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&c., rarely mention the more important Lords Lieutenant. Sir Henry Ellis contri- buted to the Archceologia, vol. xxxv., two sets of instructions given by Queen Mary in 1557-8, and by Queen Elizabeth in 1574, to the Earl of Bedford, Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall. Reference should also be made to a valuable paper by the late Mr. William Phillips on ' The Lords Lieutenant of Shropshire,' printed in The Shropshire Archaeological Society's Transac- tions in 1903 and 1904, and to another paper on ' The Lords Lieutenant of Leicestershire,' printed in The Associated Architectural Societies' Reports and Papers for 1901, vol. xxvi. Both these papers give copies of the King's commissions to Lords Lieutenant.

W. G. D. FLETCHER, F.S.A. Oxon Vicarage, Shrewsbury.

I do not think complete lists of the Lords Lieutenant have ever been compiled. Those for the Irish counties were first appointed under 1 & 2 Wm. IV. cap. 17 (Aug. 23, 1831), instead of the previous Governors of Counties, and lists of them from 1831 are printed in Haydn's ' Book of Dignities,' ed. by Ockerby, 1890, which work also gives lists of those for the counties of Scotland from the time they were first appointed, May 6, 1794. Of the English counties it says that Strype, in his ' Memorials,' gives 1549 as the date when Lords Lieutenant were first appointed, but that " great difficulty had been experienced in procuring complete lists, and in many instances it had been found impossible to commence earlier than the reign of George III." In Wales, until the abolition of the office in 1689, the Lord President of Wales was almost invariably also appointed Lord Lieutenant of all the counties in Wales, though by differently dated letters patent. (See the lists, compiled chiefly from the Calendar of Patent Rolls in the Record Office, in ' Old Wales,' vols. ii. and iii.) The Earl of Macclesfield was the last ap- pointed for all Wales in 1689, for in 1694 the Earl of Pembroke was made Lord Lieutenant for Soiith Wales and Monmouthshire, and in 1761 a different Lord Lieutenant was ap- pointed for each county.

Many references, either to the appoint- ments of Lords Lieutenant, or showing proof that the office was held at various dates by certain personages, nearly always noble- men, will be found in the printed Calendars of State Papers, Domestic, from temp. Elizabeth; in The Historical Register, 1714-

1738, and The Gentleman's Magazine from 1731. The various editions of Chamber- layne's ' Angliae Notitia ; or, Present State of Great Britain,' from 1669 to 1755, the ' Court and City Register,' and, later, similar works of reference, also give con- temporary lists. W. R. W.

ENGLISH TRAVELLERS IN THE NETHER- LANDS (12 S. iii. 333, 364, 399). Dr. E. Veryard, who is said by L. L. K. at the last reference to have arrived in Amsterdam in April, 1682, appears to have studied at Leyden. At any rate, in the ' Index to English - speaking Students who have graduated [sic] at Leyden University,' pub- lished for the Index Society in 1883, is to be found the name of Ellis Vergard, Anglus, entered on July 9, 1678, as well as that of Elisaeus Verijard, Anglus, Nov. 6, 1720, possibly a son or nephew.

As such spellings as Annesleij, Boijd, Foleij, Lindsaij, Murraij, Reijnolds, and Billingeleg occur in the list, there can be no doubt that Vergard and Verijard are per- verted spellings for Veryard.

The late Edward Peacock, who compiled the Index, seems unfortunately to have taken the names from the ' Album Studio- sorum ' published in the year of the Leyden University tercentenary (1875), instead of consulting the original entries. The word "graduated" in the title is some one's slip for matriculated. To give one instance only, Fielding, Henricus, Anglus, entered on Mar. 16, 1728, was never a graduate of Leyden. EDWARD BENSLY.

' A RING, A RING OF ROSES ' : ENGLISH TRADITIONAL RIMES (12 S. iii. 129, 256, 426). The accepted version for the nursery undoubtedly runs :>

Ring, a ring of roses, A pocketful of posies, T'ish-u, t'ish-u, t'iah-u, We all fall down.

It is difficult to denote sneezes in print, but I have got as near as possible.

CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.

THE AMERICAN DOLLAR AND EAGLE (12 S. iii. 405). Your Brooklyn corre- spondent will be interested in a paper on ' The Spanish Dollar and the Colonial Shilling ' in The American Historical Review for July, 1898. My cousin, who visited the Philadelphia Exhibition, and made a tour of the States in 1876, told me that his Chinese laundryman made out his bills in dollars and " bits." Soon after that date