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light " pot, and the candlesticks were rubbe clean and bright whilst hot.

Some of the goodies in my village mad their own candles, and had candle mould made of tin for that purpose. In this mouL a length of dry rush-pith was put, and th melted fat was poured into the mould. Twi persons were required to do this, one to hold th mould and rush-pith upright, the other pour ing in the melted fat. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

OLD PRINCE OF WALES'S THEATRE (9 th S. x 64, 176 ; xi. 67). I pointed out at the secom of the above references what I believe to be mistake in MR. HIBGAME'S note, where th statement occurs that this theatre was in 1802 " opened as an entertainment theatre and club, under the name of the Pickwick Society " There was no such society as the " Pickwick " in connexion with the building It was the Picnic Society, as the following from the 'Picture of London' for 1803, wil show :

"At the Dilletanti [sic] Theatre, in Tottenham Street [i.e., the Old Prince of Wales's Theatre, also then known as the Ancient Music Concert-rooms] last winter a number of amateurs of the haut-ton formed a subscription society for the performance, by themselves only, and not by any persons paid, oi small pieces, French and English, concluding with a Picnic supper, catches, glees, songs, &c."

This seems, by the way, to be one of the earliest instances of the use of the word "picnic," namely, in 1803. The 'Annual Register' of 1802 says that a new kind of entertainment had then come into fashion, called picnic suppers, where a variety of dishes were set down on a list, and whoever drew a particular dish (pick and nick it) was to furnish it for the use of the company. The word, however, is said to occur in French books nearly 150 years ago, where " faire un repas a pique-nique " was to club for a dinner or supper.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

[Pique-nique is used by Diderot. See Littre.]

BISHOP FLEMING (9 th S. xi. 87). George Fleming was the fifth son of Daniel Fleming, of Beckermet and Rydal (knighted 1681), by Barbara, eldest daughter of Sir Henry Fletcher, Bart., of Button. His eldest brother William was created a baronet 1705, with remainder, for want of issue male of his body, to the issue male of his father Sir Daniel. His three intervening brothers dying without male issue, upon the death of Sir William s.pm. in 1736, the title and estates devolved upon George Fleming, who thus became the second baronet.

Born in 1666, he attended school at Hawkes- head, and was entered a Commoner of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, July, 1688. His original wish was to follow the legal pro- fession, but his father, on account of his very large family, did not countenance the ex- pense. He took his B.A. 1692, M.A. 1694. On 26 March, 1695, he was collated by the Bishop of Carlisle, a friend of his father's, to the vicarage of Aspatria, and became his lordship's domestic chaplain. In March, 1700, he was installed Prebendary; in April, 1705, Archdeacon ; in April, 1727, Dean of Carlisle: and in January, 1735, he was consecrated Bishop of that diocese. He had married, 28 October, 1708, Catherine, daughter and co- heir of Robert Jefferson, of Carlisle, and for want of surviving male issue was succeeded, at his death, 2 July, 1747, in the baronetcy and estates by his nephew William, son of Michael, sixth sou of Sir Daniel Fleming, Kt.

An article of mine upon the bookplates of this family, with explanatory pedigree, ap- peared in the issue of the Ex-Libris Journal for December, 1902.

GEORGE C. PEACHBY.

COL. GRAHAM will probably find the in- 'ormation he requires in the article on Sir George Fleming in the * Diet, of Nat. Biog.,' vol. xix. p. 276, and the references therein to the Wot ton MSS. in the British Museum.

G. F. R. B.

MILTON'S ' HYMN ON THE MORNING OF

HRIST'S NATIVITY ' (9 th S. xi. 88). The draft

of this ode unfortunately is not with the

manuscript of the minor poems preserved in

he library of Trinity College, Cambridge.

The author began to compose it Christmas

Day, 1629 (Milton's ascription in conjunc-

ion with Latin Elegies, vi. 79-90). It was

lot, however, printed till the 1645 edition of

'Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English

ind Latin, compos'd at several times. Printed

y his true Copies." The lines there are as

n Beeching's edition :

Nature in aw to him Had doff 't her gawdy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize.

n the second edition, published in 1673, in lilton's lifetime, the punctuation is unaltered, ut the word " aw " becomes "awe." Had ot the author been blind for twenty years t the time, the variation in the spelling, without alteration in the punctuation, might ave suggested that he was satisfied with the itter ; but under the circumstance no such iference is perhaps justifiable. The original unctuation is followed in the third edition 695), by Bishop Newton (1752 et seq.), by