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record where the will was proved, and 1 have not found it. It is not at Worcester, where the probate of wills was suspended from 1651, nor at Oxford nor at Canterbury. Somewhere about 1680 a John Peakes was renting a tenement and garden frr m Francis Taylor, the squire of South Littleton. Incidentally, the name Pepys alias Peakes may throw light upon the pronounciation of the name Pepys. ,

There is another link, albeit of the slightest, between Samuel Pepys and this village of South Littleton. After Pepys' death Dean Hickes, a non- juror, who buried Pepys, wrote to Dr. Arthur Charlett announc- ing the death of " your and my good friend Mr. Pepys," and Dr. Arthur Charlett, who was the Master of University College, Oxford, was one of those who received a mourning ring. Now the Gharlett family for some generations was associated with South Littleton, and some of them are buried in the next village. Moreover, Dr. Charlett was a first cousin of Francis Taylor the squire, and the latter' s son when at Oxford lodged with Dr. Charlett, On the other hand Dr. Charlett' s name does not occur in the Diary, so it is to be presumed that his acquaintance with Pepys took place in the thirty years during which Pepys lived after discontinuing the Diary. Dr. Arthur Charlett was Chaplain to the King, 1697-1716, so he '.may have met Pepys in London and not through any Worcestershire connexion.

CHARLES S. TOMES, LL.D., F.R.S.

" IN LOVE WITH LOVE." St. Augustine says in his ' Confessions,' iii. 1 :

" Xomlum amabam, et amaro amabam . . . . Quaerebam quid amarem, amans amare." This was translated by William Watts in 1631 (see ' Loeb's Classical Library,' London, 1912, vol. i. p. 99) :

" I was not in love as yet, yet I loved to be in love.... I sought about for something to love, loving still to be in love."

I venture to suggest that the meaning is rather : " I was not in love as yet, but I was in love with love. . . .1 wanted something to love, being in love with love."

When does the phrase " in love with love " first appear in English :

JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

A SHERIFF'S POST.- Things have their genealogy as well as persons, and sometimes they have quite a long pedigree. In ' Twelith-XighV I. v., Malvolio tells Olivia

that Viola will " stand at your door like a. sheriff's post." Steevens the commentator says that it was the custom for the sheriff to have large posts set up at his door, on which originally kings' proclamations and other public acts w^ere affixed. These post& are evidently the ancestors of the notice- boards which can be seen to-day at the- entrance to every house wherein a village- policeman lives. , S. H. A. H.

We must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries- in order that answers maybe sent to them direct.

DEATH OF QUEEN ANNE. The Kensington News, July 31, 1914, has the following: special article entitled ' Kensington Palace- 200 years ago ' :

" Queen Anne died here at 7.30 o'clock on Sunday morning, 1st August, 1714. When she- was dying Mr. Scott of Brotnerstown, a Colonel of the Guards, was on guard at the I alace that, night in which the Queen died. He went to Dr. Arbuthnot, one of the Queen's physicians,, and desired the doctor ' to tell him whenever the Queen was dead ' ; but the doctor told him ' that he durst not.' Upon tnis the colonel desired the doctor ' to let him know by the sign of putting, to the window a white handkerchief,' to which the doctor agreed. As soon as the Queen was- dead, Dr. Arbuthnot gave the sign, upon which the colonel went to the Earl-Marischal's house and desired him to see him immediately. The servant told the colonel ' that he was forbid to admit any person to his lordship till his bell. was rung, as he was late up the night before,, and it was yet very early in the morning ' : but the colonel insisted upon being admitted, as he had matters of great consequence to commxmicate to his lordship. He locked the room door, and then awaked his lordship and desired him ' to rise immediately and proclaim the King, as the Queen (his sister) was dead, which none out of the palace knew but him.' His lordship said 'there might be danger in doing it,' but the colonel said ' there would be none, if they did it without loss of time.' He assured his lordship' ' if he would draw out the Guards immediately and proclaim the King (James Stuart) at Charing: Cross, he knew the Duke of Ormonde was ready to do the same at the head of the Army, and that he would take upon himself to secure the Tower ' ; but his lordship remained quite obstinate and said ' that it might cost them their lives if they failed in the attempt.' But the colonel repeated his assurance ' that there was not the least fear if done immediately,' and ' although they lost their lives, it was losing them in an honourable way,' and ' gave his word of honour that if they were brought to a trial, he would do