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with a relation of how the picture was an etching by Hogarth himself, I assume, from his painted portrait of Lord Lovat :

" The short stay of Lovat at St. Albans allower the artist but scanty opportunity of providing the materials for a complete picture ; hence some car penter was employed on the instant to glue together some deal board, and plane down one side which is evident from the back being in the usua rough state in which the plank leaves the sawpit The painting [italics are mine], from the thinness ol the priming ground, bears evident proof of the haste with which the portrait was accomplished."

This will answer MR. ROBERTSON'S query on 157. The whole article in the 'Table ok ' is well worth perusal.

FRANCIS W. JACKSON.

PAPERS OF HUDSON GURNEY (9 th S. vi. 468). The Twelfth Report of the Historical Manu- scripts Commission, Appendix IX., gives a calendar (pp. 116-164) of "a valuable collec- tion of MSS. belonging to the trustees of the late Mr. Hudson Gurney," "in the library of Mr. John Henry Gurney at Keswick Hall.' The appendix in question is dated 1891, and your correspondent would probably find that the papers to which she refers, as well as those reported on, are still in Mr. Gurney's possession. Q. V.

GRINDLEFORD BRIDGE (9 th S. ii. 88). I have not yet seen any reply to the above question, so I submit the following, which I find on p. 364 of vol. vii. (1852) of the British Arch. Soc. Report :

"Almost every hill containing a barrow has a Saxon name; some of them after their gods, e.g., Setterlow near Parwich, and this is of a piece with other names of places about, such as Grind leford Bridge (Grendel), Throwley, Thor's Cave, and per- haps Grindon."

CHARLES DRTJRY.

" COMBINATION " (9 th S. vi. 470). As several of the pupils had " passed from Addition to Multiplication," it may be allowable to sur- mise that those engaged on " Combination " were practising the twofold process of adding a number of lines together and then sub- tracting the same lines, in succession, from the sum and the separate results. This is only a suggestion, but it is based on the knowledge that such exercises in elementary arithmetic are given. THOMAS BAYNE.

According to the 'H.E.D.,' combination is another name for the arithmetical rule com- monly called alligation.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

AGE OF ENTRY AT INNS OF COURT (9 th S. vi. 107, 195, 278, 333). I would add to my reply to FRANCESCA at the last reference the

following extract from Act III. sc. i., p. 27, of Thomas Nabbes's " Totenham-Court, a pleasant Comedy. Acted at the private house in Salisbery-Court " (1639, 4to):-

Jam[es\. How shall we spend the day Sam?

Sam. Let's home to our studies and put cases.

Jam. Hang cases and bookes that are spoyl'd with them. Give me Johnson and Shakespeare ; there 'a learning for a gentleman. I tell thee Sam, were it not for the dancing-schoole and Playhouses, I would not stay at the Innes of Court for the hopes of a chiefe Justice-ship.

"James" and "Sam." are respectively de- scribed in "The Persons" (i.e., dramatis personce) as " A wild young Gentleman " and " A fine Gentleman," both " of the Irmes of Court."

I may also refer to Paul Hentzner, the German traveller, who, in his 'Journey into England in the Year 1598,' as published in English, states that there are fifteen colleges within and without the City of London, nobly built, with beautiful gardens adjoining, the three principal of which are the Temple, Gray's Inn, and Lincoln's Inn, and that

in these colleges numbers of the young nobility, gentry, and others, are educated, and chiefly in the study of physic, for very few apply themselves to that of the law."

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SCANTY WEDDING DRESS (9 th S. vi. 429). It was a vulgar error that a man was not liable for the bride's debts if he took her in no other apparel than her shift that is, without common clothes on her back.

Bacon's ' Abridgment ' tells him that " the husband is liable for the wife's debts, because

acquires an absolute interest in the per- sonal estate of the wife"; he therefore con- cludes that if she has no estate, he is not able, and therefore, with more care than refinement, he lets the world know that the Dride brings him nothing. J. S. Burn, in lis * History of the Fleet Marriages,' records Hill in her shift," and adds :
 * he fact that " the woman ran across Ludgate

"The Daily Journal of 8th November, 1725, nentions a similar exhibition at Ulcombe, Kent, luring the same year. The registers of Chiltern All Saints, Wilts, under date October 17, 1714, ecord the marriage of John Bridmore and Ann >ellwood, who was married in her smock, without tny clothes or head-gier on." A.t Whitehaven, in 1766, a woman stripped lerself to her shift in the church, and in that ondition she stood at the altar and was narried. In Lincolnshire, between 1838 and 844, a woman was married enveloped only in i sheet. A few years ago a similar marriage ook place : the clergyman, finding nothing n the rubric about the woman's dress thought