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quite barefooted, not wearing even sandals in his character of forerunner.

WILLIAM MERCER.

Useful details will be found in Mrs. Jameson's * History of our Lord as exem- plified in Works of Art,' pp. 281-309.

WM. H. PEET.

[CoL. B. W. PHIPPS also thanked for reply.]

ACT REGULATING MEDICAL PRACTICE,

1419 (11 S. vii. 409). In answer to MR. PARKER'S query as to Fuller's allusion to the 1419 order about medical practitioners, and as to the side reference " Robert Hare, ' In Archivis,' " I may say that in the cele- brated manuscript volumes presented to the University of Cambridge by Robert Hare, and preserved in the Registry, there is under the date mentioned an enactment quoted :

" Ne quis exerceat practica in artibus medicine et chirurgie nisi prius in universitatibus fuerit approbatus." A side-note says :

" Ex Rotulo Parliament! inchoati apud West- mo: 2 die Mail anno nono Regis Henrici quinti."

H. P. STOKES. St. Paul's Vicarage, Cambridge.

See Charles Henry Cooper's ' Annals of Cambridge,' vol. i. p. 166, under the year 1421 :

" In the Parliament held on the 2nd of May, a petition was presented having for its object to restrain the practice of physic to such as had graduated in that faculty in the Universities, or were approved of by those bodies. This petition was in the following terms."

The document itself given by Cooper with the reference ' Rotuli Parliament - orum,' iv. 158 is too long to repeat here, but a few words may be quoted. The petitioners complain that the present state of things is such

' so that in this Roialme is every man, be he never so lewed, takyng upon hym practyse, y suffred to use hit, to grete harme and slaughtre of many men."

The qualified practitioner of those days, one would imagine, did not do so badly in the way of slaughter. Cooper continues :

" In consequence of this petition, Parliament ordered and decreed that the lords of the King's council for the time being, should have authority to make and execute such ordinances and punish- ment of those persons who should thenceforth practice and exercise the arts of physic and surgery, and were not approved and skilful therein (namely, those of physic, by the Universities ; and surgeons, by masters of that art), as might seem to those lords most fit and necessary, according to their good understandings and dis- cretions, for the safety of the people."

A reference follows to p. 130 of the same- volume of the * Rotuli Parliamentorum.'

A life of Robert Hare, about whom MR. PARKER asks, is to be found in the ' D.N.B.' It will be seen from this that Hare pre- sented to Oxford and Cambridge collections relating to their history and privileges. Hare's MS. ' Liber Privilegiorum Uni- versitatis ' was the book which the Uni- versity of Oxford on one occasion refused to allow Archbishop Laud to borrow. See W. D. Macray's ' Annals of the Bodleian Library.' EDWARD BENSLY.

Dr. Hastings Rashdall in ' The Univer- sities of Europe in the Middle Ages,' vol. iit pt. ii. p. 454, says of Oxford in a note :

" No examination or practice was apparently required for an M.A. to become M.D. Such was the belief in healing by Aristotle. By a Statute of 9 Hen. V., cap. 11 (' Rot. Parl.,' iv. p. 130), the Council is empowered to make regulations for preventing non-graduates practising anywhere in England, but in the dearth of M.D.s in England any such regulations must have been quite futile."

9 Hen, V, would be 1421-2.

A. R. BAYLEY.

JACOBITE EARL OF BEVERLEY (11 S. vii. 329). No Jacobite title of Beverley is mentioned in the Marquis de Ruvigny's 'The Jacobite Peerage' (Edinburgh, 1904). The only known earldom of the name seems to have been created in 1790, and is now held by the Duke of Northumberland t Isabella, first Countess of Beverley (1750 1812), was granddaughter of Elizabeth Lewis. There was a (Douglas) Marques- sate of Beverley attached to the Dukedom of Dover, which lasted from 1708 to 1778.

W. A. B. C.

AUTHOR WANTED (11 S. vii. 410). "A babe is fed with milk and praise," slightly misquoted by Lamb (a not infrequent occurrence) by the substitution of " babe " for " child," is the concluding line of ' The First Tooth.' one of the poems in ' Poetry for Children,' written by Charles and Mary Lamb, and published in 1809. The poem referred to was probably written by Mary Lamb, but there is no direct evidence of this, though perhaps the epithet applied to the line by Lamb is rather in favour of this ascription.

With reference to ' Poetry for Children,* Lamb, writing to Manning (2 Jan., 1810), tells him that

"there comes with this two volumes .... of minor poetry, a sequel to ' Mrs. Leicester ' ; the best you may suppose mine ; the next best are my coadjutor's ; but I must tell you mine are but one- third in quantity of the whole."