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patois (pitcherro), tarnbien en ingles (pitcher) The nearness of these to the English will b better appreciated if I add that in Valencia and Catalan tx is pronounced as ch i "church." JAS. PLATT Jun.

STUART RELIC. I have a pincushion whici was originally white satin. On this ar printed in blue letters, in circles on eithe side, the names of those executed in 1746. In the centre is a Tudor rose in outline, an<~ round this the words "MART. FOR: K: & cou 1746:" I have never seen one like it, no have those persons to whom I have shown it; but I think such pincushions cannot be uncommon, since the words seem printed, anc if so, there must have been many others made The size is 3 in. by 2| in. IBAGUE.

THOMAS NEWCOMB. The allusion to Thomas Newcomb, under * Hand-ruling in Old Title pages' (ante, p. 110), prompts me to say thai this worthy man is buried at Dunchurch Warwickshire. There is a monument to his memory on the north chancel wall, fittec with two marble doors for the better pre servation of the inscription, which runs as follows :

" Here lieth Interr'd the body of Thomas New comb, Esq., a worthy Citizen of London and Servanl to his late Ma*' King Charles y e Second in his printing office, who departed this life y e 26 day o^ December, 1681, and in y e 55 year of his age.

" In memory of whom his son Thomas Newcomb, Esq., Servant likewise to his late Ma** and to his present Majesty K. James y e 2 in y e same office erected this monument.

" He likewise departed this life March 27, 1691, being Good Friday. '*

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

JOHN POTENGER OR POTTINGER, 1647-1733.

The 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' vol. xlvi. p. 206, seems to be hardly accurate in stating that this author and translator was "admitted to the Inner Temple in 1675." No one of his name was admitted there in that year ; but the books of the Inn show that a John Pottinger, of Inckpen, Berks, was admitted on 31 October, 1668, and that a John Potenger was called to the Bar on 28 November, 1675, and these entries doubtless refer to the subject of this note. Potenger was appointed Comptroller of the Pipe in the Exchequer Office on 7 February, 1676/7, and continued to hold that post until his death, his suc- cessor, Henry Fane, being appointed on 8 February, 1733/4. The statements in the ' Dictionary ' as to Potenger being a Master in Chancery seem to require further in- vestigation, for his name does not occur in

the list of masters given by Duffus Hardy in

his 'Catalogue of Lord Chancellors and

Principal Officers of the High Court of Chancery' (1843). According to the Gentle- man's Magazine, vol. iv. p. 50, Potenger died on 13 January, 1733/4 ; but it seems that his death was certified to the Treasury as hap- pening on 18-19 December, 1733 (see 'Cal. of Treasury Books, 1731-4,' p. 659). His father, John Pottenger, D.D., who married Anne, daughter of William Wither, of Many- down, Hants, is apparently mentioned in the pedigree of Pottenger of Burghfield in the 4 Visitation of Berkshire, 1664-6 ' (Metcalfe's edition, 1882, p. 77). The ' Dictionary ' might have referred at the foot of the life to Hutchins's 'Hist, of Dorset,' third edition, iv. 372; Fowler's 'Hist, of Corpus Christi College' (Oxford Hist. Soc., 1893), pp. 234-5; ' N. & Q.,' 1 st S. viii. 53 ; Burke's ' Commoners ' (1838), iii. 621 ; iv. 352. See also Harl. Soc. Pub., viii. 200 ; xxiii. 280. H. C.

SHAKESPEARIANA : ' OTHELLO,' II. i. 60-65. (See 9 th S. ii. 403; vi. 364; viii. 12.) I have received a very kind letter from ME. MERTON DEY, in which he assures me there was no intentional discourtesy in his want of refer- ence to my note. I at once accept this dis- claimer, and ask MR. DEY'S forgiveness for having misjudged him.

E. M. SPENCE, D.D.

Manse of Arbuthnott, N.B.

SHAKESPEARIAN RELIC. The Bazaar, Ex- 'hange and Mart, dated Monday, 15 July, p. 153, contained the following :

' Anything relating to or in any way connected with Shakespeare is of such universal interest that t is almost necessary to state that Mr. William Faggard, the compiler of the ten years' index to Book-Prices Current,' and a well-known Liverpool )ookseller, is a direct descendant of Isaac Jaggard, Shakespeare's printer. Isaac printed the first folio >f 1623 at his house in Fleet Street, subsequently a
 * offee-house, where the poet Cowper had a fit of

nsanity possibly at the sight of his bill and in >ur time, indeed until quite recently, a restaurant, n a letter to the Glasgow Herald Mr. Jaggard says hat his ancestor was Shakespeare's first printer ; ut this seems to be a mistake. We do not know ow many of the quartos Jaggard printed, if indeed e printed any at all, and it is too hot to make nquiries ; but the first of them ' Titus Androni- us 'was printed by ' I. R. for Edward White,' in 594, while ' Venus and Adonis,' which appeared tie year before, had one William Leake for its ponsor. But the folio of 1623 is Shakespeare's great nemorial in the matter of paper and print, and that VIr. Jaggard's family were associated with it is be- ond all question. Indeed, we regard that gentle- lan as possessing a transmitted antiquarian in- erest of the highest order. He is, in fact, a living hakespearean relic. And relics of Shakespeare re extremely scarce. Not a fragment of any one