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 12 s. vii. OCT. 23, i92o.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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have had reference to those who continued to use the Prayer Book in the Common- wealth time after its use had been forbidden by the Directory.

Or, the writer of the first petition in that

form may have adopted it because he was

in doubt what else to add, and that later

writers of petitions followed the example.

JOHN BAVINGTON JONES.

1 Salisbury Boad, Dover.

BlBLIOGHRAPHY OF LEPERS IN ENGLAND

(12 S. vi. 150, 195, 218, 259 ; vii. 276). Reference to hospitals for lepers are in the by Macmillan, Hampshire, 75-6 ; Hertford- shire, 54, 69, 236-7. W. B. H.
 * Highways and Byways Series,' published

THE CLINK (12 S. vii. 246, 274). See chapter xix. of Captain Marry at 's 'Jacob Faithful. ' The common-keeper (of Wimble- don Common) said " Come, come along with me ; we've a nice clink at Wandsworth to lock you up in. " LIBRARIAN

Public Library, Wandsworth, S.W.I.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED.

(12 S. vii. 291.)

3. These lines are by the Quaker poet John Scott, of Amwell. The following is the full quotation : I hate that drum's discordant sound, Parading round, and round, and round ; To me it speaks of ravag'd plains, And burning towns, and ruined swains, And mangled limbs, and dying groans, And widows' tears, and orphans' moans, And all that misery's hand bestows, To fili t,he catr'ogue of human woes. I quote nt second hand from a little pamphlet called ' The Lacon of Liberty,' published in 1844 by Effingham Wilson. See the biography of John Scott in the 'D.N.B.,' vol. li. p. 42, and for a reference to him in Boswell's 'Johnson,' by Napier, vol. ii. p. 310-316. HARRY B. POLAND.

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Captain Htfyles Standisli : Ms lost Lands and

Lancashire Connexions. A New Investigation.

By Thomas Cruddas Porteus. (Longmans,

3s. Qd. net).

THIS interesting monograph is No. 38 of the Historical Series, published by the University of Manchester. It makes an important contribution to the history of that " terrible Captain," who, besides his courtship of a pretty Puritan, his exploits against Red Indians, and his general services to the Pilgrim Fathers' first settlements is invested with no fewer than three mysteries : those of his religion, his descent and his lost estates.

On all three subjects a great deal has been written, and perhaps not one of them will ever

be finally cleared up, but Mr. Porteus has done a. great deal, in the matter of the lost lands, by turning investigation upon a new track which is evidently also the right one.

The story of Myles Standish's English estates rests upon a paragraph in his will, wherein he claims to be descended from " a second or younger brother from the house of Standish of Standish," and gives to his son certain lands in Lancashire stated to have been surreptitiously detained from him. Mr. Porteus relates amusingly the growth of legend as to the value of these lands, and the proceedings of searchers and claimants from , overseas ; and he satisfactorily clears the character of the rector of Chorley who was accused of having mutilated the Chorley Register in the interest of the holders of Duxbury. But the main value of this work lies in its removing the scope of the claim away from. Duxbury. The Standishes of that place, and those of Standish Hall, though the most important are not the only Standishes of Lancashire, and it occurred to Mr. Porteus to make the place-names mentioned on the will the basis of his researches. The lands, Myles Standish therein declares, are in Ormskirk, Burscough, Wrightington, Maudsley, Newburgh^ Croston and the Isle of Man. Neither the Standishes of Standish nor those of Duxbury had' estate in these localities (with a very few and quite inconsiderable exceptions), but Mr. Porteus can bring chapter and verse to show that there was a family of the name, seated at Ormskirk which did hold lands therein. Not only so, but this family fulfils, as the others do not, the con- dition of connexion with Man. The whole evidence on the subject is very carefully set out, and one item of it is of prime importance. This is a settlement, made in 1540, whereby Thomas Standish of Ormskirk gave all his possessions

S'ecisely in those six localities mentioned in yles Standish's will into the hands of trustees,, for the use of himself for life, thereafter for the use of his daughter Anne for five years, and then for the use of his brothers in succession and their heirs. Mr. Porteus is inclined to think that Myles Standish's claim was by virtue of the remainders in this very deed the trust having been violated. He also inclines to believe that Huan Standish, youngest brother of Thomas,, who settled in the Isle of Man, was the grand- father of Myles.

What becomes, on this theory, of the significance of the name Duxbury, given to the settlement founded in 1632 on the north side of Plymouth Bay, and supposed to indicate the connexion of Myles Standish with the Duxbury family ? What also, of the meaning of the words in the will " second or younger brother from the house of Standish of Standish " ? Neither, in our opinion, can be pressed against the precise indication given in the place-names ; and both may well be taken as expressing simply Myles Standish's complacent consciousness of what seems to be the fact the derivation, in a remote past, of the lesser Standishes from the principal stem.

Mr. Porteus has some good chapters on Duxbury Park and Standish Hall, and gives abstracts of the deeds (28 in number) relating to the lost lands. He also discusses Longfellow's poem, and supplies a series of good notes to the items composing Myles Standish's library.