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Duke of Northumberland, a circumstance to be noted when writing a striking acco\mt of Rainsford, who was an exceedingly active Freemason, in ' Notes on some Masonic Personalities at the End of the Eighteenth Century,' published in ' Ars Quatuor Coro- natorum ' {the Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge, No. 2076), vol. xxv. pp. 152 et seq., and ' Notes on the Rainsford Papers in the British Museum,' ibid., vol. xxvi. pp. 95 et seq. For his career, see ' D.N.B.,' vol. xlvii., p. 183. ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

' VANITY FAIR ' (12 S. i. 467 ; ii. 13). The quotation from Lewis Melville in MR. SPARKE'S reply about the " suppressed " woodcut of Lord Steyne at the second refer- ence, is, I know, in the usual way of speaking of the omission of the cut, but there is no propriety whatever in calling it " sup- pressed." For some unknown reason, pro- bably an injury to the block, it was omitted from the second edition of 1848, and the third of 1849, but these are the only illus- trated editions of ' Vanity Fair ' which have appeared without this cut. The editions of 1853, 1854, 1856, 1857, 1858, and 1863 were all published without illustration. In 1867 volume of the " Library Edition " of the ' Works ' of Thackeray, and it contains the missing woodcut of the marquis. There was, however, another omission, or sup- pression, which, as far as I know, has never been referred to by the bibliographers. At the beginning of chap. vi. there are three vignettes by Thackeray, with a page of text, to be found in all the editions of 1848 or 1849, but not in any subsequent edition.
 * Vanity Fair ' was published as the initial

FREDERICK S. DICKSON. New York.

DRAKE'S SHIP (12 S. ii. 309). The donor of the chair is described in Macray's ' Annals of the Bodleian Library ' as " John Davies, of Camberwell, the storekeeper at Deptford dockyard." The year of the presentation is given as 1668. At 11 S. i. 368, MR. C. E. A. BEDWELL, the Librarian of the Middle Temple, after mentioning Davies's position, wrote :

" From the Domestic Series of the Calendar of State Papers it appears that he held the post only for a short time. It would seem to be probable that he made the gift in his official capacity."

MR. BEDWELL'S communication was headed by a reference to 3 S. ii. 492.

Apropos of the serving table in the Middle Temple Hall said to have been made from the timbers of the Golden Hind, it may be

noted that there was tin interesting dis- cussion in 11 S. iv. and v. on the subject of Drake's connexion with the Middle Temple, and with the Inner Temple.

EDWARD BENSLY.

" In the mouth of the river Ravensbourne, the skeleton of Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigating ship " The Golden Hind " was laid up by command of Queen Elizabeth, though in a short time after- wards nothing was left of her : but the fame of her captain and steersman cannot perish so long as history shall last." ' Philipot,' p. 160.

"2. Elizabeth visited the ship April 4, 1581, and after dining on board, knighted Drake. The ship was broken up, and a chair was made of the timber, and presented to the University of Oxford." Drake's 'Hundred of Blackheath,' 1886, p. 2, note.

According to Shrimpton's ' Handbook to Oxford,' p. 212, the chair was " presented to the Library, 1668, by J. Davis Esqr. King's Commissioner, Deptford." It bears a brass plate, having the following lines by Cowley, 1662 (almost illegible) inscribed on it : To this great ship which round the globe has run And matched in race the chariot of the sun, This Pythagorean ship (for it may claim Without presumption so deserved a name) By knowledge once and transformation now In this new shape this sacred part allow Drake and his ship could not have wished from Fate A happier station, or more blest estate : For lo ! a seat of endless rest is given To her in Oxford, and to him in heaven.

R. J. FYNMORE.

BISHOP RICHARD OF BURY'S LIBRARY (11 S. viii. 341, 397, 435 ; ix. 17). As there is no statute of limitations in corrigenda, and if there were 1 am well within its boundaries, I am anxious to offer an amende to the memory of Mr. E. C. Thomas, with whose fine edition of the ' Philobiblon ' I have recently made a closer acquaintance. At the third reference I had written in the second paragraph : " This was Thomas's mistranscription, not mine." It was I who, in the hurry of copying a passage from Thomas (' Introduction,' xl.) mistranscribed it and erroneously attributed the error to him. Though not a matter of great moment merely a substitution of " Richard o " for Ricardo, and of " Burs' " for Buy - hasten, on discovery of my error, to acquit Thomas of the imputation. Let me also add, whilst finally dealing with this matter, that as I had quoted Burton's ' (The Book Hunter,' p. 199) statement (at the first reference) that the ' Philo- biblon ' was " the first fruit " of the press of Badius Ascensius in 1499, I hereby accept Thomas's better informed opinion that ' the story will not bear inspection." And it