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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. APRIL 9, '98.

'The Bible,' &c., p. 135.) But consult the very full index of the Parker Society's pub- lications. EDWAED H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings.

REFERENCE SOUGHT (9 th S. i. 229). I am quite sure that in one of Theodore Hook's novels there is the contrast between the Lord Mayor's official pomp and his social insigni- ficance. An alderman, after the expiration of his term of office as Lord Mayor, explains to a friend how insufferable the retirement into private life appears to him and to his family. I think that this lament of the alderman is in ' Gilbert Gurney,' but I am not sure about that. Wilkie Collins may have written on the same subject. If so, he followed Hook.

E. YARDLEY.

WILLIAM PENN (8 th S. xii. 488; 9 th S. i. 50, 192). In reply to the question by the DUKE DE MORO with regard to the companions of William Penn on the Welcome, 1682, there is no record of the names of those who accompanied Penn, but a list, almost complete, is to be found in ' Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,' vol. i., Appendix, prepared from wills made on board the vessel, from a MS. registry of arrivals, and a few other reliable sources.

GREGORY B. KEEN, Librarian, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

1300, Locust Street, Philadelphia.

MEDLEVAL LYNCH LAWS IN MODERN USE (8 th S. xii. 465; 9 th S. i. 37, 116). The so- called " rough music " described at the last reference must be more frequently used as a token of popular displeasure, I think, than is generally supposed. On various occasions during the past ten years or so I have read accounts of these curious manifestations by the virtuous populace; but, like W. P. M., I omitted to make notes, unfortunately, of the occurrences in question. There was an instance (if my memory does not deceive me), about twelve months since, somewhere in the north-eastern portion of the metropolitan area possibly at Hackney or near there. Perhaps some other correspondent may be able to refer to the precise date and place. E. G. CLAYTON.

Richmond, Surrey.

COLLECT FOR ADVENT SUNDAY (9 th S. 128). The omission of the word "the " dates back to the edition of 1662; but according to the facsimile of the ' Annexed Book,' and to that of the copy of the 1636 Prayer Book with manuscript alterations from which the should be inserted. In the altered 1636 book
 * Annexed Book ' was written out, the word

the word " the," in the phrase " in the which," nas been struck out. Can this have confused the printer? Y. Y.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

History of England under Henry the Fourth. By James Hamilton Wylie, M.A. Vol. IV. (Long- mans & Co.)

BUT little of Mr. Wylie's task remained to be accomplished when, a couple of years ago, he closed his third and penultimate volume. Though Full of interest, the three closing years of Henry's life (1411-1414) were for the monarch himself years of inaction and decay. In place of the brilliant Earl of Derby, the adored of ladies and the victor at jousts, the proclaimed successor of Charlemagne and Arthur was a broken man, too weak to lead the armies he had raised, too tardy in action to regain the promised and coveted territory of Aquitaine, and vainly dreaming of a fresh crusade. His difficulties and enforced reconciliation with his son and successor are vividly depicted, the narrative including the estimate of Henry's cha- racter comprising only one hundred and fifty- three pages out pi nearly six hundred of which the volume consists. The remaining portion is made up of appendices, supplying extracts from national archives previously unpublished, and what we have always hoped and requested an ample index and a glossary of the archaisms with which Mr. Wylie has charged his text. These things were indeed indispensable if the work is to repay the study it invites. For the introduction of the archaisms in question, for the employment of which he has been rebuked, Mr. Wylie remains " impenitent," pleading that " the very words and phrases in which our forefathers clothed their thoughts are as well deserving of study as their habits, dress, or monuments, and that there is no better way of helping to preserve them than by j bedding them out in the pages of a book whichl attempts to deal with the forgotten life of a past! generation." As we are not of those whom the; employment of archaisms "irritated," we do not I join issue with Mr. Wylie further than by saying that his argument carried out might justify putting much of his work in Latin or in French. Befort the appearance of the glossary, moreover, now first

S'ven, a student tolerably familiar with Old Eng- sh might be in some doubt as to what wert Henry's "gadling days," what the "reyses" ir| which he indulged, and why the monarch was a " child of Spruce." We have, however, no censun to pass; nothing, indeed, to offer but congratul tion to the author and his readers upon the accom plishment of a worthy, honourable, and importani task, and the expression of a hope that we ma] soon meet Mr. Wylie again in the domain tl sovereignty of which he has won. Twenty-lr years have been spent in the incubation of th< work. This is a long period, and a second T similarly exacting may well represent a life product Mr. Wylie is too modest, however a not ven common fault, if fault it be in saying that he hai added "but little to our general knowledge of t times." He has, indeed, added much to our per sonal knowledge, and we fancy the same will '" conceded by most of our readers. His work IP Win