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that we may know how far back it can be traced ? It is also, if I may trust my memory, used fairly often as a verb ; e.g., " The editor blue-pencilled the manu- script," that is,' struck out or altered certain portions of which he did not approve.

Mr. Mayhew, I imagine, wished to thank the Clarendon Press reader for the queries he put on the proofs. I can hardly think that he ventured to cancel or alter what JMr. Mayhew had written the idea I have Jiitherto associated with the use of the blue pencil. j. R. THOBNE.

' AN ANCIENT IBISH MANUSCRIPT : THE BOOK OF THE MACGAUBANS OB McGoVEBNS.' (See ante, p. 65.) May I, on the principle of honor cui honor, add a postscript to my paper under this heading at the reference given ? As it was through Dr. Douglas Hyde that Prof. Quiggin first heard of the ' Book of the MacGaurans ' (as he informed me in -a letter of July 5, 1915), so my attention was first directed to Sir J. T. Gilbert's Report of 1871 by a paper entitled ' Ancient Gaelic Book or MS. of Thomas MacSamhradhain,' read in May, 1896, before a Liverpool Literary Society by Mr. J. H. McGovem, L.R.I.B.A. This addendum, contributed motu proprio, will, so far as I am acquainted with it, complete the present history of a remarkable manuscript, the prose portion of which Mr. McGovern rightly regards as " the muniment of title of the' Clan MacGauran, or McGovern, to their Cantred or Barony of Tullyhaw (Teallach Eachdhach), and of supreme value to the genealogist and topographer as defining the ancient limits of the territories of the clan."

J. B. McGovEBN. fit. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

CHING : CORNISH OB CHINESE ? At 8 S. iii. 426, I called attention to a statement in The Launceston Weekly News that a native of that town, Mr. John Lionel Ching, son and grandson of two mayors of the borough named John Ching, had felt it desirable, when successfully trading in Queensland, to declare in all his advertisements what had been his birthplace, in order to avoid the local anti-Mongolian prejudice, and so ensure a general knowledge of the fact that he hailed not from China, but from " the good old town of Launceston, Cornwall." A year ago and twenty- two years after my contribu- tion v.-as published proof was printed that the name of Ching (and even of John Ching) was known in this district centuries before the Queensland announcement was felt to be necessary. In 'The Register of Edmund

Lacy, Bishop of Exeter (A.D. 1420-1455),' published in 1915 by the Devon and Cornwall Record Society, under the heading ' Dimis- sorie' (pt. ii. p 496) is noted one of Sept. 23, 1424, to John Chyngue, acolyte, for all sacred Orders. DUNHEVED.

CENOTAPH : CATAFALQUE. In their report on the requiem celebrated on July 14 in Westminster Cathedral for the repose of the souls of the French soldiers and sailors killed in the war, all the London papers I have seen made the startling statement that a cenotaph stood erected at the entrance to the sanc- tuary. Now a cenotaph (an empty tomb) is a permanent structure erected in memory of one buried elsewhere (as, e.g., Shakespeare's in Westminster Abbey), and the structure which these good journalists saw in the cathedral was no doubt merely the usual temporary erection, called a catafalque.

L. L. K.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

MABTIN PARKEB. The following works, entered in the Stationers' Registers under Martin Parker's name, are supposed (accord- ing to various bibliographical manuals) not to be extant :

1. ' M.P. his A.B.C ' a ballad (1629).

2. ' An abstract of the Histories of the renouned Maden Queene Elizabeth ' and ' A short Cronicle of the Kinges,' presumably one "book," for a licence fee of only sixpence was charged (1630).

3. ' A Garland of Withered Roses ' (1632. 1633).

4. ' Martin Parker his maruelous prognostication ' (1638), a "book."

5. ' The Antipodes ' (1638), a "book."

6. 'A briefe Summary of the history of baint George' (1639), a "book."

7. ' A second part of the Art of W oemg &e., a " book." ' The Art of Woeing,' probably the first part, was registered on Aug. 3, 1638.

8. 'The true story of Guy, Earle of Warwick' (1640), a " book."

9. An heroic poem (!), 'Valentine and Orson (1658), which is several times mentioned in works of the date 1656.

10. ' An abridgment of the wonderful history of that irreligious and vnchristian knight Sir Timothy Troublesome,' &o. (1632).

11. 'Cupids Colledge or the Court of Comple- ments,' in two parts (1638).

12. ' Medicina iocundissime [stc] or merry medi- cines,' a " book " (1633).

13. 'Certaine verses of Martin Parker against trusting, to sett vp in Alehouses ' (1636).

Several of these works were registered two or three times. It seems almost impossible