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with those of the Myrgings, at a later time familiar to us as the Merovingian dynasty of France) is met with at Harliiig, in Norfolk and in Kent, and at Harlington, in Bedford- shire and Middlesex. It was from Harling- ton in the latter county that the Earl of Arlington of the Cabal Ministry took his title. A. R. BAYLEY.

CONJUGAL EIGHTS OK RITES (7 th S. xi. 383 ; xii. 76). This question was discussed loc. cit., but without any conclusive result. As a further contribution to the subject I send you the following from the Daily Advertiser, 5 Nov., 1772 :

" On Tuesday a Motion was made in the Court of Chancery to quash a Writ of Excommunicatione capiendo, which had been issued against a Person for Non - Performance of Conjugal Rites. The Ground on which the motion was made, was, its not being one of the Causes particularly named in the Act of the 5th of Elizabeth ; on which the Lord Chancellor remarked, that many a Quaker would be glad if every Cause not mentioned in that Act could not be prosecuted by the Spiritual Court as Tythes are not one ; but he was ot Opinion, on the Ciirsitor's receiving the Bishop's Significavit, he did his Duty in making out the Writ, and as he thought the Cursitor unjustly complained of, he should give him the Costs of the Motion, which the Cursitor declined accepting."

The case also forms the subject of a letter to the London Evening Post, 26 Nov., 1772, p. 1, col. 4.

I may also cite the following from ' Para- dise Lost,' book iv. 11. 742-3 :

Nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refus'd.

Perhaps some of your legal readers will look into the matter and give us the benefit of their researches. The ' H.E.D./ under 'Conjugal,' merely gives an extract from Wharton's ' Law Dictionary,' defining " con- jugal rights." R. B. P.

SCRIMANSKI (9 th S. iii. 169). In Zachary Grey's editions of * Hudibras ' is the following note to Part I. canto ii. 271 :

"Scrimansky probably a noted bear in those

times, to whose name a Polish or Cossack termina- tion of sky is given. Sometimes the names of their keepers are given them."

Reference is made to " George Stone the Bear" in Cowley's 'Widow of Watling Street, Act III. JAMES HOOPER.

A note in Butler's ' Hudibras,' edited b;y Henry G. Bohn, p. 52, says Scrimansky refers to " some favourite bear, perhaps, or a cari catured Russian name."

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

COGAN : BARRY : ROCHE (9 th S. ii. 448 ; iii 274). There is a fair account of the Cogans

ords of Bampton (not Brarnpton), in ' Thf !tfote-Book of Tristram Risdon,' 1897 (editec Mr. H. G. Porter and myself), p. 70. The >arony of Bampton passed from Bampton hrough Painell to Cogan, and so to the Fitz- JAMES DALLAS.

warrens.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

A History of the Colonization of Africa by Aliei Races. By Sir Harry H. Johnston, K.C.B. (Cam bridge, University Press.)

To the "Cambridge Historical Series " Sir Harry H Johnston has contributed an excellent work upot a subject of active and immediate interest. In some) of the events with which he deals Sir Harry has had a share, and his name is numbered among those who have participated in the shaping or consplida ion of our African empire. Not wholly a gratifying jook for Englishmen to read is that he has written seeing that it is a record of neglected opportunities cowardly councils, and shifty policy. It is not, how iver, wholly, or even mainly, with ourselves thai le deals, and in instances other than our own proofs of mismanagement and unwisdom are also abun- dant. After a bright and well-written chapter upor the origin of African man, and upon Malay and Mohammedan invaders, Moorish conquests in Ni ^eria, Arab settlements on the Zanzibar coast, &c. our author begins with the Portuguese in Africa!! Little is said concerning the Spaniards on the Black Continent. Occupied with her dreams of empire in the West, Spain paid but little attention to the country lying at her gates, and at the close of the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, when religious persecution had done its worst, Spain, in the midst of a renascent Europe, lay torpid and dead. Five | pages are accordingly sufficient for Spanish dealing with Africa. The Dutch, the French, the British, arid the German have their separate chapters, as have the Belgian and the Italian, other chapters being devoted to "Christian Missions," "The Slave Trade," and "Great Explorers," from Herodotus tci Mr. H. Cavendish. Sir Harry speaks of missionaries as a high-minded order of men, "acting nearlj always from noble and unselfish motives." It u impossible to indicate the points of interest which rise in dealing with this admirable volume. We may only state that it appeals equally to the genera! reader who seeks to obtain a coup d'oeil of the state j of affairs in Africa and the politician who strives te! fathom our duties and responsibilities. The volume is illustrated with useful maps.

History of Scotland. Vol. I. To the Accession o j Mary Stewart. By P. Hume Brown, LL.D (Cambridge, University Press.) To the "Cambridge Historical Series" also Dr. Hume Brown has contributed a useful and trustworthy history of Scotland, which, to use a phrase once ir j high favour, but now discredited, "supplies a want.' Before the appearance of the present work there was no compendious history of Scotland which while supplying a consecutive narrative of events traced the processes by which various conflicting] elements were consolidated into the Scottish people of to-day. For several reasons a new history, such as the present, was demanded. Since the appearance of the histories of John Hill Burton and