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Barton in Westmorland, with other estates in that county. In 1190 Richard I. con- ferred upon Gilbert the whole of the lands in the valley of the river Kent which had not formed part of the barony of his wife's father and grandfather. This accession of territory was -to be held of the king in chief by the service of one knight. The lands of the barony in Lancashire were held of the lord of the honor of Lancaster by the service of one knight ; and all the remainder of the baronial lands in the districts of Kendal and Lonsdale were held, as they had* previously been held, of the great Yorkshire barony of Mowbray (' Red Book of the Exchequer,' Rolls Series, i. 420). The entry in the last-named record (p. 444), s.t. ' Lan- castria,' misled Mr. J. P. Yeatman into supposing that it formed part of the 1166 returns of the " cartse baronum." Mr. Hubert Hall, the editor of the ' Red Book of the Exchequer,' is careful to point o\it in a foot-note that the return relating to the knights' fees of Gilbert Fitz-Reinfrid in " Westmerlande " and " Kendale " is a later insertion in the original MS. Of the two knights' fees there mentioned, one fee represented the service due for the lands in Westmorland and Kendale, formerly held of the Mowbray fee, and the other the service to be rendered for the lands in the valley of the river Kent granted to Gilbert in 1190, which had not formed any part of the barony of his wife's predecessors.

I am preparing for the press a large collection of historical material relating to the barony of Kendal in South Westmorland, and the barons of Kendal from the twelfth century to the seventeenth.

W. FABBEE.

Hall Garth, Carnforth.

The answer in brief to MR. RANSFORD'S query is that the lands in Lancashire held by the Fitz Reinfreds, or rather by Gilbert Fitz Roger Fitz Reinfred, were in Furness. Gilbert Fitz Reinfred's claim to property j there came to him through his wife Helwisa, daughter and heiress of William de Lancaster, Baron of Kendal, and involved boundaries disputed with the monks of Furness, whose lands marched with the barony of Kendal. Eventually Gilbert surrendered some dis- puted territory, and received in exchange the vill of Ulverston. The deeds confirming the exchange are set out in West's ' Furness' (ed. 1774), "p. 30, and Atkinson's edition of ' The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey,' pp. 15, 344. See also Mr. F. W. Ragg's ; article ' De Lancaster ' in the Cumberland

and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeo- logical Society's Transactions, N.S., x. pp. 431, 432, where are some other Lan- cashire charters of Gilbert.

JOHN R. MAGRATH. Queen's College, Oxford.

Gilbert, son of Roger fitz Reinfred, married* after 1184 and before 1189, Helewise, only daughter arid heiress of William de Lancaster, Baron of Kendal, and succeeded jure uxoris to the barony, which included the lordships of Ulverston, Warton, and Garstang ia Lancashire. A detailed lisjb of the places in that county included in the fee is given at p. 357 of vol. i. of the ' Victoria Hist, of Lancashire,' with further information about the possessions of the Barons of Kendal in Westmorland and elsewhere. ^ ^ R. S. B.""^

PEARSON'S EDITIONS'OF CHAPMAN'S, HEY- WOOD'S, AND DEKKER'S DRAMATIC WORKS (12 S. iv. 12). It 19 stated that Pearson's editor at any rate of Chapman's and Dekker's plays was R. H. Shepherd. See Schelling's ' Elizabethan Drama,' ii. 483, and Parrott's ' Tragedies of George Chap- man,' Preface, p. vii. * Prof. Parrott says :

" It was not until two centuries after his [Chapman's] death that the first collection of his plays, ' The Comedies and Tragedies of George Chapman,' London, 1873, appeared. This collec- tion was incomplete .... and the text, which professed to be an exact reprint of the old editions, left much to be desired. In 1874-5 the first complete edition of his works appeared, edited by R. H. Shepherd, who is generally understood to have been the editor of the previous edition. The later edition, although remedying the omissions of the former, is satisfactory neither to the general reader nor to the student of the Eliza- bethan drama."

Useful though they are in default of better editions, no one has a good word for Pearson's texts. Prof. Schelling calls the Dekker an " unsatisfactory reprint " ; and H. C. Hart (Jonson's ' Alchemist,' p. 167) refers to " Pearson's wretched edition " of Chapman. In ' The Old Dramatists : Con- jectural Readings ' (p. 129) Mr. Deighton gives a long list of obvious misprints in the edition of 'Chapman's plays, and observes :

" The editor more than once takes credit to himself ' for having followed the original word for word, and letter by letter, with religious exactness, except in the case of a misplaced or inverted letter or some obvious clerical slip, which it would have been absurd to perpetuate ' ; I cannot therefore see upon what principle such instances as I^hava quoted were allowed to stand unconnected."

The dramatic works of Brome and of Glapthorne are included in the same series. E fi ]d H. DTTGDALE SYKES.