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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1913.

CONTENTS. No. 179.

NOTES: Sir John Brooke, Lord Cobham, 421 Webster's 'Appius and Virginia,' 422 John Broughton, Pugilist Inigo Jones's Christian Name, 424 Statue in Queen Square, Bloomsbury Scott's ' Woodstock 'Ink horns, 425 Fuller, Burton, and Lipsius Vanishing London : Sweeny Todd Myth : " Bolt-in-Tun," Fleet Street, 426.

QUERIES : John Keats and Mr. Abbey Booksellers con- nected with Keats A Friend of Thackeray, 427 Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots Gray Family of Whiteboys Louch Family St. George's, Hanover Square: Ely Chapel Garibaldian Veteran T. Rogers Author of Quotation Wanted Wilderness Row "The Victory," Walworth "The Star," Broad Green Blake and his Friend Butts, 428 'Pegasus' Mrs. H. A. Marshall Bio- graphical Information Wanted Parliamentary Soldiers and Charles I. Richard Smith, Royal Verderer " Audeo quid audeo "Society of Friends: "Thou," "Thee" Children of Clementina Walkingshaw Format's Last Theorem Jewish Sarcophagi and Greek Painting, 429 Magic Ring" Cleverality " " Death rides a horse of rapid speed "Washington's Connexion with Selby ' The Ambulator ' Queenhoo Hall, 430.

REPLIES : 'Stamford Mercury,' 430 Richard Ball, B D., 431 Dickensian Landmarks in Birmingham " Meend," " Myende "Early English Printed Books Coming of Age, 432 -Authorship of 'Pax Vobis,' 433 Baron Stulz Places in 'The Uncommercial Traveller' Authors Wanted Earl of Pembroke and Burbage Red Hand of Ulster, 434" If not the rose "Edmund Cartwright, 435 Hessian Contingent H. Meredith Parker Bukaty Family ' Monte Cristo,' 436 " Dowler" Obelisk at Bath Vitr<* : Tr^moulliere " Subway " " Bucca-boo ' FitzGerald and Omar Khayyam, 437.

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SIR JOHN BROOKE, LORD COBHAM.

HE was created Baron Cobham by Charles I. at Oxford in 1645, being then heir-male to his cousin the Lord Cobham attainted in 1604. Like many others of the younger members of the Cobham line, very little that is definite seems to be known of his early career. The date of his knighthood is not definitely known, nor are the circumstances under which the honour was conferred. G. E. C. in his ' Complete Peerage ' can fix no nearer approximate date than that he was knighted " before his mother's death in 1611/12." Beyond giving his parentage the Peerages are absolutely silent about him until he was made one of the Royalist peers towards the close of the Civil War.

The following facts respecting him, gathered chiefly from the ' S.P. Domestic,' the ' Acts of the P.C.,' and the Cecil MSS., may be useful as casting light upon some portion of his history, fle was the second of three sons of Sir Henry Brooke, Knt. (called also Sir Henry " Cobham "), by

Anne, daughter of Sir Henry Sutton. His father was the fifth son of George, ninth Lord Cobham (who died in 1558), was a well-known diplomatist under Elizabeth, and died 13 Jan., 1591/2. The elder brother of Sir John was Sir Calisthenes Brooke, who was knighted in 1597. and died #.p. in 1611. The precise year of John's birth is not known, but can be fixed very nearly. His elder brother, Calisthenes, is stated (father's Inq. p.m.) to have been 19 years old at his father's death ; so born about 1572. This, therefore, places John's birth approximately at about 1574. Very early in his career he adopted the military profession. In October. 1597, upon intelli- gence that Ostend was about to be besiege:!, 500 men were ordered to be sent thither, and amongst them Sir John Brooke, " cousin to Lord Cobham," who had charge of a company of 150 footmen. At this date he was already a knight, and in the absence of more definite information may be suspected to have previously served in Ireland with his brother Sir Calisthenes, and with him to have received knight- hood from the Lord Deputy in the previous May. He remained at Ostend till 1598. In the year following he went to Munster. In 1600/1 he was Colonel of the Middlesex Train Bands, and in February of that year commanded the guard of the unfortunate prisoners confined in the Tower in connexion with the Essex Plot. On 16 June, 1607, he received a grant of 100?. per year pension for life. He sailed for Spain in March, 1610, but owing to the plague had to land in Portugal. In April, 1611, he purchased from Lord Dunfermline, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, the moiety of his pension, and on 21 May received the formal grant of the same 2001. for life.

He was long interested in foreign com- mercial affairs, and was a member of, and subscriber to, the Virginia Company. The East India Company thought of sending him to the East Indies in 1611, but decided to send Sir Thomas Roe. He was one of the King's Council for New England, and a patentee of lands in Virginia in 1620 ; find was concerned in the patent for making hard soap from " berilia," March, 1624, and for making saltpetre, April, 1625.

He was appointed on the Council of War, 15 Feb., 1628, and one of the Commissioners to compound for lands granted from the Crown since 45 Elizabeth at undervalues, 12 Feb., 1630 ; one of twenty-three Commis- sioners " to advise on some course for estab- lishing the advancement of the plantation