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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th S. I. JAN. 22 '98.

" Capricious ? stay, that word's for me." Later, in the same scene, when Martino breaks Onion's head in a fencing bout, Juniper comforts him with, " Coragio, be not capri- cious ! What?" And Onion replies, "Capri- cious ? Not I. I scorn to be capricious for a scratch." 'The Pleasant Comodie of Patient Grissill,' by Dekker, Chettle, and Haughton, published in 1603, but written, as Henslowe's 'Diary' tells us, in 1599, has some further satire on the word. Farnese describes Emulo to Urcenze (Act II. scene i.) as " one of those changeable silk gallants, who, in a very scurvy pride, scorn all scholars, and read no books but a looking-glass, and speak no language but ' Sweet Lady ' and ' Sweet Signior,' and chew between their teeth terrible words, as though they would conjure, as complement, and projects, and fastidious, and capricious, and misprision, and the syntherisis of the soul, and such like raise-velvet terms."

Emulo's second speech after his entrance is

" Good friend, I am not in the negative : be not so capricious, you misprize me, my collocution tendeth to Sir Owen's dignifying."

PERCY SIMPSON.

PROBATE. I wrote (8 th S. xi. 24), Wills which relate solely to real estate " do not require probate, which is only given for personalty." The law has now been altered by the Land Transfer Act, 1897, arid from 1 January, 1898, all wills have to be proved, real estate passing to the executor, so that if there is not enough to pay debts he can sell it, instead of having to apply to the Court of Chancery. The old and the new law is very clearly given in the * Law Notes,' edited by Albert Gibson and Arthur Weldon, 1897, p. 309.

RALPH THOMAS.

'DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY.' Thomas Cox (d. 1734), xii. 417. On 18 De- cember, 1733, "being aged," he made his will at Broomfield, Essex, and it was proved on 8 April, 1734, by his widow, Love Cox (regis- tered in Commissary Court, London, Essex, and Herts, Book Andrews, f. 225). Therein he mentions his son Thomas Cox, his daughter Bridget (wife of Thomas Nobbs), and his brother John Cox. He left property at Chelmsf ord, and had, besides, the presentation of two turns of the advowson of the rectory of Stock-Harvard, Essex.

Duncan Forbes (1798-1868), xix. 386. The title of the privately printed autobiography referred to is ' Sketch of the Early Life of

Duncan Forbes, LL.D., written by himself,

for the perusal of his father in America,' 8vo. pp. 14, 1859 (Dobell's 'Cat. of Privately Printed Books,' p. 57, col. 2).

Benjamin Gooch (fl. 1775), xxii. 107. I have

not succeeded in finding the date of his death, but his will was signed at Halesworth, Suffolk, on 26 November, 1775, and was proved in London on 20 March, 1776, by his widow Elizabeth (registered in P. C. C., Book Bellas). He gave and devised his property in Fram- lingham unto his son-in-law John D'Urban, of Hales worth, Doctor of Physic, and Elizabeth, his wife, " my only daughter," and their four children, Shute, Elizabeth, Sophia, and Doro- thea. Apparently nothing concerning Gooch is to be found in Davy's ' Suffolk Collections.'

Henry Goodcole (1586-1641), xxii. 119. Pro- bate of his will was granted in the Consistory Court of London to his widow Anne, on 24 January, 1641 (Vicar-General's Book, Chaworth, 1637-62, 15, f. 102).

Sir Arthur Ingram (d. 1642), xxix. 12. His will, dated at York on 15 August, 1640, was proved in London by his son, Sir Arthur Ingram the younger, knight, on 10 September, 1 642. To Dame Mary, his wife, he bequeathed his house in Dean's Yard, Westminster, by virtue of the marriage indenture dated 18 September, 1636. To York Minster he formerly gave three brass branches or candlesticks. " No we I doe hereby give seaven pounds yearely forever to be bestowed in Candles for the said branches or Candlesticks."

Charles Rogers (1711-1784), xlix. 114. The following book should have been mentioned in the article, "A Descriptive Catalogue of some Pictures, Books and Prints, Medals, Bronzes, and other Curiosities, collected by

Charles Rogers and now in possession of

William Cotton, of the Priory, Le[a]ther-

head, Surrey, roy. 8vo. pp. xiv, 156, 1836." (With a fine portrait of Rogers after Reynolds, and other engravings.) Mr. Dobell, in his excellent 'Catalogue,' p. 18, col. 2, already cited, says, " Only twenty-five copies of this interesting volume were printed. The present catalogue contains that portion of the collec- tion which descended to William Cotton. It is carefully compiled, and illustrated with numerous notes." GORDON GOODWIN.

VOL. LIH.

These corrections and additions seem de- sirable :

P. 122. A repartee made by Douglas Smith to Copleston is given in Mozley's ' Reminis- cences,' i. 384.

P. 123. The "orthodoxy" of Sydney Smith's 'Sermons,' and a curious slip of the pen, were severely criticized in the Quarterly Review, vols. i., iii., lix.

P. 123. Theyre Smith did not "receive" Louis Philippe, but called upon him later in the day (Annual Register, 1848, p, 32),