrated at Abingdon 13 March, 1120/21, and died 22 Aug., 1126 ; and

2. Richard, who Was son of Bishop Robert, and Archdeacon of Coventry, who was consecrated in 1161, and died in 1182 or 1183. JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

MR. EUGENE F. McPiKE of Chicago asks whether it can be confirmed that "Robert, the brother of Henry Pike, was con- secrated Bishop of Lichfield in 1127, and that Richard Pike was consecrated Bishop of Coventry in 1162."

Geo. Fisher in his ' A Companion and Key to the History of England ' (London, Simpkin & Marshall, 1832), under the head of ' Litchfield and Coventry,' says :

" The bishopric of Litchfield and Coventry, similar to that of Bath and Wells, is a single diocese with a double appellation."

In his list of the ' Succession of the Bishops of Litchfield and Coventry ' he gives :

"1121 [year]. 36 [Bishop]. Robert Peche, chaplain to King Henry I. ; consecrated March 13, 1121 ; died August, 1127."

Then he states the see " was vacant four years " ; after which he says, that from 1129 to 1148 Roger de Clinton was bishop, and from 1149 to 1161 the bishop was Walter Durdent. Then comes :

" 1162 [year]. 39 [Bishop]. Richard Peche, Archdeacon of Coventry ; consecrated in the year 1162 ; died Oct. 6, 1182."

The list does not show any surname of the spelling " Pike."

The bishops Peche Were probably of noble family, for Fisher, in his list of English holders of peerages, gives :

Peche of Brunne. Barony by Tenure :

1. [holder of title], i. [holder of first creation]. Hamon Peche [arms : Ar., a fesse, between three chevronels, gu.], lord of Brunne, in the county of Cambridge, in right of his wife, Alice, sister, and coheir of Pain Peverill ; died before 1195.

2. ii. Gilbert Peche, son and heir, died before 1217.

3. iii. Hamon Peche, son and heir, died in the year 1241.