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circuit [in the inspection of barracks], though he was not expected so soon, and I hear that he will not go the other circuits as he intended, his lordship as also the Earl of Berkeley being suddenly to go for England, and this day they are paying off such of their servants as they do not take with them, and I hear the Bishop of Dublin and the Earl of Drogheda are to be sworn our lords justices until the arrival of the Earl of Kochester. The Earl of Berkeley thought to have shipped off his horses this night, but the storm prevented him. There are many troubled as to the going away of the Earl of Galway, his lordship being well beloved.

Jan. 20, Dublin. Our Lords Justices are selling their horses and other effects in order to go to England. The Countess of Berkeley out of charity has ordered a poor boy to be taken out of every parish to be bound apprentice, giving with each of them four pounds.

Jan. 23, Dublin. The Earl of Drogheda was expected here this day to be sworn one of our lords justices, but the gout prevented him ; the Earl of Berkeley is ill of the gout ; his lordship, as also the Earl of Galway, will go for England as soon as the Earl of Drogheda is able to come thither.

Jan. 28, Dublin. The Earl of Drogheda is not come to town yet, he being very ill of the gout still in the country, which makes the Earls of Berkeley and Galway stay here so long to have him and the Archbishop of this city sworn lords justices until the arrival of the Earl of Kochester.

Mar. 4, Dublin. The Earl of Drogheda is expected here to-morrow being much better.

Mar. 20, Dublin. Doctor Comyns, who went by order of our Lords Justices to Mellifont to visit the Earl of Drogheda, is returned and reports that his lordship is on the mending hand, and will be here on Monday next, at which time he and the Archbishop of this city are to be sworn lords justices of this kingdom, and then the Earls of Galway and Berkeley will be going for England, there being ships ready for that purpose.

April 3, Dublin. The Earl of Drogheda and the Bishop of this city are to be sworn to-morrow lords justices.

April 19, London. The Earl of Galway is arrived here from Ireland.

April 22, Dublin. This day the Earl of Drog- heda was sworn one of our lords justices at his own house in Smithfleld, his lordship being still

ill.

F. ELBJNGTON BALL.

AMONG THE SHAKESPEARE ARCHIVES.

(See ante, p, 301, 322, 342). JOHN SHAKESPEARE, CONSTABLE, 1558.

Latimer had spoken of Stratford and Warwick in 1537 as the " blind end " of his diocese, but by the close, of Mary's reign Stratford at least was a Protestant strong- hold. Objection had been taken to the appointment by the Queen on Nov. 3, 1553

of Roger Dyos as Vicar over the head of Edward Alcock, late Subwarden of the College. Sixteen months passed before the Council agreed to pay him his stipend, and then they did so under pressure, in an elaborate deed in Richard Symons' best handwriting with initials in red ink, reciting at length the terms of the Charter as if in, jealousy of their recently -acquired privileges. It was* dated Feb. 7, 1555, the day of the arrival of Laurence Saunders in Coventry and of Bishop Hooper in Gloucester to be burned. Nor did the Council give Dyos more than ten months' salary of that due.

Very different was their treatment of the old schoolmaster, William Dalam. By the terms of the Charter the schoolmaster was to receive 20?. a year instead of 10Z. A new master was engaged, William Smart, a graduate and a Protestant, and Dalam who was old was retained as his assistant, Smart receiving 13Z. 6s. 8d, (less a contribution for 4 years towards reparations), and Dalam Ql. 13s. 4d. This arrangement was agreed to at Christmas, 1554, Smart undertaking "to employ himself with such godly wisdom and learning as God hath endowed him with," and to "teach all such scholars and children as shall fortune to come godly learning and wisdom." Whatever Protestant sym- pathies Dalam may have manifested in King Edward's reign, and it is unlikely that he would have retained and filled his post with acceptance if he had shown none, he was willing when the old worship was restored to say mass in the Gild Chapel and offer prayers for the dead. Smart escaped this duty by the arrangement made ; and when in October, 1555, the old man (senis et affiictus) was relieved of his school-work a life pension of SI. was granted him, with use of a chamber next the Gild Hall, on the understanding that he continued to celebrate mass in the Cliapel, and on the feast days in the Parish Church, "so long as there shall be a lawful desire for the same " (quamdiu vixerit cum ad hoc legitima dispositio fuerit). The Council evidently were of opinion that the revival of the mass was temporary.

At the first Court Leet in Mary's reign, in October 1553, an order was made im- posing a fine of 3s. 4c?. on any one who "reviled against Master High Baily " or "other the Queen's Majesty's officers." On Apr. 6, 1554, the penalty was increased to a fine of 10s. and three days' imprison- ment. Eighteen months later, on Oct. 11, 1555, it was agreed that " no person hereafter revile against any officer in pain for every