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...... There was not the least foundation for all that

calumny with regard to the manner of obtaining them."

This he knew to be a lie, for in the previous Parliament, and in that very House of which he had then been a member, Curry, being asked by Col. Onslow "concerning the 'Essay on Woman,' he acknow- ledged that he had received money for furnishing a part of it." 'Commons' Debates,' 1761-4, vol. iv. 253, 19 Jan., 1764.

I have spoken of the dispute as a logo- machy, for I see little more in it ; the charge in the Information was for publishing "obscene and impious libels .... intending to blaspheme Almighty God and to ridicule our Blessed Saviour," &c. Probably the jury, under Mansfield's direction, found after a long retirement (London Evening Post, 21-3 Feb., 1764) that Wilkes pub- lished the libels, and were then told it may be after a protest from them that the intent was for the Court. Certainly Wilkes had no design upon the public morals; but even if we allow some weight to Kidgell's assertion that there were blas- phemies forged and interpolated, we know too much of Wilkes's true character to acquit him at the bar of History of having composed blasphemy and bawdry. Gibbon, far from squeamish where it was a question of employing irony to the verge of ridicule, in the treatment either of the mysteries of our religion or of the triumph or capitulation of female virtue in unequal contests with its enemies, was compelled, after much praise of Wilkes's wit and learning, to add :

But a thorough profligate as well in principle

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y vce, and his conversation of blasphemy and bawdy. These morals he glories

as in practice ; his character is infamous, his e stained with every vice, and his conversation full

in, for shame is a weakness he has long since sur- mounted." ' Journal,' 23 Sept., 1762.

Dilke, in quoting Gibbon's encomiums of this date, prudently omitted this slight qualification.

Before quitting the Dyce copy and the quarto, we may observe" that in each the pagination runs straight from the title-page through the " preliminaries," as the ' Ad- vertisement ' and ' Design ' would be tech- nically called, so that in neither does the ' Essay ' begin at p. 1. This is what we should expect in reprints ; but in the original we should expect to find a separat pagination for the preliminaries, which are generally the last to be written and set up in type. Turning to Add. MS. 30,885 f. 155, we find the attorney speaking of th( fragment as consisting of a few pages o: ' Advertisement ' and ' Design,' and then

' pp. 1 to 9 of the Essay," indicating that 3he preliminaries had a separate Roman numeral pagination, such as is usual.

Nevertheless, these reprints probably closely follow the original in other respects, she few extra pages being, perhaps, required or the half-titles to the minor parodies, which may not have been in the original. ERIC R. WATSON.

(To be continued.)

IRISH FAMILY HISTORIES (ADDITIONAL).

(See 11 S. vii. 483 ; viii. 124, 173, 213, 335, 403 ; ix. 24, 66.)

Acheson. The Achesons : a Scottish Family in Ireland. See The Pedigree Register, vol. ii. Nos. 22 and 23.

Annesley. A Table tracing the Descent of Arthur Annesley, who claims the Titles, &c., of Baron Mount Norris and Viscount Valentia, &c. Dublin, 1772.

Archer. Memorials of Families of the Surname of Archer. 1861.

Ash. The Ash MSS., written in 1735 by Lieut.- Col. Thomas Ash, and Other Family Records. Published for the first time by Hy. Taylor, Limavady. Edited by Rev. Edward T. Martin. Belfast, 1890.

Ball. Records of Anglo-Irish Families of Ball, &c., by Rev. W. Ball Wright. 1887. (Super- seded by ' Ball Family Records,' 1908.)

Barry. Evidences of the Barri Family of Manor- beer and Oletham, &c., by Sir Geo. Duckett. Kendal, 1890.

Bedell. A True Relation of the Life and Death of William Bedell, Bp. of Kilmore, &c., by Th. W'arton Jones. 1872. (Contains pedi- gree.)

Beresford. Shallcross Pedigrees, by Rev. W. H. Shawcross. Hemsworth, 1908.

Bewley. The Bewleys of Cumberland and their Irish Descendants, &c., by Sir E. T. Bewley. Dublin, 1902.

Blayney. Notes relating to the Blayney Family of Montgomeryshire and Ireland, by E Rowley Morris. 1874.

Boleyn. Historical Anecdotes of the Families of the Boleynes, Careys, Mordaunts, Hamiltons, and Jocelyns, arranged as an Elucidation of the Genealogical Chart at Tollymore Park, compiled by Emily G. S. Reilly in 1835, revised in 1839. Newry, 1839.

Boyle. Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Illustrious Family of the Boyles, &c., by Eustace Budgell, 3rd ed. London, 1737.

Boyle. The Orrery Papers, 1653-1752, 2 vols. 1903.

Bronte. The Brontes in Ireland, by Dr. Wm. Wright. 1894.

Browne. Family Notes, collected during many Years, by Justin M. Browne. Hobart, Tasmania, 1887.