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DYSON: COLET. In a luminous article in th ' Britannica' on Mark Akenside the writer, qi oting Wordsworth, tells us : " I seldom pass In the entrance to Dyson's villa at Golder's it 11, close by, without thinking of the plea- su :e which Akenside often had there." Will some co -respondent kindly tell me where the villa is situated, as the very next time I am driving in the locality I want to pay a visit to the shrine of this modern Maecenas?

Where, likewise, was Dean Colet's place in Stepney ? M. L. BRESLAR.

' HINGES." In Longman's Magazine for May, p. 57, Mr. Rider Haggard, speaking of the havoc done by sparrows among ripening giain, says that " in one plot they have nearly stripped the ringes which are nearest the hedge." What are " ringes " 1

THOMAS BAYNE.

PRIOR'S PARENTAGE. Horace Walpole writes to Mann (17 May, 1749, Cunningham's ed., vol. ii. p. 160) :

"They [the Jacobites] wanted to get Dover Castle into their hands, and sent down Prior to the pre- sent Duke of Dorset, who loved him, and probably was his brother, to persuade him to give it up." Is there any mention elsewhere of this con- jecture as to Matthew Prior's parentage?

H. T. B.

ALIEN PRIORIES. These were dissolved by Act of Parliament 2 Henry V. ; but some had been sold, by royal licence, to religious houses in England. One of these was Weed on Pinckriey, in Northants (a cell of the Bene- dictine house of St. Lucian at Beauvais), sold to the Cistercians at Bittlesden, Bucks. Were the alien priories which had been sold be- fore the Act included in it and dissolved? Weedon Pinckney, both the manor and priory, was in the king's hands later, and granted to Joan of Navarre, widow of Henry IV. On her death Henry VI. granted both to All Souls' College, Oxford, in whose hands they still are. A. HIPPISLEY SMITH.

Langton Rectory, Malton.

EPIGRAM: SIMON ERASER, LORD LOVAT, executed for high treason on Tower Hill, Thursday, 9 April, 1747. Can any reader- kindly supply me with an accurate version of the well-known epigram on this nobleman ending with the line

For the good of their country all criminals die ? I want the exact words of the original. Where did it first appear, and when ? Where (one reference will suffice) has it been reproduced ? To whom has the " skit ' ' been attributed ?

NEMO.

Temple.

IRISH GLIBBES, OR COULINS. What ground had Spenser for saying that the Irish derived the custom of wearing " long glibbes, which is a thick curled bush of heare, hanging downe over theyr eyes," from the Scythians (see ' A View of the Present State of Ireland,' in Spenser's 'Works,' "Globe Edition," 1871, p. 630) ? Is it certain that the word coulin is synonymous with ylibbe ? See 8 th S. vi.ii. 152, s.v. ' Coulins.' It would seem that while the glibbes always hung over the eyes, the coulins were long locks of any kind.

JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.

BUNHILL FIELDS BURIAL-GROUND. Has a complete list of the inscriptions in this his- toric burial-place ever been published ? I am aware of the 'History of Bunhill Fields,' which contains the most notable among the inscriptions ; but in view of the decayed and neglected state of the tombs and stones, it is a matter which, if not already done, should not, I venture to think, be delayed. Every year of our present London atmosphere tends to render the letters on the stones more diffi- cult to decipher. Inscriptions I can remember twenty years ago are in several cases well- nigh obliterated. W. B. GERISH.

Hoddesdou, Herts.

BASILICAS. (9 th S. iii. 276, 322.)

CANON TAYLOR, in advancing what he characterizes as a probable hypothesis re- garding the origin of the Christian basilica, namely, that it derives, not from the pagan basilica, but from the synagogue,* illustrates it by stating that the great synagogue recently uncovered at Caper- naum " proves to be of the exact type of a basilican church," &c. I am unable to see how this tends to prove any fact but one, namely, that the Hebrews directly imi- tated Greco-Roman architecture. They were, it is well known, unable to resist the aesthetic influences brought to bear upon them by coming into intimate contact with the vigorous Wes- tern Aryans. If I do not err, Herod's own temple displayed double rows of Corinthian columns. Josephus describes likewise a "stoa basilica " as belonging to that monarch's palace. (Cf. Le Clerc, T)e Legibus Ritual. Veter. Ebraeorum,' t. ii. 1. iv. ; J. Spencer, ' Epist. Grit.,' ix. 250.)

a Hebrew word.
 * It is perhaps as well to recollect that this is not