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sion. Richard Carew observed that all Cor- mshinen are cousins. Richard Carveth and his sisters, cousins of Archbishop Temple, descended from Nathaniel (the grandfather of John) Trevanion, and I possess a mourning ring in memory of Anne Trevanion, which descended through the Tresahars (ante, p. 262, related to the Trevanions) to my mother, nee Holman. Trevethan, in Budock (attached to the living of Gluvias), was the ancient seat of the Tresahars, who quartered the famous Azure, a bend or, through Carminow (see evidence of John of Gaunt in the Scrope and Grosvenor controversy).

Blakes, giving the same arms as the Blakes of Berwick, migrated to Cornwall, but Col. Vivian was unable to extend their Visitation pedigree. My aunt and great-aunt Holman were christened Lovedy, and in the registers of two neighbouring parishes I found the marriage of Henry Blake and Lovedie Holli- man, 19 June, 1619 (Lanreath), and of Henry Blake and Lovedye Helman, same date (Brad- dock), indicating that the parties ranked above the common order, but leaving it uncertain where the marriage was solemnized. Similarly the burial of Mary, Lady Drake, wife of the circumnavigator, is entered in the registers of St. Budeaux (where she was married) and of St. Andrew, Plymouth.

Chancellor Fursman (ante, p. 262) and, later, William Johnston Temple were guests of Lord Mount-Edgcumbe, the latter introduced, as Boswell surmised, by Lord Lisburne, through whom he obtained the living of Mamhead, and through the united influence of these noblemen he obtained Gluvias" the best living in the diocese of Exeter," as Boswell denned it. It was held from 1845 by the Ven. Archdeacon Phillpotts, son of the preceding Bishop of Exeter. Wil- liam Johnston Temple died aged fifty-seven years (not fifty, as stated in his epitaph) additional evidence that burial records are not trustworthy.

Valuable evidence is often rejected on account of the spelling of a name. Holmans, as Helmans, once held lands around the Helman Tors in Lanlivery, Cornwall. It irritated the late Sir Richard Vyvyan if a correspondent wrote his name Vivian, hence the jeu d'esprit, "The Vyvyans were wise (y's) when they put out their eyes (^'s)." Col. Vivian and the writer have seen an old document in which both spellings were used indifferently by a Vyvyan.

The Devon Association has recently pub- lished a paper relating to the Cornish family of Jolliffe, abbreviated Jolly and Joll. A gentleman obtained a licence at Exeter in

the name of Joll, and two days after was married in the name of Jollye.

To return to the Temples. William John- ston Temple married Ann, the daughter of William Stow. He was vicar of Gluvias with he chapelry of Budock, and grandfather of he late Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Temple asked my sou, aged five or six, what relation he was. The child answered, "Cousin." "No," said Dr. Temple, "you must say first cousin twice removed "; so the vicar of Gluvias was first cousin once removed to the Earl of Lisburne.

Dr. Temple told me at Exeter that- he should like to know something of his own ancestry. Had I then been familiar with the Boswell correspondence, I could in some measure have gratified his curiosity.

H. H. DKAKE.

THE BACON-SHAKESPEARE QUESTION.

(See 9 th S. ix. 141, 202, 301, 362, 423 ; x. 43, 124,

201, 264, 362, 463 ; xi. 122, 302.)

DR. THEOBALD makes the point that both Shakespeare and Bacon call Ulysses "sly"; but others do the same, including Ben Jonson :

As by Polypheme The sly Ulysses stole in a sheep-skin.

' Epigrams,' No. 123.

And he also thinks it notable that they should agree in connecting the word "sleight " with the same personage. "False Ulysses' sleight " is a phrase in Surrey's translation of the ' ^Eneid ' ; and in the first scene of ' The New Inn ' we find Jonson speaking of " sage Nestor's counsels, and Ulysses' sleights."

In the first ' Parnassus ' play, which Dr. Theobald says "is clearly of Shakespearean origin" that is by Bacon there occurs the phrase "devours the way." This phrase, supposed to be derived direct from Catullus, is also in Ben Jonson :

They greedily devour the way To some great sports.

'Sejanus,'V. x.

Bacon's references to quicksilver, we are told, are " very curious," and, moreover, his "curious scientific notions" are said to be clearly reflected in the only two passages in Shakespeare where quicksilver is mentioned. Falstaff says, " The rogue fled from me like quicksilver." There's a scientific notion for

you

! In 'Hamlet' the reference is to "a

motion of antipathy producing an effect like the mortification of quicksilver."

Ben Jonson's references to quicksilver are numerous enough to afford matter for a lengthy essay, and they are nothing if not scientific and philosophical in expression