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the title-page to be an answer to seven questions, the sixth being " Whether it be lawful to depose an evil governor and kill a tyrant ?" From the discussion of this question Hallam quotes at some length, leavimg no doubt as to Ponet's position:

" The manifold and continued examples that have been, from time to time, of the deposing of kings and killing of tyrants, do most certainly confirm it to be most true, just, and consonant to God's judgment. The history of kings in the Old Testament is full of it ; and, as Cardinal Pole truly citeth, England lacked not the practice and experience of the same."

After appealing to the examples of Edward II. and Richard II. of England and Christian [II.] of Denmark, he proceeds :

" The reasons, arguments, and laws, that serve for the deposing and displacing of an evil governor, will do as much for the proof that it is lawful to kill a tyrant, if they may be indifferently heard."

The writer's statement that the High Constable of England had authority upon just occasion to " commit " the king " into ward " provokes Hallam to remark that " this is an impudent falsehood."

It is ill quoting at second hand. If the original book is inaccessible, Hallam's ex- tracts may, I suppose, afford a fair notion of Ponet's views. EDWARD BENSLY.

BELLOTT FAMILY, 1550-1600 (12 S. iv. 218). The two Thomas Bellotts mentioned appear to be father and son. From a note published in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica in 1874 it appears that

" Thomas Bellott, Esq. marryed Alice Roden, daughter to Roger Roden, Esq., in ye Raigne of H. ye 8th ; yey lye Buryed in Gresford Church & left nine Sons and three Daughters."

There is a pedigree of the family in the ' Visitation of Cheshire, 1613,' published by the Harleian Society. In the Visitation Thomas Bellott's wife is stated to have been " Alice, daughter to William Hoyden of Burton in co. Denbighe."

H. J. B. CLEMENTS. Killadoon, Celbridge.

Thomas Bellot of Moreton, co. Chester, who married Alice Royden, purchased lands in Burton and Gresford, co. Denbigh, in 1552. Both he and his wife were buried at Gresford. Thomas, their second son, was " steward and executor to the Lord Bourghley, he did many charitable workes in his lifetime, he was never marryed,

lyeth in Thebales." Some of his

brothers were buried at Gresford. One brother Hugh was vicar there, and after- wards Bishop of Chester. See Ormerod's ' Cheshire ' (Helsby), iii. 44, 45. R. S. B.

L. BAYLY'S ' PRACTICE OF PIETY' (12 S.. iv. 155). From the eleven editions of this- book found in the Public Library of Cardiff it seems that the copy quoted at the above reference belongs to the year 1628, and that on p. 315 the word " lubernesse " was an, optical delusion. It is to be rectified by reading lithernesse. To the list of notable words we might add snaky, p. 276, " thcrow this snakie field," as the Oxford Dictionary does not record this adjective, in this sense,. before 1856. The Manchester Quarterly for July, 1883, as Mr. H. Farr has pointed out to me, contains an interesting account, by J. E. Bailey, F.S.A., of ' Bishop Lewis [sic] Bayly and his " Practice of Piety." '

On p. 433 of the copy at Bath we read : " And now again, since the former Edition of this Book, on the fifth of August last, 1612 (14 yeeres since the former fire) the whole Towne was againe fired." He there- refers to " Teuerton in Deuonshire, (whose remembrance makes my heart bleed)." So we see that there was an edition of the Practice ' befpre August, 1612. Why wa* that prelate so much interested in Tiverton ? EDWARD S. DODGSON.

ASHBOURNE, DERBYSHIRE (12 S. iv. 218, 256). The Derby Mercury of March 7, 1877, under the heading ' Bibliographical Notes (by the Editor),' gives the following amongst other information about ' The History and Topography of Ashbourn, the Valley of the Dove, and the Adjacent Villages ' :

" The literary part of the work was undertaken by Mr. Hobson, of Ashborne, ' assisted ' by Mr. Edward Fitzgibbon, better known to anglers by his nom de plume ' Ephemera,' under which he contributed largely to the columns of Bell's Life t and produced several works of more or less merit on angling. Judging from internal evi- dence, we are inclined to think that ' Ephemera's ' share in the work was infinitesimal ; indeed, Mr. Hobson. a man of culture and literary tastes,. was perfectly equal to the whole task, which (excepting only the traditional ' assistance ' of Fitzgibbon) may probably be placed entirely to his credit."

B. C.

NOVA" (12 S. iv. 215, 256). In Brit. Mus. MSS. Dept. Sloane 505, ' A Voyage to Lisbon with the Portuguese Ambassador [D. Francisco da Mello], 1661,' by Thos. Fisher of Lincoln's Inn, we read' on p. 39 :

Aug. 11. "After that we had wearied pur- selves with gazing on them [some maskers in a procession from St. Julian's Church in Rua dos Mudos, Lisbon], we went from there to Rua Nova (j-e cheife street of ye Citty and Exchange),. where ye King and Queen had placed themselves