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son), became Dean of Ardagh, March 22, 1727, and d. Sept. 19, 1749, leaving one son James, Rector of Belfast, whose will was proved Aug. 27, 1772. He left four sons : Louis, William (who was Attorney-General for Ireland, 1807-22), Mark Anthony, and James, the youngest, who was ordained at Lisburn, Feb. 2, 1781 ; Vicar of Rosenalis, co. Kildare, 1801 ; Dean of Cork, 1812 ; Archdeacon of Dublin, 1813 ; Dean of Derry, 1818 ; D.D., and consecrated Bishop of Dromore, at Armagh, Dec. 19, 1819. He d. April 9, 1842, having married, 1796, Elizabeth, dau. of Anthony Lyster. She d. July 19, 1853, leaving two daughters, and two sons : James, Archdeacon of Dromore, May 10, 1832; and Mark Antony, born 1812, who settled at Orielton, co. Pem- broke, of which he was High Sheriff, 1867, and d. March 25, 1885. The Attorney- General's third son was also named Mark Anthony, so it is evident the soldier was not forgotten by his family. W. R. W.

" Bus "= AEROPLANE (12 S. iii. 415, 462). Under the head of ' Aeroplane Slang,' The Globe in an article on Sept. 25 confirms the simile as to the contraction of " omni- bus " being intended. Here are a few extracts :

"It is well known that on the lucus a non lucendo principle they call a flying machine a 'bus . . . . ' had half a dozen ventilations in the tail of my old 'bus,' lightly said a young officer. . . . ' If it is a clear day and not too bumpy, the old 'bus nearly manages itself.' " This evidence should be convincing.

CECIL CLABKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

SHAKESPE ABE'S SCHOOLMASTERS (12 S. i. 321, 414). For Simon Hunt, B.A., Master of Stratford-upon-Avon Grammar School from 1571 to 1575, see ' A Shakespeare Discovery : his Schoolmaster afterwards a Jesuit,' by the Rev. J. H. Pollen, S.J., in The Month, vol. cxxx. (Oct., 1917), pp. 317-23. H. INCE ANDEBTON.

VEBDTJN BABONY (12 S. iii. 274, 341). As an instance of the spelling " Verdun," Sir William Lucy's enumeration of the titles of John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, in ' The First Part of King Henry VI.,' Act IV. sc. vii. lines 61-71, might be cited. This it is unnecessary to quote at length, but one of those titles was " Lord Verdun of Alton. ' ' PENBY LEWIS.

Nicolas in his ' Synopsis of the Peerage of England' (1825), vol. ii. p. 661, has an account of the barony of Verdon.

R. J. FYNMOBE.

AUTHORS OP QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S. iii. 419, 462).

4. Yet if his Majesty, our sovereign lord.

One hesitates to discount in anything the almost impeccable authority of Mr. Bullen, " breeding- delightfulness," as Sidney says, " and void of no grace that ought to be in the noble name of learning." But the composer Ford died in 1648,, when Henry Vaughan was 26, and was just entering upon the illness, sorrow, and long thoughts which led to his conversion. It is highly im- probable that he had at that date written any verse so profoundly religious in spirit as this lovely fragment of the Christ Church music- books. Has any one ever noticed that the anonymous poem is much in Quarles's best manner, and that the metre is one which he uses, skilfully? L. I. GUINEY.

Amberley, Glos.

(12 S. iii. 450.)

1. From Byron's ' Don Juan,' canto iv stanza xli. :

It has a strange quick jar upon the ear, That cocking of a pistol, when you know

A moment more will bring the sight to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off, or so.

But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.

T. F. D.

[PROP. BENSLY and E. R. also thanked for the reference.]

4. " He flits across the stage a transient and embarrassed phantom." Said of Lord Goderich by Disraeli in the House of Commons.

ERNEST LAW.

Hampton Court.

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Original Records of Early Nonconformity under Persecution and Indulgence. Transcribed and edited by G. Lyon Turner. Vol. III. Historical and Expository. (Fisher Unwin, 11. 5s. net.)

THE volume before us as students of the subject know is not of quite recent publication. It appeared in 1914. Despite the War, it has received attention, and its due measure of that sort of criticism which, as we have noted before now, is the highest compliment possible to be paid to a work of historical exposition in a field largely new ; that is to say, it has been, and is being, tested, not by the mere reviewer, but by those whose own study is to form, at one point or another, an extension or re-incorporation of it. Still, it seems worth while both to give ourselves even rather belatedly the pleasure of praising a fine piece of work, and to bring it to the notice of any reader who may chance not yet to have come across it.

Although the Declaration of Indulgence was short-lived, it was both politically and ecclesi- astically an experiment of great and curious in- terest. In their eagerness to give full weight to the King's secret object the relief of the Roman Catholics writers have tended to over- estimate the liberty it brought to Nonconformists.