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gested (9 th S. xi. 210), that (though held T.R.E. by Githa) it was originally included in the Ancient demesne of North Taw ton.

In the thirteenth century and later it was not merely a distinct manor, but a distinct hundred (containing "only the one villa"), being described as such in many ancient documents. In the Pipe Eolls, 16' Hen. II, 1169-70, the hundred of Suthautone for a concealed propestura owes two marcs. Ib., I JRic. I., 1189-90, the sheriff renders account of Sudtautona hundred for a concealment, 40s.

. Perhaps one of the most authoritative of my extracts is the following (from Ass. Roll, 182, m. 3 d) :


 * " 1280 A.D. Rad's de Tony summ' fuit ad r' d'no

Regis de p'lito quo War' tenet Hundr' de Suth- haunton qu'a

coronam dm Reg" 1 p'tinet Et

Reg', et.dicunt (n'llm ?) sp'iale p'tinens d'm Reg' et dicunt (n'llm?) sp'iale inde ostend War' de d'no Reg's petit Judicium [words worn awavl "

Will's de Gisellun, qui sequitur, etc., dicit q'd hun- dred est quoddam Sp'ial p'tinens ad Coronam d'm

, In the inquisition on the lands of Thomas, Earl of Warwick, 21 Ric. II. (Forfeitures, 137, 3 a.), I find it stated that "Thomas Comes Warr' tenuit maneriu' de & hundr'm de Southtauton, cum D'mio Burgi de Sele


 * de D'nis Rege, in capite, p' s'uic'm militare, ut

de Ducatu GornuV ; que quidem man'iu' hundr'm & Burgus p'dca sunt de, antiquo d'mco Corone Angl\"

ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

"I" PRINTED 'WITH SMALL LETTER (9 th S.

xi. 448). Another instance of ** this peculiar fad in English" is found in Bernard Romans's Florida,' published at New York in 1775. This work was to have been in two volumes, but, so far as is known, the first volume only was printed. In his introduction Romans says :
 * Concise Natural History of East and West

"I offer this humble attempt without any recommendations, or praises, of my own ; only i beg to assure my reader, that i have, through the whole, adhered so strictly to truth, as to make no one deviation therefrom willingly, or knowingly."

And at p. 1 we read :

" To reduce my work to some regularity, i shall proceed from the East, Westward, and begin with the Peninsula, dividing it into two parts, which i will call climates."

Notices of Romans, who was a Dutchman by birth, will be found in the ' D.N.B.' and in Appleton's * Cyclopaedia of American Biography.' ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, Mass.

A year or two ago it was stated in a con- tinental periodical in French, I think that the usage of printing and writing our pro- noun "I" as a capital proved that we

islanders are arrogant egoists. Would one go far wrong in supposing that it arose merely from a wish to save the isolated wee vowel from either escaping the reader's eye or being taken for the number i 1

E. S. DODGSON.

CHARLES I. AND THE EPISCOPATE (9 th S. xi. 489). On 26 December, 1547, King Charles agreed with the Scots, as the price of their intervention on his behalf, to confirm the Presbyterian establishment for three years in England (himself and his friends not being obliged to confirm), and on the expiration of that term to consult the Assembly of Divines, and in concert with Parliament to settle the constitution of the Church of England (Guizot, Bohn's ed., p. 369). He had thus abandoned the cause of episcopacy. The Scots invaded England in July, 1548, but Cromwell completely defeated them between 17 and 25 August, both inclusive.

Negotiations were opened between Parlia- ment and the king on 18 September, and finally closed on 28 November. It is clear that between these dates the king fully believed that he would have been safe if he had made two concessions, which, however, he then steadfastly declined to make : and they were that his leading supporters should be punished for high treason, and that epis- copacy should be abolished (Guizot, p. 369). " I will be like that captain," the king said,

" that had defended a place well, and his superiors not being able to relieve him, he had leave to sur- render it ; but he replied, ' Though they cannot/ relieve me in the time I demand it, let them relieve me when they can ; else I will hold it out till I make some stone in it my tombstone.' And so will I do by the Church of England" (Warwick's ' Memoirs,' p. 327).

He expressed the same thing in verse :

Next at the clergy do their furies frown,

Pious episcopacy must go down,

They will destroy the crosier and the crown.

With propositions daily they enchant My people's ears, such as do reason daunt, And the Almighty will not let me grant.

They promise to erect my royal stem, To make me great, t' advance my diadem, If I will first fall down and worship them.

But on 30 November Charles was seized by the army, who on 6 December destroyed his enemy the Parliament, and thereafter there was no .question of proposition or concession*

In order to condemn the king " it was necessary to strike the House of Lords out of the Constitution, to exclude members of the House of Commons by force, to make a new crime, a new tribunal, a new mode of procedure,"

as Macaulay justly observes.