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33. 1428-9, Thomas Warf (Quarfe, Querfe), attorney in the Exchequer ; fee, 6s. 8d., last paid in 1441-2.

34. 1429-30, William Chamburleyn, counsel ; fee, 13s. 4c?., last paid in 1443-4.

35. 1431-2, Thomas Haydock, steward ; fee, 5Z., last paid in 1450-1. Probably the Thomas Haydock who acquired Grey well manor, Hants, in 1444. See ' Viet. Hist. Hants,' iv. 77.

36. 1433-4, Mr. William Calverhull, no- tary ; fee, 6s. 8d. ; succeeded in 1453-4 by No. 43 below, but served again in 1461-2 (rolls of 1462-3 and 1463-4 missing). Fellow of the College ; he styled himself (in our Register O) William Balton alias Calverhull.

37. 1433-4, John Langport (Lamport), auditor ; fee, 13s. 4cZ., last paid in 1468-9. Served also as clerk of accounts from 1428-9 to 1450-1 at stipend of 40s.

38. 1443-4, Robert Glowceter, attorney in the Exchequer ; fee, 6s. 8d., last paid in 1459-60 (roll of 1460-1 missing).

39. 1444-5, Michael Skyllyng; office not stated, but probably counsel ; fee, 13s. 4cZ., last paid in 1461-2. He lived at Lainston (see Viet. Hist. Hants,' iii. 445).

40. 1444-5, Thomas Brown, clerk to the Chief Justice of the Common Bench, paid 6s. 8d. " pro consiliis et favoribus suis impensis." This payment does not recur after 1452-3. Probably identical with No. 26 above.

41. 1446-7, Rampston (Ramston),

attorney in the Common Bench ; fee, 6s. 8d. (with 3s. 4c?. for half of previous year), last paid in 1452-3.

42. 1449-50, Thomas Wellys (Welle), counsel ; fee, 6s. 8d., raised next year to 13s. 4rf. ; became steward in 1451-2 at 51., last paid in 1487-8 (roll of 1488-9 missing). See 11 S. xi. 222. H. C.

Winchester College.

(To be concluded.)

'THE STANDARD;

(See ante, p. 341.)

WHEN Peel in 1845 resolved to pass his Maynooth Bill to give a grant to the Roman Catholic College, he knew well the storm with which the proposal would be received. What Macaulay described in fierce scorn as " the bray of Exeter Hall " was heard resounding every day and night. Peel, therefore, took care to secure Giffard's influence, and succeeded in inducing him not to oppose the measure either in The Morning Herald or The Standard. Giffard was converted, upon the ground that the

measure was indispensably necessary for the- peace of Ireland. Peel, however, did not show much gratitude ; for when he brought in his Bill for the abolition of the Corn Laws, he failed even to pay Giffard the compliment of apprising him of his inten- tion, and Greville, in his diary on the "5th of December, records how the whole tow r n had been electrified on the previous day by an article in The Times which announced that Parliament would be called early in January in order that the total repeal of the Corn Laws might be proposed :

"Nobody [writes Greville] knew whether to believe it or not, though all seemed staggered, and the more so because The Standard, though affecting to disbelieve The Times, and treating it as a probable fiction, did not contradict it from authority, as might naturally have been expected jf it had been untrue."

The year 1845 was a prosperous one for the daily press, being the year of the great, railway mania ; the newspapers were inun- dated with long advertisements of pros- pectuses of new companies. The Morning Herald benefited to such an extent that the paper had to be extended to twenty pages, and the net profit amounted to 3,0001. a week. This induced Baldwin to spend lavishly, paying increased sums to his contributors, by which both his papers derived advantage. At that time there was great competition among the daily papers as to which should be the first to publish news from India, and Baldwin kept a vessel stationed at Calais with steam up to receive the dispatch from his courier, who had brought it through France from Marseilles, At times the French Government would vexatiously stop the courier for acting contrary to French regulations.

On the 21st of January, 1846, appeared another competitor for early intelligence. On that day The Daily News was started, with Charles Dickens as editor. After nineteen days, however, he had had quite enough of editing a daily paper, and for three months the paper struggled on, finding great difficulty in keeping afloat. Dilke* was called in to the rescue ; his first act was to reduce the price from fivepence to twopence halfpenny, and his next to arrange for the paper to obtain the earliest news. The appearance of The Daily News was a good thing for Baldwin, for it caused the old feud between The Times and The

The Athenceum, and in order to devote his whole time to The Daily News, he appointed T. K. Hervey to the editorship of The Athenceum.
 * Dilke was at the time editing his own paper,