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referred to was Augustus Henry, who states in his autobiography that he was under Newcome at Hackney. The Duke of Devon- shire was the fifth Duke. Henry Caven- dish, the natural philosopher, was also at this school. The Lord Hardwicke who has been mentioned was the second of that name, the great Chancellor having been, as we have seen, at Samuel Morland's school at Bethnal Green.

The four sons of the Lord Chancellor, the first Lord Hardwicke, were pupils at the school at Hackney, viz. Philip, who was born in 1720, and succeeded to the title ; Joseph, who was born in 1724, and became known as Col. Yorke ; John, who was born in 1728: and, James (afterwards Bishop of Ely), who was born in 1730. Joseph was greatly praised as an ambassador by Wraxall (' Life of Lord Hardwicke,' ii. p. 575), and was created Lord Dover for his diplomatic services. It seems probable that the Lord Chancellor sent his eldest son to the school before Benjamin, the brother of his own old schoolmaster Samuel, left it for St. Paul's in 1733.

Reference has already been made to two members of the Heathcote family. It is of interest to note that in 1726 Richard New-

come, afterwards the bishop, the brother of the first Henry Newcome who succeeded Morland in the school, received what I believe was his first preferment, the Vicarage of Hurley, near Winchester, at the hand^ of Sir William Heathcote, Bart. (US. vi. 149).

The newspaper cuttings in the Hackney Library for access to which I have to

'thank Mr. Clarke, one of the assistant librarians, in the absence, owing to ill- health, of Mr. Aldred, the Chief Librarian contain lists of distinguished " old boys " who acted as stewards at the dinners to which reference has already been made. Amongst these, in addition to some who

' have already been named, I find the Hon. J. Grey, the Earl of Sussex, the Hon. John Leveson Gower, Sir Mann Wyvell, Bart., John Hatsell, Esq., Sir G. Boynton, Bart., Sir J. W. Lake, Bart., Sir William Young, Henry Partridge, Lord Ravensworth, Sir Foi-ster Cunliffe, the Hon. George Hony- wood, Richard French Chiswell, and Lord H. Fitzroy.

In conclusion, I may place on record the fact that the Hackney registers refer to one Elizabeth Morland who was buried in 1692. This wa^ not the wife of Benjamin, for she died, as we have seen from her

epitaph, in 1719. It is possible that she was 1 the sister of Martin.

Another name is that of Esther Morland, who died in 1799. This, I believe, was Hester, the daughter of Benjamin Morland. I cannot identify Mrs. Rhoda Morland, who died on Aug. 9, 1779, aged 94 ; and [ have been unable to discover anything further about John Newcome, who was married in 1719 ; Margaret Newcome, who died in 1704 ; or the Rev. A. H. Newcome, who died in 1787,

MICHAEL F. J. MCDONNELL.

Bathurst, Gambia, British West Africa.

[The pedigrees of the Morlands and the New- comes mentioned above are too elaborate for reproduction in ' N. & Q.,' but we shall be pleased to forward them for inspection to any one in- terested in the subject.]

THE BYRON APOCRYPHA.

(See ante, p. 113.)

London : Printed by Thomas Davison,
 * 20. " The Duke of Mantua, A Tragedy. By

Whitefriars, 1823." (This title and imprint given by W. Nixon in ' N. & Q.,' Sixth Series, xii. 249.) In the library of Mr. H. E. Huntington of New York there is a coi>y of the second edition : London : G. & W. B. Whittaker, 1833, which I was allowed to examine ; but when I returned some time afterwards I found, to my regret, that the portion of Mr. Huntington's library containing this drama had been sent to California, where it is at present inaccessible to me. I am therefore unable to give any description of the play. On the centro of the title-page there is a vignette of Byron holding a mask with his right hand before his face, which it half covers, and from behind which he is peeping with his left eye. The book is apparently very rare ; it is not in the British Museum ; Miss Greene, Mr. Morgan's librarian, tells me that she was once offered a copy ; I have never seen one listed in a bookseller's catalogue.

poem of this title in the 'Life, Writings,' &c., iii. 89. The writer describes it as being written in a light and sarcastic mood and as making Hannibal " the slave of sensuality." TT adds that it is still (1825) in La Guiccioli's hands.
 * 21. ' Hannibal.' There is a reference to a

22. ' Don Leon.' This infamous piece may date from about 1824-30. In ' N. & Q.,' First Series, yii. 66 (1853), thore is a description of it. The writer, I. W., makes this sin^'iL iriy accurate prophecy : "Is the writer known ? I am some- what surprised that not one of Byron's friends has, so far as I know, hinted a denial of the authorship ; for, scarce as the work may be, I suppose some of them must have seen it ; and it is possible that a copy might get into the hands of a desperate creature who would hope to make a profit, by republishing it with Byron's and Moore's names in the title-page." I. W. states that the copy he has seen " was printed abroad many years since." In 1866 this prophecy was fulfilled : " Don Lem : A poem by the late Lord Byron ; Author of Childe Harold, Don Juan, &c., &c. ; and forming part of the private journal of his