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or pampre in lieu of pampier, we can, if the theory of an added diminutive is accepted, explain the word as a small collection of leaves, as opposed to the larger collection of leaves forming a bound book. Or if, with Dr. Johnson and his authority Pegge, we instead add on " filet " a thread to pampe, the word " pamphlet " still means a collection of leaves threaded together in lieu of a bound book.

Pamphlets were never bound, and even when given covers, the latter were made of blue paper. Hence our modern word " blue- book."

This theory, based as it is on the actual appearance of the ancient pamphlets, seems to me to have far more probability than that of the ' N.E.D.' J. B. WILLIAMS.

SHERWOOD FAMILY: SIXTEENTH-CENTURY RECUSANTS.

THERE is no necessity to set out again an account of the martyr Blessed Thomas Sherwood, as to whom see Dom Camm's Catholic Encyclopaedia.'
 * Lives of the English Martyrs,' and ' The

William Sherwood was committed to the Queen's Bench prison for recusancy, June 15, 1577, and condemned to perpetual imprison- ment, Jan. 23, 1580/81, and was still in the Queen's Bench on the following July 31, after which he disappears. He may have been the father of the martyr, who was a Londoner.

Elizabeth Sherwood, a widow, "com- mitted by Doctor Stanhoppe for her re- cusancie," was sent to the Marshalsea before June, 1582, and was still there in the following March. She was in the White Lion, Nov. 30, 1586, and was still a recusant Sept. 30, 1588, at which time she had a son who was a seminary priest. She may have been the mother of the martyr.

There were two John Sherwoods alive at this time. One became a scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1561; B.A. May 13, 1563, Fellow 1565, and M.A. April 21, 1567; and supplicated for the degree of Med.B. and for licence to practise medicine in March, 1571/2. He arrived at the English College at Rheims from Douay, April 26, 1580 ; and about Oct. 9, 1580, was admitted to a licence and to a doctorate in medicine by the University of Rheims, in the house of the Dean of that faculty, after having held two learned disputations and read one of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates in the presence of the Chancellor and of doctors

of the same faculty and others. Described as a brother of the martyr, he set out for Rome, Aug. 27, 1581, and returned from thence in bad health, Oct. 22, 1584, and went to Paris, Feb. 11, 1584/5, with the intention of joining the Jesuits, which,, however, he never did. Anthony a Wood ('Fasti,' i. 274) gives the date of his incor- poration a,t Oxford thus :

"July 9 [1596], Job. Sherwood doct. of phys. ot the University of Rheimes. He was about this time an eminent practitioner of his faculty in the city of Bath, being much resorted to by those of the Rom. Uath. religion, he himself being of that profession. He died in Feb., 1620, and was buried in the church of St. Pet. and Paul in that city."

Another John Sherwood arrived at Rheims, June 11, 1580 ; received minor orders from the Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne at Rheims, March 24, 1581 ; the sub-diaconate at Soissons in September, 1581 ; the diacona,te r also at Soissons, in June, 1582 ; a,nd the priesthood at La,on in the following March ; and was sent on the English Mission May 4 r 1583. He is said in the ' Concertatio ' to have been imprisoned.

Richard Sherwood arrived at Rheims from, Douay, June 10, 1581. He seems to have gone away again, and to have converted the future martyr Edmund Genings, then a boy of 14, who arrived at Rheims Aug. 12, 1583, He himself returned to Rheims, Dec. 14 in. that year, and was ordained deacon by Cardinal de Guise, March 31, 1584. He left for England, being then a priest, Aug. 2' following. One Mr. Sherwood was in the Tower of London in September, 1586. On Oct. 23, 1586, Richard Sherwood, alias Carleton, a. seminary priest of Rheims r was committed to the Wood Street Counter by Mr. Justice Yonge after having been twice examined at the Guildhall, and three or four times at the judge's house. He was still there in> December, 1586, but was soon after released and banished, as he was regarded as being " meet to make a stale to take byrds of hi kynd." On June 6, 1603, he arrived at the English College, Douay, from Rome, and left for England the same day.

There were two Henry Sherwoods.

One, described as a friar, was imprisoned in the Gatehouse at Westminster, and w'a* discharged thence " in respect of extreame sickness and upon bond tyll April," 1582. As we hear no more of him, it is to be pre- sumed he died before that date. The other,, a draper, was committed to the Marshalsea,. Feb. 11, 1581/2, and was still there in July, 1585. On Aug. 27, 1587, he arrived at Rheims in bad health after nearly seven