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have Colnham, A.-S. Colonhom, "the enclosure on the Colne " ; or Fernham, " the enclosure in the Fern." To say, as Mr. Searle does, that Cheltenham, which stands on the Chelt, is not from the river, but from a personal name Celta, is as if he were to affirm that Trentham, which stands on the Trent, is from a man called Trent ; that Rotherham, Deben- ham, and Chesham, which stand on the rivers Rother, Deben, and Chess, are from men bearing the same names as those rivers : and that Keedham, Stoneham, Langham, ana Littleham are from persons named Reed, Stone, Lang, and Little. ISAAC TAYLOE.

THOMAS FLATMAN. -He was admitted of Winchester College in 1649, aged eleven, as of Redcross Street, London (Kirby's 'Win- chester Scholars,' p. 184), and was entered at the Inner Temple in 1654, being called to the bar in 1662 (Cooke's 'Inner Temple Students,' edit. 1877, p. 356). Other particulars con- cerning this "poet and miniature-painter" may be found in the 'Diet, of Nat. Biog.' He died in Three Leg Alley, St. Bride's, London, 8 December, 1688, intestate, his estate being administered to in the P.C.C. on 24 January, 1689, by his widow Hannah. I think his father was Robert Flatman, of the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, in the county of Middlesex, gent., a native of Mendham, Norfolk, who died between 5 and 21 August, 1689. In his will, dated 12 December, 1688, Robert Flatman mentions his son Robert Flatman, his daughter Franck Flatman (who was appointed sole executrix), and his grandson Robert Flatman, son of his eldest son Thomas Flatman late deceased. Another child of Thomas Flatman was a daughter, Frank or Franck Flatman. (Notes from will in P.C.C. 110 Ent.) ITA TESTOE.

" FOE TIME IMMEMOEIAL." It is so common to read and to hear that a certain condition of things has existed " from time immemorial," that a variation of the phrase, in the form " for time immemorial," catches the eye and gives pause when it presents itself for con- sideration. In 'The Heart of Midlothian,' chap, i., Scott speaks of the royal borough of Bitem, situated at the very termination of Sir Peter Ply em's avenue, as having been " held in leading-strings by Sir Peter and his ancestors for time immemorial." Here the calculation is made, as it were, from the end inwards through the generations, instead of proceeding from " the fields of sleep "forward to the moment of estimate, as the usual form of the phrase implies. It may be well to add that these remarks are based on a collation of two reprints, issued from the house of

Messrs. A. & C. Black at widely separate dates, and likely to be accurate. At the same time there is a bare possibility that the interesting variant may be due to a misprint I after all. Whether or no, the form of the phrase is perfectly defensible.

THOMAS BAYNE.

Helensburgh, N.B.

SOUTHEY'S LINES ON HIS BOOKS. In Pliny's 'Letters,' viii. 19, 1, there is an interesting parallel to Southey's well-known lines :

With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe.

Pliny's words are :

" Et gaudium mihi et solacium in litteris, nihilque tarn laetum quod his Isetius, tarn triste quod non per has sit minus triste."

ALEX. LEEPEE. Trinity College, Melbourne.

"OUTIS"=JOHN LUCAS TUPPEE. Mr. J. L. Tupper was a sculptor, and afterwards art instructor in Rugby School. He died in 1 879, having been a very close associate of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and contributing in verse and prose to their magazine the Germ in 1850. In the preface to the volume of Tupper's ' Poems ' recently published (Longmans, 1897) Mr. W. M. Rossetti says :

" Mr. Tupper was the author of two published books. In each instance he wrote under the fancy name of 'Outis.' These are 'The True Story of Mrs. Stowe ' (concerning Lord Byron), and (1869) ' Hiatus; or, the Void in Modern Education.'

WM. H. PEET.

JAMES CLAEENCE MANGAN. This eccentric poet was christened simply James Mangan. It is interesting to note from my friend Mr. D. J. O'Donoghue's conscientious biography that Mangan was an admirer of Shakespeare, and that he assumed his second name from one of the dramatist's historical characters.

"Mangan began his connexion with it [Dublin Penny Journal] in November, 1832, by a translation from Filicaja, signed C. A second one followed on 1 December, similarly signed, but addressed from ' Clarence Street, Liverpool.' His address was a fictitious one, for he was never out of Ireland in his life. It is interesting as showing his gradual assump- tion of the pseudonym 'Clarence.' A few weeks later appears his poem 'The One Mystery,' with the signature 'Clarence.' There can be no doubt, from his fancy for repeating to his friends the lines from Shakespeare' Clarence is come, false, fleeting, perjured Clarence 'that the duke, who is only remembered by the fact of his having been drowned in a butt of Malmsey, was a fascinating individuality to Mangan, who had no other reason for adopting his title." Pp. 34-35.

W, A.

Dublin,