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 12 s. vin. APRIL 2, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 261 LONDON, APRIL 2, 1SS1. CONTENTS. No. 155.
 * Robert Wbatley, 261 -Among the ShakesDeare

Archives : The Plague in Stratford, 262 Aldeburgh : Extracts from Chamberlains' Account-Book, 1625-1649, 265 Deaths Labrador Fancies Pilgrims, 266 Gounod's Piano Half-Sovereign : Early Use of Term 267. "QUERIES : Heraldry : St. Augustine's Abbey, Bristol- Cider and Rheumatism Globist, 267 Thomas Brooks of Bath William Cecil, Second Earl of Exeter Second Bishop of Carlisle Sugar Houses, London Paper Water- markDean Toogood Anderson Fan-ily, Baronets of Broughton "The Golden Ball, in Southampton Street, St. Giles's "Polish "Emigre's" on French Privateers ' Giovanni Sbogarro,' 263" Singing-bread "The Rabbit in Comparative Religion Ireland Family History Shakespeare Query Brinsmade Australian Judicature Tennyson Queries Classical Quotations in Poe's Works, 269 Author of Poem Wanted Author Wanted, 270. (REPLIES : Richard III : William Herbert, Earl of Huntington, 270 Representative County Libraries : Public and Private, 272 "Counts of the Holy Roman Empire" The Gallic Era " Eighty-eight "A " Phiolad " of Barley The Pancake Bell, 273 The O'Flaherty Family : Kings of Connaught Dr. Johnson : Portrait in Hill's Edition of Boswell Impaled on a Thorn, 274 Cherry Orchards of Kent" The Haven under the Hill " Phaestos Disk Pronunciation of Greek (and Latin), 275 = Kingston House, Knightsbridge Tavern Signs Diocesan Calendars Book Wanted, 276 " Comlies " and " Cony Bags" Cardinal de Rohan Chabot Errors in Carlyle's ' French Revolution ' Hunting Songs : Cha- worth Musters Sir Hans Sloane's Bloomsbury House, 277 Blount of Lincolnshire Book Borrowers " Mark Kutherford "The Green Man, Ashbourne, 278. NOTES ON BOOKS : Hamlet and the Scottish Succes- s ion ' ' The Boy Bishop at Salisbury and Elsewhere ' English Philology in English Universities ' ' A Shake- speare Dictionary' Notices to Correspondents. ROBERT WHATLEY. (See ante, pp. 221, 242.) THE "Case " appeared under the title, *A Short History of a Ten Years Negociation, between a Prime Minister and a Private Gentleman,'* and reached a second edition ('Three Letters,' pp. [v], 14 note, ' Judg- ment Signed,' p. 36; 'Letters and Applica- tions,' p. [4 6]), but no thrones fell. Walpole retaliated in The Daily Gazetteer of Apr. 13 with some scurrilous verses, tho author of which so the victim alleged, not without reason was "a noble Lord then [in 1738] V ce Ch n of the Court, 'that the issue to the public took place in March. 1738. and now [in 1742] L d Pr y S 1 of the Kingdom" ('A Letter to the L. and C.,' p. [54], i.e., Lord Hervey.* To this Whatley appears to have replied in the form of a "Criticism on the Right Honour- able Verses addressed to the Rev. Mr. Wh. in The Daily Gazetteer, ^April 13, 1738 " ('Judgment Signed,' p. 3 note, 'A Letter to the L. and C.,' p. 39). f Just after the ' Short History ' had appeared, he pub- lished a selection of pieces justificatives : ' Letters and Applications Relating to The Short History. . . .That Passed from the Time of its being printed, (and in the Minister's Hands), in March 1737, to the publishing of it in March 1738,' and at some date after Mar. 26, 1739 J : ' Three Letters. The First, to the Eight Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, in December 1727. Six Months after the late King's Decease. With his Answer. The Second, to the Lord Chancellor King of his Lordship's Character, as it stood in January 1727-8. The Third, to his Lordship, on the Author's Design of taking Orders, in September 1728.' But, notwithstanding the three blasts of the trumpet, Jericho still stood, and Whatley went home. Not, however, to wring his hands but to prepare a third assault. The year 1740 saw the matter again brought before the public notice by 'Judgment Signed in the Cause Between the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole, and Mr. Whatley ' This pam- phlet, couched in the form of a letter to the Prime Minister dated Apr. 8 of this year, marks a stage forward in the dispute if one may describe as a dispute the action of an angry tide beating on an impassive break- water. Reciting his' grievances, Walpole 's reasons for evasion) j and the objects for which he was contending,^ the writer brings Daily Gazetteer of Nov. 23, 1739, and July 15, L741, and also to the " Hyp-Doctor," No. 383 'Letters and Applications,' p. viii, 'Judgment Signed,' p. 20, note.) f It was out of print by the date of the publica- tion (1739) of ' Three Letters ' (op. cit., p. ii). The date of the dedication. Whose position the writer stigmatizes as 1 this unknown Office " (op. cit., p. 33). II The incapacity of the recipient (op. cit., ). 12) and King's cancellation of the obligation op. cit., pp. 6, 11). U" Not preferment but the balance of 300 per annum less the sums paid on account from Christmas 1726, and, in addition, compensation or " the inconceivable Damages I have sustained f your not making, at that time, the like Pro- dsion [i.e., the equivalent of Spicer's] for me . . . . " op. cit. t p. 21).
 * The title-page is dated 1737 bit that of
 * Letters and Applications ' (cf. infra) proves
 * Whatley gives references elsewhere to The