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of food for daily use. Which if you shall do, every- thing you undertake shall come to a good ending, and you shall happily end your life."

The king, though somewhat awed by this exhortation, made light of it, and was sup- posed to have been punished by the revolt of his sons in the following year (Girald. Cambr., 'RerumBrit. Script. : De Principis Instructione,' Rolls Series. Also 'IterKam- bricum.' And see ' Cardiff Records,' vol. iii. p. 338). In the year 1206, notwithstanding the Sabbatarian movement referred to, King John granted to the Bishop of Llandaff, by charter of 9 September, "one market in every week, on the Sunday " (' Cardiff Records,' vol. iii. p. 8). Very likely the Sunday-rest movement of that day was more social than religious or ecclesiastical. In Malta, in the seventies, an important open- air market was held on Sunday mornings in Strada Mercanti, during the very time of divine service, without, so far as I know, any complaint on the part of the clergy.

The only instance I have met with of Sunday being called the Sabbath in any authoritative Catholic document occurs in the 'Visitation Articles and Injunctions of Bishop Hopton, of Norwich,' 1555: "Yowe shall diligentlye enquire whether yower ney- bors haue and doo Diligentlie come to ther parrissh church uppon the Sabaoth Daye and other festiual dayes " (' Eastern Counties Collectanea,' vol. i., Norwich, 1872, p. 17).

The name and semi - Judaical observance of the " Sabbath " have been, notwithstand- ing, an unfailing and exclusive characteristic of English Puritanism.

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Monmouth.

According to one tradition, the "man in the moon " was said to be the Sabbath-breaker referred to in Numbers xv. 32-36, drastically punished by stoning. Dean Farrar ('Life of Christ,' xxxi.) quotes from Codex Bezse an apocryphal saying of Christ as He encoun- tered a worker on the Sabbath, character- ized by the commentator as " too striking, too intrinsically probable, to be at once rejected as unauthentic." FRANCIS P. MARCHANT

Brixton Hill.

In Peele's play two brothers attempt to rescue their sister from the power of an enchanter. But there is no further likeness between the ' Old Wives Tale ' and ' Comus.' And this incident may be found in folk-tales. The story of Peele's play is in this particular, and perhaps otherwise, much the same as that of ' Iron Ladislaiis ' in Mailath's Hun- garian legends. E. YARDLEY.

" SNIPING" (9 th S. xi. 308). Recent warfare in two continents has made everybody familiar with this term for desultory firing upon troops in camp or bivouac ; but I fancy most persons will be surprised, as I was, to learn from the third volume of Mr. Fortescue's ' History of the British Army ' that it is at least one hundred and thirty years old. It occurs in a ' Letter from India ' in the General Evening Post, 15 June, 1773, where, in de- scribing the siege of Baroach under General David Wedderburn, it is stated that the soldiers in the trenches put their hats on the parapet to draw the enemy's marksmen, and "humorously called it sniping"

HERBERT MAXWELL.

A quotation from a letter of George Sel wyn to Lord Carlisle, of 1782, was given in 9 th S. iii. 138, which, although employing the word "snipe" in a political allusion, plainly derived it from military use. POLITICIAN.

LANCELOT SHARPE, SIR R. PHILLIPS, AND S. T. COLERIDGE (9 th S. xi. 341, 381). In the interesting note by MR. W. E A. AXON upon the Rev. Lancelot Sharpe he quotes from an article which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine of January, 1852. May I be permitted to point out two errors which occurred in the article in question 1 First, the name of the Rev. Lancelot's father was Lancelot, and not Thomas Scrafton Sharpe. The error probably arose from the fact that his grandfather was Thomas and his grand- mother was Frances Scrafton. Secondly, his uncle's name he was also ray great-grand- father is incorrectly spelt. It should be the Rev. Dr. James Boyer, not Bowyer. He was head master at Christ's Hospital.

In the same article reference is made to the fact that the Rev. Lancelot had been twice married, and had a very numerous family. Having the pedigree of the Sharpe family in my possession back to the Rev. Samuel Sharpe, who was rector of Sundridge, Kent, from 1645 to 1680 he was the Rev. Lancelot's great-great-grandfather I am enabled to give your correspondent a few further particulars of these marriages. The Rev. Lancelot, born 7 August, 1774, married first, 11 January, 1803, Jane Mary Harrison (she died 3 June, 1823), by whom he had seven sons (one in holy orders) and three daughters. He married secondly, 5 April, 1825, Mary Tweed (she died 29 January, 1869), by whom he had five sons, two of whom were in holy orders. His youngest son was the late Admiral Philip Ruffle Sharpe, who retired in 1887, and died 26 November, 1892. The Rev. Lancelot died 26 October, 1851.