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a shilling to Mr. W. Rooney of Dublin. Boone, the bookseller in Bond Street, bought it of Rooney for 70Z., and sold it to J. O. Halliwell in September, 1856, for 120?. Halliwell disposed of it to the British Museum. Various facsimiles exist.

Ling must have died between 1607 and 1610. He left no son (see P.C.C. 58 Wing- field). For verification of the foregoing see Arber's * Transcripts of the Stationers' Company's Register,' passim ; R. B. McKer- row's ' Dictionary of Printers and Book- sellers, 1557-1640'; H. B. Wheatley's paper on ' The Signs of the Booksellers in St. Paul's Churchyard ' (1907) ; Athenceum, 1856, pp. 1168 and 1537, with letters from Rooney on p. 1191, J. P. Collier on p. 1220, J. Winter Jones on p. 1221, and J. O. Halliwell on p. 1308 (all upon the subject of the first ' Hamlet ').

A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187, Piccadilly, W.

Nicholas Ling's bookshop was first at the sign of " The Mermaid " in St. Paul's Churchyard, then at three different doors of St. Paul's successively, and finally in the churchyard of St. Dunstan's, Fleet Street ; but his home appears to have been in the parish of St. Dionis Backchurch, Lime Street, half a mile to the east of Bread Street. Three children of his were christened in the parish church : Elizabeth on 12 Dec., 1602 ; Rachel on 17 Jan., 1605 ; and Benja- min on 28 June, 1607. He relinquished business in November, 1607 sixteen years before the publication of the First Folio when all his publications (including his interest in ' Hamlet ' and three other Shakespearian Quartos) were transferred to John Smethwicke. He was buried at St. Dionis Backchurch on 27 Feb., 1609, and his will was duly proved (23 Dorset and 58 Wingfield). His widow Elizabeth was buried with her husband on 10 June, 1613. and her will was proved the same year (123 Capell). There was also in this parish at that period a Richard Ling, who married Anne Grey and had several children.

In St. Mary Aldermary (contiguous to All Hallows, Bread Street, where Milton was born in 1608) Milton was married in 1663. In that parish there dwelt William Ling, who married Helen Nixon on 5 Aug., 1571, and was buried on 21 Oct., 1578. They had four children : Edward in 1575 (who died in May, 1577), Jane in 1576, Frances in 1577, and Margaret in January, 1579.

A. T. W,

In a note (p. 178) to 'A Life of William Shakespeare,' illustrated library edition (1899), Sir Sidney Lee says :

" James Roberts and Nicholas Ling, two of the three promoters (the other was John Trundell) of the publication of the First Quarto of ' Hamlet,' and the sole promoters of the publication of the Second Quarto, were well-established members of the publishing trade .... Ling, a bookseller and publisher, not a printer, had taken up his free- dom as a stationer in 1579, and was called into the livery in 1598. He was himself a man of letters, having designed a series of collected aphorisms in four volumes, of which the second was the well-known ' Palladis Tamia ' (1598) by Francis Meres. Ling compiled and published both the first volume of the series, called ' Politeupheuia ' (1597), and the third, called ' Wit's Theatre of the Little World ' (1599). In 1607 he temporarily acquired some interest in the publication of Shakespeare's ' Love's Labour 's Lost ' and ' Romeo and Juliet.' "

A. R. BAYLEY.

The name of N. Ling appears on the title- page of the following book :

Gardiner (Sam., B.D.), The Portraiture of the Prodigal Sonne, livelie set forth in a three-fold dis- course. N. Ling, West End of Powles. 1599. 12mo.

FBEDK. A. EDWARDS.

" A WYVERN PART-PER-PALE ADDRESSED "

(US. vii. 228). I fancy Longfellow did not use " addressed " as an heraldic term, but chiefly as a rime for " crest," and with the idea that it might be taken as meaning displayed, set up, adorned = dressed. I can- not remember at the present moment that he had any precedent for so doing.

ST. SWITHIN.

" Addressed " seems an impossible term heraldically ; and there is a prima facie ingenuity about W. G.'s suggestion that it should be " addorsed " a Word which one finds written also adorsed. adorssed, adossed, adorse, and adoss. I say prima facie, because, come to think of it, " ad- dorsed " means two beasts of some kind back-to-back, and how can one wyvern be back-to-back ? The attitude is unthinkable. One is reminded of the man who said he heard a noise in the street, and flocked to the window to see what it was.

D. O. HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B. Fort Augustus.

It is not easy to suppose what Longfellow did mean ; probably he was thinking of ' addorsed," or had heard that w r ord used leraldically, but even in that case it would DC meaningless when applied to the singular lumber, the term referring only to two