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 carried in solemn procession by the canons to the cathedral, and there honourably interred. Capgrave says that the holy child's mother having heard that the last time her son had been seen, he was playing with some Jewish children, went to the house of a Jew, and there found the body in the well. This is pretty closely related in the ballad, and if the missing verses could be recovered, they would probably be found to relate the discovery of the little martyr's body in the "old Jew's" well.

Milton and Napoleon: Note to "Paradise Lost" (1 S. xii. 361.5— has brought to light a very curious fact, and one not devoid of historic interest, in his transcript of the MS. notes of "J. Brown," found, as he tells us, in a recently purchased copy of Symmons's Life of Milton. I need scarcely remark that the word "enquiry," which has crept into the text in the quotation from Paradise Lost, is an error. It is a singular coincidence, I was going to add, that the great tactician N-apoleon (N-new?" Apollyon"), should have made Milton's Paradise Lost his military text-book! At the same time, I think the passage with which  has favoured us, describing in all its majestic imagery the great "war in Heaven," loses nothing of its martial or stratagetic beauty, by the adoption of the termination of the previous line:

in hollow cube, Training his devilish engin'ry, impal'd On every side his shadowing squadrons deep, To hide the fraud."

On the first line I find the following foot-notes in an old edition of Milton—

"In hollow cube:' Dr Bentley reads square." "I knew one who used to think it should be hollow tube; to which it may be objected that enginry machines are the hollow tubes, or guns themselves."

Milton has a similar tactical idea carried out elsewhere:

" Th' inviolable Saints, In cubic phalanx firm, advanced entire, Invulnerable." {{right|{{sc|F. Phillott.}}

Descendant of Bunyan (1 S. xii. 491.)—Mr. Robert Bunyan, who, I am sorry to hear, is dead, was, as far as can be judged at present, the representative in direct male line of John Bunyan; that he was the last direct male descendant, I very much doubt; at least there is abundant margin for the contrary supposition. When I saw Mr. B. on the 17th Sept. last, his memory appeared distinct and ready, and his health wonderfully vigorous for a man of his age (eighty); he had then been married ten years to his present widow. The pedigree in his possession was fuller than that given in the Lincolnshire Chronicle, and for a considerable distance back he was able to cor-

roborate it, either personally or from tradition. It was drawn up by Charles Robinson, his nephew, who was formerly a rather eccentric schoolmaster, residing at Wilford (not Welford), on the south side of the Trent. The critical point appears to be where the family pedigree begins, and that of Bunyan, as known from other sources, dovetails into it ; although there are corroborative facts, such as the former existence in the family of relics said to have belonged to John, and the connection of the first Robert and his family with the Baptists. Mrs. Sanigear (nee Bunyan), who is probably another descendant, although, as far as I can recol- lect, unknown to Mr. Bunyan at the time of my visit, has the portrait of the great allegorist, and, I believe, felt the force of the feelings MR. OFFOK expresses, by willing it to some institution in Bedford. She is now at a very advanced age, and almost imbecile. S. F. CBESWELL.

St. John's College, Cambridge.

Edmund Waple (2 nd S. i. 34.) DB. HESSET begs to note what appear to him to be two errors in MR. DJENTON'S letter :

1. The Rev. Edward Waple was never D.D. He did not proceed beyond B.D,.

2. For " resident" of Sion College, should surely be read president : an office which Waple would have held as a London incumbent.

DR. HESSEY cannot tell what Waple's arms were. They are not preserved at Merchant Taylors' School, where he was educated. But they are probably to be seen at St. John's College, Oxford, of which he was a Fellow ; and where he founded a catechetical lecture. If not there, perhaps they may be found at Wells. He was prebendary of the cathedral church there, and Archdeacon of Taunton.

Waple was born 1647 ; left Merchant Taylors' to become Probatory Fellow of St. John's in 1663 ; B.A. 1667 ; M.A. 1671 ; B.D. 1677.

S. Wesley, in his Advice to a Young Clergy- man, says, Waple of St. Sepulchre's was a great man, though almost unheard of in the world, and has left many valuable manuscripts behind him.

He published a Paraphrase on the Book of Revelations, and various sermons.

Merchant Taylors'.

Sir Edward Grymes (1 st S. x. 485.) Sir Ed- ward Grymes, Bart., was, without doubt, the re- presentative of a Peckham family, which seems to have obtained a warrant for the title of baronet, but did not care to apply for a patent. The pedi- gree of Grymes is to be found in Le Neve's Ba- ronets in the College of Arms, and in the Visita- tions of Surrey. Sir Edward Bysshe allows the title in his visitation. In one of the volumes of the Coll. Top. ct Gencal. (I have it not before me), are many extracts from the church registers of