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William (1644-1718), the Founder: seal to bond on occasion of his second marriage, to Hannah Callowhill, in 1699 ; arms, with a crescent above the fesse, impaling those of his first wife (1672-93). His book-plate, however, exhibits the full Penn arms.

Thomas (1702-75), last surviving son of the Founder : book-plate with the full arms.

Supposing that the crescent engraved on the Founder's signet exemplifying his first marriage made, as seems probable, but a temporary appearance in the insignia of his branch, what is there that explains its use ? Apparently both Sir William, the husband (1643) of Margaret Jasper, and the Founder, his son (1644-1718), were until 1664 in the position of younger sons. Pepys records the death of George Penn, Sir William's uncle, on the eve of his departure as envoy from Charles II. to Spain, on Aug. 1, 1664. This George had married a Spanish lady, and no progeny of his is mentioned. During the first twenty-one years of his union with Margaret Jasper (i.e., 1643-64), Sir William, as nephew of George, had therefore been his cadet. There even appears to have been, till some date unknown, a brother William (living in 1591 : Coleman) intermediate to George (d. 1664) and Giles (d. 16), who with three daughters are the grandchildren mentioned in the will of William of Minety, proved in 1592. Their father, a second William, whom the latter outlived, married Margaret, daughter of John Rastell of Gloucester. What are the Rastell arms ?

"?2. Upon the front of the wallet is dm- broidered a cavalier standing beside a globe, which he touches with a pair of calipers. A dog, depicted beside him, has what can be seen of its coDar inscribed PORT, and it has been suggested that this is possibly part of an allusion to Port Royal, the old capital of Jamaica. This island Sir William Penn (his title was then apparently " General and Commander in chief " of the Fleet prepared for America) took from Spain on May 10-11, 1655, with a fleet of 38 sail, and the 8,000 troops commanded by Venables. The globe is set with constellations that might, if identifiable, furnish some corroboration of this episode in Penn's career. " Porto Rico," however, as one of the possible objectives of the expedition, also suggests itself for the name of a dog in this connexion. Valuable considerations anent the two lines of Penn are given in Messrs. J. & M. L. Tregaskis's pamphlet upon ' The Penn Relics ....removed from Penn Church,' 1899, which should be consulted in addition to the

authorities cited in Marshall's ' Genealogist's Guide.' It reproduces rubbings of brasses at Penn, two of which show the family arms impaling another, not apparently identified : a hart trippant below a chief. The Penn book-plates are reproduced in the Journal of the Ex-Libris Society (i. 41; 1891-2); the Founder's signet in William Coleman' s monograph upon the family pedigree. Mr. Ernest Law's ' The History of Hampton Court Palace ' (i. 196) discusses the identity of Mrs. Sybil Penn whether born a Hampden or a Pakenham. A. V.

SOUTHS Y'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO

'THE CRITICAL REVIEW.'

(See ante, pp. 35, 66.)

ANDERSON'S 'British Poets,' January, 1799- This review may be safely claimed for Southey on the strength of the correspond- ence between the views here expressed and ^hose in Southey' s Introduction to his own ' Specimens of the Later English Poets ' (1807). There is often, also, a similarity of phrasing in the two articles which would suggest that Southey followed the review in The Critical, if he did not write it.

There is in the first place an agreement as to the principle of selection :

"If it should be deemed necessary to exclude some, we are decidedly of opinion that all who were popular in their own time should be admitted. They characterise the taste and history of their respective ages, and should therefore be re-edited, though their fame may be no longer great." Critical Review, xxv. 42.

" My business was to collect specimens as for a hortus siccus .... to exhibit specimens of every writer, whose verses appear in a substantive form, and find their places upon the shelves of the collector. The taste of the publick may be better estimated from indifferent Poets than from good ones ; because the former write for their con- temporaries, the latter for posterity. Cleveland and Cowley, who were both more popular than Milton, characterise their age more truly. 1 ' ' Specimens,' p. iv.

The resemblance in the estimates of the English poets appears strikingly in a number of passages, and there are no discrepancies. It is not merely the value put upon the older poets and the depreciation of the school of Pope that attracts attention and puts the reviewer, with Southey, among the Romantic critics, but exactly the same names are used in illustration, even when they are those of less familiar poets. In the first of the following pairs of passages the ideas are not precisely the same, but the phraseology suggests that the writer