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gives a list of fifty-six princesses of the blood royal and other ladies of high rank, exclusive of the queens consort whose names I have given above, who were created Ladies of the Order between the reigns of Edward III. and Henry VII. Nor is Truth quite accurate in stating that every ''sovereign, on ascending the throne, becomes ipso facto a Knight of the Garter." The reigning king or queen is not a Knight, but the Sovereign of the Most Noble Order. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

"ANYONE," "EVERYONE" (9 th S. vii. 205, 294). MR. ADAMS has always a good reason for his opinion, and everything he writes is entitled to respect, but I venture to think that his deliverance upon this subject is not conclusive. Of the three reasons he gives the first is too fanciful, and the second too far-fetched, to have much weight ; and even the third is, in my judgment, overbalanced by the practical utility of the forms ad- vocated. MR. ADAMS says that in these combinations "one" is not on all fours with "body," and this is true, for "body" taken separately is always a noun, where- as u one " is sometimes an adjective. There is therefore less need to distinguish between "any body" and "anybody" than between " any one " and " anyone." Compare the phrases "anyone who likes," "any one particle." The first means " any person who likes," the second "any single particle."

C. C. B.

AN AMERICAN INVASION (9 th S. vii. 227, 293). S. J. A. F. gives no instances of the spelling theater for theatre "some three hun- dred years ago," quoting only 'The Whole Art of the Stage,' 1684. Against this E would place the spelling of the word in the work of Thomas Beard, " preacher of the word of God in the towne of Huntington," school- master of Oliver Cromwell, entitled 'The Theatre of God's Judgements,' the edition from a copy of which I quote being printed in 1612 by Adam Islip, London.

THOS. WAIN WRIGHT.

Did not Morley's 'Life of Cromwell 'and Sir Walter Besant's ' East London ' appear in instalments in the Century Magazine, and is not this magazine partly printed in America 1 ? If so, the Americanisms might very easily be accounted for.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

FIRST EARL OF HYNDFORD'S DAUGHTERS (9 th S. vii. 249). l Kearsley's Complete Peer- age,' 1794, states that John, the second baron, was created an earl in 1701, married

Beatrice Drummond, and by her had three sons and three daughters. The eldest of the daughters was married to John Cock- burn, of Ormeston ; the second to John Montgomery, of Giffen ; and the third to Sir John Maxwell, of Nether Pollock, Bart., Lord Chief Justice Clerk ; and all had issue.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

STONEHENGE (9 th S. vii. 247). Borrow seems to have been familiar with this legend (see ' Lavengro,' chap. Ix.) ; and if we may believe a writer in Le Temps for 23 January, it is still current among certain classes of country people in England.

BENJ. WALKER.

Gravelly Hill, Erdington.

LAY CANON (9 th S. vii. 148, 197, 274). The singing men in Chester Cathedral, and very likely elsewhere, are known as lay clerks. This certainly also applies to Lichfield.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A.

Lancaster.

AUTHOR OF VERSES WANTED (9 th S. vii. 228, 315). The first are in the translation by Josuah (sic) Sylvester (1563-1618) of Du Bartas's (La Semaine) 'Devine Weekes and Workes,' but as I have seen them they are printed thus:

The pretty Lark climbing the Welkin clear. Izaak Walton calls Du Bartas the " Divine," and I think Southey has said Sylvester was the best - read poet in James I.'s reign. Perhaps the other verses will be found there. G. T. SHERBORN.

Twickenham.

DISGUISE OF MAN AS WOMAN (9 th S. vii. 248) See L'Intermediaire, xli. 569, 677, 726, 776, 966; xlii. 303, under the heading of ' L'Homme Femme DevoileV

F. E. R. POLL ARD-URQU HART.

Castle Pollard, Westmeath.

The well-known case of Boulton and Park (I believe these are the names) may be cited, but the particulars are best forgotten.

C. C. B,

WHITGIFT'S HOSPITAL, CROYDON (9 th S. vi. 341, 383, 402, 423, 479, 513 ; vii. 178, 256). I am sorry MR. JONAS cannot make up his mind to accept Cartwright as a sufficient authority for the statement that he did not write the 'Admonition to Parliament.' I have now only time to add three more authorities two in the ' Dictionary of National Biography,' where, in the article on Cartwright signed J. B. M., it is stated that John Field and Thomas Wilcox were