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LOCH CHESNEY (US. ix. 389, 433). I am greatly indebted to SIR HERBERT MAXWELL for his reply to my question. Will he adc to his kindness by saying if, from his exhaus- tive knowledge of Galloway, he can tell me if the family name of Chesney was known there ?

It is believed to be French, not Celtic and a branch appeared in Ulster in 1642 who were believed to come from Galloway in " the Scottish Army." Y. T.

NEW ALLUSION TO SHAKESPEARE (11 S ix. 447). This is not new. It is a mere rechauffe of the famous passage in Fuller's

who compiled the Dictionary has been careful to omit all the best things. On referring to the Bibliography at the end of J. Eglington Bailey's ' Life of Thomas Fuller,' I find it there duly recorded that the second part of * An Hist. Diet, of Eng- land and Wales, 1692,' is taken from Fuller' Lives in the ' Worthies.' One sentence from this same source has found its way, in a second-hand and mutilated form, into the works of Robert Browning, who chose as the first motto of ' Ferishtah's Fancies ' :
 * Worthies,' from which the harmless drudge

46 His genius was very jocular, but, when dis- posed, he could be very serious." Article

Dictionary,' 2nd ed., 1701.
 * Shakespear,' Jeremy Collier's ' Historical, &c.,

By this is meant the new edition of the English translation of Moreri's ' Dictionary ' prepared by Jeremy Collier (R. C. Christie's 4 Essays,' p. 14).

What Fuller wrote was :

" Adde to all these, that though his Genius generally was jocular, and inclining him to festivity, yet he could (when so disposed) be solemn and serious, as appears by his Tragedies ; so that Heraclitus himself (I mean if secret and unseen) might afford to smile at his Comedies, they were so merry ; and Democritus scarce for- bear to sigh at his Tragedies, they were so mourn- full." ' The History of the Worthies of England,' ii. 414 (1811).

EDWARD BENSLY.

I am sorry to say this is hardly a " new " allusion, having first appeared in Thomas Fuller's ' History of the Worthies of Eng- land, 1662,' p. 126. It was given in full in Shakespeare's " Centurie of Prayse, ed. by Ingleby & Smith, 1879," pp 246-7, and quoted again on p. 108 of my ' Shakespeare Bibliography, 1911.' MR. MAURICE JONAS, however, is entitled to our thanks for pointing out the use of Fuller's comment in the ' Historical History ' described.

WILLIAM JAGGARD.

DR. KING, AUTHOR OF ' ANECDOTES OF HIS OWN TIMES ' (11 S. ix. 230). He is said to have been son of the Rev. Peregrine King, and went to Ireland in 1727 about a lawsuit in connexion with an uncle's fortune. In. my ' Great Archbishop of Dublin, Wm. King, D.D., 1650-1729,' published 1906, I mention him as one of " three distinguished con- temporaries of the same name, but not of the same family " (p. 278), viz., Archbishop King; Wm. King, LL.D., 1663-1712, the Christ-Church wit and author ; and Wm. King, LL.D., 1685-1763, Principal of St. Mary's Hall, Oxford, a Jacobite, author of { Anecdotes of his Own Times,' &c.

CHARLES S. KING, Bart. St. Leonards-on-Sea.

"VOSSIONER" (11 S. ix. 210, 390, 437). W. S. B. H. is right in saying, at the last reference, that " a distinction was recognized between advowsons and patronages." In 1348 Edward III., by his foundation charter, granted to St. Stephen's College, Westminster, a house in Lombard Street, " unacum patronatibus et advocationibus ecclesiarum parochialium de Dewesbury et Wakefeld " (Dugdale's ' Monast.,' vi. 1349). The patron- atus, or patronage, was the right to present ; the advocatio, or advowson, was the thing presented or granted. At Dewsbury the thing presented was the manor, or manorial rights of the church.

Mr. S. J. Chadwick has edited an account of the manor of Dewsbury for the years 1348-54 (Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, xxi. 352-92). It is headed ' Compotus Ecclesie de Dewsbury.' The receipts include (inter alia] the rent of assize, the rents of two mills, the tithes of wheat and lambs, the mortuaries, and the rent of the pigeon -cote. The payments include (inter alia) the repairs of the church, the salaries of two chaplains, the expenses of holding the court, and the salary of the reeve for collecting rent, apparently the rent of assize. By far tho greater part of the lord's income is derived Tom tithe. This was a rich manor or Benefice. It is described in the Court Rolls of the sixteenth century as " the rectory manor," and in 1859 as " the manor, lorcl- ihip, or rectory of Dewsbury." Here, as in rery many other cases, the grant of the advocatio was a grant of the manor. There s no other word in the foundation charter ust referred to by which the manor coul-1 lave passed.

The law books say that a grant of a manor, without adding other words, will pass tho idvowson. The converse was once true ;