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in Sussex, his wife. Issue : a daughter, wife of Dr. Walter, LL.D. ; Matilda, married first to Anthony Balam, secondly to Sir Henry Furnese, Bart. ; Jane, fifth daughter, married Gilbert Repington, of London, son of Sea- bright Repington, of Amington, co. Warwick. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

MURAL TABLET (9 th S. iii. 186). COL. MALET may like to know that a stone in the church- yard of Chelvey, Somerset, bears a similar epitaph, dated 1683 :

Short was my dayes

yet lyve I ever leath he

Salisbury.

Death hath his due yet deye I never.

CHAS. GILLMAN.

GATE : SIGN OF INN (9 th S. ii. 526 ; iii. 216, 315). There is a gate in Brewhouse Yard, at the foot of Nottingham Castle rock, with a small gate as a signboard and the usual rhyming lines painted upon it.

J. POTTER BRISCOE.

There was a public-house in Wigan some thirty years ago known as the " High Gate." Upon the signboard were painted a few lines of verse, commencing, I think, as follows : This gate hangs high, yet hinders none From staying or from going on.

The house has long been pulled down and a new one erected, and bears now the sign of " The Rosebud." VERAX.

ARLINGTON (9 th S. iii. 269, 357). Mr. Secre- tary Bennet, the minister of Charles II., certainly took his title from the village of Harlington in Middlesex, but the name of that place has nothing to do with the Harlings of Norfolk. In Domesday Book it appears under the form of Herdintone, which obviously affords wide scope for etymological fancy. It was known as Hardington so late as 1636 (John Taylor's 'Honorable Founda- tions, &c., of Divers Cities,' quoted in ' Mid- dlesex and Herts Notes and Queries,' iv. 79). W. F. PRIDEAUX.

'FOREIGN COURTS AND FOREIGN HOMES (9 th S. iii. 247). The story quoted by D. C. from this book does indeed require corrobora- tion, for (1) St. Lo is, and has always been, in the diocese of Coutances. Since when has it had a "cathedral"? (2) There is a very suspicious resemblance between the name of Archbishop Laud and that of the patron saint of the town, Lo=Laudius. (3) Charles did not return from Madrid by way of Paris, but by sea from Santander to Portsmouth.

It remains only to suggest that the imagina-

tive verger, who first confused the two Lauds, may have picked up his notion of the arch- 3ishop's preaching costume from a trip to the Channel Islands, where the black gown in the pulpit is, or lately was, still common.

S. G. HAMILTON.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Thfi Diary of Samuel Pepys, M.A., F.R.S. By

Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A.-Vol. IX. Index.

Supplementary Volume. Pepysiana. (Bell &

Sons.)

MOST heartily do we congratulate the lovers of literature upon the possession of the com- pleted Pepys. Upon the appearance of each successive volume we have noted the progress that has been made. We own to having experienced a little impatience while waiting for the index volume, without which the eight pre- vious volumes, however delightful they might be, were for purposes of reference all but useless. It now sees the light, and is commendably ample and satisfactory. To speak confidently as to its merits must be a task for hereafter, seeing that it is only continuous use that will show how far it fulfils all requirements. At present all we can do is to praise the arrangement, which seems admirable, and the readableness of the wh ole a great feature in an index. Many pitfalls have, Mr. Wheatley says, presented themselves, and there are cases, as of 'the two Mrs. Turners, in which absolute certainty is unattain- able. In such cases the only philosophy is " things must be as they may." In respect of the long lists entries are analyzed and printed in chronological order, and at the end are the references to those places where the name only is mentioned. A frontis- piece to the volume reproduces Pepys's large book- 1 plate, engraved by R. White after Kneller's portrait.

The volume of ' Pepysiana,' which is sufficiently varied in contents, opens with an engraving of the j Admiralty portrait of the diarist. Its other illus- trations include five book-plates of Pepys, three cor- rected pedigrees, views (interior and exterior) of the ! Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, a map of London in Pepys's time, facsimiles and j views of the ' Diary,' &c. A portion of the letterpress i consists of information recently obtained, modify- ing, and in one or two cases reversing, conclusions previously drawn, summaries of articles upon Pepys i in various ; publications, and the like. These and [ other original comments by the editor are arranged in a form that constitutes them a companion to the 'Diary,' and appear under heads such as "Friends and Acquaintances," "The Navy," "London and Local Allusions," " Folk-lore and Manners," &c. A full account of Pepys's servants is not the least in- teresting. Appendices include Pepys's will, the cipher of his * Diary,' "The Dutch Fleet," extracts from the correspondence of the Comte de Com- minges, the French ambassador, and other matters of interest and importance. A careful perusal of this volume will add greatly to the delight to be experienced from reading the 'Diary.' It is need-| less to repeat that the present edition of the ' Diary puts out of court all previous editions, which will henceforth be held of comparatively little value on authority. Mr. Wheatley's edition will be definitive,