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chase for the pleasure of seeing his own parae in print, and for constant reference, and which nearly every club and reading-room buys annually ? An old friend of mine, recently deceased, was the fortunate possessor of a complete set, and I can remember a bookseller in Oxford offered me a set for 3. 10s. ; but it is always a risky thing to buy any very long set of books. A study of the book is interesting to an old Oxonian, showing the immense changes that have come over the University and the great increase of its members. The late Dr. Bliss, Registrar of the University for many years, once told me that not more than half of those who entered ever graduated. One, however, finds much useful information omitted which used to have a place in former- years.

On the authority of Gunning, 'Remi- niscences of Cambridge,' vol. ii. p. 43 (1855), the ' Cambridge University Calendar ' was first published in 1796, and with the ex- ception of a year has continued annually. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

[The first publication under ^hat name belongs to 1810.]

ENGLISH MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. May I inform your readers that I am collecting materials for a book on ' Members of Parlia- ment for England, 1708-1832'; and that I should be glad to receive from those interested in the subject any biographical or genealogi- cal particulars relating to such members of their families as have sat in Parliament?

W. R. WILLIAMS.

Talybont, Brecknock.

EXECUTIONS AT TYBURN AND

ELSEWHERE. (9 th S. vii. 121, 210, 242, 282.)

I HIGHLY appreciate MR. LOFTIE'S courteous reference to my paper, and am glad to have elicited his opinions on the subject of Tyburn, which in connexion with London history has doubtless had his special study. I am anxious to have opinions when they vary, and in the meantime reserve a personal decision. The crux just now is the extent of the manor of Tyburn, which question 1 have tentatively touched in dealing with my immediate sub- ject, the executions.

Certainly, in connexion with the executions, Tyburn in my mind lias been a hamlet, and that, I think, is the usual conception. MR.

LOFTIE, however, thinks it almost certain that in 1196, when Longbeard was hanged, there was no such town or village, and that the chronicler by "prope Tiburnam " meant near Tyburn stream. The "rough, furzy," desolate tract, with the few sombre elms growing along the brook, was doubtless an appropriate situation for the gallows. Yet not far off may have lain the hamlet of Tyburn, of which I cannot but think the little church of St. John an indication. True it is that Domesday has no mention of a church on Tyburn Manor, but we have evi- dence of one a little more than a century after the Survey. And if a church was found there in 1198 by William of St. Mary when he became bishop, is it not very possible that the building and also a group of houses were there but two years earlier that is to say, in 1196, when poor Longbeard suffered 1 For it follows naturally, I think, that the church had been built to serve an adjacent hamlet ; and although a place of worship may have stood solitarily by the wayside for the service of the few scattered agriculturists of the dis- trict, a church is, I submit, more usually found with a village. Even if two centuries later (A.D. 1400) St. John's stood alone, we need not conclude that it had been originally thus isolated. The villagers may have moved away from the dangerous high road for the same reasons which led them to petition for the removal of their church. Thus I take the church to be the natural and usual evi- dence of a village which may have existed in 1196, even, perhaps, two or three years before the building of the church ; and consequently it seems to me more probable that Dean Ralph's " prope Tiburnam " meant near Tyburn village than near Tyburn stream.

The extension of Tyburn Manor is a more important question than that of hamlet or no hamlet, and though feeling insufficiently qualified to enter on it, I am bound to offer MR. LOFTIE such evidence as appears to me to support a conjecture that the manor did not entirely lie east of the bourne (that is to say east of Stratford Place), but that it covered ground between Edgware Road and the Kensington boundary. The evidence is not of my own finding, but will be chiefly found in the very bold, but valuable little book ' Paddington Past and Present,' by Wm. Robins, 1853. He (p. 11) quotes a Private Act of 1733 (not "1734"; it can be seen at the British Museum), by which the Earl of Craven obtained land (now Craven Hill) at Bays- water for a Pest Field, in substitution for other land, bearing the same name, which in 1687 had been provided by a former earl in