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12 S. VI., 1920.] reproduced as an engraving on p. 1353 in Maitland's ' History of London,' 1760 edition. Maitland's big volumes are otherwise notable for furnishing valuable particulars regarding down-Thames London in the middle of the eighteenth century not included in the labours of other antiquaries and historians of that era. "Row," it should be added—in the Old Stepney Manor at least—generally implies that there are houses on one side only of the way or path. Durham Row, it must be understood, furnished quite unhindered access to Stepney churchyard and church. The "Trinity" formal professions to St. Dunstan's were simply a saunter from the main entrance of their mansion—as is seen in the 'Diary' of Master Samuel Pepys.

—The earliest occurrence of this word in the 'N.E.D.' with the meaning of the allotments of stints, that is, pasturage for a limited number of cattle, according to kind, allotted to each definite portion into which pasture or common land is divided, as 1641, and the word "stintage," with the same meaning, occurs in that year. Both words were found in use in North Yorkshire. The word was in use at a much earlier date. In a conveyance of land at West Raxen, in North Lincolnshire, dated 1439, is included "vnum styntyng ae demidiam acram prati." W. B.

—I have Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges's copy of Sam Patterson's 'Bibliotheca Universalis Selecta' (sale catalogue, May 8, 1786, and thirty-five following days), with his autograph (May, 1805). The worthy baronet and antiquarian wrote on the fly-leaf: "Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy' is classified as Medical! p. 263." This is a fact. Sam Patterson was considered by his bibliophile contemporaries a very learned auctioneer, but he was evidently unacquainted with Burton's 'Anatomy.'

—In 1868 (4 S. i. 568) a contributor wrote that usage of the above was especially frequent in the time of Queen Elizabeth. An instance a hundred years later is in Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries, ii. 309, in the parish register of Belgrave: "1705, Oct. 9. Pentecost Hastings was buried." W. B. H.

(See 12 S. v. 234, 275).—I should be grateful for elucidations or references explaining any of this second batch of puzzles from the above work. References given here to pages and lines follow the "World's Classics " Edition. Phrases in brackets are my own:—

1. P. 41, 1. 9. [The English] think, with Henri Quatre, that manly exercises are the foundation of that elevation of mind which gives one nature ascendancy over another; or, with the Arabs, that the days spent in the chase are not counted in the length of life. [Can any source be suggested for either of these two references. I thought the reference to Henri IV. would be from Sully's 'Memoirs,' but I have not yet discovered it.]

2. P. 41, 1. 31. These men have written the game-books of all countries, as Hawker, Scrope, Murray, Herbert, Maxwell, Gumming, and a host of travellers. [I can identify four of these as authors of game-books; but can any one tell me what Murray or what Maxwell wrote such books, and what are the titles of their chief works?]

3. P. 43, 1. 33. The Phoenician, the Celt, and the Goth, had already got in [i.e., into Britain before the Romans]. [Are there any traces of Phœnician settlements in Britain or is Emerson misrepresenting the trading relationships? Was there ever any Gothic incursion, or is this reference due to confusion with the Goidelic Celts?]

4. P. 50, 1. 23. [Napoleon's remark] "that he had noticed that Providence always favoured the heaviest battalion." [A familiar quotation, but can any one give me an authoritative reference for it?]

5. P. 51, 1. 6. Lord Collingwood was accustomed to tell his men, that, if they could fire three well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could resist them; and, from constant practice, they came to do it in three minutes and a half. [Any reference? I cannot find it in Collingwood's 'Correspondence and Memoirs.']

6. P. 53, 1. 1. "To show capacity," a Frenchman described as the end of a speech in debate: "No," said an Englishman, "but to set your shoulder at the wheel to advance the business." [Any reference for either remark?]

7. P. 55, 1. 35. The Mark-Lane Express. [Is this still published? What is, or was, its nature?]

8. P. 57, 1. 36. Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery, was the Chancellor's staying away entirely from his court. [Did Romilly ever make any such suggestion?]

9. P. 58, 1. 22. It is the maxim of their economists, "that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months." [Is this a verbatim quotation from some writer on economics before 1856?]