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surprise, and crowded about the quay, which was not at that time so convenient as at present.' She told me she stood at this place, and saw three men take the prince out of the boat, the tide being then out, and carry him over the mud to these landing steps ; he put his foot first on that blue stone with white veins, preserved on that account to this day, and called out aloud ' Welcome or not ! ' The people huzzaed ' Welcome ! ' on which he walked up this flight of steps into the town, accompanied by many of his chief officers and guards, whilst the army was landing in various parts throughout the coast of the bay. The weather was cold and rainy. The prince gave nothing to the three men who conveyed him ashore, till after he was crowned ; when he also sent for the person at whose house he lodged at Brixham, and bountifully rewarded him ; of which the man was robbed on Paignton Moor, on his return."

The " Welcome or not" is characteristic.

V. T. STEKNBEEG.

Death of Charles II. (2 nd S. i. 49. 110. 206.) There can be no reasonable doubt, I think, that the letters P. M. a C. F. were intended for Pere Mansuete (not Mansuate, as misprinted in my former communication), a Capuchin friar. J. W. H. hazards a mere suggestion, that the letters P. M. signify Patrick Maginn ; though he is un- able to assert that he was a Capuchin, and has only heard that he was a friar. He thinks " the probabilities are in favour of Maginn." Another correspondent goes wider away with another sug- gestion, that the letters may be intended for " In the afternoon (P.M.) a confidential friend (C.F.)." But really at this rate, a very wide field would be open for conjectures. Why have recourse to them at all, when we have plain and satisfactory evidence ? I gave the true interpretation, not from conjecture, but from Memoirs of the Rev. John Huddleston, reprinted from an earlier me- moir in 1816 ; in which occurs the following pas- sage, without the slightest intimation of doubt or attempted explanation of mysterious initials :

" At 5 o'clock, the physicians declared before the council, that his Majesty was in great danger. Pere Mansuete, a Capuchin friar, confessor to the Duke (of York), upon the physicians telling him of the danger of the King, went and told the Duke, that now was the time to take care of his soul ; and that it was his duty to tell him so," &c.

Now it deserves notice, that in the same me- moir, a few lines farther on, the names of the Lords Petre, Bristol, and Feversham, are thus abbreviated, " Pe. Br. and Fev. ;" whereas, in the case of the friar, the name is written in full, " Pere Mansuete, a Capuchin friar," where we have the four initials with the small a in the middle of them. F. C. H.

Lines on South, Sherlock, and Burnet. In a copy of A Collection of Poems relating to State Affairs, fee., in one volume, 8vo., London, MDCCV., there is inserted at the end, in. a handwriting of

the commencement of the last cent my, the fol- lowing satirical verses, which may form an ac- ceptable addition to your " Macaulayana." They are entitled

" On South, Sherlock, and Burnet, Master of the Charter House, Author of '" Archceologia."

" A Dean and Prebendary Had once a new vagary, And were at doubtful strife, Sir, Which led the better life, Sir,

And was the better man. And was, &c. " The Dean exclaims, ' That truly Since Bluff was so unruly, ' He'd prove it to his face, Sir, That he had the most grace, Sir,'

And so the fight began. " Then Preb. replied like Thunder, And roared out ' 'Twas no wonder, Since Gods the Dean had three, Sir, And more by two than he, Sir,

For he had got but one.' " Now whilst these two were raging, And in dispute engaging, The Master of the Charter, Said ' Both had caught a Tartar. For God, Sir, there was none ; " ' And all the Books of Moses Were nothing but supposes ; That he deserv'd rebuke, Sir, That wrote the Pentateuch, Sir :

'Twas nothing but a sham. " ' That as for father Adam, With mistress Eve his Madam, And what the Serpent spoke, Sir, 'Twas nothing but a joke, Sir,

And well invented flam.' " Thus in this battle royal, As none would take denial, The dame for which they strove, Sir, Could neither of them love, Sir,

Since all had given offence. " She therefore slily waiting, Left all three fools a-prating ; And being in a fright, Sir, Religion took her flight, Sir, And ne'er was heard of since."

M. N. S.

Macaulays " England " and Dr. Eouth (2 nd S. i. 189.) CERTAMEN will find the strictures of Dr. Routh on Macaulay's England, to which he refers, in the notes to Bishop Burnet's History of the Reign of James II., with "additional obser- vations now enlarged." 8vo., pp. 509. Oxford, University Press, 1852. E. C. HARJNGTON.

The Close, Exeter.

OCCASIONAL FORMS OF PRAYER.

(1 st S. viii. 535.; ix. 404. 406.; x. p. 247. 341.

439.)

Your correspondents, the REV. THOS. LATH- BURY and W. SPARROW SIMPSON, MR. W. P.