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bethan times, for it is mentioned by Stow in 1598. Staple Inn has, however, I think, a higher claim to antiquity as an Inn of Chancery than that awarded to it by Stow, for in the 'History and Antiquities of the Inns of Court and Chancery' (ed. 1780), founded on Sir William Dugdale's Origines Juridiciales,' it is stated that Staple Inn-which, as we know, was one of the two Inns of Chancery belonging to Gray's Inn, the other being Barnard's Inn (of which we are now having such an interesting account from time to time in the pages of 'N. & Q. from the pen of one of their own "antients")" was heretofore called Staple Hall, being a place where merchants for woolls had their meetings," and it goes on to state that

additional letterpress description which was issued by Mr. A. Marks in 1881 it is there described as being among the oldest of the existing groups of NOTES:-Staple Inn, 441-Migration to New England, 442-old London houses, dating apparently from ElizaSpenser's Visions of Bellay,' 443-Preservation of Bindings, 444-Letter of Casanova-Parallel Passage-Predecessors of the Kelts-Board of Health, 445-Belvoir Rustics-Addison and Macaulay-Epitaph - Binding of Pamphlets - Loch Leven-"Croydon Sanguine"-Brash, 446. QUERIES:-Autograph of Shakspeare-Books in the Bodleian -Sir R. Stone-Regimental Colours-Claines Church-Sir Roger de Coverley-Westminster Library-Laurence Tomson's New Testament-Turnpike Gates-Date of Engraving -Robinson Family-Earthquake, 447- Bohn's Extra Series "-Sermon by John Conant-"Erba d'Invidia"Harley Street" King's Court of Redlevet St. Neot Population of Somerset-Eliana-Words in Light of Asia' -Verstegan's Dedication-Certain Godly Postylles,' 448Authors Wanted, 449. REPLIES:-Domesday- Olla Podrida,' 449-" Te igitur "— Steer Family-Hartstonge-Lawyer and Warrior-Dates on Churches, 450-Imitation of Christ' - Plou-Llan--Chimista - Judge Jefferys - "In puris naturalibus," 451 — Phoenix and Turtle-Cinque Ports-Cub-Boast: Bosse, 452-Acquisition of Surname-St. Aloes-Passage in Tacitus, 453-Beaver-Arbortrium-Key to New Republic,' 454Harlequin's Bat-Curious Book-plate- Huguenots-Coffee Biggin-Gassend, 455-Lord Ullin's Daughter'-Quenby Hall-Toad and Lizard-Memoirs of Grimaldi,' 456-Weekday-Poems attributed to Byron-Jamin Families-Pickwick -De Boleyn-8. Taylor, 457-Judge's Costume-Lord Rochester-Famous Sermon-Adam's Life-First Iron Vessel'Marmaduke Multiply's Method' - Strongbow-French Equivalent to Proverb-The Museum,' 458-Raree Show, 459.

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Notes.

STAPLE INN.

Is it too late for the voice of 'N. & Q.' to be uplifted in aid of the deputation of the Commons Preservation Society which petitioned the Court of Common Council to do something for the preservation of this old Inn of Chancery?

The Standard, in a very interesting article, a few days ago discussed-not unfavourably to the deputation-the merits of the petition; but I ask, Who is there among the readers of 'N. & Q.' who would not cordially support that appeal, or, failing that, would not wish that some other means may be found to preserve the old inn from destruction? I think I may say, without fear of contradiction, that Staple Inn is, with the exception, perhaps, of the Temple, the most interesting relic of the civil life of old London, and it has this additional fact in its favour, that it cannot be said (as may be the case with Wren's churches in the Strand) that it stands in the way of a great public improvement. The part of Holborn which comprises Staple Inn forms one of the broadest thoroughfares in the metropolis, and now that Middle Row has been pulled down, the quaint overhanging gables, now so rare in London, and picturesque surroundings are fully exposed to view.

The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London issued a very good photograph of the old inn amongst its series for the year 1878, and in the

"by an ancient MS. book,* written about King Henry V.'s time, containing divers orders and constitu tions relating to the Society, it should seem that this house was an inne of chancery then, if not before those days, but held by lease; for the first grant of the inheritance thereof to the ancients of Gray's Inn, from John Knighton and Alice, his wife, daughter of John Chapwood, was by indenture of bargain and sale dated 10 Nov: 20 Hen: VIII."

Apart from the question whether all open spaces, such as its garden and courtyards afford, should not, in these days of London's rapid expansion in area and population, be secured for the benefit of future generations by an observant and far-seeing municipality, is there nothing but the bare hygienic value, so to speak, of such a spot existing in our midst? I cannot do better than quote the concluding words of the same article in the Standard, which to my mind appeals with great force not only to every Londoner, but to every one worthy of the name of Englishman :—

"Like all the Inns of Court and Chancery, its very appearance is redolent of a dead and buried past. The foundations recall the time when London was the seat of a legal university, and when students of the high mystery of the Law were students in something else than name. Like the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, the inns take us back at once to the Middle Ages, with their guilds, and close corporations, and monastic modes of life, and the impression is deeper in the old and quiet quadrangles between Fleet Street and Holborn than in the bustling squares and courts of the Temple and Lincoln's Inn, in which the life of to-day is vivid enough to had time to be antiquarians they would surely strive to overpower the recollections of the past. If barristers secure from destruction the tenements consecrated by the memories or the labours of Fortescue, and Camden, and Selden, and Hale, and Blackstone, and many another member of the most illustrious of English professions. But if the lawyers will not bestir themselves Staple Inn has claims which laymen cannot ignore. Wherever that famous 'morning drum-beat which en*Penes Principalem & Societ. ejusdem Hosp.'

'studious cloisters' and monastic courts of these old

circles the world' is heard the name of Staple Inn is known; for has it not been immortalized by Dickens; and is not Dickens read wherever the langage in which he wrote is spoken? If these considerations seem too intangible for a business-like corporation, they may at least be urged to keep intact one of the few remnants of that old London which is rapidly becoming extinct except in prints and pictures. Fifteen thousand pounds, we are told, were spent in constructing that imitation of a street in old London which proved such an attraction at the recent exhibitions; surely, for want of about double or treble that sum we ought not to suffer the real bit of mediæval London that looks down on Holborn to pass out of existence. Staple Inn might be turned into a museum of civic antiquities or devoted to some other public purpose, and as such it would be as unfailing a source of interest and delight to all foreign, colonial, and American visitors to the metropolis as the Plantin Museum at Antwerp is to all Englishmen who go to the city on the Scheldt. We have too few antiquities left in London to be able to spare one that is so characteristic and curious."

sion, that I, for one, would have been only too glad
to have heard that Staple Inn had been purchased
by our American cousins, to rear, it may be, that
ancient hall in another land, where, at all events,
the love and reverence for the old traditions of the
mother country and her ancient buildings have
taken a deeper root, and have been the means of
saving that which the old country, by her neglect
and want of appreciation of those very treasures
committed to her charge, had doomed to destruc-
tion.
J. S. UDAL

Inner Temple.

THE MIGRATION FROM ENGLAND TO NEW ENGLAND IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. (Concluded from p. 402.)

The twelfth chapter, "The soldiers of Christ ship from the Towne and Porte of Southampton, England, one ship the Eagle," renamed the Arabella,* they purchase, filling it with "the seede of man and beaste to sow this untilled Wilder"Lord Christ," the writer says fervently, "here they are at thy command." Then he notes, "The Dutch hods-podge, the mingle-mangle of religion, causing the church of Christ to increase so little."

nesse."

"198 ships passed the perilous ocean, braving the dangers and escaping evils, rocks, pirates," and what not.

As a "barrister who has time to be an anti-in tiquarian," I ask your readers, if not too late, to do all in their power to help to save Staple Inn from the doom which otherwise too surely awaits it, by bringing public opinion to bear on its defence. I will not stay to discuss the legality or the morality of those quasi-public bodies, such as the authorities of Serjeant's Inn, Barnard's Inn, claiming and exercising the right to dispose of their property and put the proceeds in their pockets because they happen to be the governing bodies for the time being. It may be that such a course was precipitated by the communistic nonsense and envious attacks upon the great civic companies that are indulged in to such an extent at the present day; but without doubt such examples are contagious, and have already, I cannot help thinking, borne bitter fruit in bringing about the contemplated sale of Staple Inn. Where is it to end? Are the governing bodies of the four Inns of Court to dispose of their wealthy inheritances because, forsooth, more students are called to the Bar than can ever by any possibility get a living at it, or because barristers seek to obtain chambers elsewhere, owing to the high rents that are asked for them in their own inn?

As to what effect the recent answer of the Chan

cellor of the Exchequer to the Metropolitan Board

of Works in the matter of the coal duties received by the City of London may have upon the success or otherwise of the deputation to the Court of Common Council in the matter of Staple Inn I will offer no conjecture; but a people that was only made alive to the necessity of preserving Shakespeare's house for the nation when America was on the very eve of carting it away bodily to New York, must be indeed hard to move, and I am afraid the awakening will not come until the last bit of genuine, dear old London-dear to every lover of his country and his country's history-has been removed from our midst. I would only say, in conclu

Charles's River."

"Now comes Sea-borne

Cotton, a young student of Cambridge, son to
that famous and renowned teacher of Christ Mr.
"These soldiers of Christ, July,
John Cotton."
1630, first set foot at Noddell's Island, north of
"The Lady Arabella and other
godly women abode at Salem, their husbands con-
"The people after
tinuing at Charles Town.”
their long voyage were troubled with scurvy, and
"Now Izaac Johnson died," it is
some died."
said of great grief at the loss of his wife, who had
died of hardships before him. "He very much
rejoyced at his death":—

What moved thee on the Seas upon such toyle with Lady.
Christ onely trust, Johnson's turnd dust, and yet hee's
taking?......

crownd and strengthened.

"1630, August 23, John Winthrope was chosen governor, Dudley and Broadstreet under him." "The town of Charles is north of Charles's River,

*The Lady Arabella, one of the two sisters of the Earl of Lincoln, who, animated with great zeal, went with and encouraged these early pilgrims. "The Lady Arabella, wife to that Godly Esquyre Izack Johnson." In Record Office, it is stated that "Harvey, who founded our Colonial Papers, vol. xx. No. 174, date 1667, at the the College, went from London with Mr. Cotton and the Earl of Lincoln's sisters." Harvey is John Harvard, and this is about 1630. If this be so, John, who was consumptive, must have gone out (a trip for health probably) eight years before his final trip-not an unlikely thing, in the care of such ladies and Mr. Cotton; sea air always has been a recognized prophylactic in consumptive cases.

to the Churches of Christ and Civil Government,
by the Lord's blessing upon learning, they began
to erect a Colledge, the Lord by His provident
hand giving His approbation to the work in send-
ing over a faithfull and godly servant of His, the
reverend Mr. John Harvard, who, joyning with
the people of Christ at Charles Towne, suddainly
after departed this life and gave near a thousand
pound toward this work, wherefore the Govern-
ment thought it meet to call it Harvard College in
remembrance of him.

If Harvard had with riches here been taken,
He need not then through troublous Seas have past;
But Christ's bright glory hath thine eyes so waken,
Nought can content, thy soul of him must tast."

and so took its name; it consisted of 150 dwelling houses." The churches, i. e., separate bodies of Christian people, are named of the places as they are successively formed, the first Plimouth, third Dorchester, fourth Boston, in 1631; of the fifth Roxburg, also founded in 1631, "Eliot is the pastor, whose name through the wild woods spread in Indians' mouths,......in sundry shapes the Devills made them dread," and now "the Lord" takes them up. The sixth church is at Linn, the seventh at Water-Towne. 1631, John Winthrop is chosen governour, and again in 1632 and 1633; the magistrates being chosen until 1637 by freemen. It is incidentally mentioned that the scurvy is very bad, and that "the Indians are much taken with the Englishmen's God on account of the sweet rain that fell." "The Reverend Mr. John Cotton is called to the office of teaching elder of the Church at Boston." "John Cotton hath God's mind I dare believe." "The eighth church gathered at Cambridge in 1633; they chose a place on Charles's River between Charles-Towne and Water-Towne, and there erected New Towne, now called Cambridge." "The first pastor was the faithfull and laborious Mr. Hooker." "Christ I will run, sayes Hooker, thou hast set my feet at large." "Then the birthplace and associations in Southwark see looke one (on) Hooker's workes, they follow him."John Harvard,'' Old Southwark and its People,' 1633, "This yeare a small gleane of Rye was by myself; 'John Harvard and his Ancestry,' brought to the Courte as the first-fruits of English Waters; an article, in one respect rather tinged graine, at which the poore people greatly rejoyced." with jealousy, in the Harvard Monthly, April, 1634, More troubles at New Towne, but there is 1886; and Athenæum, July 11, 1885, and Janconsolation, WILLIAM RENDLE, F. R. C.S. The Lord Christ intending to make uary 16, 1886. his New England Souldiers the very wonder of the Age, brought them into greater straites." "Mr. Lothorp comes over to help in the planting of Plimouth."

1635, "Sir Henry Vaine comes, and that upright hearted servant Richard Saltingstall, son to Sir Richard, who, being weary of this Wilderness work, returned home." "Hugh Peters comes over. Peters, a soldier stout in Wildernesse for Christ begins the war."

one

1637, "Large inheritances have come to many, the Lord intended it for this very work—the earth is the Lord's and the fulnesse of it." This year they attempt a treaty with the Indians, who, instead of treating, "blaspheme the Lord, saying, Englishmans was all one Flye, Englishman was all (?), and themselves all one Moor-hawks." I am now drawing to a conclusion, but the book would justify a much longer paper. 1638, chap. xii., treats "of the great Earthquake in New England, and of the foundation of Harvard College." "This yeare, the first day of the Fourth Month about two of the clock in the after-noone the Lord caused a great and terrible Earth-quake, which was generall throughout the English plantations." Lastly, of the College and its founder, "This year, although the estates of these pilgrim people were much wasted, yet seeing the benefit that would accrew

At p. 165 is an account of the College in 1640. "A fair hall, comfortable studies, and a good library, given by the liberal hand of some magistrates and ministers with others. The chief gift towards the foundation of this Colledge was by Mr. John Harvys,* a reverend minister, the country being very weak in the public treasury." 1640, "Mr. Henry Dunstan is now President of this Colledg."

For a more extended account of the matter of

SPENSER'S 1569 VISIONS OF BELLAY,' SONETS VIII. IX.-Leaving some questions which either present themselves at once or arise from a careful perusal of these sonnets, I would say a few words on certain points in these two.

1. Various editors have given Sonnet viii. from Vander Nordt, but none has observed that one of its lines is defective. L. 7 runs thus

Where all worldes hap was reposed. Here one syllable at least is wanting, and the phrase unidiomatic. Hence I would attempt its restoration thus

Where all [the] world | es hap❘ was reposed. This world being spoken of, "all worldes hap" without the article is unidiomatic and misleading. The original, too, has "du monde." As to the rest of the scansion, worldes may be treated as a dissyllable, the genitival es being more than once made syllabic in R. Greene's verse.

2. There is another unnoticed singularity, or rather anomaly, in this sonnet which it may be as well to mention. The other ten of this version and the fifteen of the later version are, like Du Bellay's,

The name, apparently from hesitation as to the right spelling, is a little obscure, but clear enough to the understanding reader.