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celebrity as a preacher, ed. Bell, 1854, p. 161. He printed a 'Sermon before the Artillery Co.,' at Bow Church, 20 April, 1682, on St. Luke xxii. 36, sm. 4to., 18 leaves, Lond., 1682.

Pp. 427-9. Spring Rice. Prof. Pryine's 'Autob. Recoil.,' 1870, pp. 89, 186.

P. 443 a, line 23. "Two folio vols.," read three.

P. 476. Clarkson Stanfield painted the scene used at the Westminster Play.

W. C. B. Vol. LIV.

The following additions should be made :

P. 35. Lord Chesterfield is produced in caricature by Thackeray in * The Virginians.'

P. 7. Was there not also a ribbon called Petersham?

P. 212. Sterne did not call Eliza his " Bramine," but he was "thy Bramin" to her. Perhaps he thought this was the Hindustani for prebendary.

P. 357. Miss Martineau (* History of the Peace') gloats over the death of Lord London- derry and his funeral.

P. 358. Shelley's ' Masque of Anarchy ' may be added to Byron, as containing a fero- cious allusion to Lord Londonderry.

P. 391. For "Archbishop More" read Moore.

P. 418. Stonhouse's 'Life' is a real book, which I have often had in my hands. The title is ' Life of Sir James Stonhouse, Bart., M.D., with Extracts from his Correspondence,' 16mo., 1844, price 4s. 6d, written (or edited) by the late W. A. Greenhill, M.D.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

ALEXANDER BROME. An interesting figure in literature is Alexander Brome (1620 3-1666), the genial song- writer, dramatist, and loyalist, and the friend of Izaak Walton and Thomas Stanley. The following facts concerning his life are, so far as I know, given for the first time. He was born at Evershot, Dorset, and was "bred" at West Milton, in the same county. He died in the parish of St. Stephen, Walbrook, London, 29 June, 1666, the very day on which he made his will, and desired to be buried under Lincoln's Inn Chapel, " if it may bee done without much expence and inconvenience." His wife was Martha Whitaker or Whittaker, a widow with three daughters, Anne, Margery, and Mary. She took as her third husband one Robert Randall, and died at Hoxton on or before 15 April, 1687, when Randall administered to her estate (' Administration Act Book,' P.C.C., 1687 f. 61b. By Brome she had a son, John,

and three daughters, Martha, Elizabeth, and Flower, all minors at the time of their father's death.

In his will (P.C.C. 115 Mico), proved 13 July, 1666, by Martha Brome, his widow, executrix, and residuary legatee, Brome mentions his parents, to whom, if still living at his decease he gave 5l. apiece. He refers also to his three brothers, John, Richard, and Henry, and to his three sisters, Elizabeth, Isabell, and Julian. To the parishes of Evershot and West Milton he left 61. apiece, "to bee disposed of for one or more annuities to be equally paid to the poore respectively forever." A third annuity of 5l. wasto be yearly laid out in books for the use of poor scholars in Evershot school. No mention of these charities appears in Hutchins's 'Dorset.' His lands called Shalcombe, otherwise Shapcomb Farm, in Winford Eagle, Toller Fratrum, Dorset, and all other his lands and hereditaments in that county, were to be sold, and out of the proceeds the sum of 5001. was to be paid to each of his daughters Martha and Elizabeth, on their respectively attaining the age of twenty-one or on their day of marriage, the residue to be handed to his son John after the death of his mother, Martha Brome. We learn from the same source that Brome's loyalty did not go unrewarded, as he left his son, in addition to other lands in the same county, " my messuages situate in or near the Forrest of Roche otherwise Neroche, Somerset, lately graunted to me and my heires by the Kings Maiestie that now is." ITA TESTOR.

THE SANCTITY OF DIRT. Some of your readers have no doubt been amused by the Rev. T. E. Bridgett's paper bearing the above title, which forms the second essaj 7 in his volume entitled 'Blunders and Forgeries.' After the evidence the author has collected it may perhaps be needless to accumulate further proof that people were wont to bathe before the days of the moral and soci changes of the sixteenth century. There t still, however, some who seem to thi the eminent person who said that "for thousand years there was not a man woman in Europe that ever took a bath was bearing witness to an historical fac somewhere about as unassailable as the pre- valence of the Black Death. For the informa- tion of those who are suffering under the ; influence of this delusion it may be well t reproduce the following passage from th reprint of that strange satire on Roman Catholic practices entitled "The Popish Kingdome or Reigne of Antichrist, written in Latin Verse by Thomas Naogeorgus, and


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