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olumes, and produced regardless of cost. b was published at fourteen guineas, but ow sells for 5. 10s. Copies are, I imagine, i most good public libraries ; certainly there i one in the London Library.

W. EGBERTS.

EARNSHAW AND THEODORE HOOK (9 th S. iii. 46). MR. W. T. LYNN'S interesting note nder this head leaves it to be inferred that swards for improvements in chronometers 'ere given to Earnshaw and Arnold alone, 'his did not agree with my recollection of be matter ; and turning up the new edition f Britten's 'Old Clocks and Watches and heir Makers,' I find the incident recorded hus (p. 231) :

"The rival claims of Mudge, Arnold, and Earn- haw to the rewards offered for the best chrono- leter were submitted to a Select Committee of the touse of Commons, assisted by a committee of tperts, and eventually each was awarded 3,OOCtf."

RICHD. WELFORD.

CROMWELLS OP HEN BURY (9 th S. iii. 367). Ve must remember that Cromwell was an ssumed name, for Thomas, Earl of Essex, ras grandson of John Smyth of Putney. We nd that Richard Smyth was headborough nd taster of ale in Wimbledon, 1 Ed. IV., .D. 1461-2; that Walter Smyth was on he inquest, 1 Hen. VIII. ; in 4 Hen. VIII. Walter Cromwell, supposed same person, ras amerced eightpence for a fraudulent

jase ; in 5 Hen. VIII. W Cromwell, alias

myth, is prosecuted for that he "falsely nd fraudulently erased the evidence and srriers of the land"; after 20 Hen. VIII. re find two of the name rendering homage t the manorial court, viz., Walter Crom- 'ell and Walter Cromwell, alias Smyth; ne of these was the earl's father. But etween them comes a shadowy John Smyth, n the jury 1 Hen. VIII. It is said that e came from Nottinghamshire, married a myth, and took his father-in-law's name, ut he is nowhere called Cromwell in the ecords. The earl became Cromwell by royal warrant, and may have had children younger ban his son Gregory, who became Baron ury stock. The earl had also a nephew amed Richard Williams, who also took the ame of Cromwell, and was great-grandfather f the Protector. A. HALL
 * romwell ; and this may explain the Hen-

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AN OLD ENGLISH INN (9 th S. iii. 326). Jnder this heading is mentioned the dis- overy at Dartford recently of the death ^arrant of James O'Coighley, a Roman Jatholic priest, who was executed for high

treason at Maidstone in 1797-8. How it got to the place where it was discovered is not at all clear. He was apprehended at Margate on, it is said, a secret mission to the French Directory, for at that time the English Government was most apprehensive of French revolutionary principles pervading the country. In 'Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Parr,' by the Rev. William Field, published in 1828, there is the following reference to this circumstance :

"Dr. Parr, who respected the patriotism, and pitied the fate of the unfortunate O'Coighley, was soon afterwards in company Math a young barrister, a native of Scotland, who had greatly distinguished himself by his powerful writings in favour of civil and religious nberty. At that time, however, he was suspected of the intention of immolating his principles on the shrine of his ambition ; though whatever may have been his temporary errors and inconsistencies, an admiring and grateful nation will acknowledge that by a splendid course of public services he has since nobly redeemed them. In the course of conversation, this gentleman had observed that O'Coighley richly deserved his fate, since it was impossible to conceive a greater scoundrel. ' By no means, sir,' said Dr. Parr, ' for it very possible to conceive a greater scoundrel. He was an Irishman, he might have been a Scotch- man ; he was a priest, he might have been a lawyer ; he was a traitor, he might have been an apostate ! ' " -Vol. i. p. 395.

The allusions and the reference to " the young barrister " couched under this veil are, of course, to Sir James Mackintosh, the author of ' Vindicise Gallicse,' a man whom Dr. Parr especially disliked. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

MILESTONES DIRECTING TO WENTWORTH HOUSE (9 th S. iii. 409). These are briefly mentioned in the account of Wentworth Wopdhouse printed in the Yorkshire Archaeo- logical Journal, vi. 366 : " Several milestones in the neighbourhood still record on the road- side the distance from ' Wentworth House.' " It is implied that they were placed before 1847. W. C. B.

THE LAST OF THE WAR Bow (9 th S. iii. 383). At p. 98 of the second volume of ' The British Army,' by Sir Sibbald Scott, it is stated, under the heading 'Extinction of Archery in War,' that at the breaking out of the Civil War bowmen are mentioned for the last time in a royal proclamation, viz., a com- mission for Leicestershire, issued in June, 1642, the purpose of which was to array and train bowmen, and to promote men-at-arms, armed but with bows and arrows, and to see that such men-at-arms, armed men, and bow- men be armed with their own and not others' weapons also that in November, 1643,