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 12 S. V. SEPT., 1919.1

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trong impression that G. W. M. Reynolds ^as not the writer.

Can it be stated whether the contemplated leven cantos were claimed by and given to he public ; and if such were the case, if the uthor " revealed himself " as promised ?

W. B. H. [DR. LEFFMANN also thanked for reply.]

WILLIAM HOORDE (12 S. v. 179), the Winchester Scholar of 1555, was the son of loger Hoorde (Horde or Hurde), the cholar of 1527. The marginal note to loger's name in the College Register is

Vergifer ecclesie cathedralis Winton.," and is career explains why, though he himself ras a native of Shrewsbury, his son William ^as born in the soke of Winchester. In 541 Roger Hurde was " chyef sexten " t the Cathedral ('Winchester Cathedral )ocuments,' i. 55, Hampshire Record Soc.). n May, 1559, when Dr. White, the Bishop of Winchester, was a prisoner in the Tower of .ondon, Roger Horde was one of the ishop's officers who were permitted to see im there about his accounts ( ' Acts of 'rivy Council,' N.S. vii. 103). Thomas ryrdeler, another of these officers, had also een a Winchester Scholar. The will, dated [ay 6, 1580, of Roger Hoorde, of Wolvesaye, -as proved on Oct. 23, 1581, by Peter ohnson, notary public, proctor for the jstator's son William, the executor (P.C.C., 6 Darcy). According to some notes that have of the will, the testator desired to be uried at the College, where his wife had [ready been buried, and therefore be- ueathed to the College the works of Origen, asil, TertulHan, and Gregory of Nazianzus iloorde's copies of these books do not seem ) be now in our Fellows' Library). He tentioned his daughters: (1) Iline Ilman vhose children, Richard, Thomas, William id Alice were surnamed Symonds) ; (2) Alice oodlake (who had three sons), and i) Thomazine (mother to Thomas and nne Chidley). His son William Hoorde he residuary legatee) had four children, oger, John, Clare and Ellen. Mr. Thomas enslowe and his brother Mr. Harrie enslowe were appointed overseers of the ill. H. C.

Winchester College.

ETCHINGS BY T. PARKER, 1838 (12 S.

183). T. Parker, or rather T. H. Parker, as my grandfather. The original copper - ate of the etching MR. ABRAHAMS refers

is still in my possession. I have never sard of any other views round London

etched by him, and I think that the late Mr. Fawcett was wrong in his surmise.

The old firm of T. H. Parker is still in existence at 12a Berkeley Street, Piccadilly, and I represent the fourth generation carry- ing on the business, established in 1790.

Early in 1917 my brother suddenly dying, and I and most of the staff serving in the army, I had no other option but to close down the business temporarily until Christ- mas, 1918, when I was invalided out, and able to re-establish the business at its present address. HARRY PARKER.

EXETER CATHEDRAL EPITAPH (12 S. v. 152). In Fuller's ' Worthies ' is the epitaph of William Scot, buried in Braborne Church, Kent, " qui obiit 5 Febr. 1433." There are four hexameters, the last two being :

Quisquis eris qui transieris, sic perlege, plora. Sum quod eris, fueramque quod es, pro me, precor,

ora.

This is over fifty years earlier than the date given for Sy Ike's death.

Weever, ' Ancient Funerall Monuments,' p. 609, has an inscription over a member of the Coggeshall family from Maldon, Essex, the year of death being given as 1427 (Jan. 9). It contains the two lines quoted above, with the difference of sta for sic in the first.

Nathan Chytraeus, ' Delicise,' 1606, p. 298, gives two undated lines at Augsburg : Quisquis ades, qui morte cades, sta, respice, plora. Sum quod eris, modicum cineris, pro me, precor,

ora.

An inscription closely resembling the above, if not identical with it, in the church at Santeuil (Seine-et-Oise), was the subject of correspondence in vols. Ixxi. and Ixxii. of L' Intermediaire, but the writer who intro- duced it did not recognise the metre.

In one form or another the lines are widely spread. It will be interesting to see if MR. WAINE WRIGHT'S query draws an example of still earlier date than those given here. EDWARD BENSLY.

Oudle Cottage, Much Hadham, Herts.

JOSEPH KNIBB, CLOCKMAKER (12 S. v. 123). Three or four members of the Knibb family are known among the seven- teenth century clockmakers, but the most eminent was Joseph, of whom MR. WAIN- WRIGHT will find a very long notice in Britten's ' Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers,' together with several illus- trations of miniature, bracket, and long- case clocks. Particular note is also made of the peculiar striking features of many of them. A perusal of the new edition of