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goinge in playneapparell, had stolen so many harte (for I do not say he came trewly by them) that hee was accused of more than fellony " (p. 225).

"Pyrates by sea, robbers by land, have become honest substanceall men, as we call them, an< purchasers of more lawfull purchas " (p. 226).

" With the ruyn of infant young gentlemen the dyeing box maintains a hungry famylee."

Harington, mindful of Chettle's fate, here describes a deerstealer charged with "fellony/ who goes about in common clothes and in- duces yeomen to play at some kind of pitch and toss where he rooks them by double headed groats ; he cheats the better class b cogged dice, and supports his " hungry famylee" by the "ruyn" of infant young gentlemen ; by his " pyraticall " gains he has been able to purcnase real property. So many of these points unite in Shakespeare that it is hard to see how it can be meant for any one else. But there is independent con- temporaneous evidence to support it, with a use of Shakespeare's name exactly like thai in Greene's lampoon, to which Shakespeare owned up.

In Middleton's works by Bullen, vol. viii p. 127, is printed ' Microcynicon,' published by Creede, 1599. The fourth satire on cheating is headed 'Cheating Droone,' and describes a man with an actor's gift of " make up " and changes of dress. He haunts "Powles" to pick up yeomen, and employs touts to decoy them. He takes them to a tavern, entertains them hospitably, and rooks them sometimes up to Wl. (100Z. now) (1. 85); and the victims when cleaned out do not resent it, but are afraid to complain. As there is no charge of violence, it is clear that the affair was managed by gambling, as at Crockford's. The sweet-sing- ing youth is named Shake-rag (1. 53), remind- ing one of Greene's Shakescene.

One word more. Both Simpson and Dr. Grosart identify Doron in 'Menaphon' as meant for Shakespeare ; and the great mass of Elizabethan satire may have more to tell us if ME. AXON will search it.

W. G. THORPE, F.S.A.

20, Larkhall Rise, S.W.

"BULL AND LAST" (9 th S. vii. 128, 254). The " Bull and Last " has nothing in common with cobbler or cordwainer, nor with a journey from London. It was the "Bull" marking the last stage for coach or waggon on the old road from the North to London west of the City before the Archway road was cut through the eastern slope of High- gate Hill. I can remember the building of the " Duke of St. Alban's " on the site of the lodge at the gates of an old country house at

the south corner of Swain's Lane about the year 1850.

While writing on public-house signs may I hazard a conjecture that the "Queen's Head and Artichoke" on an inn at the corner of a street just south of the Cavalry Barracks in Albany Street may refer to Mary, " the French Queen," sister of Henry VIII., who married Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk? In the picture of the pair, well known by Vertue's engraving, the royal lady has an artichoke in her right hand. The house seems to have been an old tavern on the path leading from London towards the wells and gardens of Kilburn and Hampstead.

RICHARD R. HOLMES.

Royal Library, Windsor Castle.

ANTHONY DE SOLEMNE, THE FIRST PRINTER AT NORWICH, 1565-80 (9 th S. vii. 241). If MR. NORGATE will turn to p. 35 of the Cata- logue of the Caxton Exhibition he will find a note of three Norwich books exhibited by the present Lord Amherst, amongst them being a copy of the sermons of B. Cornells Adriaensen, 1578, of which the only other known copy is in Trinity College, Dublin. E. GORDON DUFF.

LOCATION OF THEATRE (9 th S. vii. 269). The Theatre Royal, George's Street, Plymouth, is probably the one W. W. A. wishes to identify. It was built from the designs of the late Mr. Foulston, and opened on 23 August, 1813. Mr. James Doel, the oldest actor in the United Kingdom perhaps in the world (who, hale and strong, resides at Stonehouse, Plymouth, and celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday anniversary upon 13 March last) has frequently performed there.

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

The town in question is Cork.

WM. DOUGLAS.

HAND-RULING IN OLD TITLE-PAGES (9 th S.

vii. 169). We meet not merely with title- Dages, but sometimes entire volumes pro- luced within the seventeenth century, which )ear unmistakable evidence of having been uled by hand. I possess a copy of Addy's Shorthand Bible,' printed from engraved )lates, every page of which contains six

red lines, all ruled by hand. There are two ines at the top, one down each side of the

page, one at the bottom, and one down, he centre separating the columns. As the volume comprises some four hundred pages, hese lines alone number no fewer than 1,400. There are also two short lines en- losing the title of each separate book.