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1777, Walpole, in a letter to Cole, the anti- quary, asks for the " exact blazon of William of Hatfield his arms," and continues, "Mr. Mason and I are going to restore his monu- ment." 2. Walpole refers to his "nephew's situation." In May, 1777 (see letter to Mason of 2 May and Mason's letter of 1 2 May), his nephew Lord Orford was again attacked by insanity, and to this attack Walpole alludes in letters to Cole and to Lady Ossory of 22 May and 10 June of the year 1777. 3. The ' Supplement to Hume's Life ' referred to by Horace Walpole was published in May, 1777, as appears from a notice in the Gentleman's Magazine for July of that year (p. 338). The gross abuse of Mason mentioned by Horace Walpole is explained by the following extract from this notice :

" Whether this writer be a friend or an enemy to Mr. Hume we cannot discover so easily as that he is a foe professed to ' the mercenary Mason ' (the polite appellation which he gives Mr. Gray's exe- cutor), going out of his way to abuse him in a long note evidently dictated by a certain Scotch book- seller, who loses no opportunity of adding scurrility to piracy."

4. The "Speaker's remonstrance" and Charles Fox's support of him, mentioned further on, are referred to in Horace Wai pole's 'Last Journals' (vol. ii. p. 116), under date of 9 May, 1777. 5. 'The School for Scandal,' evidently here referred to as " Sheridan's new comedy," was first performed on 8 May, 1777. 6. The pamphlet of Burke on the American War alluded to is the celebrated 'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol,' published on 15 May, 1777 ('Last Journals,' ii. 116). 7. Horace Walpole says, " Do not return me the Incas." Marmontel's ' Incas ' had been lent by Wal- pole to Mason a short time before, as may be gathered from the letter of the latter to Horace Walpole of 12 May, 1777. 8. Mason's ' Garden,' here referred to as being reviewed inthe J/orn- ingPost,is the second part of the poem en titled 'The English Garden,' published in 1777, and reviewed in the Gentleman's Magazine of. July, 1777 (p. 331).

This letter, therefore, should be dated 16 May, 1777, and should be placed between Nos. 1643 and 1644 in vol. vi. of Cunningham's edition.

In a letter to Mann dated 10 March, 1742 (vol. i. p. 144), Horace Walpole refers to the promotion (to the post of Lord of the Ad- miralty) of " young Trevor," " which is much disliked, for he is of no consequence for estate and less for parts, but is a relation of the Pelhams." Lord Dover, in a note on this passage, identifies this Trevor with the " Hon. John Trevor, second son of Thomas, first Lord Trevor. He succeeded his elder brother

Thomas as third Lord Trevor in 1744." It does not appear, however, that the Hon. John Trevor ever was a Lord of the Admiralty^ nor did the second Lord Trevor die until 1753 (see Collins's 'Peerage,' ed. 1812, under Vis- count Hampden, and ' Complete Peerage,' by G. E. C., under Trevor). On the other hand, it is stated in Burke's ' Dictionary of the Landed Gentry ' (ed. 1852, vol. i. p. 507) that this office was conferred in 1742 on John Trevor (died 1745), eldest surviving son of John Morley Trevor, of Glynde, Sussex. The connexion with the Pelhams referred to by Horace Walpole may possibly have been through the marriage of John Trevor's aunt Elizabeth to David Polhill, of Otford, in Kent, a daughter of the first Lord Pelham's having also married a David Polhill, of Otford, in Kent.

In a letter to Zouch dated 12 Aug., 1758 (vol. iii. p. 160), reference is made to the " passage and page in Wardus referring to the Earl of Totness." This "Wardus" is evidently a misprint for "Wareus," the Latinized form of the name of Sir James Ware. Ware, the " Camden of Ireland," is referred to under his English name in a previous letter to Zouch (dated 3 Aug., 1758, vol. iii. p. 158), again in reference to the Earl of Totness. Ware wrote various works in Latin on the title-page of which his name appears as Jacobus Wareus (see, for instance, Petz- holdt's ' Bibliotheca Bibliographica,' p. 343, ed. 1866). This mistake was due in the first instance to the carelessness of Croker, the original editor of the letters to Zouch (4to. ed. 1825), and was copied by Cunningham. HELEN TOYNBEE.

Dorney Wood, Burnham, Bucks.

FpUNTAIN-lNKHORNS : FOUNTAIN-PENS (9 th

S. ii. 228). These fountain inkstands I well remember in the fifties. They consisted of a receiver holding the ink at the back and a smaller one in front in connexion, into which you dipped the pen ; this latter receiver being somewhat lower, the level of fluid was sus- tained. As for the fountain pens, they are common enough now.

HAROLD MALET, Col.

"TRYST " (8 th S. xi. 127, 189). May I add to the useful notes of MR.BAYNEand PROF.SKEAT? The word here in question makes its entry on the Scottish stage as indubitably a hunting term, denoting a rendezvous in the chase, where, by a suitable disposition and combined action of the hunters, the animals were so trapped that every road open to them led to destruction " secundum legem venandi," says John of Fordun (v. ch. ix.), quoting Abbot