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Paris ' alone, and ten times in his not very voluminous poems. Twice in ' Alphonsus ' the Emperor of Grermany is addressed as " sacred emperor," and once as " your sacred majesty." In Peele's ' Speeches to Queen Elizabeth at Theobalds ' the queen is ad- dressed as " your sacred majesty," and in ' The Device of the Pageant ' she is referred to as " London's sacred sovereign."

Another special word of Peele's found in

Alphonsus ' but not mentioned in Mr.

Robertson's list is " scour "=to pass swiftly

-over, to overrun in search of a thing or

person :

. . . .we both with our light horse Will scour the coasts and quickly bring him in. ' Alphonsus,' Act V. p. 278.

This occurs twice in ' Edward I.' :

And scour the marches with your Welshmen's

hooks. ii. 357.*

.... methinks 'twere very good That some good fellows went and scoured the

wood. x. 92.

and in ' The Tale of Troy,' 1. 255 : Now merrily sail these gallant Greeks to Troy And scour the seas, and keep their compass right.

H. DUGDALE SYKES. Enfield.

(To be continued.)

WILLIAM KING, LL.D., PRESIDENT OF ST. MAKY HALL, OXFORD. (See 12 S. i. 132.) At the given reference I mentioned the "striking likeness" of Dr. King in Wor- lidge's picture of the installation of Lord Westmorland as Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

In ' Biographical Anecdotes of William Hogarth,' 3rd edition, 1785, p. 320, John Nichols writes concerning Paul before Felix, designed and scratched in the true Dutch taste " :

"This was the receipt for Pharaoh's daughter, and for the serious Paul and Felix ; and is a satire on Dutch pictures. It also contains, in the character of a sergeant tearing his brief, a portrait of Hume Campbell, who was not over-delicate in the language he used at the bar t9 his adversaries and antagonists. This, however, is said by others to be the portrait of William King, LL.D., Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford."

A foot-note says :

"Of Dr. King, who was 'a tall, lean, well- look) n* man,' there is a striking likeness in Worlidge's View of the Installation of Lord West- moreland f*ic] as chancellor of Oxford in 1761. Some particulars of his life and writings mav be seen in ' Anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer,' p. 594."

indicated, I have used Bullen's edition, the Arabic numerals here referring to the numbers of the lines.
 * For all Peele's works, except where otherwise

See also ' Hogarth Illustrated,' by John Ireland, 1791, vol.ii. p. 340, and 'Hogarth's Works,' by John Ireland and John Nichols (new edition, c. 1873), second series, p. 75, and third series, p. 306. At this last refer- ence, which is in the ' Chronological List of Works,' Hume Campbell is not mentioned, but the advocate, described by Ireland (ut supra) as " Tertullus arrayed in the habit of an English serjeant-at-law," " is said to be designed for Dr. King."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

RICHARDSON CORRESPONDENCE. (See ante, pp. 405, 447.) I have no reason to complain of JUDGE UDAL'S criticism and supplementing of my work on Robert Uvedale, done mostly, as it was, five-and- twenty years ago. Incidentally he expresses a very natural regret that the twelve volumes of the correspondence of Dr. Richard Richardson recently sold by auction were not acquired by the British Museum. As to this, I would point out, first, that the Museum Trustees did empower an agent to bid up to a considerable amount for these volumes ; and, secondly, that their value to the general public is les^s than might be supposed, because a considerable portion of them has already been printed. All the seventy-five letters from Dr. William Sherard to Richardson are in Nichols's ' Illustrations ' (1817), vol. i. pp. 339-403. In 1835 Dawson Turner printed privately ' Extracts from the Correspondence,' containing 174 letters, not a very rare volume. It is true, however, that Dawson Turner admits that the twelve volumes now at Oxford " would, if printed, probably form eight of the same bulk as " his selection. G. S. BOULGER.

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ANACHRONISM IN ' THE NEWCOMES.' In chap. xxii. vol. i. of ' The Newcomes,' Arthur Pendennis, writing to Clive Newcome, asks, "Why have we no picture of the sove- reign and her august consort from Smee's brush ? " (vol. i. p. 258, ed. 1868.) The letter is without date, but the context shows it to be a prompt answer to a letter from Clive dated "May 1, 183 ." In chap. viii. p. 89, it is stated that Col. Newcome " has no mufti-coat except one sent him out by Messrs. Stultz to India in the year 1821 " ; and farther down on the same page it ifl said that " he had been in the habit of con- sidering it a splendid coat for twelve years past," thus indicating that the action takes place in 1833. Now in that year William IV. was King of England, Victoria succeeding