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Brewster's opinion as expressed in his ' Life .of Newton,' ii. 165 (1855).

Certain genealogical data have been cour- teously supplied by Mr. Ralph J. Beevor, 22, Craven Street, Strand, London, W.C. ; Mr. Fred. Hitchin-Kemp, 6, Beechfield Road, Catford, S.E. ; Mr. George F. Tudor Sher- wood, 50, Beecroft Road, Brockley, S.E., and others, to the writer, who is very grateful therefor. EUGENE FAIRFIELD McPiKE.

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

" PAAN," A LOINCLOTH. This term is given in the ' Stanford Dictionary,' with quotations from Bosman (1705) and Adanson (1759), and by way of etymology " Native West African." This is incorrect. It is merely Portuguese panno, Latin pannus. The more usual spell- ing in modern English works of travel is not given in the ' Stanford,' viz., pagne, which I find, for instance, in Sonnerat's 'Voyages,' 1788 (" The dress of the Madagascars is only a pagne," vol. iii. p. 32), and in Burton's pagne or loincloth," vol i. p. 154). There are many Portuguese words in daily use in Africa, such as caboceer, dash, fetish, palaver, panyar, scrivello, &c. JAMES PLATT, Jun.
 * Wanderings in West Africa,' 1863 ("Scanty

CHURCH BRIEFS. The following list of col- lections, made, I presume, in response to briefs, is entered at the end of the first existing register belonging to the parish of West Haddon, co. Northampton :

Collected at West Haddon for The Towne of Peccleton, co. Leicester. 30 Nov., 1657. Us. Id.

Fakenham, co. Norfolke. 23 Sept., 1660. 18*. Mt. Mel veil (?) co. Doune in Ireland. 30 Dec.,

1660. 7.s ted.

Little Melton in Norfolk. 31 March, 1661. 5s. 2d. Milton Abbas, co. Dorsett. 17 Feb., 1660 [sic]. 8s. Ilrainster, co. Somersett. 18 April, 1661. 14*. 9id. Elmley-Castle, co. Worceter [me]. 23 June, 1661. 8*'. 3^d.

The towne of Scarborough, co. Yorke. 7 July,

1661. 7s. Id.

The city of Oxford. 21 July, 1661. 9s. Id.

Great Drayton, co. Salop. 4 Aug., 1661. 8s. 5inl.

Mr. Button, of West Chepe. 18 Aug., 1661. 5s. 3d.

Pontefract Church, co. Yorke. 1 Sept., 1661. 4*. 4d.

Bridgenorth, co. Salop. 15 Sept., 1661. 4*. Id.

Widow Rose Wallis of Oxford. 29 Sept., 1661. 4s. tyd.

Ripon, in Yorkshire. 13 Oct., 1661. 4-9. l\d.

Richard Awedley and others, Buckingham. 27 Oct., 1661. 4*. 2irf.

Bullingbrooke in the parts of Lindsey, co. Lin- colne. 10 Nov., 1661. 4*. 3d.

The Lithuanians. 5 Jan., 1661. 5*. lUd.

The harbour of Watchett, co. Somerset. 2 Feb., 1661. 4.S-. Id.

Mr. Henry Harrison, Mariner, towards his losse by shipwracke. 2 March, 1661. 5ft. 4d.

Severall persons in the Strand in the parish of

St. Martin's in the fields that suffered by fire. 20 April, 1662. 5s. Id.

Sowerby in the parish of Thirske, co. Yorke. 18 May, 1662. 5-s. 8rf.

Creswell in Staffordshire. 1 June, 1662. 3s. Qd.

Harwich, co. Essex. 14 June, 1663. 5s. 8d.

Heighington in the parts of Restoney in Lincoln- shire. 25 Oct., 1G63. 4s. 5d.

East Hendred, co. Berks. 8 Nov., 1663. 5s. 2d.

Grantham, co. Lincoln. 10 Jan., 1663. 3s. lOrf.

Thrapston Bridge, Northton. 20 March, 1663. 2*. 4d.

John Ellis, of Milton, co. Cambridge. 28 Feb., 1663. 4s.

Robert Martin and ten others, of Harold, co. Bedford. 3 April, 1664. 5s. 5d.

Inhabitants of Weedon that suffered by the flood. No entries of date or money.

Towards the repair of the Church. No entries of date or money.

Sandwich, co. Kent, 25 April, 1664. 3s. 6d.

Wytham, co. Sussex. 15 May, 1664. 4s. 4d.

I shall be much obliged to any kind friend for details throwing light on the circum- stances which called forth any of the above- mentioned collections. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

" SUBURBANITE "-= FREQUENTER OF A SUB- URBAN THEATRE. This is the latest, and almost, it may be hoped, the vilest coinage of the Sunday press. URBAN.

PURCELL'S 'LIFE OF MANNING.' Referring to the account given by A. W. Hutton in the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica,' supplementary vol. vi., of the way in which the above ' Life ' came to be written, a writer in the Tablet for 15 November, 1902, at p. 769, says :

" This is not quite exact, and perhaps we may as well take the opportunity of stating what really happened. Purcell, who had formerly often attacked Cardinal Manning, through the medium of a small journal he edited, in his old age came to be in con- siderable pecuniary difficulties. He judged Man- ning aright when, in spite of what had passed, he went to him for assistance. To Purcell's suggestion that he should be allowed to write a biography of him, the Cardinal gave a tolerant assent, on the understanding that the book was to be published at once, as indeed was necessary to meet Purcell's needs. When a friend remonstrated with the Cardinal for allowing a man so ill equipped for the task to write a line about him, he replied, 'Oh, I am telling him nothing which he could not find for himself in the back files of the Tablet or the Dublin

The little book was to be just a pot-boiler for the benefit of Mr. Purcell. Then came the Cardinal's death, and with it Purcell's opportunity. He went to the literary executors, and stated, what in a sense was quite true, that, with the late Car- dinal's permission, he was engaged in writing his biography. Dr. Butler, misunderstanding the situa- tion, and supposing he was carrying out the dead man's wishes, at once handed over a whole port- manteau full of confidential papers without further

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