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 12 S. IV. OCT., 1918]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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' A Woman kill'd with Kindness ' (printed, like ' The Fair Maid,' in 1607), but for no other of his prologues.* The prologue to ' The Fair Maid ' runs thus :

The humble sock that true Comedians wear Our Muse hath don'd, and to your fav'ring eyes, In lowest plain-song doth her self appear, Borrowing no colours from a quaint disguise If your fair favours cause her spirits to rise, She to the highest pitch her wings shall rear, And proud quothurnick action shall devise To win your sweet applause she deems so dear. Mean while shore up your tender pamping twig, That yet on humble ground doth lowly lie : Your favours', sunshine gilding once this sprig, It may yield Nectar for the gods on high : Though our invention lame, imperfect, be, Yet give the Cripple f alms for charity.

The modesty of this prologue though doubtless no uncommon feature of pro- ductions of this kind is characteristic of Heywood, as a glance at his other pro- logues will show. But it is not necessary to enlarge upon the Heywoodian spirit of these verses when we can show that their diction is his, and this can be done by the most satisfactory of methods by showing that in his other prologues he uses just the same kind of language, and this not in one piece alone, but in three or four of his prologues written on various occasions, any reasonable inference of imitation thus being excluded. With lines 1-5 and 9-11 should be compared these, from the pro- logue to ' A Woman kill'd with Kindness ' :

our Muse is bent

Upon a barren subject ; a bare scene. We could afford this twig a timber tree Whose strength might boldly on your favours build, &c.;

with line 4, the author's protestation in ' The English Traveller ' prologue that he desires

. ... .no help, no strain,

Or flash that's borrowed from another's brain ; with line 6, lines 15-16 of the prologue to ' A Challenge for Beauty ' :

. . . .now we strive to fly In their low pitch, who never could soar high ;

and, finally, with lines 9-12, the words usec by Heywood in ye't another prologue addressed " to their excellent Majesties at White-hall " (Pearson, vi. 344) :

Like the bri'jht sun your glorious favours throw To comfort and make flourish what's below.

If we add that the very rare adjective " quothurnick " or " cothurnick " (line 7

" Spoken to his Majesty upon a New Year's day at night " (Pearson, vi. 345-6).
 * It appears once again in one of his epilogue

t The hero of the play is " the cripple of Fan church."

_ again used by Heywood in the prologue o his ' Apology for Actors,' we have surely ufficient proof of the identity of the author )f this prologue to satisfy, the most ob- tinate of sceptics.

H. DUGDALE SYKES; Eufield, Middlesex.

(To be concluded.)

MARKSHALL AND THE HONYWOOD FAMILY.

(See 10 S. ix. 144; 12 S. iii. 53 ; iv. 234.)

3m PHILIP'S eldest surviving brother Robert in April, 1693, succeeded John Le Vlott Honywood at Markshall, marrying Mary, daughter of Sir Richard Sandford, Bart., and it is recorded of this lady's father London, on Sept. 8, 1695, on the day and lour of the birth of his son Richard." At
 * hat " he was murdered in the White Friars,
 * he latter's death unmarried, his estates

devolved upon the Honywoods, and appar- ently he died at Markshall, for in that parish register is this entry : " April 3rd, 1743. Sir Richard Sandford, Bart., of Howgill Castle, Westmoreland, brother of Mrs. Honywood "

Robert Honywood was buried at Markshall in 1735, leaving as surviving sons Richard, his successor (who married a daughter of Sir James Gray, and had two sons, John and Charles, who died vita patris), and Philip. This younger Philip was executor to the will of his uncle General Sir Philip Honywood in 1752, and eventually succeeded to both the Essex and Westmor- land estates.

" Bred to arms," he was severely wounded at the battle of Dettingen in June, 1743, and, rising in the service to be colonel of a regi- ment of horse, became Governor of Hull. He was married on Dec. 6, 1748, in White- hall Chapel, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Wastell of the family of Wasdale Head in Shapp, and is said by family tradition to have left his bride at the church door for active service. The following letter from the steward of the Westmorland estates was addressed to his brother in December, 1745 :

To John Honywood, Esq., at Woodstock Street, Bond Street, London.

SIB, I beg leave to acquaint you that the wholO rebell army marched out of Kendall for Penrith on Tuesday morning, and all gott there but 500 who staid at Shapp with part of the baggage. A great part of the King's forces came within a sight of them before they gott to Shapp, but, night coming on, they were obliged to march