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 128. 1. APRIL 29, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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of Devonshire may be deduced thus : his great-grandfather (or more likely his great great-grandfather) was brother to the great great-great-grandfather of the third Duke oj Devonshire, and consequently Burke was correct in calling him " kinsman."

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Lord-Lieut, of Ireland

1737, d. 1755. CHABLES DRURY. 12 Rantnoor Clifle Road, Sheffield.

In answer to B. C. S., we are told by G. E. C. in his ' Complete Baronetage,' vol. v. creations 1707-1800, under 'Cavendish,

cr. 7 May, 1755, afterwards Barons

Waterpark,' that Sir Henry Cavendish, first baronet, who went to Ireland with his kinsman, the third Duke of Devonshire, was the eldest son of William Cavendish of Doveridge, co. Derby, by Mary, daughter of Timothy Tyrrell of Shotover, co. Oxon ; and, in a foot-note, that this William was descended from Henry- Cavendish of Dove- ridge, illegitimate son of Henry Cavendish of Chatsworth, co. Derby (d.s.p. legit. Oct. 12, 1616, aged 67), the elder brother of William, first Earl of Devonshire.

LIONEL CRESSWELL.

The Hall, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Yorks. [F. DE H. L. thanked for reply.]

DR. DONNE'S COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON (12 S. i. 227). In "The Muses' Library" edition of Donne's poems (1896), ii. p. 219, the editor, Mr. E. K. Chambers, says :

" [She] was by birth Elizabeth Stanley, daughter of Ferdinando, fifth Earl of Derby, and wife of Henry Hastings, fifth Earl of Huntingdon. She was married in 1603, and died in 1633. There is an epitaph upon her by Henry Carey, Viscount Falkland. In 1600 her mother married as her second husband the Lord Keeper, Sir Thomas Egerton. Lady Derby was a daughter of Sir John Spenser of Althorpe, and a kinswoman of the poet Spenser.. . .It seems to me probable that

Lady Huntingdon is the subject of the following passage of a letter from Donne to Sir H. Goodyere. The ' other Countess ' is obviously Lady Bedford- The letter was written during Donne's residence at Peckham in 1605-6. ' For the other part of your letter, spent in the praise of the Countess, 1 am always very apt to believe it of her, and can never believe it so well, and so reasonably, as now, when it is averred by you ; but for the expressing of it to her, in that sort as you seem to counsel, I have these two reasons to decline it~ That that knowledge which she hath of me was in the beginning of a graver course, than of a poet, into which (that I may also keep my dignity)- I would not seem to relapse. The Spanish pro- verb informs me that he is a fool which cannot make one sonnet, and he is mad which makes two. The other stronger reason is my integrity to the other Countess, of whose worthiness,-, though I swallowed your opinion at first upon your words, yet I have hid since an explicit faith, and now a knowledge : and for her delight (since she descends to them) I had reserved not only all the verses, which I should make, but all the thoughts of women's worthiness. But because I hope she will not disdain that I should write- well of her picture, I have obeyed you thus so- far, as to write : but entreat you by your friend- ship, that by this occasion of versifying, I be not traduced, nor esteemed light in that tribe,, and that house where I have lived. If those- reasons which moved you to bid me write be not constant in you still, or if you meant not that I should write verses : or if these verses be too- bad, or too good, over or under her understanding, and not fit, I pray receive them, as a companion' and supplement of this letter to you.' "

A. II. BAYLEY.

When Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1709-91), died in London on June 17, 1791, there were in existence sixty - four chapels and a college (this latter was transferred from CheshumV Hertfordshire, in 1905, to Cambridge, and is remarkable for the number of men it has sent into the foreign mission field). In 1910- there were forty-four churches and mission, stations under twenty-six ordained pastors. ARCHIBALD SPABKE.

ORDER FOR THE ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION OF LATIN (12 S. i. 248). No such order is mentioned in Sir John Sandys's ' History of: Classical Scholarship,' where the account given of the change is this :

" Early in the sixteenth century it was assumed, n England that the Italian method of pronoun- cing the Latin vowels was right. Erasmus de- scribes the Italians as recognizing the English pronunciation of Latin as being the next best to- itill pronounced at Cambridge in the Italian nanner. But the Reformation made it no longer- necessary for the clergy to use the common anguage of the Roman Church ; and, partly to >ave trouble to teachers and learners, Latin was gradually mispronounced as English. The mis- chief probably began in the grammar schools, ancfc
 * heir own. Even as late as 1542 the vowels were