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 12 s. vni. MAY ?, mi.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 361 LONDON, MAY 7. 1921. CONTENTS. No. 160. NOTES : ' Pericles ' on the Stage, 361 Legay of Southampton and London, 362 Glass-Painters of York : Shirley, 364" Magdalen " or " Mawdlen "A Projected Escape of Napoleon from St. Helena, 366 Edmund Hyde Hall's ' Notes upon Carnarvonshire ' Marriages, 367 Banns-cum-Marriage Registers " How to be Happy Though Married," 368. QUERIES :" Zoo "A Blacksmith's Epitaph, 36& The Year 1000 A.D. Old Novels and Song-Books Napoleon and London. 369 Weatherall Culver Hole, Gower Simeon Musgrave Mary Benson, alias Maria Theresa Phipoe Aliens in Northamptonshire, Sixteenth Century Fire Pictures Reformations of the Calendar Farndon Communion Cup, 370 Epigrammatists Catherinot : Epigrammata Griffith Gage " Club " versus " Society " Henry Bell of Portington J. Young Pinnet State Trials in Westminster Hall Reference Wanted Author Wanted, 371. REPLIES : " Juan de Vega " : Charles Cochrane, 371 f Monte Cristo, 372 Sir Thomas Chaloner Archbishop 'Tillotson and the Last Sacraments Robert Whatley : James Street, Westminster Churches of St. Michael, 373 Death of William Rufus Old Song Wanted " Singing Bread "Residence of Mrs. Fitzherbert, 374 John William Rose Tavern Signs : The Quiet Woman Lancashire Settlers in America War Portents, 375 Smallest Pig of a Litter " Some " The Thames Running Dry, 376 Book Borrowers Scotch Hands Cowper : Pronunciation of Name, 377 Song Wanted : Bryan O'Lynn Age of Lions Hareway, Englefleld, Berks " He will never set the Sieve on Fire," 378. NOTES ON BOOKS : A Manual of Modern Scots.' Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents. ' JSote*. ' PERICLES ' ON THE STAGE. THE revival of ' Pericles ' at the " Old Vic." affords a suitable occasion for putting to- gether a few notes on the meagre stage history of this play. It was first printed in 1609, and the earliest known reference to it as an acted play dates from the same year. The anonymous writer of some doggerel lines entitled ' Pimlyco or Runne Red-Cap,' describing a noisy crowd of " Gentiles mix'd with Groomes," exclaims : I truly thought all These Came to see Shore or Pericles. Five years later Robert Tailor bears witness to its popularity in the prologue to his play, ' The Hogge hath lost his Pearle,' which ends : And if it prove so happy as to please Weele say 'tis fortunate like Pericles. ' From these allusions we are entitled to infer that the play pleased the million. The earliest record of a particular perform- ance of it shows that it was also regarded with favour at Court. On May 24, 1619, Sir Gerrard Herbert, writing to Sir Dudley Carleton, the English Ambassador at The Hague, describes a farewell entertainment given to the French Ambassador, the Marquis de la Tremouille, at Whitehall, on the preceding Thursday, May 20 (' S.P., Dom., James I.,' vol. cix., No. 46). "The supper was greate & the banquett curious." It was followed by music, and then In the kinges greate Chamber they went to see the play of Pirrocles, Prince of Tyre, which lasted till 2 aclocke. after two actes, the players ceased till the french all refreshed them wto sweetmeates brought on Chinay voiders, & wyne & ale in bottells, after the players, begann anewe. The Imbassadour parted next morning for Fraunce at 8 aclocke, full well pleased, a state of mind which does him credit, considering how late he had been up the night before. Our next piece of information comes from another Herbert, Sir Henry, who was Master of the Revels under Charles I. In this capacity he enjoyed a number of little perquisites from the players, who were largely dependent upon his good will for their livelihood. Thus, on June 10, 1631, he received from the Xing' s Company 3 10s. " for a gratuity for ther liberty gaind unto them of playinge, upon the cessation of the plague." And he adds, " This was taken upon Pericles at the Globe." The amount suggests that the play was no longer a great favourite, for two days later ' Richard II.,' played for Herbert's " benefitt,'* brought in 5 6s. Qd. ; and ' Every Man in His Humour,' in February, 1630, as much as 12 4s. These particulars are taken from the extracts from Herbert's Office Book, now lost, made by Malone for his ' Historical Account of the English Stage,' and printed in the 'Variorum' of 1821, iii. 176-7. It may be worth noting, how- ever, that in this same year, 1631, Jonson refers slightingly to the favour shown to " some mouldy tale like Pericles " in the verses appended to his comedy ' The New Inn,' which had failed on the stage in 1629. After the Restoration the play remained for a time in the repertory of the stage. In his ' Roscius Anglicanus ' John Downes, who was prompter to Davenant's company, mentions it among the plays revived at