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 12 S. III. JULY, 1917.

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Journey would prove a prosperous voyage, both to him and his Posterity.

" Many hundreds of the Gentry of Xorth- hampton -shire, met his Maiesty two miles on this side of Harborow, and accompanied his Maiesty to Holmby.

" The bells rang in every town that his Mai. passed through, which annexed a double ioy to his Royal heart, causing many a smile from his Princely countenance.

" At his arrivall at Holmby, there was a gallant guard appointed for his Maiesty to passe by, who entred in at the great Court Gate, being accompanied by the Commissioners of both Kingdoms, who deport themselves with much gallantry, performing the trust reposed in them faithfully, and their obedience to their Liege- Soveraign most loyally. He entred the house in great tryumph, and in a most sumptuous maner, taking some delight in conferring with the Commissioners about some points concerning the Directory."

In The Archaeological Journal, vol. Ixv. (1908), Mr. Albert Hartshorne gives the best account of Holdenbj-, and he quotes from a Parliamentary Survey of the place made in 1650, preparatory to its sale and destruction, and three years after Charles was there. It is valuable as a detailed picture of what Holdenby and its gardens were like at the time :

" On the south syde of the saide Mansion House is a pleasant, spacious, and ffaire Garden, adorned with severall long Walkes, Mounts, Arbors, and seats, with curious delightfull Knotts, and in which Garden are many ffruite trees of divers kinds ; on the south of the said Garden is a large Orchard, well planted, commonly called the Lower Orchard, sett artificially in Walkes with several Ascents, and in the said Orchard are Six ffish-ponds, well stored ; on the west of the aforesaid Garden, lyeth another Orchard, commonly called the Upper Orchard, planted with several finite trees, and in it a long shady Walke ; on the north syde of the said Orchard is a large Bowling Alley, and on the north r.nd west of the said Bowling Alley, are two Walkes arti- ficially set with well grown trees, and in the north west corner of the said Walks there is a pleasant Mountt ; on the west syde of the aforesaid Garden and Upper Orchard, are two Spinneys, well set and grown with Ashes, and in them a variety of delightful Walkes : and on the east side of the said Spynneys, is a ffaire Water House, with a very large Cisterne, into which water is conveied by several leaden Pipis, from Sundry Heades, which serves the whole House and all the Offices thereunto belonging."

" Thus it was at least among sumptuous sur- roundings that the king, in his lonely state, 4 every Sunday sequestred himself to his private Devotion, and all other days in the Week spent two or three hours in Reading, and other pious Exercises,' his favourite authors at Holdenby being Andrewes's ' Sermons,' Hooker's ' Eccle- siastical Polity,' Shakespeare, Herbert, and translations of Ariosto and Tasso." Harts- horne, ibid.

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187 Piccadilly, W.

Mr. Allan Fea in his ' Memoirs of the Martyr King' (John Lane, 1905) gives on p. 10 the dates of the King's journey from the ' Iter Carolinum,' 1660.

Sir Thomas Herbert in his ' Memoirs,' printed in the same volume, p. 79, gives a rather different version, but a foot-note states : " Herbert is slightly in error."

A " Burton Grange " is marked on the map near Barnsley, and close to the road from Wakefield to Rotherham.

C. W. FIREBRACE.

GRAY'S BOOKS AND MSS. (12 S. iii. 291, 326). MR. XORTHUP may like to know that a book from Gray's collection has found a resting-place on the shelves of the House of Commons library. It is Miller's '-The Catalogue of Honour ; or, Treasury of True Nobility, peculiar and proper to the Isle of Great Britaine ' (folio, London, 1610). It contains numerous marginalia and notes on blank spaces in Gray's neat handwriting, and pencilled in another hand on the fly- leaf are the words, " with the rare un- mutilated leaf 593." The librarian, Mr. Austin Smyth, to whom I referred in order to refresh my memory about this volume, writes : " I don't know the history of this [note], but as p. 593 is wrongly numbered 583, 1 suppose it was cut about in other copies to conceal the misprint." I may add that this work of Miller's is not in Lowndes. HERBERT MAXWELL.

Monreith.

LETTERS FROM H.M.S. BACCHANTE IN 1812-1813 (12 S. iii. 328). On p. 90 of vol. ii. of ' Memoirs and Letters of Capt. Sir William Hoste, R.X., K.C.B., K.M.T.' (published by Richard Bent ley in 1833, and long since out of print), it is recorded that on going out to the Mediterranean station in April, 1812, in command of the Bacchante frigate, Capt. Hoste was accompanied by his friend the Rev. William Yonge, as chaplain to his ship ; and on p. 94 this occurs :

" The following quotations are from a valuable manuscript journal in the form of letters, made by an intimate friend of Capt. Hoste while on board the Bacchante, and kindly offered for the advantage of the present publication."

Lady Harriet Hoste, the talented compiler of the ' Memoirs,' and her collaborator Col. William Xapier (well known as the historian of the Peninsular War) were evidently fully alive to the great value of Mr. Yonge's journal-letters, and nearly 70 octavo pages are devoted to their reproduction, so far as