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Maire or Maior implyed no lesse then lord without any other additions, yet thus was it given for a larger augmentation of Honor."

And in the list of Mayors, &c., the term Lord Mayor is given to all the persons named therein. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

The following extracts from one of my -commonplace books may be of service to MR. PINK :

"Maitland ['History and Survey of London, vol. i. p. 129] opines that the honorary prefix of Lord to the title of Mayor came into use when and because the King permitted the Sovereign of the City to have gold maces carried before him on the occasion of King Edward III. conferring on the citizens their fourth charter, A.r>. 1354 [28 Ed- ward III.]."

But then

"Sir Nicholas le Brembre, a nominee [custos] of the King, 1377 [1 Richard II. 1 seems to have been the first Mayor to assume to nimself the title of Lord, but that prefix was accorded without question to his successor, Sir John Philpot, 1378, and has been recognized ever since."

For this last note I do not vouch any authority, but I find in a list of the Mayors of London in another commonplace book of mine a note (also without authority vouched) .against the name and date : " 1378. John Philpot. Title Lord first prefixed to Mayor."

NEMO.

Temple.

The first five series, also the seventh and eighth, of ' N. & Q.' contain very many .articles on this subject. The charters of Edward III. are given in many old works on London, but no reference is made to the title of Lord prefixed to that of Mayor.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

SIR THOMAS HERBERT'S 'MEMOIRS OF THE LAST Two YEARS OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES I. 49 th S. ii. 287). The first edition of the above was published in 1678. The last edition (1815), edited by Nicol, does not mention in the advertisement that the lost "Short Notes ^ind Occurrences " had been found.

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

I presume that any available information may be found in Dr. Bliss's edition of Wood '* Athen. Oxon.,' vol. iv.

ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A.

BYARD'S LEAP (9 th S. ii. 329). Concerning Byard's (recte Bayard's) Leap nothing need be added to the references in ' N. & Q.,' 1 st S. vi 600 ; 5 th S. xi. 126, 315. W. C. B.

See paper on ' The Legend of Byard's Leap, by the Rev. J. Conway Walter, in ' Bygon

incolnshire,' edited by W. Andrews, F.R.H.o 1891). JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

I think nothing more can be said on ^is legend than nas already appeared in

N. & Q;

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

OBSCURITIES OF AUTHORS (9 th S. i. 464). The first of Mr. Le Gallienne's mottos is mis- printed. I have not the book at hand, but I )hink it was " gennem de mange til en." If we put gjennem for the first word, the motto is Dano-Norwegian, and means " through the many to one." I know no more about it.

E. H. B.

Melbourne.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Pitt : some Chapters of his Life and Times. By the Right Hon. Edward Gibson, Lord Ashbourne. (Longmans & Co. )

As its title indicates, and as its preface states, Lord Ashbourne's ' Pitt ' does not aim at being a continuous biography. It seeks only, by means of documents many of them unearthed in times com-

Piratively recent to show "what manner of man itt was. Scarcely an allusion is there throughout the work to continental struggles. On the other hand, as might be expected from a man of Lord Ash- bourne's antecedents, Irish affairs are brought into prominence ; the consequences of the appointment of Lord Fitzwilliam to the Viceroyship and his speedy removal from it are closely followed ; and some light is cast upon the Irish rebellion, the fate of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and the attempted inva- sion of Ireland. Yet another subject is there on which we are glad of information. This is Pitt's solitary love affair with the Hon. Eleanor Eden, the daughter of Lord Auckland, for whom Pitt cherished an affection as nearly romantic as his grave nature was capable of feeling. Pitt's letters to Lord Auck- land are published in full. They are written with studied reserve, through which breaks a light of unmistakable affection ; and great, doubtless, as was the regret of Lord Auckland at seeing the dreams of so honourable a connexion fade away, he must have found them of a kind to gratify the paternal heart. Among the illustrations to the volume is a portrait of Miss Eden, subsequently Countess of Bucking- ham, from a miniature in the possession of the present Lord Auckland. This shows a face of much beauty, full of spirit, and not wanting in refine- ment. We call this Pitt's solitary love affair, and, indeed, Lord Ashbourne himself uses similar lan- guage, since we are not disposed to attach much importance to the negotiations for a union between Pitt and Anne Louise Germaine Necker, subse- quently Baronne de Stael - Holstein. Madame Necker herself desired the match, and among her papers is a letter to her daughter expressing a wish that Mile. Necker would have married Pitt, of whom she speaks as endowed with a great character. Made-