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NOTES AND Q (JERIES. [12 B. iv. J TO ,

"hips consisted of 1 Ib. of pulp to 20 oz. of sugar. There were, however, many un- official formulae for conserve of roses. Two are given in ' The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby, Knight, Opened ' (1669), but they -are too long and elaborate to be quoted here.

C. C. B.

NATURALIZATION BY ACT ov PARLIAMENT (12 S. iv. 130). The naturalization of aliens by specific Acts of Parliament is now practically obsolete, it being far simpler for aliens to obtain certificates of naturaliza- tion from the Home Secretary, or from some duly authorized official in the Dominions under the general Naturalization Act of 1914. E. C. W. can only get access to the cases of naturalization conferred in the former way by reference to the Returns made to Parliament or to the Statutes .at large. There is no complete list that I am aware of. From 1801 down to the present time 444 aliens have been naturalized by special Acts, the last case Toeing that of Lord Acton in 1911.

WELLOUGHBY HAYCOCK.

" BOLD INFIDELITY ! TURN PALE AND I>IE" (12 S. iv. 102). The ascription to Robert Robinson of the authorship of these lines is supported by the Baptist minister John Andrews Jones in his Bunhill Me- morials ' (London, 1849) at p. 360, where he records them as inscribed on the tomb in Bunhill Fields of Westfield Lilley, son of Westfield and Sarah Lilley, who died June 2, 1798, aged one year and ten months. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

This epitaph of nine lines is undoubtedly "by Robert Robinson, Baptist minister at Cambridge until his death in 1790. The lines were written expressly for (and may be seen on a gravestone in the churchyard of Hauxton, Cambs) the four infant children of Richard and Hannah Foster of Hauxton, attendants on Robinson's ministry at Cam- bridge. Robinson preferred a country life ; he lived some years at Hauxton, afterwards at Chesterton, where he carried on farming as well as his ministry, and literary occupa- tions which were extensive. R. H.

Saffron W a Id en.

[W. B. H. also thanked for reply.]

WILLIAM PETYT (12 S. iv. 131). Born in 1636 at Stothes, near Skipton, Yorkshire, he was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple, Feb. 12, 1670, " for his services done in asserting and defending the rights and privileges of this Society," and is styled

" Exigenter for London " in the Act of Parliament, Inner Temple, of that date. He was called to the Bench, 1689 ; Autumn Reader, 1694 ; Treasurer, 1701 ; Keeper of the Records at the Tower. Died Oct. 3, 1707, and buried in the Temple Church, Oct. 9. He was author of ' The Ancient Right of the Commons of England,' &c., and other works on the history of Parlia- ment. He gave 182 volumes of printed books to the Inn, together with his collection of MSS. of about 500 volumes. His books of law, history, antiquity, and Parliamentary history were also deposited by the trustees of his will in the Inner Temple Library. See the resolution of the Bench, Feb. 11, 1707. Motto, " Qui s'estime Petyt de- viendra Grand." His portrait in oils is in the Parliament Chamber, Inner Temple, and a monument in the Temple Church.

J. E. LATTON PICKERING. Inner Temple Library.

The Biographical Register of Christ's College, Cambridge, vol. i. p. 589, states that William Petyt was " admitted pen- sioner under Mr. Abney, 26 April, 1660. Age 19." STAPLETON MARTIN.

The Fire, Norton, Worcester.

BOYS BORN IN MAY (12 S. iv. 133). Perhaps I may record my own experience. I was born in May, and as I look back into the days of my boyhood I am often horrified to recall many acts of cruelty perpetrated by me, and at my instigation, on birds and animals. I seem to have delighted in these acts of cruelty until I was about 12 years old, when they ceased. Since that period I have gradually developed a super-sensitive attitude respecting cruelties inflicted, even unintentionally, upon the brute creation. I cannot now kill a bird or an animal with- out experiencing most poignant feelings of abhorrence of the act. I am unable to account for the change. JOHN T. PAGE.

BAPTIST MINISTERS : PURDY AND GRANT- HAM (12 S. iv. 77). Thomas Grantham, about whom COL. FYNMORE seeks informa- tion, was the greatest lead erj Lincolnshire Baptists ever had. Born at Halton, near Spilsby, Lincolnshire, in 1634, he belonged, as he said, to the " poor kindred " of the " ancient family of Granthams." Tradition makes him a teacher, and afterwards a farmer. Baptized, on confession of his faith in Christ, at Boston in 1653, he became in 1656 pastor of a congregation that met at Halton and other places in private houses. On July 26, 1660, he presented,