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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 S. III. MAY, 1917.

their editors, Mr. Norman MacColl and Mr. J. S. Cotton. He acted, I believe, for a short period as deputy for his friend Adolphus Trollope as Roman correspondent of The Standard. -He contributed also to other journals after his return to England, e.g., The Magazine of Art. Some years ago he made' a collection, in several folio volumes, of the chief of his articles and letters to the press, and offered it to the Bodleian Library, by which it was accepted, much to his satisfaction. I should think that it would form a storehouse of valuable miscellanea about men, places, and things Italian. Of all Italian towns, he spoke with peculiar enthusiasm of Siena. He was a true scholar in that he loved the learning which is its own reward. He loved society also, and had met a remarkable number of celebrities, his reminiscences of whom furnished material for many interesting obituary notices. He was a capital talker, with a caustic wit, very definite opinions, and a Johnsonian vigour of expression. Neither ill-health nor difficulties could quench his sturdy spirit.

" Lastly, it is fitting to mention his love of ' N. & Q.' In his later years especially, when the effort of lengthy composition was beyond his strength, he delighted in this journal and con- stantly spoke of it in his letters, for he was a man of varied knowledge and sympathies, apart from his special interest in Italy. One might say, without exaggeration, that ' N. & Q.' became his literary solace. A. W. VERITY."

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ALDERMAN THOMAS HOYLE (12 S. iii. 91, 157).

PBOF. BENSLY writes : " In ' The Obituary of Richard Smyth,' Camden Society, 1849, is the entry, under Jan. 30, 1649 /50, ' Alderman Hoyle, of York, hanged himself.' "

WATCH HOUSES (12 S. ii. 9, 113, 157, 233, 315, 377, 538 ; iii. 233). R. B R writes : " In Mill Street, Bath, is a very pretty classical watch- man's sentry-box of stone, circular, with a domed top, of about mid-eighteenth-century date, the last of its kind in that city."

B. B. (' Pervigilium Veneris ' : " De tenente tota nox est perviglanda canticis "). This line, and " de tenente " in particular, has rather exer- cised the commentators. The oldest MS. appar- ently reads detenentettota (with a superfluous t). " Decinent," " detinent," " detument," have been conjectured ; but there seems no reason to quarrel with Salmasius's interpretation, who upholds the MS. reading and says " de tenente"

uno tenore, continue*. Prof. Mackail translates it " unceasingly."

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