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 ii s. ix. JAN. 3, i9i4.] NOTES AND QUlvRIKS.

John Gleane, a scion of the well-known Norwich family, was admitted to Corpus as a Norfolk man in 1647 ; Christopher Baret was probably, though a native of London, related to Chr. Baret, who was appointed Mayor of Norwich by the House of Commons in the year 1647-8 ; John Quarles was an- other lad from Norwich School, whose formal admission to Peterhouse took place only on 15 June, 1647 ; while Charles Cremer followed Baron to Gray's Inn, where he was admitted on 10 Dec., 1650, as son and heir of Edmund Cremer of Snetis- ham, Norfolk, e.squire. (Ii would be too daring to attempt to identify William Smith and Joseph Browne.)

G. C. MOORE SMITH. Sheffield.

(To be continued.)

THE FIRST EDITION OF BROWNE'S ' BRITANNIA'S PASTORALS.'

ON comparing a- recently acquired copy of William Browne's ' Britannia's Pastorals,' [16133-1616, with another already in my possession, I noticed certain important differences, both typographical and in the text. As far -as I am aware, these differences have not been noted, and as those in the text are considerable, they seem worth recording. The textual differences appear to be confined to the first " Book," dated in the preliminary matter 1613. In one copy, which may be called A edition, on the verso of A, in addition to the verses, there is a list of ' Faults escaped ' ; in the other, which we may designate B edition, there is no list of faults, and examination shows that all the errors except two have been corrected, and the book has been reprinted throughout, with different printer's ornaments, and a different size type used for the side-notes. All copies of B edition of which I have been able to get descriptions or to see are bound with the second book, dated on the printed title 1616.

A few examples of the differences in the text will suffice to show the kind of changes made in the B edition, but the extent of these can only be realized after a careful examination.

P. 3, 1. 17. A edition has "Yea in the end"; B edition has " And that he often "

P. 4, 1. 10. A edition, "My life (like Phaeton) to thy clearest eyes"; B edition, "My wretched life to thy betraying eyes."

P. 4, 1.17. A edition, "Then sure in this, I heavenly Bowers command"; B edition, "I have: and see the heavenly powers intend."

P. 6, 1. 17. A edition, "For prey, two greedy hawks on each side hem " ; B edition, " Two sharp set hawks do her on each side hem."

P. 8, 11. 39 and 40 are entirely different in the- two editions.

P. 9, 11. 27, 28, 29, and 30 are entirely different in the two editions.

P. 11, 1. 39. A edition, " Clorin the faire";. B edition, "Marine the faire."

P. 12, 1. 9. A edition, "Who on his racks will torture everyday"; B edition, "will torture by his powre."

P. 15, 1. 15. In the middle of 1. 15 in B edition , an interpolation begins, and 14 new lines are added, the texts then corresponding again.

P. 17, 11. 11, 12, 13, and 19 have been rewritten in B edition.

P. 49, 1. 11. In B edition two new lines are- interpolated.

P. 79 After 1. 29 B edition has two new liijes inserted, the text then going on again in corre- spondence with A edition.

P. 81, 1. 26. A edition has "hem them in"; B edition, " make a ring."

Many other differences in text might be- set down, but these are enough to show that a very considerable revision was made when "the B edition was published.. This was apparently in 1616, when the Second Book was issued. A edition ends with the words ''Finis Libri Primi," while B edition has ** The end of the first Booke."

There are numerous typographical varia- tions in the two issues, but in the presence of the evidence cited they lose importance. So far I have not seen or heard of a copy of Book II. separate from B edition of Book I., but in the library of the Inner Temple there is a separate copy of A edition of Book I s , and Mr. Collmann at Britwell Court has very kindly informed me that they have a similar copy. My copy of A edition is bound in a modern binding with Book II. The three copies in the British Museum, the two in the Bodleian, the Hoe copy, the Huth copy, and three others which I have had described for me or have seen, are all B editions of Book I. It seems, therefore, certain that the real date of' publication of B edition of Book I. was 1616.

32, Clarges Street, W. E. M. Cox.

THE RECORDS OF THE CITY LIVERY COMPANIES, &c.

(See 11 S. vi. 464; vii. 101, 403, 505; viii. 144, 386.)

I HAVE not had much opportunity of examining Charters of Incorporated Trades belonging to England, but have looked into several Scottish ones.

Recently occasion arose for my inquiring into the Vorking of an ancient Scottish