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settles the point, drawn from the recently issued sumptuous work "Histoire de 1'Uni- versite de Geneve, par Charles Borgeaud. L'Academie de Calvin, 1559-1798," Geneva, 1900, p. 107 :

"Un peu plus tard, en juin, 1571, un exil, e*gale- ment celebre dans 1'histoire du XVIe siecle reforme, Thomas Cartwright, 1'un des peres du noncon- forniisme anglais, commencait, sur la demande des ministres, un cours de deux heures par semaine, qu'il devait continuer pendant plusieurs mois. Ce fait a jusqu'ici echappe" aux biographes du profes- seur destituS de Cambridge. Mais il est suffisam- ment atteste par les registres du Conseil et de la Compagnie. II faut seulement, en les consultant, se souvenir que ceux qui les ont tenus entendaient fort mal les noms anglais et rechercher celui de Cartwright sous la forme romanisee de Carturit. A 1'aide de cette clef, on retrouvera, dans les proces- verbaux de Janvier, 1572, une preuve materielle et f rappante de la descendance calvinienne du systeme ecclesiastique des Puritains."

In proof of this several extracts from the registers are given, of which the following is the first :

" Anglois ministre. Les ministres ayant fait advertir qu'il y a icy un Anglois [mentioned by name, M. Th. Carturit, in the registers of Jan., 1572], excellent theologien, lequel ils ont prie de faire quelques lecons en theologie, le jeudi et le vendredi, ce qu'il leur a promis faire gratuitement, s'il est trouve bon par messieurs, arreste" qu'on 1'approve." ' Reg. Conseil,' 28 juin, 1571.

These registers also mention Andrew Mel- ville, under the name Melvinus or Melvin, and show him to have been a regent of the college in the second class duties which he fulfilled for five years, besides attending lec- tures in theology, Hebrew, and Greek.

W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.

THACKERAY'S EARLY WRITINGS. The fol- lowing extract from the Era of 14 September may be worth preserving in the pages of .W. & C^. ;

" A romance of the sale-room is recalled by the recent death of Mr. John Taylor, of the Dryden Press, Northampton. A few years ago he sent up to Messrs. Sotheby's a little book of Thackeray's, which fetched 581. The book had been offered in Mr. Taylor's catalogue only a few months before for 2-5. Qd. It was ' The Exquisites,' a farce in two acts, with etchings, which was printed for private circulation in 1839. The play, as far as we can ascertain, has never been acted, and only one other copy of the piece exists."

HERBERT B. CLAYTON. BREADCRUMBS AND THE DEVIL. In the days when the "bread-loaf" was dear careful mothers had a set of thrift sayings which are seldom heard in this time of the big, cheap loaf. Crumbs were regularly swept up and kept for some useful purpose. If a child threw crumbs in the fire the old- fashioned mother lifted a warning finger and

said, " If you throw crumbs in the fire you are feeding the devil." Children were told that the better part of a loaf was the crust, and when a child was sent to the shop for bread, the order was to ask for "a crusty loaf." If a child left its crust came the warning, " Yes, my lady [or my lad], you '11 want for a loaf some day. You '11 find hunger's a sharp thorn."

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

CANON THOMAS THELLUSSON CARTER. The last of the Tiactarians, the Rev. Canon Thomas Thellusson Carter, died on Monday, the 28th of October, aged ninety-three. He took his degree a term before Cardinal Manning and a year before Gladstone and Archdeacon Denison. The Times in its obituary notice states that "throughout his various incumbencies he threw himself into the Tractarian task of restoring the services and the teaching of the Church of England to that ' Catholic ' character which, according to the tenets of the school, she lost at the Reformation." N. S. S.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers maybe addressed to them direct.

POLITICAL PAMPHLETS AND BIG SALES. What is the greatest sale that a political pamphlet has had during the last 150 years? Doubtless Gladstone's * Bulgarian Atro- cities' was very largely taken up, which, I fancy, was published at a penny or twopence. I suppose also that some of Burke's speeches and Swift's ' Drapier's Letters ' must have had a good sale as things went then. V. R.

[' The Fight at Dame Europa's School ' reached a circulation of 193,000 (6 th S. iv. 281).]

STAUNTON, WORCESTERSHIRE. Where can I find any information about the history of this parish ? The Court, a fifteenth -century house, was at one time the seat of the Whittingtons. Information and references will be gratefully received by

J. HAWKINS.

Staunton Court, Staunton, Gloucester.

CROMWELLIAN FORFEITURES. Does a list of the Irish landed proprietors whose estates were forfeited by Cromwell exist in print; and, if so, where can it be seen ? Prendergast's 'Cromwellian Settlement' does not contain such a list, and the earliest I can find in the