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1891. In this there is my translation, in Baskish verse, of Virgil's lines, " Sic vos non vobis."*

22. In 1900, at San Sebastian, my reprint, with supplementary notices and an index to the verbal forms, of the famous book of Sebastian Mendiburu, the most classical writer of Spanish Heuskara, on the 'Heart of Jesus.' The Provincial Parliament of Gipuskoa bought twenty-five copies of it.

23. In 1901, in the Transactions of the Philo- logical Society, an 'Analytical List of the Verbal Forms in the Second Gipuskoan Baskish Book.' With the offprint of this there is an article headed ' Venoms Antidote,' criticizing the preface of the second edition of the * Testamentu Berria ' of J. de Lei9arraga (Strassburg, 1900).

24. Poems in Heuskara, original or transla- tions, published in various newspapers in Spain, France, and California, including a version of 'Dulce Domum,' in the metre of the Latin, which appeared in the Wykehamist, the organ of my old school.

Other writings of mine concerning Baskish are ready for the press. During 1902 1 hope to " proof " the third edition of the aforesaid New Testament of 1571. Of this I am permitted to state that Prof. W. I. Knapp possessed a copy which is not included in the list which Prof. Vinson put into his bibliography. He obtained it from Mr. B. Quaritch, and lately sold it to Mr. Archer M. Huntington, of West- chester County, in New York State. It has not yet been stated what became of the three or four copies which Prince L. L. Bonaparte is known to have acquired.

EDWARD SPENCER DODGSON.

Oxford.

"BUCKS" AND "GOOD FELLOWS" IN 1778. (See 9 th S. iv. 225, 333, 399, 520 ; vi. 213.)

THE following is a continuation of my list of kindred societies.

Eccentrics, The Illustrious Society of. The favourite meeting-place of this society was the " Sutherland Arms " in May's (now Great May's) Buildings, St. Martin's Lane. This was at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Here they had an exclusive apart- ment, where they met "at least three hundred and sixty-five nights in the year/' Of this club, which met first at a tavern in Chandos Street and then at the " Crown " in Vinegar Yard, Drury Lane, Sheridan was a member. Tom Rees was the name of the landlord of the " Sutherland Arms," and the club is stated to have flourished as late as


 * See note in col. 1 of previous page.

the middle of the nineteenth century. In 1815 it was a house of superior standing, and noted for possessing the best waiter in London ('Epicure's Almanack,' 1815). Cun- ningham describes the club of Eccentrics as composed of " privileged wits so called."

The Everlasting Club. See Timbs's 'Club Life.'

The Farmers' Club (1799) met at the "Thatched House Tavern" in St. James's Street.

The Farmers' Society (1796) met at the " Crown and Anchor" in the Strand.

The Fiddle - f addle Club. Gentleman's Magazine, vol. iii. p. 234.

Fleece Tavern Club. See House of Lords Club.

The Fountain Club met at the " Fountain Tavern" in the Strand. It was a political association opposed to Sir Robert Walpole (vide Glover's 'Life,' p. 6). At the "Fountain" the Whigs themselves used to meet, some- times 200 strong, to make speeches and pass resolutions. "Simpson's Tavern and Divan," the famous chess-players' rendezvous, No. 103, Strand, stands on the site of the "Fountain," which had for its landlord Christopher Cat. (See Kit-Cat Club.)

The Fox-hunters' Club. A condition of membership is suggested by the author of broken collar-bone. A broken rib or two should secure admission, while the president should have broken his neck and have been taken up for dead once or twice. It does not appear whether this is the club to which an admission ticket in the Banks Collection (British Museum) relates, and which met at the "Rising Sun" in Suffolk Street, Hay- market.
 * Tavern Anecdotes,' 1825, as being a thrice-

The Free and Easy Johns. This society met at the " Hole-in-the-Wall " "to tipple porter and sing bawdry." The " Hole-in-the- Wall " is described by Mr. F. G. Hilton Price as on the east side of Mitre Court, opposite Fetter Lane in Fleet Street. The house in 1825 is again mentioned, not too favourably, as u where compositors have long held their orgies, and where many portentous questions relating to the price of their labour have been debated in full conclave." (F. G. H. Price's ' Signs of Fleet Street,' and ' Tavern Anecdotes,' 1825.)

The Free and Easy under the Lamb (1801) i.e., the " Lamb Tavern," Vere Street, Clare Market. (Banks Admission Tickets.)

The Society of the Free and Easy round the Rose was accustomed to meet at " Sam's Coffee- House" in Ludgate Street (now Hill). An admission ticket in the Banks Collection