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Molle's wife was his first cousin once removed. He gave Molle a post at York under the Council. Ten year later Molle took Lord Exeter's grandson Lord Roos and Lord St. John for a continental tour. At Rome while the boys were treated with consideration, their tutor was imprisoned by the Inquisition,* and here he remained in spite of all the efforts of Sir Henry Wotton and others till his death at the age of 80 in 1638. He was then described as "Mr. Moll of York." He had had the reversion of the office of Examiner of Causes before the President and Council of the North, ('S.P.D.,' vol. xlv., May 11, 1609).

On July 20, 1616 (vol. Ixxxviii.) the office of Examiner of Witnesses before the Council of the North was granted in reversion after William Nevill and John Mole to his son Henry Mole (Molle), who had been elected from Eton College to King's College, Cam- bridge, in 1612. Essex, Lady Cheke, on Feb. 20, 1624-5, begs of Secretary Conway the next reversion of a prebend at Windsor for her husband's nephew, the son of Mr Mole who is in prison in the Inquisition at Kouen,

Meanwhile he had become fellow of Xing's and in 1623 wrote some verses on the performance of ' Fucus ' before King James at Newmarket, which show his wit and facility. See E. E. Kellett, 'A Book of Cambridge Verse,' pp. 405, 407. In 1639 he was elected Public Orator, and held the office till 1650, as stated by Judge Parry.

P. 79, Letter 18. Lady Newcastle published in 1653 not only * Poems and Fancies,' but a supple- mentary volume written in three weeks, called Philosophical Fancies,' part prose, part verse.
 * From Dorothy's expression in Letter 59 (Feb. 19,

1654) : " No, not my Lady Newcastle with all her philosophy," one would think that she then had the later volume in mind^ The British Museum copy is dated however by Thomasson

1 " [1653] and I date the present letter

P. 83, Letter 19, Eleanor (Danvers), the wife o Dorothy's eldest brother John, was a younger sister of Jane (Danvers), George Herbert's widow, who, as Lady Cooke, is referred to in Henry Osborne's Diary, for Sept. 1, 1653.

P. 87, Letter 20. Judge Parry thinks that

Lady Ruthin "was probably staying at

Meppershall." I think she was living at Wrest. Cp. letter 56, where writing of " J. B." (Jarnes Beverley) she says " We met at Wrest again." whereas from Letter 55 we should conclude she

was "reported to be betrayed by Sir T. M. at the instigation of the Lord R. to whom he was -assigned Tutor by the Earl of Ex."
 * Francis Osborn ( Works,' 1673, p. 61) says he

met him first at Lady Ruthin's. Wrest had been the seat of the Earl of Kent whom Lady Ruthin's father, Charles Longueville, had succeeded in the barony of Ruthin though not in the earldom.

P. 107, Letter 27. Essex Lady Cheke was daughter of the first Earl of Warwick, not of the second, as Judge Parry says. Otherwise the third Earl who married Lady Cheke's daughter Anne, would have been marrying his niece. He married his cousin.

P. 130, Letter 33. The lady whom Dorothy called upon is identified by her brother's Diary for July 11, 1653, which helps to date the letter. P. 130, Letter 36. Henry Osborne's Diary for Sept. 1, shows that his brother Robin died on Aug. 26.

P. 152, Letter 39. Dorothy's reference to " your wife " here, and to " your wife's letter " (p. 225) is evidently jocose, but not easy to explain.

P. 155. Letter 40. Judge Parry writes : " Lord Monmouth was the eldest son of the Earl of Monmouth." He was the second Earl of Mon- mouth and father-in-law of the Lady Carey of Leppington (or Lady Leppmgton) of whom the Judge writes on p. 92.

P. 191, Letter 52. " You have still the same power in my heart that I gave you at our last parting." This shows that when Dorothy parted from Temple about Nov. 24 she had little thought of proposing an end of the quasi-engage- ment.

P. 196, (bot.), Letter 54. The "fair lady" is, I suppose, Lady Ruthin and " my neighbour's servant " on p. 200, Letter 55, is Yelverton.

P. 197, Letter 55. I have identified Dorothy's admirer with Janies Beverley (see Times Literary Supplement, Sept. 23, 1920). His name occurs in Henry Osborne's Diary for Mar. 26 and 28, 1655, and Oct. 30, 1656. He was knighted July 11, 1660.

P. 214, Letter 58. Lady Grey's sister Mrs. Pooley appears in Henry Osborne's Diary for June 29, 1652 : "I and my sister went with my Lady Grey and Mrs. Pooley to the buriall of Mrs. Rolf," and for July 25, 1652 : " I went with my sister and my Lady Grey and Mrs. Pooley to dinner to S r William Briars."

P. 224, Letter 60. "Their seeing me at St. Gregory's." This must have been in Dorothy's visit to London of Oct. 28-Nov. 25, 1653, which the Judge does not recognize as having taken place.

P. 230 (9 lines from bot.). The date given by the Judge " 1635 " should be " 1655."

Pp. 246, 249, Letter 67. Dorothy's spelling is " Talmach," not " Talmash." Sir Lionel's name is generally given as " Tollemache."

P. 257, Letter 72. " One Mr. John Brinsley," as the Judge writes, was the well-known author of ' The Grammar School.'

P. 301." St. George " (twice) should surely be "Sir George."

P. 303 (1.15 from bot.) "Which we." Query, " which he ? "

F. 314. Sir Henry Osborne, according to the Judge's dates, was Sir Peter's fifth, not seventh, son.

G. C. Mo ORE SMITH. Sheffield.