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of comparative mythology who saw sun- worship in almost everything. The master of the craft whom Peres ridiculed was Dupuis. It does not, however, follow that Whately was indebted to the Frenchman or the Frenchman to him. The statement that PeYes published in 1817, though often repeated, appears to be an error, as no earlier edition is known than that of 1835. Moreover, Peres quotes from a poem by Delavigne which did not appear until 1824. Whately 's tract was certainly printed in 1819, and we have the testimony of his daughter that the first he knew of PeYes's tract was about 1840, when a German translation was sent him. I may perhaps refer the REV. JOHN DE SOYRES to an article written by the undersigned which appeared in Book-Lore (vol. ii. p. 6, June, 1885). where he will find further biblio- graphical details. WILLIAM E. A. AXON. Moss Side, Manchester.

FLEMISH WEAVERS (9 th S. v. 288, 362). On 28 July, 1331, Edward III. granted to John Kempe, of Flanders, " textor pannorum," the first "protection " (so far as is known) given to a Flemish weaver "super mysterio suo excercendo."* It would be interesting if the instructor of many an English weaver could be identified with either " Hannekin Li Kempe " (No. 317) or " Jean Li Kempe outre 1'Escaut " (No. 574), who appear in a list of 626 guilty persons appended to a letter, t dated 12 July, 1330, in which Count Louis, " conjointement avec ceux de Gand, invitent le compte de Hainaut de faire arreter en son pays, s'il est possible, tons ceux qui ont e"te condamn6s par le magistrat de la dite ville comme moteurs principaux des meurtres, trahisons, roberies, alliances et conspiration centre le comte de Flandre et la ville de Gand, afin de faire justice comme ils 1'ont m6rit et com me justice en serait faite en Flandre, s'ils y seraient arrete"s ; sinon de les renvoyer en ce pays k cette fin : le tout conform- roent au dernier trait6 de paix."

W. J. Ashley's 'English Woollen Industry (Baltimore, 1887), and the third chapter of book ii. of the same author's ' Introduction to English Economic History and Theory (London, 1893), will supply a great deal of valuable information on this subject. See also his ' James and Philip van Artevelde.'

Q. V.

LADY SANDWICH AND LORD ROCHESTER (9 th S. v. 356). In his portrait at Warwick Castle

(1821), ii. 823, and a translation will be found in Cornelius Nicholson, 'Annals of Kendal' (seconc edition, 1861), vii. 235. Kemp settled in that town
 * The document is printed in Rymer, ' Fcedera

f Printed in Prudent van Duyse's 'Inventaire Analytique des Chartres et Documents appartenan aux Archives de la Ville de Gand ' (Gand, 1867).

he famous Earl of Rochester is represented rowning a monkey with laurel. This is pro- bably emblematic of his great talent for mimicry. Among other mad doings, he once xx>k the name of Alexander Bendo, with a odging in Tower Street and a stall on Tower Jill, and deceived the whole of London as a }uack doctor. The inimitable speech in which le introduced himself will be found in Bohn's Gramont.' His powers of literary mimicry were equally great ; and, on the whole, the aurel is probably an allusion to his clever mitation of the Tenth Satire of Horace. The Lady Sandwich was Elizabeth, second daughter of the Earl of Rochester. She is said to have inherited much of her father's wit. She married Edward, third Earl of Sandwich, and died in Paris (2 July, 1757). GEORGE MARSHALL. Sefton Park, Liverpool.

The allusion made by Horace Walpole to ' Lord Rochester and his monkey " evidently alludes to the well-known picture of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, crowning bis monkey, of which a replica is in the National Portrait Gallery in London. I have a print of this picture, which represents the earl placing a crown of bay leaves on the head of a monkey seated on a table and engaged in tearing into pieces a number of his master's manuscripts.

HERBERT M. VAUGHAN.

CHAUSSEY (9 th S. ii. 467, 538 ; iii. 56). Un- doubtedly this nameisderived from Scissiacum Nemus, or the forest of Scissy, which at the time of the introduction of Christianity into Gaul covered all the space, now submerged, between Cherbourg and the coast of Brittany. The encroachment of the sea upon the land seems to have begun in 709, a great part of the forest disappearing completely about the year 860 A.D. Others, however, affirm that the encroachments were quite gradual. The subject has been minutely investigated, and may be studied in detail in books upon the topography of Mont Saint Michel and the neighbourhood. T. P. ARMSTRONG.

Timperley.

BASQUE BOOK OF GENESIS (9 th S. v. 396). MAJOR-GENERAL MILLETT will find an answer to his question in the late Mr. Llewelyn Thomas's introduction to the book published by the Clarendon Press. Mr. Thomas attempts to account for the existence of the Basque MSS. in the Shirburn collection of the Earl of Macclesfield as follows :

"The current explanation depends on tradition and conjecture. The Shirburn Castle library con- tains a large number of Welsh MSS., chiefly tran-