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and are still read. She does not appear even in the works on anonymous and pseudony- mous literature. Her real name I saw in one of Mr. Shorter's works on the Brontes. Smith & Elder were her publishers.

J. J. H. Dublin.

KEATS QUERIES. Would any of your readers suggest explanations of the following passages in Keats ?

" In Love's eye." ' Isabella,' 1. 2. If looks speak love-laws, I will drink her tears

' Isabella,' 1. 39.

Perhaps " love-laws " may be a mistake for " love-lays," in which case " speak love-laws " would be equivalent to " breathe love's tune " in 1. 30.

Except in such a page where Theseus' spouse

Over the pathless waves towards him bows.

' Isabella,' 1. 86.

Why is this an exception? The " page " referred to is perhaps Aspatia's picture of deserted Ariadne in ' The Maid's Tragedy,' but there is no mention there of boicing over the waters.

Great wits in Spanish, Tuscan, and Malay. ' Isabella,' 1. 136.

Waking an Indian from his cloudy hall.

' Isabella,' 1. 270.

Is the " cloudy hall" the Indian's paradise, and is any particular story referred to ?

" Atom darkness." ' Isabella,' 1. 322.

" Atom-Universe." ' Hyperion,' ii. 1. 183.

" Sing not your ' Well-a-way.' " ' Isabella,' 1. 485. It has been suggested that " not " should be " out." This stanza seems partly to echo, partly to oppose stanza Iv.

" Visions wide." ' Eve of St. Agnes,' 1. 202.

M. M.

TASWELL. In chap. v. of his Life of Charles Macklin (1891), E. A. Parry writes : " Taswell (a famous Dogberry, known to stage students as the author of ' The Deviliad ' )." I should be very glad to have the evidence for connecting this actor with ' The Deviliad,' the first edition, at any rate, of which satire is anonymous.

MONTAGUE SUMMERS, F.R.S.L.

RANDLE HOLME'S ' ACADEMY OF ARMORY.' In this fascinating work many strange and wonderful coats are attributed to families with names which, in very many cases, are not (so far as my experience goes) to be found elsewhere. Neither, for the matter of that, are the coats ! It is obvious that, in the realm of natural history, our author's simplicity and credulity were unbounded ; but perhaps in that respect he was no worse than his contemporaries. But I strongly suspect that, while as regards his descriptions >f birds, beasts, fishes, and monsters he

simply puts down what he had heard or read, when it comes to the use of these animals as charges in coat armour, and to the attribution of such coats, he is a mere romancer, drawing on his imagination both for the coats and the names of the families to whom he attributes them.

I hope I do no injustice to him ; the only way to be sure on the point is if one were able to check his statements by his original authorities. What were his authorities ? And does any evidence exist as to contem- porary opinion about his honesty and reliability ?

BERNARD P. SCATTERGOOD.

Far Headingley, Leeds.

NEW MILK AS A CURE FOR SWOLLEN LEGS. A Westmorland squire in 1692-3 writes to a son in Oxford " troubled with a sore leg " :

" Divers in this country (haveing been troubled with Aguish Distempers) have been troubled since with swellings in their Leggs, which also burst & run much matter at several holes, who have been cured onely with washing their ill Leggs, or Feet, every morning & evening, with new milk warm from y e cow."

I should be glad to know whether this is still a popular remedy, whether traces of it appear in literature, and if it has had any sup- port in medical practice.

JOHN R. MAGRATH. Queen's College, Oxford.

HOPKINS : BEAKE. Is anything known of a MS. Diary or Memoirs of Edward Hopkins, M.P. for Coventry, 1701, 1707, 1708, and Secretary of State for Ireland ?

Is anything known of Major Robert Beake, Mayor of Coventry in 1655, and M.P. for that city in 1653, 1656, 1659, 1660, and 1678 ? Was he any relation to Richard Beke, husband of Levina Whetstone, niece of Oliver Cromwell (Firth, ' Last Years of the Protectorate,' ii. 297) ? M. D. H.

WARDEN PIES. Where can the receipt be found for making a Warden pie ? The warden of the seventeenth century was a pear, but I do not find it in Evelyn's lists of fruits. " Warden " was an old London street cry, and they were probably sold already cooked. XYLOGRAPHER.

EARLY NONCONFORMITY IN DEVON AND CORNWALL. In Mr. J. Hay Colligan's ' Eighteenth-Century Nonconformity ' (pub- lished in 1915) are various references to the Devon and Cornwall Associatioa in 1717-18, in connexion with " the Clarkean controversy " and the plans of the " New