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Does it not mean, in the passage quoted, a sort of mediator between two opposite parties ? Gabriel Bethlem, the well-known Prince of Transylvania (Siebenbiirgen) and King of Hungary, who lived from 1580 till 1629, endeavoured, in order to maintain his kingship in Hungary, to keep on equal terms with the Austrian Emperor Ferdi nand II. and the Turkish Sultan. Having no children, he left several legacies to each of them. Cf. Firmin Didot's 'Biographic Generale.' H. KREBS.

[LADY RUSSELL, MR. A. R. BAYLEY, and MB. A. GWYTHER also thanked for replies.]

H. C. ANDREWS'S ' THE HEATHERY ' (11 S. vii. 288). "The Heathery; or, A Monograph of the Genus Erica. London, 1804-12. 6 vols. Royal 8vo, 300 Coloured Plates." The entries in Lowndes's ' Biblio- grapher's Manual.' Watt's ' Bibliotheca Bri- tannica,' and the ' London Catalogue of Books, 1816-51,' all agree in the detail of six volumes. WM. H. PEET.

DATE-LETTERS OF OLD PLATE (11 S. vii- 289). The following works would doubtless be useful in helping to supply the information needed :

Lutschaunig (Alfred). Book of Hall -Marks. Published by J. C. Hotten, 1872, crown 8vo, pp. 160, and 46 plates.

Chaffers. Hail-Marks on Gold and Silver Plate, 1891, royal 8vo.

WILLIAM JAGGARD.

VERTICAL SUNDIALS (11 S. vii. 290). SYLVIOLA should consult Mrs. Alfred Gatty's illustrated ' Book of Sundials,' issued by Bell & Sons in 1900. There are two chapters on Vertical Sundials, detached and attached, and from the numerous illustrations the in- quirer may .identify the building on which his dials formerly did duty.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

Bolton.

GILBERT OF KILMINCHY AND KNOCKINAY (US. vii. 268). The father of Sir William Gilbert of Kilminchy was Thomas Gilbert of Locko, Derby ; his mother was Frances, daughter of Francis Saunders of North- amptonshire. I have in my notes " Thomas- ine Palmer " as the name of Sir William's wife's mother ; and a further note that she married secondly Robert Pigott. of the Desert. MR. W. JACKSON PIGOTT in his query describes fyer as " Thomasine Peyton, daughter of Sir Christopher Peyton, Auditor of Ireland." Which is correct ?

KATHLEEN WARD.

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Biographical Register of ChrisVf College. Com-

Eiled by John Peile, Litt.D. 2 vols. (Cam- ridge University Press. )

IT is impossible to contemplate without sadness the rich harvest here gathered together by the diligence of the late Master of Christ's College. His widow, in a few well-chosen words, tells us that in 1903 an illness interrupted his work, but that during his convalescence at Exmouth, in 1903-4, he began to arrange his facts, and worked steadily till his second illness in 1907. Indeed, the work occupied all his leisiire during the latter years of his life. The final revision was practically ended when his illness began in 1909. He thought of his work to the last. His greatest trouble was its com- pletion, but his anxiety was entirely removed when Dr. Venn suggested that his son Mr. J. A. Venn, who was engaged in similar work, should see the volumes through the press, he himself being ready with assistance should any difficulty arise. Dr. Peile, like the historian Green, found in his wife a helper, and her signature appears to- the Preface.

As one turns over the pages of these two handsome volumes, one realizes the laboiir and research that have been bestowed upon their contents. The biographies extend from 1448 to- 1905, and include the earlier foundation God's House. Of this there are few members whose names are now recoverable, and " a list of those who belonged to God's House only, and never, so far as appears, to Christ's College," is given. " Several others belonged to both." These Dr. Peile has " not tried to classify separately, because certainty is not always attainable." They have been placed under the heading Christ's College with those who belonged to Christ's only. The first Christ's man was John Sickling ; the next three were the first three Fellows Scott, Nunne, and Fowke : all four became ipso facto members under the charter of 1 May, 1505. Who was the first undergraduate remains unknown. The Uni- versity record of matriculations begins in May, 1544, but, despite injunctions/* few students matriculated.

Taking a few of the most notable names in this record, we find John Watson, Master 1517-31. He was a friend of Erasmus, who asked his opinion on his edition of the New Testament, and he was one of a deputation sent to London to refute some of Luther's books. John Leland, the first English antiquary, was born about 1506. He has a place among the brothers of the College in the south oriel window of the Hall. Richard Cheney, Bishop of Gloucester, died 28th of April, 1579. The ' D.N.B.' states that he was " the only one among the Elizabethan bishops who held what are generally known as Anglo-Catholic views." Hugh Broughton, who was elected Fellow in 1572, was one of the best Hebraists of the day. His fame is shown oddly in the reference to him in Ben Jonson's ' Alchemist ' (1610) : " She is gone mad with studying Broughton's works." Gabriel Harvey is still remembered for his attacks on his contemporaries. His controversy with Greene in 1592, and after- wards with Nash, is summarized by Dr. Mullinger