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information as to the descendants of Richard Day, of Worfield, the father of the -two bishops. From the great difference in the age 3f the two it seems probable that they were by different mothers. JAMES DALLAS.

BISHOP HOOPER'S VESTMENTS. Is it known who is the author of the book on this subject ?

" A brief e examination for the/ tyme, of a certaine declaration lately put in print in the name and de/fence of certaine/ Ministers in London, refu/syng to weare the apparell/ prescribed by the lawes/ and orders of the/ Realnie./ In the ende is reported, the iudgement of /two notable learned fathers, M. doctour Bucer,/ and M. doctour Martir, sometyme in eyther/ vniuersities here of England the kynges/ readers and professours of diuinitie,/ translated out of the originals,/ written by theyr owne/ handes, pur- posely/ debatyng this/ controuer-/sie./ Paul. Rom. 14./ I besech you brethren, [&c.]."

Collation * to ***"*-*** j-j^ ^ to D, in fours. Colophon :

"Imprinted at London in Powles Churchyarde by Richarde lugge, Printer to the Queenes Maiestie. Cum priu. [&c.]."

A letter of Bishop Hooper's, printed at sig. b j, is dated 17 Oct., 1550. There is no other note of date. Todd (' Diet.,' s.v. ' Idola- trical ') quotes the 'Examination ' as Hooper's. I do not find it in the Parker Society's edition of his writings ; nor is there any reference to the book in ' D.N.B.' The press-mark of the copy in the Bodleian Library is 4 E. 13 Th. ROBERT J. WHITWELL.

NEWTON. In the parish register of Exton, Rutland, is the following entry : " William Newton (Exton), March 16 (77), 1819, the nearest relative of the late Sir Isaac Newton. J. Ellicott, Vicar." I am anxious to verify this statement and to connect this branch with that of Sir Isaac. William was born 5 July, 1742, son of William and Hannah, and his father was son (?) of Anthony Newton of the same place. The statement means nearest of the name of Newton, for Sir Isaac, who svas an only son, had half-sisters of another name, nearer in blood. Anthony, before married, was probably grandson of Sir Isaac's uncle. I should be glad of any help in filling the gaps. The family resided entirely in South Lincolnshire. J. R. N.

HERALDIC. -Will any of your readers versed in heraldry kindly inform me whether the royal licence to take an additional surname (temp. George III.) which I hold involves the confirmation of and the right to use the arms of both those names 1 I conclude it does, as the royal licence, besides the royal signature and that of the Home Secretary of State (Lord Sidmouth), is endorsed by Norroy, King of Arms, as required by the Duke of Norfolk,

the head of the College of Arms ; and these arms have been used together since that date.

C. R. T.

CAMBRIDGE VERSES. I desire the name of a collection of Cambridge verses published ten or twelve years ago, containing, among other things, some clever parodies by A. C. Hilton, which appeared, I believe, originally in a Cambridge publication called the Light Green. M. D.

[' In Cap and Gown.']

THE PROVINCES. (9 th S. iii. 161.)

IT is difficult to understand C. S.'s motive in launching such an astounding synthesis of the provinces out of which the United King- dom has been evolved. I call it astounding because, although his scheme is at hopeless variance with the conclusions of any other recent writer, he assumes a tone of certainty very unusual in such inquiries. The paucity of reference in his paper to the labours of others seems to indicate that he has taken an independent line of research ; in which case it is unkind not to enlighten us as to the nature of the evidence he has made use of. I must leave England and Ireland to the care of their own people, and content myself with a respectful protest against the way in which C. S. has treated my own country.

In the first place he scrupulously avoids all chronology. We are left to assume that, in describing Scotland as containing four pro- vinces " differing in race and history," he is referring to the state of affairs explained in the eighth century by Bede (book v. cap. 24). But he rearranges these provinces on a plan totally different from Bede's, and from that of any other ancient writer I have ever en- countered. He revives a very early theory of Canon Isaac Taylor's (which I should be surprised to hear that my reverend corre- spondent still maintains), that inver and aber are safe test names in distinguishing between Gaelic and Cymric districts ('Words and Places,' p. 258). Scottish Dalriada, C. S. tells us, was the land of invers as distinguished from the north-east of Scotland the land of aber -s. Now W. F. Skene (' Celtic Scotland,' i. 221) long ago dispelled the special signifi- cance once assigned to these prefixes, show- ing that both abound in most parts of Scotland ; e.g., in Aberdeenshire (which even C. S. does not admit into Dalriada) there are thirteen Abers and twenty-six Invers, in Forfar eight of each, and in Fife four Abers