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NOTES AND QUERIES.

militia regiments ; who had repeatedly to form, says Macaulay, and to " present a forest of pikes to the mob" to save life and limb. The wretched man is said to have died of the stone (see Macau- lay, vol. iii. p. 403., note citing his authority). Be that as it may, he was never created a " Flint ! "

F. PlIlLLOTT.

NOTES ON MARSTON 8 MALCONTENT.

The following Notes on this play, which were communicated to me by Mr. Cunningham, with his usual kindness and liberality, unfortunately did not reach me in time to be included in the new edition of Marston's works, the volume con- taining the "Malcontent" having been completely worked off. They are so well deserving of pub- lication, that, having the author's permission to make any other use of them, I feel sure the editor of "N. & Q." will be glad of the opportunity of preserving them in the columns of his journal.

J. O. H.

" Induction to ' Malcontent. 1 " ' One for another.' Collier's note.

" This note is copied by Dyce, who offers no further explanation. The meaning I conceive to be this. ' I wonder,' says Sly, 'you play the Malcontent, another company having interest in it.' 'Why not?' says Con- dell; 'they took little Jeronymo (16) from us, why should we not therefore take the Malcontent in large (folio) from them ? This is what we call one for another, an exchange of plays.' Jonson's additions to Jeronymo were done for Henslowe, and Mr. Collier has shown it likely that TTie Malcontent was written for Henslowe.

" Sly. There's in all just five-and-fifty.'

" This is a pleasant exaggeration on the part of Sly- There were in all, as Stow tells us, ' ten fair dwelling- houses and fourteen shops.' See ' Goldsmiths' Kow,' in Handbook of London, ed. 1850. PETER CUNNINGHAM."

INEDITED LETTER OF LORD ROCHFORP.

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Perhaps you may think the following letter, of which I possess the autograph, of sufficient interest at the present crisis to warrant its insertion in " X. & Q." It was written to a friend in England by Lord Rochford, our ambassador to the King of Sardinia, in the middle of the last century ; and it is not only remarkable as bearing testimony to a strong Anglican feeling on the part of the House of Savoy, similar to that of which we have very recently seen proofs in one of its descendants, but also as being eminently characteristic of the style and sentiments of a courtier in the days of George II. J. H. MARSDEX

Great Oakley, Essex.

Turin, Jan. ', 17. Sir,

I received your obliging letter of the 14th of December, and besides the pleasure it gave me to hear you and your family were in good health, it flattered me much to find that my friends in England had not forgot me, particularly one for whom I have so great a regard. You honour

Lady Rochford and I much by thinking we add any lustre to this court, and make us very vain in saying we are missed at St. James's. I'm much afraid that few that go there see us in so partial a light as you are so good to do ; and without say- ing more of this Court than it really deserves, it is not quite so numerous as ours, nor so brilliant (for there is now no Queen), for want of ladies ; but then the excessive polite behaviour of all the royal family makes all other deficiencies the less apparent. The Duke of Savoy (who must have been very young when you were here) is by far the most accomplished prince I ever saw. He is ex- cessively fond of all Englishmen, and everything that has connexion with England ; and as an Englishman I'm vain enough to think that par- tiality of his R. H. is a proof of his sense ; for though I'm far from being such a John as to think nothing good out of my own country, yet the more I see of the behaviour, customs, and manners of other nations, the greater veneration it gives me for my own. You have already seen in the publick papers that the Duke of Savoy is to be married in the spring, which is true ; for about a fortnight ago it was publickly declared here. The Infanta, his Dutchess that is to be, passes for a very accomplished princess.

I'm greatly surprised to find my friend Sir George Vandergucht has raised such a flame in the nation. I should never have suspected him of having been able to make such a stand. But I'm at a loss to know what you mean by saying if he loses his election he may bury his sorrows in a fortune of 6000Z. a year ; unless you have forgot that he is married, or imagine that he will run the risk of having two wives at once, which would procure him a much more exalted station than he will be raised to by gaining his election.

Lady Rochford joins with me in our sincere comps. to" you and Mrs. Parry; and I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient

Humble servant,

ROCHFOBD.

SHinat

Longevity. In the churchyard of Hillingdon, near Uxbridge, on an upright stone on the south side of the chancel, is the following :

" In memory of Thos. Whittington, of this parish, who died Sept. 19, "1769, in the 104th year of his age ; also of Thos. Whittington, son of the above, who died Oct. 6, 1804, in the 103rd year of his age."

W. C. TREVELTAN.

Athenaeum.

Columbus and the Egg. Every one, it is to be presumed, is acquainted with this story ; but perhaps it is not equally well known that it is