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 to him, Ralph Roister Doister, a Comedy, by Nicholas Udall. And the Tragedie of Gorboduc, by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville. With Introductory Memoirs. Edited by William Durrant Cooper, F.S.A. is one of the most valuable of the series, and the critical faculty is as well shown therein as in any of his historical pieces, while the Memoirs of Udall, Norton, and Sackville—this last a famous Sussex worthy—could hardly be improved upon.

To each of the four published volumes of the, of which he was a Vice-President, Mr. Cooper contributed a paper: In Vol. i. he descants on The Parish Registers of Harrow-on-the-Hill, with special reference to the Families of Bellamy and Page. Notes on Uxbridge and its former Inhabitants are the subject of his paper in Vol. ii. and the Churches and Parishes of Saint James Garlick Hithe, and Saint Dionis Backchurch, both in the city of London, are the topics dwelt on in Vols. iii. and iv.

To the 's volumes he sent one paper only, which is printed in Vol. vii. of its series, but that paper, as a glance at its title will show, is an important one, John Cade's Followers in Kent: inasmuch as it dovetails in with his "Participation of Sussex in Cade's rising," in the eighteenth volume of the Sussex Collections. And it may be worth while to mention here that the late Mr. B. B., with Mr. Cooper's assent, reprinted these papers in his "Illustrations of Jack Cade's Rebellion, from Researches in the Guildhall Records, together with some newly found letters of Lord Bacon, &c., London, 1869."

To the, his one contribution is an Additional Note on a Deed relating to John Evelyn.

To, for April, 1862, he furnished an elaborate paper of considerable historical interest, entitled, Notices of Anthony Babington, of Dethick, and of the conspiracy of 1586.

Besides, and beyond, the above extensive bead-roll of Mr. Cooper's literary labours, there are, doubtless, several Papers and Essays, of which for lack of information