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Tangmer], com. Sussex. [Ceased to be Fellow] 1570. [Degreel Artium Bacc."

3. Boase, ' Register of the University of Oxford ' (Oxford Hist. Soc.), vol. i. (1885), p. 254 : " Lewkner or Lukener, George, adm. B.A. 24 Mar. 156|, det. [i.e., "determined," that is, " presided over disputations, and gave out his determination or decision on the questions dis- cussed," as every man admitted as B.A. was expected to do in the Lent after his admission] 1565 adm. probationary Fellow of New College 29 Jan. 1560 [i.e., say I, 1560 /I] from Tagmer [sic] in Sussex, res. 1570 ; a doctor of medicine [but Boase does not state his authority for saying that this George Lewkner was " doctor of medicine "]."

I have been unable to ascertain when one George Lewknor abtained his degree of M.D. However, assuming him. to have taken it somewhere abroad it is possible that he should be identified with the father of a nun of St. Monica's, Louvain. The Chronicle of St. Monica's, vol. ii. (edited by Dom. Adam Hamilton, O.S.B. and published by Sands & Co. in 1906), at p. 39 says that Sister Margaret Lutnor (Lewkenor) was professed on Oct. 4, 1626, and that she was

" daughter unto George Lukner, of an ancient noble house, but a younger brother. He under- took the course of law, and was Doctor of the Civil Law, but finding in time that he could not well live thereby in England, being a Catholic, he was content to become a doctor of physic, &c."

It adds (p. 40) that her father dying about 1626, when she was 28, " of his free will gave her a portion for religion, she having nothing of her own." Sister Margaret Lewkenor died Mar. 6, 1644, " at the age of 46 years and eighteen of her profession" (pp. 196-7).

Samuel Lewknor entered Winchester Col- lege in 1584, aged 11, from Selsey. Though not in the pedigree, he was probably a son of the Thomas Lewknor, M.P. for Midhurst in 1586 and 1588, mentioned above : and a brother of Sir Lewis Lewknor (M.P. for Midhurst, 1597, and appointed Master of Ceremonies to Ambassadors, Nov. 11, 1605).

Thomas Lewknor, the Jesuit (as to whom see Foley, ' Records S. J.,' vol. ii. p. 636, vol. vii. pp. 454, 924) belonged to the West Dean branch of the family and his father held a high place at court. He was born at Antwerp in 1588, entered the Society of Jesus in 1611, was employed from 1625 to 1645 on the English mission, and died in London, aged 57. I should conjecture that he was a son of Richard Lewknor, of West Dean, Chief Justice of Wales, above men tioned.

Is there any evidence that this Richard Lewknor' s wife was a Catholic ?

JOHN B. WAINEWKIGHT.

SHAKESPEARIANA.

A BATCH OF EMENDATIONS. ' Tempest/1 I. ii. :

Who t' advance, and who To trash for over-topping.

Much ingenuity has been wasted in attempts to twist a meaning out of trash. The Restoration arrangement by Davenant and. Dryden substituted lop. A much more satisfactory word is plash.

' 1 Henry IV.,' II. i. :

Bourgom asters and great Oneyers. The right word is plainly indicated by the opening scene of ' Merchant of Venice, line 10:

Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood. We need have no hesitation in adopting the reading

Burgomasters and great signiors.

' King Lear,' I. ii. (from the Quartos) :

" Needless diffidences, banishment of friends dissipation of Cohorts, nuptial breaches, anc I know not what." Somewhere in Elizabethan literature un- fortunately I did not note where I met with a phrase which explains the difficulty " dissipation of contracts."

These three emendations, plash, sicpiiors contracts, I think deserve admission into the text. Here are also some attempts to explain obscurities.

' Measure for Measure,' II. ii. :

But man, proud man Brest in a little briefe authoritie ; Most ignorant of what he's most assur T d, (His glassie Essence) like an angry Ape Plaies such phantastique tricks before high heaven As makes the Angels weepe. This I formerly thought to be the most hopeless misprint in all Shakespeare ; possi- bly I have at last hit upon the general idea on which the simile is based. The reference is apparently to an ape being angered by seeing his reflection in a looking-glass. The best emendation I can offer is

His glassed semblance.

Shakespearian students may be able to improve upon this ; but I fear a line has dropped out. There may have been a semicolon in the middle of the missing line, after a verb ; the whole sentence having constructional analogies with Hamlet's sen- tence on the " vicious moles of nature."

'1 Henry IV., 'II. iv. :-

Gads. Some sixe or seven fresh men set upon us. Fal. " And unbound the rest, and then came*

in the other."