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 12 S. VIII. MARCH 5, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 197 HAZEBROUCK (12 S. viii. 121, 143). It .may be of interest to put on record that the Abbe Lemire mentioned above as. Mayor of Hazebrouck, member of the Chamber of ! Deputies, and officer of the Order of Leopold, is Jules -Auguste Lemire, that he was born Apr. 23, 1853, that he has been an honorary can. of Aix since 1897, and of Bourges since 1900, and that he is the author cf several works. HABMATOPEGOS. SUGGESTED GERMAN SOURCE OF ' MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR ' (12 S. vii. 211). "The play in question by Duke Heinrich Julius of Brunswick is entitled ' Von einem Weibe, wie dasselbige ihre Hurerei fur ihren Eheman verborgen. ' It was printed -at Wolfenbiittel in 1593, and is described as " Mit sechs Personen." Of these six charac- ters the husband is named Thomas Mercator, the lover Thomas Amator and the wife, un- compromisingly, Meretrix. Particulars of resemblance to the ' Merry Wives ' are the 'ingenuity with which the lover is smuggled out of the house on the husband's un- expeqted return, and the circumstance that "Thomas Amator confides his adventures to Thomas Mercator, with whom he is un- acquainted. The husband suffers from a disease in one of his eyes, and the escape on one occasion is effected by the wife's holding her hand in front of his good eye and ask- ing her dear Thomas whether he can see the door. The lover takes the hint. There is -a similar incident in one of the tales in the ' Gesta Romanorum ' (122 in Swan's trans- lation), a tale which is found in the 'Dis- ciplina Clericalis,' and many of the Italian novelists. There are modern editions of Duke Heinrich Julius's plays by Julius Tittmann, Leipzig, 1880, and W. L. Holland, Stuttgart, 1855. EDWARD BENSLY. ARCHBISHOP JOHN WILLIAMS' s * MANUAL ' (12 S. viii. 152). The work on which infor- mation is sought is described in B. H. Beedham's privately printed ' Notices of Archbishop Williams,' 1869, p. 87, as "probably not written by Williams." The lady for whose temporary change of religion Williams bore the credit was Lady Katherine Manners, married to the Duke (then Mar- quis) of Buckingham in 1620. For her use we are told that he composed a book : " The King was so intent, that the Lady should "become an upright and sincere Protestant, that he proposed to his Chaplain, now her Ghostly Father, to draw up a pretty Manual of the Elements of the Orthodox Religion, with which she might every day consult in her Closet- Retire- ments, for her 'better confirmation. A Book was Compiled accordingly, but "E/cSoros, d put forth, and not put forth. Twenty Copies were printed and no more, and without the Author's Name (in a Notion common to many), By an old Prebendary of the Church of Lincoln. The Copies were sent to the Lord Marquess, and being no more, are no more to be found ; for I have searched for one, but with lost Labour." Bishop Hacket ' Scrinia Reserta,' Pt. 1, p. 43. The Archbishop's biographer goes on to say that he had seen and read one of these, thirty years earlier, " which being in a negligent Custody, is miscarried," but that he possessed " a written copy, out of which it was printed." He finds the ' Expunc- tions, Interlinings, and Marginal Refer- ences " difficult of comprehension, but promises to try his best skill, and " if I can truly affirm it to be the very Mantle which fell from Elijah, it shall be forth-coming in a Wardrode [sic] at the end of the Book." Whatever the cause may have been, it did not appear in that place. Hacket 's book, written about 1650, was printed, long after his death, in 1692. The last chapter of the ' Manual ' about which MB. ANEURIN WILLIAMS writes was assuredly not designed to be a confutation of what precedes. The author's intention was clearly by displaying the extreme positions of his adversaries to effect a reductio ad absurdum of their system. The marginal comments " Blasph." and " Abomi- nation ' ' preclude the faintest doubt of his purpose. EDWARD BENSLY. Much Hadham, Herts. WIDEAWAKE HATS (12 S. vii. 28, 157, 171, 198, 214, 238, 315; viii. 117). In a letter from Windsor Castle, Mar. 28, 1859. " The Queen had on a wideawake with a black cock's tail" ('Twenty Years at Court,' by Mrs. Stewart Erskine). C. B. E. COVILL (12 S. viii. 132). The following two entries are to be found in the register of St. Nicholas (Cathedral), Xewcastle-upon- Tyne : " 1670, Apr. 25, John Covill, and Anne Prescod, lie. " " 1674, July 4, John Co veil, barber chirurgeon, and Eliz. Airey." HAYDN T. GILES. 11, Ravensbourne Tey, South Shields. Apparently a corruption of Colville, like Covell, Covelle, and other variations : John Covel, known also as Covell, or Colvill, born 1638, died 1722, was Master of Christ's College, Cambridge, and a native of