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6th. They are to come to Schole in the Sum'er a Seven in y e Morning & to continue till Twelve ; tc come again betwixt One and Two in y e Afternoon and continue till five. Sum'er to be reckon'd froir Lady Day to Michaelmas-day.

7tn. In Winter, to come at eight in y* Morning & stay till Twelve, & to come again betwixt One & two in y e Afternoon & stay till betwixt four anc five.

8th. At their coming in y e Morning, y e Mistress or one of y e Girls appointed by her is to begin w t ye p r ayer, Prevent us O Lord,^tc. then y e Collec for y e Day, and then the Collect jibr y e fifth Sunday after Trinity.

9th. At Night at their going away, they shall say the Collect for the Day, then the Collect for y fourth Sunday after Trinity, and the Lighten our Darkness, They must be charged when they go to Bed to say (as in Psalm 4, verse y e 9), I will lay me down, &c.

10th. Every Lord's Day & every other Holy Day & ev'ry Wednesday & Friday, they are to go to y Church two by two, and to seat in y c Seat in Howards Chappel, which was provided for them at the said Lord Archbp' Charge.

llth. The Mistress is to teach y m how to make y Answers at y e Prayers, and to Sing the. Psalm Tunes comonly used in y Church.

12th. On Each Thursday in y e Afternoon they are to break up at three of the Clock.

13th. On Saturdays in y e Afternoon y e Girls are to help to clean y e House. Break up at the same hour & go in order to y 8 Church to Prayers.

14th. At Christmas, Easter & Whitsontide, they are to have y" usual Liberties.

15th. The Mistress each Week to choose one of y e Girls to be her particular Assistant.

16th. The Mistress is to give an account to y Abp' Wife of y e State of y e Schole, so long as she his said Wife shall liye.

17th. The Schoolmistress to sit Rent free, and to have twenty pounds per Anum paid quarterly by y" Trustees appointed by y e will of y e said L d Ab? out of y e Estate in Lamb h purchased by him for y" perpetual Support of that Charitie Schole. (Apparently signed)

May 29th, 1713, Tho. Cantuar.

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

CHOCOLATE (9 th S. viii. 160, 201, 488 ; ix. 53, 213, 488 ; x. 154). There is a curious refer- ence to chocolate in Andrew Marvell's ' Last Instructions to a Painter ' :

What frosts to fruits, what arsenic to a rat

Was to fair Denham chocolate.

Lady Denham died suddenly on 6 January, 1667, while under the protection of the Duke of York. It was popularly supposed at the time that her decease was due to poison administered in a cup of chocolate. I believe that this is the first tragedy in which choco- late plays a part recorded in our literature. CHARLES HIATT.

MINAS AND EMPECINADOS (9 th *S. ix. 188, 349). A formidable surgical operation which 1 underwent at the end of January prevented me from reading the articles on this subject

which have appeared in ' N. & Q.' I notice them now only because no reference is made therein to the fact that Francisco Mina, or (to give his name conformably with his own signature) Francisco Espoz y Mina, issued in London in 1825 a little book* entitled ' Breve Extracto de la Vida del General Mina, publicado por el Mismo,' with a promise to publish at some future period a full auto- biography " with all the details which curiosity can desire." The book is provided with an English" translation on facing pages. I desire to correct two errors in ME. HOPE'S reply at the second reference. Mina was born, he himself writes, on 17 June, 1781, and prior to his first demonstrations against the French was a small farmer in Navarre. MR. HOPE is therefore in error in giving 1784 as the year of his birth, as also in saying that he "became a guerilla chief in 1809. Mina's own account is :

" I enlisted as a soldier in Doyle'sf battalion on the 8th of February, 1809. Having joined, a short time after, the gueriH^ commanded by my nephew Xavier Mina, 1 continued still as a private soldier till the 31st of March, 1810, when, this guerilla being disbanded in consequence of the capture of my nephew, seven of the men named me their chief, and with them I began to command."

MR. G. MARSHALL notices Mina's passage to this country after his flight from Navarre in 1830, while MR. HOPE contents himself with the vague statement that he "resided in England for some time, but returned to Spain in 1834." Mina, however, was in England seven years before 1830, landing at Plymouth on 30 November, 1823, in such shattered health that his recovery was almost despaired of ; but when he finished his book, dated "London, December 20, 1824," he enjoyed 'as good health as before the retreat of Nuria," gratefully ascribing this result to the disinterested care and attention of Sir Astley Cooper and Dr. Gaitskell. Referring to his stay here, he closes his book with a tribute to 'those traits of nobleness, of generosity and virtue, which are peculiar to a free and a great people." I am curious to know if the major autobiography appeared as promised.

F. ADAMS. 115, Albany Road, Camberwell.

BURIALS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY (9 th S. x.

206). MR. ALGERNON ASHTON suspects the

tatement " that there is hardly room left for

.nother half-dozen great men to be buried in

he national Valhalla" to be "a ridiculous

nscribed " With General Mina's compliments." f Sir Charles William Doyle, see ' D.N.B.' The alics in this quotation are Mina's.
 * The copy I possess is a presentation copy