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had the distinction of being laid out for dead on the day of his birth !

Eustace Budgell signs X. Born 1685, son of the Rev. Gilbert Budgell.

John Hughes, signs KB. Born at Marl- borough 1677, son of a London citizen.

John Steel signs with the editorial signa- ture T. Born 1676 in Dublin, of English parents ; his father, a counsellor at law and private secretary to James, Duke of Ormonde.

Mr. Francham of Norwich, is supposed to 1)6 the author of those letters signed F. J., and the Rev. Richard Parker, Vicar of JSmbleton, of those signed J. R.

?A. G. KEALY, Chaplain R.N. ( retired).

The letters at the foot of the papers of " The Spectator ' are not the initials of the .-authors. They were distinguishing marks -arbitrarily chosen.

The following list will give J. T. F. the information he requires :

Joseph Addison : All the papers signed O, L, I, and O.

Richard Steele : All the papers signed H and T.

Eustace Budgell : All the papers signed X.

John Hughes : The letters signed R.B.

"in 33 and 53 ; the two letters in 66 ; history

of Honoria in 91 ; on ladies' riding-habits in

104 ; on Lancashire witches in 141 ; letter

-on expedients for wit in 220 ; on the awe of

appearing in assemblies, in 231 ; the letter

on tears and fits, in 252 ; letter signed Tim

Watchwell, in 311; and Nos. 210, 230

'< except last letter), 375, 224, 554, 525, 537,

'-541, and possibly 237 and 467.

Alex. Pope : The second letter in 527 with verses, and probably 408.

Dr. Bromine : The character of Emilia in No. 30.

John Byrom : Nos. 586, 587, 593, and 597

Henry Grove : Nos. 588, 601, 626, and 635.

Dr. Zachary Pearce : Nos. 572, and 363.

Henry Martin : No. 180.

Thomas Tickell : The poem, * The Royal Progress,' in 620.

James Heywood : Letter signed James 3Sasv in 268.

Mr. Golding : The letter on the eye in 250.

Dr. Thos. Parnell : Nos. 460, and 501

Peter Motteux : Letter in 288.

Robert Harper : Letter signed M.D. in 480

Philip Yorke (afterwards Earl of Hard- 364.
 * vicke) z Letter signed Phillip Homebread in

John Henley : Letter signed Peter Quir in 396 ; letter signed Tom Tweer in 518.

Many other persons contributed to The Spectator, and some of those named above wrote other parts, but none of the papers, other than those I have given, can be assigned with any certainty to its author.

W. S.

JULIA, DAUGHTER OF CJESAR THE DIC- TATOR (12 S. vii. 130). Thomas Howell's ' H. his Devises,' 1581 (reprinted as ' Howell's Devises,' Clarendon Press, 1906), contains (C. iii. v.) the following poem :

THE LAMENTABLE EXDE OF JULIA, POMPEI'S WYFE.

Sore plungde in greeuous paynes and woefull

smarte,

Bedewed with trickling teares on Death like face Downe trylles the drops on cheekes and sighs

from hart,

To heare and see her husbands dolefull case. Thus goes thys spouse, the wofull Julia, Besprent with bloud, when Pompeis Cote she

saw. Downe dead she falles in lamentable sounde,

Of sence bereft (so great was sorrowes strayne)

The chylde conceyude within by deadly wounde,

Untymely fruite came forth with pinching

payne.

When all was done, for loue her lyfe she lost, For Pompeis sake, shee yeeldid up her Ghost.

So dead she laye, bewaylde with many teares,

A Matrone wise, a famous Ornament : O Ccesttr she had scene full cheerefull yeares, If thou with Pompey couldst have bene content, But civill warros hath wrought this fatall

stryfe, To Pompey death, to Julia losse of lyfe.

G. C. MOORE SMITH. The University, Sheffield.

GOVERNOR HERBERT OF NEVIS (12 S. vii. 129). Strictly speaking he was not Governor but President of H.M. Council. Writing home officially in 1785 he sealed his letter with arms : Per pale Az. and Gu. 3 lions rampant but he may have assumed that coat without authority. The family vault in the parish of St. George Nevis dates from 1724 and the blue marble slab has, cut in a sunk oval, a Jacobean shield quite blank, with no trace of heraldry. The first settler was apparently Edward Herbert of Bristol and then of Montserrat, merchant, who made his will in 1684 (88 Cann) and refers to his shares of ships and plantation and storehouse business. One of his brothers was a mariner and the family was probably of humble origin. For further details, see my article in Caribbeana V. pp. 223-232. V. L. OLIVER, F S.A.