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LONDON, SATURDAY, .SEPTEMBER 9, 1916.

CONTENTS.- No. 37.

NOTES : Will of Prince Rupert, 201 Capt. Cox'a ' Book of Fortune,' 202 -An English Army List of 1740, 204 Welch or Welsh ?" Crowner's Quest Law" "Quite all right "Table-Customs of Ancient Wales The Apothe- cary in ' Romeo and Juliet ' " Victory Handkerchiefs " London Topographical Handkerchiefs, 207.

4JUERIES : "Lord Cecil "as Commander of a Genoese Army" Screed "Shakespeare's Statue on the Portico of Drury Lane Theatre Thomas Arnold and America- Heraldic Query, 208 Mrs. Griffiths, Author of 'Morality of Shakespeare's Dramas ' John Jones, Author of Kinetic Universe 'The Little Finger called "Pink" P. S. Lawrence, Artist and Sailor Du Bellamy : Brad- street^-" Yorker " : a Cricket Term Theophilus Gale, the Nonconformist Tutor Reference Wanted W. Robin- son, LL.D., F.S.A., 209 Lincoln's Inn Hall Snap Cards Gumming Legends of the Navy Nell Gwynne and the Royal Chelsea Hospital Headstones with Portraits of the Deceased Fisheries at Comacchio " Bibllabebuxo ' Hants Church Goods Recorders of Winchester Theatrical M.P.s, 210.

REPLIES : Portraits in Stained Glass " Spiritus non potest habitare in sicco." 211 Churchwardens and thetr Wands St. Sebastian. 212 Richard Wilson, M P., 213- Mackenzie Family House and Garden Superstitions - Mundy : Alstonfleld, 214 Sem, Caricaturist Calverley's Cnarades A Stewart Ring : the Hon. Alexander John Stewart "The Order of a Campe': Harl. MS. Mrs. Anne Dutton, 215 Folk-Lore : Chime-HoursMusical Queries The First English Provincial Newspaper, 216 St. Peter as the Gate-Keeper of Heaven" Consumption " and "Lethargy": their Meaning in the Seventeenth Century Common Garden=Covent Garden Cromwell : St. John, 217 Fact or Fancy ?-The Grave of Margaret Godolphin ' One's place in the sun "Eighteenth-Century Dentists, 218.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' A Record of a Mediaeval House ' European and other Race Origins ' Reviews and Magazines. 1 L'lntermediare.'

Notices to Correspondent*.

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WILL OF PRINCE RUPERT.

AMONG the many volumes published by the Camden Society, one of the most interest- ing is that entitled ' Wills from Doctors' Commons' (1862), edited by John Bruce and John Gough Nichols, which contains the will of Prince Rupert. Although various works relating to him have since appeared in print, that remarkable man is less remem- bered than he deserves, and it seems worth while to print the will again with a few comments. It should be added, perhaps, that I have not seen the original, but as the spelling in the Camden Society's version has been modernized the following is taken from what appears to be a contemporary copy, and they agree in all essentials :

In y name of God Amen, I Rupert Prince Palatine of y* Rhine, Duke of. Bavaria & Cum- berland, & Constable and Keeper of y Honour & Castle of Windsor, &c., knowing y c certainty

of Death, but y c uncertainty of y* time, doe make & ordaine this my last Will &"Testament in manner & forme following, revoking all former Wills & Codicills to Wills at any time or times here- tofore by me made .... I doe humbly resign my Soul into y* hands of y 8 Holy blessed & undivided Trinitie, beseeching Almighty God for his own Mercies & Christ Jesus infinite Meritts sake, to remitt my Sins & receive my Spiritt into ever- lasting Blisse. I desire my Bodie (in expectation of an happy Resurrection) may be interred where his Majesty shall be pleased to appoynte. And as touching that worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to blesse me, I give and dispose the same as followeth : Imprimis, I give & bequeath unto Dudley Bart my Naturall Son, all that my Messuage or Tenement, with th' appurtenances thereunto belonging, scituate & being at Raynen in y Province of Utrich under y e States of Hol- land, & also all those severall Debtes & Summes of Money whatsoever, which are anie waye due or oweing unto me by y Emperor of Germany & my Nephew y e Prince Elector Palatine, or either of them, or by any other Person or Persons whatsoever not Naturall borne Subjects of y e King of England.

Item I give & bequeath unto & amongst my Meniall Servants who shall be in my Service at y* time of my Decease, all such Debts Summes of Money as shall be their due & oweing unto me by y* Kinges Majestie, the same to be divided & distributed amongst them at y* discretion of my Executor & Mrs. Margaret Hewes here after named , in such proportions as they shall think fltt & meete with respect to their severall Qualities & Salaryes, & time they have served me.

All y" rest of my Goods, Chattells, Jewells, Plate, Furniture, Howsehold stuff, Pictures, Armes, Coaches, Horses, Stock in Companyes, Interests or Shares hi Patents to myselfe, or in Copartnershipp with others, & all other my Estate, Rights, Propertyes, & Interests whatsoever, not hereby before bequeathed (my just Debts being payd & satisfyed) I doe hereby give & be- queath unto William Earle of Craven, in trust nevertheless to & for y 6 use & behoofe of y" said Margarett Hewes & of Ruperta my naturall Daughter begotten on y e bodie of y e said Mar- garett Hewes, in equall Moyeties. The same or soe much thereof as to y e said Earle of Craven shall seem convenient to be sold & turned into money. And att y Discretion of y said Earle of Craven either putt out att Interest for their Severall Uses, in moyeties as aforesaid, or otherwise to be layd out in purchasing of Lands & Tenements for y 6 Use & Behoof of them y said Margaret Hewes, & my said Daughter & theire Heires in Moyeties as aforesaid, And I doe hereby desire charge & command my said Daughter upon my Blessing to be dutifull & obedient to her Mother, & not to dispose of her selfe in Marriage without her Consent & y e Advice of y said Earle of Craven if they or either of them shall be then liveing. And lastly I doe hereby nominate & appoynt y e said W ra Earle of Craven Executor of this my last Will & Testament, And doe humbly beseech his Majestie that he will be gratiously pleased to give his assistance & direction in what may be necessary for the performance thereof as there may be occasion. In Witnesse whereof I have to this my Will contaynd in two Sheetes of Paper putt my hande this seaven & twentieth day of November in ye fower & thirtieth yeare of y