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 i2s.vni.ApRiLi6,io2i.j NOTES AND QUERIES. 311 THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT. What is the origin or reputed authority of the story that the third reading of this Bill by the House of Lords was carried by one peer counted as ten ? The 'Encycl. Brit.' mentions it, but without endorsing it. Green, Bryce, and Gardiner make no reference to it. Luttrell and Evelyn are silent and Pepys's 'Diary' concludes ten years before the passing of the Bill. Has the " tenfold peer," if he ever existed, been identified ? L. G. R. Bournemouth. KATHARINE TUDOR or BERAIN. On p. 278 of Cox's * Annals of St. Helens, Bishopsgate,' it is stated that Katharine Tudor (or Berain), who married Sir Thos. Gresham's factor, Richard Clough, in 1567, was a great-grand- daughter of Henry VII. Through whom was she descended ? W. R. DA VIES. Kingsclear, Camberley, Surrey. AUTHOR WANTED. I read that in 1509 an author wrote of the book collector : - In my conceyt, and to have them ay in hand." Who was the author ? W. R. DA VIES. Kingsclear, Camberley, Surrey. BENJAMIN CHOYCE SOWDON. (12 S. viii. 168, 236.) MY query has brought me some further notes which it may be as well to put on record. Watt ('Bibl. Brit.' ii. S70) calls Sowdon (or Sowden) " Morning preacher of All- Hallows, London- Wall " ; but the present Rector, the Rev. Sir Montague Fowler, Bart., writes : ' ' I have never heard of Benjamin Choyce Sowden, Morning Preacher of All Hallows, London-Wall. I have consulted various books and documents relating to the parish as well as ' Xovum Begis- Irum Ecclesiastic um Parochiale Londinense' (1898), but with no success." Allibone ( 4 Crit. Diet.' ii.) calls Sowdon " Minister of the English Episcopal church, Amsterdam." The present incumbent, the Rev. James Chambers, writes : " I have the pleasure to inform you that we can supply you with a little information about the marriages here and signed in that name. The marriage of B. C. Sowdon with Phoebe Catanach is registered here 15 April 1784." Daniel Sedgwick ( ' Comprehensive Index of Names of Authors of Psalms and Hymns,' 1863, p. xiv.) has the entry "Sow- den, Benjamin, O[riginal] 1769"; and the Rev. James Mearns, co-editor of the * Dic- tionary of Hymnology,' who has not seen Sowden's book, conjectures that from it Williams may have taken the version in- cluded in his Collection of 1771. But the same version appears in Dell's Collection j of 1756 ; so that there must have been an
 * earlier issue of Sowden's book, of which I

should be glad to have particulars. Kippis's Collection of 1795 includes a hymn by Sowderi beginning Thy goodness, Lord ! while I survey To Thee my thanks shall rise. The ' Index to Seasons and Subjects ' men- tioned on p. 932 of the ' Dictionary of Hym- nology ' was not included because, as Mr. Mearns tells me, " Mr. Murray [the publisher] concluded it was too expensive to print." The manuscript of the Dictionary was sent to the Church House, Westminster, but the I Secretary writes : " The Index in question, I regret to say, never reached us." In Dr. Robert Burns's : Memoir of Rev. ! Stevenson Macgill ' (Edinb. 1842), p. 278, mention is made of a MS. in the possession of Dr. Macgill (but formerly belonging to the Rev. James Brown) which con- tained copies of translations and para- phrases submitted to a committee of the General Assembly. " The number of pieces in this volume is 93 ; and the authors' names are Watts, Benjamin Lowden, Samuel Stennett . . ." Can Lowden be a mistake for Lowden ? Where has this MS. Collection gone ? P. J. ANDERSON. University Library, Aberdeen. till 1796 he baptized people here and signed in that name. From 17*8 till 1794 he performed R AH*T?VTTTT ATnnw^ PAU^W M9 J ( 248> ) The ascription of Carew s Apology to the Goadbys is of such long standing that I have hitherto hesitated to question it in print. But the evidence is clearly iii- conclusive, and MR. LAWRENCE F. POWELL'S valuable paper on ' The Pseudonym Jacob Larwood ' (12 S. vii. 441) demonstrates how effectually a publisher can cover up all traces of authorship. Carew's reference to such former accounts inspection " relates, I think, not to the " Exeter " and 1749 editions, but to a
 * hl appeared "not under his own