calls Fenn a priest, and it seems probable that, like Sander himself, he was ordained abroad.

2. That he was ordained abroad is stated by Dodd ('Church Hist.,' first edition, vol. i. p. 510) and by Gillow (ii. 244) and the D.N.B.' (xviii. 313). Pits is silent on the matter. Probably the 'D.N.B.' and Gillow follow Dodd.

Dodd is probably wrong in saying he was ordained from the English College at Rome, as the D.N.B.' points out. He may thus also be wrong in stating that he was ordained abroad; but until it is shown that John Fenn was a priest at Elizabeth's accession, I do not feel inclined to accept H. C.'s sug gested identification, although I feel that without it John Danister is a very nebulous

character.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

TUFNEL FAMILY (10th S. iv. 389).-The William and John Tufnel of the query, who rendered accounts for bricklaying and joinery work done at "Her Majesties Receipt of Excheq" and at houses in Burlington Ground," 1711-22, were, no doubt, sons of John Tufnell, for twenty-three years mason to Westminster Abbey, who was buried there in 1696-7, aged fifty-three. Col. Chester thought it was very probable that John Tufnell (1644-97) was а son of Edward Tufnell and Catherine Moorecocke, of Christ Church, London, married in 1638. Of the sons William and John, William was buried in the Abbey in 1733, and is described in the journals of the day as master builder and bricklayer to the New River Company, and as leaving a fortune of from 30,000l. to 50,000l. John was joiner to the Abbey, and died in 1723 in his forty-second year (see "The Registers of Westminster Abbey,' printed by the Harleian Society in 1876, for several references). I can refer your correspondent to other sources of information, if desired.

GEORGE F. T. SHERWOOD.

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The Tufnell who succeeded Sir William Halton (not Hatton) as possessor of the manor of Barnsbury belonged to the Essex family of that name, now represented by Mr. Tufnell of Langley's Park in that county, whose kinsman Col. Edward Tufnell, M.P., is the present owner of the London estate comprised in the manor of Barnsbury. Essex county histories and Burke's 'Commoners give pedigrees of the family. An ancestor was M.P. for Southwark in the reign of Charles II. It is unlikely that the William and John Tufnel referred to belonged to this family.

H.

ITHAMAR (10th S. iv. 387).-What authority is there for this as a girl's name? As a man's name it has a double warrant. Firstly, as pointed out in the editorial note, it is in the Bible; secondly, it is the name of a Kentish saint, Ithamar, Bishop of Rochester, a native of Canterbury, whose life is given by the Bollandists under 10 June. He was the first Englishman who sat in that see, to which he succeeded in 644; and at his death, in 655 or 656, he was buried in the church. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

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My predecessor in the vicarage of Norton, MULBERRY AND QUINCE (10th S. iv. 386).Irishman, who was appointed in 1854, had a near Evesham, Narcissus George Batt, an considerable knowledge of fruit-trees. the garden on the south side of the vicaragehouse he planted a mulberry-tree. body then told him that he ought also to have a quince-tree, whereupon he planted one on the north side. I do not remember, however, that any mention was made of luck in connexion with it. W. C. B.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Political History of England.-The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John, 1066-1216. By George Burton Adams. (Longmans & Co.)

England, dealing with the period from the Norman THE second volume of "The Political History of Conquest virtually to the signature of Magna Carta, has followed close upon the heels of the tenth volume, in commendation of which we have already spoken (see ante, p. 318). It furnishes proof how broad is the basis upon which this fine undertaking is established, that this portion of the work is supplied by the Professor of History in Yale University, whose share in the events and the progress recorded is, of course, the same as our own. It is a piece of very sound and capable workmanship, and will be of immense service to English scholarship. Based, naturally, upon such early authorities as The Saxon Chronicle,' the works of men like William of Poitiers, William of Malmesbury, Florence of Worcester, and William of Newburgh, the 'Historia Ecclesi astica' of Orderic Vitalis, the Imagines Histo riarum' of Ralph de Diceto, and similar works, the republication of which in the Rolls Series is one of the most important bequests of the past cenvarious editors of the series (notably of the splendid tury, it makes full use of the contributions of the introductions of Bishop Stubbs), Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, and J. S. Brewer, of the all-important labours of Freeman, Mr. Horace Round, Sir James Ramsay, Miss Kate Norgate, Prof. Felix Liebermann, and detracts from the vivacity of the pages that the other writers, French, German, and American. It questions connected with the growth and develop ment of chivalry and similar matters are dis

worthy of it, and furnishes happy augury of the manner in which the entire work is to be executed. Gulliver's Travels. By Jonathan Swift, D.D. Edited by G. Ravenscroft Dennis. (Bell & Sons.) AN opportunity, of which we have gladly availed ourselves, of rereading in a convenient and attractive guise Swift's immortal satire is furnished us by its inclusion in this delightful series. It is consoling to find the work published, as of course it is, in an unabridged and unexpurgated form, the text, like the portrait, &c., being the same as in the 8vo edition of Swift's prose works issued by the same publishers. It is the pocket size and the clear type that specially recommend the volume to us, and we once more exclaim, "What a companion for a journey! What a mass of seventeenth and eighteenth century literature is suggested by the collocation of names on the title-page!" The work is assured of an eclectic welcome, and should be a popular success.

The Works of Heinrich Heine. Translated by Margaret Armour. Vol. XII. (Heinemann.) THE twelfth and concluding volume_of Heine's works consists of the third book of the 'Romancero' (the first and second parts of which appeared in vol. xi.) and minor poems. Miss Armour's rendering is as good as is to be hoped of Heine, whose verses really defy translation. In the Hebrew poems, or as, after Byron, they are called, 'Hebrew Melodies,' is some of Heine's best and most satirical work. The possession of a complete translation of Heine is a thing on which the world is to be congratulated. It is very edifying to compare with Mr. Swinburne's Heine's telling (p. 25) of the story of The singer of old

missed with slight mention or none at all. Such omission is, however, as the title of the series indicates, inherent in the scheme. Any attempt to deal in extenso with the work is, of course, impossible, a pamphlet being necessary to convey an idea of the manner in which the various subjects, from the pacification of England after its subjugation by the Conqueror to the signature of Magna Carta, are treated. Few chapters are more interesting or more significant than the first, dealing, inter alia, with that policy of gradual confiscation by which a Norman landed aristocracy was substituted for an English, and England was subjected to that political feudal organization which for near two centuries was to be "the ruling system in both public and private law." All that is said of feudalism as it existed under the Duke of Normandy is weighty and serviceable. As is shown by Mr. Round, however, the feudal change introduced by the Normans into England affected but a comparatively small class: the whole number of knights due the king_in service seems to have been something less than five thousand." Under early Norman sway developments ecclesiastical and monastic life brought with them a new era of learning; the histories of Eadmer and William of Malmesbury were superior to anything produced in England since the days of Bede, while Norman ideals of massive strength speak to us as clearly from the arches of Winchester or the piers of Gloucester as from the firm hand and stern rule of William or Henry." With the closing days of the Conqueror comes the formation of what was popularly known as the Domesday Book, with its complete register of the occupied lands of the kingdom, their holders and their values, bearing a name signifying that the sentences derived from it were final and without appeal as those of the Day of Doom. Doubt is thrown upon the assumption that it was the arrow of Walter Tirel, a French_baron, that caused the death of William Rufus, Tirel's statement to the contrary effect winning acceptance. It is, naturally, a subject of complaint that we know so little of the growth of institutions under Henry I., one of the ablest of English kings. What is said of the beginnings of Oxford as a place of education deserves close attention. The time of Henry is regarded as an introductory age, interrupted by a generation of anarchy. Passing over the reign of Stephen, we come to that of Henry II. and the struggle with Becket, and the great question of regalal-that is, lay-judgment over ecclesiastical offences. Much of the blame of forcing on the quarrel is laid on Henry. Unlike the attempted coronation, by will of Stephen, of his son Eustace and other precedents among Capetian kings, that of the crowning of young Henry by his father, with its plentiful crop of disorders, is described as unaccountable." Few writers, it is said, of the time discerned behind the attractive manners of young Henry his frivolous character. Reaching Richard, the history becomes stimulating. It is insisted upon that Richard Coeur de Lion belonged by nature to France rather than England, and that England must have seemed a foreign land to him. Words, meanwhile, are lacking, it is said, to describe, in the case of John, the meanness of his moral nature and his utter depravity.

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Here we are compelled to draw rein. Though, of course, all unlike its predecessor, the volume is

By the tideless, dolorous midland sea. Heine's translation from Luther (p. 89) may be noted:

Luther's motto is your guide: He who, soured by pious pride, Loves not women, wine, and song, Lives a fool his whole life long. Kobes I.' is well translated. The bitterness of 1649-1793-???' is preserved. One or two poems are omitted-whether as a concession to Mrs. Grundy or on account of their difficulty we know not.

The Magazine of Fine Arts. Vol. I. No. 1. (Newnes.) YET one more is added to the list, now long, of art periodicals. Published by the enterprising firm of Newnes, this latest bid for popular support has some special features. Most distinguishing among these is the manner in which, instead of a miscel laneous collection of plates, one or two artists are thoroughly illustrated. Twelve illustrations thus accompany Prof. Max Rooses' Development of the Art of Jakob Jordaens.' First among these comes a suberb reproduction of the artist's Triumph of Bacchus.' Aided by the exhibition of the works. of Jordaens recently held in Antwerp, the Professor undertakes the difficult task of settling the chronology of his works. Dated pictures by Jordaens are known, but are not common. The Triumph of Bacchus' is quite in the artist's best style. From various sources the Professor has derived a representative collection, including many well-known pictures. Nine illustrations follow to Donatello,

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