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of them vpon woollen & lynnen cloth leade kersies Iron & any other goods & merchandize heretofore laden aboarde the tcood Shipp called the Tiger of London of the burthen of 200 tonns or thereabouts, whereof is master vnder god in this presente voyadge Thomas Crowderor whomsoever lls shall go for master in the said shipp or by whatsoeuer other name or names the said shipp or the master thereof is or shall be named or called."

N. W. HILL. 36 Leigh Road, Highbury, N.

SHAKESPEARE ALLUSION. The following mention of Shakespeare is not included in any of the editions of " Shakespeare Al- lusion " books ; but after appearing in your pages this latest discovery will no doubt be quoted in a new edition :

JJISCELLANIA, OR POEMS OP ALL SORTS, with divers other pieces. Dedicated to the most excellent of her sex. Printed by J. R. for the Author, 1653. FIRST EDITION, 12mo, with the RARE Catalogue at end of TWENTY PAGES, of books published by Humphrey Moseley.

A rare book of great merit and interest, "especially to Shakespeare collectors. On page 141 we find the following :

Poor house that in days of our grand-sires Belongst unto the mendicant Fryers, And where so oft in our father's dayes We have seen so many of Shakespeare's playes, 'So many of Johnson's, Beaumont's, and Fletcher's, Until I know not what Puritan teachers {Who for their tone, their language, and action Might 'gainst the stage, make bedlam a faction), Have made with their Rayleighs, the players as

poore

As were the Fryers and poets before : Since th'ast the trickes on't all beggars to make, I wish for the Scotch Presbyterian's sake, "To comfort the players and Fryers not a little, Thou may'st be turned to a Puritan spittle.

MAURICE JONAS.

GEORGE NICHOLSON, PRINTER, 1760-1825 : POTTGHNILL. Many of the works which issued from Nicholson's press bear the imprint " Poughnill near Ludlow." I was anxious to ascertain the exact position o1 Poughnill, but I could not find the name in any gazetteer, directory, or local history, so I came to the conclusion that it is the name of a house. Accordingly I wrote to The Ludlow Advertiser, asking for information and my letter brought me a communication from Sir W. M. Curtis of Caynham Court Ludlow, from which I make the following extract :

" Poughnill is the name of a small house on this property, and of a farmhouse standing near it. It is two miles from Ludlow. It stands on a hill above the Ledwyche river (the house is now known as Caynham Cottage), and at this part o: the river the water is dammed back by a weir.

orming the mill pound for Caynham Mill below. . . .It has always been said that there used to be printing press at Poughnill."

I send this note because others besides myself have attempted to locate Poughnill. Nicholson was a printer of some importance in his day, and is noticed in the ' Dictionary of National Biography.' R. B. P.

WORDS FROM 'MERCURIUS Po uncos.' 1. " Dead season.'" In ' N.E.D.' the quota- tion, s.v. 'Season,' 10, for " dead season" as " the period when ' society ' has departed From a place of resort," is dated 1789, from ' Triumph's Fortitude ' (i. 10) : " Be happy in all the enjoyments this dead season can afford." A far earlier use of the phrase is to be found in Mercurius Politicus for Feb. 28- March 6, 1656 : " There is little else to be written from Paris in this dead season."

2. "Letter-case.'" The 'N.E.D .'s' earliest illustrative quotations for " letter-case " " a case to hold letters " are of 1672, from T. Jordan's 'London Triumph' (16): "By Ladies Letter -case, [He] Shall have a better place " ; and 1790, from Madame D'Arblay's 'Diarj,' wherein reference is made to " my letter-case." Mention of a "Letter-case of Plush" is to be found, however, in an advertisement in Mercurius Politicus ot Feb. 15/22, 1655.

ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

IMS.

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.

MRS. ANN BUTTON. I am collecting in- formation relative TO Mrs. Ann Dutton, an eighteenth-century Dissenter, friend of White- field, and editor of The Spiritual Magazine for three years. I have such meagre particulars as can be obtained from perusal of her autobiography and from Whitefield's letters, and quite a complete list of her works. Could some of your correspondents aid me as to the places of her residence, other than Great Gransden, London, and Northampton, and as to the date of her death ?

An identification of the Dissenting minister whom she terms Mr. Sk p could be effected probably by a reference to Wilson's work, if any reader with access to a copy would be good enough to confer this favour upon one whom the war has exiled from civilization into Norfolk.

J. C. WHITEBROOK, Lieut.