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 12 S. VI.MAY 1, 1920.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

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L. G. R. would probably find the following works of use :

Le Grand, ' Saints de la Bretagne Armorique ' (Quimper, 1901).

Borlase, ' Age of the Saints ' (Truro, 1893).

Rees, ' Welsh Saints ' (London, 1836).

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

"THE LAME DEMON" (12 S. vi. 110). The demon is Asmodee, the tale ' Le Diable boiteux.' Lesage was an early favourite with Dickens, ' Gil Bias ' being among the "glorious host" who kept David Copper- field's fancy alive under the Murdston tyranny. In the days, or nights, of David's story-telling at Salem House it was a jest of Traddles

" to pretend that he couldn't keep his teeth from chattering, whenever mention was made of an Alguazil in connexion with the adventures of Gil Bias ; and I remember that when Gil Bias met the captain of the robbers in Madrid, this unlucky joker counterfeited such an ague of terror, that he was overheard by Mr. Creakle, who was prowling about the passage, and hand- somely flogged for disorderly conduct in the bedroom."

When the younger Martin Chuzzlewit had flung himself out of Pecksniff's house with the intention of walking all the way to London, the book which Tom Pinch pressed upon him proved to be an odd volume of the 'Bachelor of Salamanca.' The coughing of Cymon Tuggs behind the curtain in ' Sketches by Boz ' is not improbably a reminiscence of 'Gil Bias,' while the corresponding incident in Lesage may well have been suggested by Apuleius. EDWARD BENSLY.

Oudle Cottage, Much Hadham, Herts.

[MK. JOHN WAINEWBIGHT and MB. F. A RUSSELL also thanked for replies.]

THE BASKETT BIBLE (12 S. vi. 110). The British Museum Catalogue shows the follow ing editions of the Baskett Bibles :

Printed by Thomas Baskett (Oxford and London) 1745, 6, 7, 9, 1750, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 8, 9, 1760, 1, 2. The New Testament of the last edition (1762) bears the imprint of Mark Baskett.

Printed by Mark Baskett (Oxford and London) 1763, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

It may be assumed from this that Mark was the successor of Thomas, as Thoma, was of John Baskett, and this is partlj verified by Madan's ' Chart of Oxford Printing ' (Bibliographical Society), froir which the following names and dates ar taken : Mark Baskett, 1715 ; John Baskett 1715-42 ; Robert Baskett, 1742-44 ; Thoma

Baskett, 1742-62 ; Mark Baskett, 1762-65,. >om the 'D.N.B.,' Cotton's 'Editions of he Bible,' and other sources, I gather that here is a remarkable bibliographical mystery- associated with the name of Mark Baskett, viz. : that various editions bearing his mprint ("London: printed by Mark Bas- cett, printer to the King's most excellent Majesty ") were really printed at Boston,, about 1752. The story, as given in Thomas's ' History of Printing in America,' s very minute and circumstantial, and states- ,hat the edition was carried through tho- jress as privately as possible, and had the Condon imprint in order to prevent a prosecution. If the story is true, then this edition is the first Bible printed in America. n the English language. However, no- Bible dated 1752 from the press of Mark Baskett can be found, his name first appear - ng in imprints about 1762.

The John Rylands Library Catalogue of die Tercentenary Exhibition of the Autho--- rized Version of the English Bible (1911) states that a Bible printed at Philadelphia in 1782 by R. Aitken was

' probably the first complete English Bible printed in America. The copy in the British Vluseum contains a note in Aitken's writing, which certifies it to be the first copy of the first edition of the Bible ever printed in America in. the English language."

ARCHIBALDS SPARKE.

CONSTABLE THE PAINTER (12 S. vi. 132). According to Leslie's ' Memoirs of the Lif6 of John Constable,' Golding Constable, the artist's father, married Miss Ann Watts. She was the sister of David Pike Watts, a wealthy wine merchant of London, who died July 29, 1816, aged 62. His only daughter married Jesse Watts Russell of Ham Hall, Ashbourne. David Pike Watts was buried, at St. John's Wood, and his monument by Chantrey is one of the great attractions of. Ham Church. G. F. R. B.

[MK. ARCHIBALD SPAKKE also thanked for reply.]

HAWKE'S FLAGSHIP IN 1759 (12 S. vi. 110). The Court and City Register for 1759 and 1760 gives Rear- Admiral Holmes as carrying his flag on board the Royal Sovereign o " 100 guns, she being one of the three " First Rates," the others being the Royal Anne, 100 > (Capt. Sir Wm. Burnaby), and the Royal George, 100 (Capt. Rich. Dorrill). Sir Edward Hawke had his flag on the Ramillies, . a "second rate" of 90 guns. The Gent.- Mag., 1759, prints Hawke's dispatch, dated Royal George off Penris Point, Nov. 24,.