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 12 s. ix. SEPT. 10, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 209 Some editions to-day have no such headings at all. But taking those published by Messrs. Chapman and Hall as having the best right to be authentic, I find varieties, which may in some cases be due to a differ- ence of paging, owing to make-up or the insertion of illustrations. For instance, in chap. ii. of ' Pickwick ' the business at the Bull and its consequences has the same headings generally in the "Popular Edition," first published 1907, and the edition (no date) largely illustrated by F. Barnard, and subsequently (no date) pub- lisned as "Lloyd's Sixpenny Dickens" by arrangement with Messrs. Chapman and Hall. But the former has, I notice, " Mr. Winkle is wanted," and the latter "Mr. Winkle becomes involved in an affair of honour " as a heading. R. DARTLE. REPRINTS OF OLD NEWSPAPERS. I have before me a collection of the above, ranging from The English Mercurie, No. 50, July 23, 1588, to The Times, June 22, 1815, all " Reprinted and published at 15, Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, E.C." What is the date of these reprints ? J. T. F. ALLUSIONS BY KEATS. Wanted, explana- tions of " a Lima mouse " and " a duck of Siam," occurring in Keats V Eve of St. Mark.' J. T. F. REVIVAL OF OLD ENGLISH MARRIAGE CUSTOM. At Thaxted, in Essex, recently, a couple were married at the church door ; the bride and bridegroom afterwards enter- ing the church for the nuptial Mass, when cake and wine wore blessed for the wedding feast. This is said to be in accordance with old English custom. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give the authority for this statement ? R. H. ROBERTS. MARRIAGE (SURNAME) This surname has been well known in Essex for two centuries or more, and inquiries have been made to ascertain whether the families which bear it are of Huguenot descent without much success. A daughter of William Marriage of Priors Marston, Co. Warwick, was married in 1616, so that her father would probably be born about 1550-1560. Amongst the Lichfield Wills is that of Richard Marege, 1557. Any information of an earlier date will oblige. F. C. CLAYTON. St. James Road, Birmingham. ARMY LISTS : 'A SUCCESSION OF COLONELS.' In the Army List of May, 1756, there appears, on p. 136, a list of books with the heading, " For the use of the Army. By permission. 10 May 1756. This day are published for J. Millan, near Whitehall." Amongst these is ' A Succession of Colonels to each Regiment, from their rise, to 1756 : with Price of Commissions, Honours to General Officers, Warrants, &c., for the Army. 15s.' In the Army List of 1757 (March) the same notice appears, on p. 152, " to 1757." In the Army List of 1760 (complete to June 1759) it is again advertised (p. 180) " from their rise to 1759." Is the existence of any of these " Suc- cession of Colonels " known for the years 1756, 1757, 1758 and 1759 ? They do not appear to be in the British Museum Library nor in the War Office Library. J. H. LESLIE, Lieut. -Colonel. BIBLE OF JAMES I. : USE OF HEXAMETER LINES. -Examples of this use are not far to seek : Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing ? Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and i wounded the dragon ? Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. j Things of this kind may not be due to j a set purpose ; but neither do they come about by pure chance. Gabriel Harvey, in 1592, claimed to bo "the Inventour of I the English Hexameter, whome learned M. ! Stanihurst imitated in his Virgill " (Third Thomas Nashe ('Strange Newes,' D2, D3) made fun of him, saying he had nothing to do but walk under the yew-tree at Trinity Hall, singing : What may I call this tree, an Ewe tree, O bonny Ewe tree ! Needs to thy boughs will I bow this knee, and vaile my bonneto. There are twenty such consecutive lines in Greene's ' Mourn'ng Garment,' D3 (1590), beginning with : Oft haue I heard my liefe Coridon report on a loue-day ; and an equal number in his ' Menaphon ' (1593), ending with : Fumde with sweetes, as sweete as chast, no want but abundance.
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 * Letter, pp. 19-20). And in the same year