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amusing account of the fair as it existed in 1789, to which let me refer your readers who feel an interest in the subject.

In 'Muss9 Anglicanse,' vol. ii., 1741 (editio quinta), is a long poem, in Latin hexameters nearly five hundred in number, descriptive of the fair and the exhibitions and booths at it, apparently written in the days of Queen Anne ; and the name of the author, " T. H. Hill, Coll. Trin. Cant. Soc.," is appended. In the table of contents prefixed it is said, " Quse Asterisco distinguuntur, huic editioni accesserunt nova"; and the poem is thus marked, and probably will not be found in previous editions.

In the * Alumni Westmonasterienses,' p. 239, Thomas Hill is said to have been elected from Westminster School tf> Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1701, and is said to have been the author of the 'Nundinse Stur- brigienses.' On the authority of Cole he is said to have been " a very ingenious man and excellent poet, and on his leaving college to have ever since lived with the Duke of Rich- mond, where he is to this day, 6 March, 1748." JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Hone's 'Every -Day Book,' 19 September, contains an account of Stourbridge, Stur- bridge, Sturbitch, or Stirbitch Fair, as it was variously spelt in former days. It is stated to have been proclaimed on 19 September, 1825, for a fortnight, and originated in a grant from King John to the hospital of lepers at that place. By a charter in the thirtieth year of Henry VIII, the fair was granted to the magistrates and corporation of Cambridge. B. B.

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ARCHBISHOP HOWLEY (9 th S. vii. 408). From family sources I am able to say the mother of Archbishop Howley was Mary, daughter of Alderman John Gauntlett, of Winchester. She was sister to Samuel Gauntlett, D.D., Warden of New College, who died in 1822. Another sister married Rev. C. L. Kerby, canon of Winchester and rector of Fairford. The will of the Arch- bishop's father is 508 Harris, P.C.C., and in it he speaks of his wife Mary and his two children William and Mary. I shall be glad to give any further information that I have, and also to learn anything as to the Archbishop's sister Mary and the date of the death of Canon Kerby. THOMAS PERRY.

THE PARISH REGISTER OF BROADWOOD- WIDGER, DEVONSHIRE (9 th S. viii. 259). I know of at least two auction sales at which the transcript in question has appeared, and

feel sure that no intending purchaser who viewed it believed it to be anything but what it is, viz., a valuable transcript (on paper of foolscap size), made about 1820, of the parish register of Broad wood -Widger (baptisms, marriages, and burials), 1654-97, containing also entries of collections on briefs, &c. I feel equally assured that no doubt exists that the register in your correspondent's keeping is the original. The register as now extant is, however, one of the most uninteresting I ever met with possibly due in some measure to its late commencement in 1654 ; and I speak not without experience, as bearing the reputation of having examined ana made copious extracts of the principal entries from more early parish registers in various parts of England than any other person.

W. I. R. V.

THE DICTION OF THE GREEK NEW TESTA- MENT (9 th S. viii. 243). Without entering into a controversy for which I have no time, I may mention a fact. Fifty-eight years ago that is, in the year when Prof. Friedrich Wilhelm Blass was born shortly before leaving for the University of Heidelberg, I and other pupils had to read, at the Grandducal Lyceum at Karlsruhe, the Greek Testament in the original. It was done in the class for Protestant religious instruction. The theo- logical professor, being a good Greek scholar, considered it his duty to warn us against the kind of Greek we were to study on this occasion, which he openly acknowledged was faulty in many cases from the point of view of classical Hellenic language. As we had been well grounded in the latter, we presently found this ourselves. The origin of the New Testament easily explains it. It will thus be seen that long before Prof. Blass's time the same view existed among German professors as the one held now by that distinguished Hellenist. KARL BLIND.

If PERTINAX will consult Deissmann's ' Bible Studies,' recently published in English by T. & T. Clark, he will find much valuable information. The price of the volume is 9s.

C. S. WARD.

PHILLIPPO (9 th S. vii. 468 ; viii. 72, 131, 233). I have no information, but I presume the practice would be sanctioned by custom, if not by law. Probably the more insidious crimes of women have always been met by the more impressive punishments of burning, drown- ing, strangling, &c. I fancy the historic name Phelipeau has, in tradition, become Philippe Pot ; at least I think that is how I remember to have understood it. The site of the execution, an angle of a road separating