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Query as to how Dr. Barnard was related to Archbishop Abbot, I beg to say that I have ex- amined the elaborate pedigrees in my possession, and also the archbishop's will, but do not find he was any relation whatever. The archbishop's brother, Sir Maurice, married Margaret, daughter of Barthol. Barnes, of London, merchant, and I think an error must have arisen through Barnard being confused with Barnes.

The archbishop's chaplain, Mr. Edward Abbot, was his cousin ; he was precentor of Wells and vicar of Baling, afterwards of All Hallows, Bark- ing, where he died. The archbishop devises lega- cies to his two chaplains, but only mentions Mr. Edward Abbot by name, to whom he gives a ring of forty shillings. I therefore think the statement that Dr. Barnard was one of the archbishop's nearest relations, must be an error, although I have no doubt but that he was one of his chaplains.

I shall be glad to correspond with MH. STEIN- MAN on the subject if he wishes to know more of the archbishop's family. JOHN T. ABBOTT.

Darlington.

" Give place, ye ladies all " (1 st S. xi. 384.) I fancy these lines, inquired for by MORMON, are a modernisation of

" Give place, you ladies, and be gone,

Boast not yourselves at all ! For here at hand approacheth one Whose face will stain you all."

They are preserved in MS. Harl. 1703, and have been> printed in Park's edition of Walpole's Royal and Noble Authors ; Ellis's Specimens of the Early English Poets; Evans's Old Ballads, edit, of 1810, &c. The author was old John Hey- wood, the court wit and epigrammatist ; and the subject of the poem, the Princess Mary, after- wards Queen Mary. EDWARD F. RJMBAULT.

The Rev. Mr. Mattinson (2 nd S. i. 92.) Your correspondent ABHBA would probably be glad to hear a fuller account of this clergyman, which I extract from what I believe is a rare book, viz. A Survey of the Lakes of Cumberland, Westmore- land, and Lancashire, &c. By James Clarke. The 2nd edition, 1789; it is as follows:

"The church [of Patterdale] is a perpetual curacy, and was worth about 13/. per annum till the year 1743, when the interest of 200Z. was allotted to it by the governors of Queen Anne's bounty; with this addition it is now worth about 247. per annum. Mr. Mattinson, the late incum- bent, died about the year 1770. It appears that he buried and married both his father and mother [ ?], bap- tized his own wife when an infant one month old, and when she became marriageable, published the banns him- self. He and his wife carded and spun that part of the tithe wool which fell to his lot, viz. one third ; and of so saving and penurious a disposition was he, that he died worth more money than his whole income would have gained him had it been laid out at compound interest. [1000A] A school which he taught added about 51. to

his income ; but even this will hardly account for the sums he left at his death, which happened in the ninety- sixth year of his age, after having served this curacy fifty-six years. His wife was equally eminent as a mid- wife, performing her operations for the small sum of one shilling : but as, according to ancient custom, she was likewise cook at the christening dinner, she received some culinary perquisites that somewhat increased her profits. On these occasions, none more devoutly prayed for the speedy recovery of the good wife; a quick return of these comforts, &c. On the day of her marriage, Mrs. Mattin- son's father boasted that his two daughters were married to the two best men in Patterdale, the priest and the bagpiper. At the priest's death his widow and children spent all he had amassed, and she was obliged to seek support in the College of Matrons at Wigton." Pp. 31. 32.

By the bye, can any one tell me when the first edition of this work was published ?

EDWIN ARMISTEAD.

Springfield Mount, Leeds.

[The date on the original title-page is 1787 ; but some copies have a reprinted title-page with the date 1789, purporting to be a second edition, but containing no other alteration.]

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NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

We know no writer of the present day who can illus- trate a subject with more quaint learning and pleasant fancy than Dr. Doran. Indulge his taste for a title which shall smack of the conceit of Old Fuller, and then let him ransack his brain, which is not as "dry as the remainder bisket after a voyage ; " and what with pleasant illustrative anecdote, striking historical reminiscences, and a plenteous sprinkling of snatches of old song, he will produce you a volume unequalled for fireside reading, or railway pastime, and which shall have the additional merit of being in- structive as well as amusing. His Knights and their Days will, we answer for it, bear out this description ; and such of our readers as may be tempted by this account of it to turn over its gossiping pages, will, we think, agree with us in pronouncing it a capital mixture of old-world histories and modern fancy.

Our readers may remember that a discussion was com- menced some few months since in these columns on the authorship of the Waverley Novels. We brought that discussion to a close, perhaps somewhat abruptly. Mr. Fitzpatrick, who started the game, has therefore hunted it down in a separate pamphlet, entitled Who wrote the Waverley Novels? Being an Investigation into certain mysterious Circumstances attending their Production, and an Inquiry into the literary Aid which Sir Walter Scott may have received from oilier Persons. Mr. Fitzpatrick has collected his materials with great industry, and arranged them with great ingenuity; but as, in spite of all hi% obligations to preceding playwrights and chroniclers, we hold Shakspeare to have written the plays which all the world recognize as Shakspeare's, so, after reading all the evidence which Mr. Fitzpatrick has produced, we feel that there is but one answer to his inquiry, ' ; \\ 1m wrote the Waverley Novels?" and that answer is, "Sir Walter Scott."

The North British Review for May is before us. Among other capital articles in it, we may mention the opening one on Plays and Puritans, that on the Life and Writings of Justice "Talfourd, and one on Macaulay, in which,