Mr. John B. Redman, in a foot-note to a paper read before the Institution of Civil Engineers in January, 1864, reports that "the rate of progress still continues, the westerly tendency increasing."

Researches in the muniment rooms of Harwich and Ipswich may perhaps throw further light on the question of the ancient L. L. K. history of Orwell.

"In the removal of the north end of the Glutton Shoal, a considerable number of short oak piles were met with, from four to five inches square, and from three to five feet long, with pointed ends, and MAGDALEN COLLEGE SCHOOL AND apparently connected together by wales [horizontal THE 'D.N.B.' pieces] and ties. Their removal has been a difficult (See 10 S. iv. 21, 101, 182, 244, 364; v. 22, and expensive operation."

The next reports mention that slow progress had been made owing to a considerable quantity of sandstone rock having been met at the Glutton Shoal, which might require blasting.

The sandstone

On 6 July, 1853, the engineers report that in the Bone "Shoal a number of oak piles have been met with; they are about five feet in length, and six to eight inches square, pointed at the lower ends." rock on the Glutton had to be blasted. As regards the Bone Shoal, another report (17 Jan., 1853) states that a considerable number of timber piles have been met with at a depth of about 12 feet below low water ....about 4 feet long and 5 ins. square, pointed at one end," as on the upper part

of Glutton Shoal.

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All these quarterly reports were addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and published as Parliamentary papers on 'Harbours of Refuge.'

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122, 284, 362; vi. 2, 104, 203.) I CONTINUE my notes from Benjamin Rogers, the musician.

Son of Lord Chief Justice of same names; Sir William Scroggs (1652 ?-95), lawyer. Chorister; treasurer, Gray's Inn; K.C.

John Shepherd (1521?-fl. 1550), musician. -Chorister of St. Paul's; in 1542 appointed Instructor of Choristers and organist at Magdalen; resigned next year, but resumed Post in 1545; in 1547 paid 8l. as teacher of boys for one year, and other sums for repairing organ, vestments, &c.; then again resigned, but in 1548 supplied twelve musicthen entered Edward VI.'s Chapel Royal; books for 5s.; Fellow 1549-51; probably in April, 1554, supplicates for degree of Mus.Doc.Oxon, but his petition apparently not granted; reappears in Magd. records from Malmesbury to Oxford, probably for for 1555. Having dragged a boy "in chains impressment as a chorister, and having represented himself on the journey as "the principal officer of the College after the President," the odium of his proceedings had fallen upon the Vice-President, where66 fore he was sharply admonished for his boys for service in the choir of the Chapel impudence"; but the custom of pressing Royal existed as far back as the time of choristers it was usual, after 1597, to send Richard III., and at Whitehall, out of eight

six at one time to be trained at Blackfriars

As regards Landguard Point the engineers' reports show that a long prevalence of easterly winds invariably caused the spit to extend in the direction of its length; in one instance (first quarter of 1855) the inwas 100 feet in a south-easterly (? south-westerly) direction. The point was then "above high water for about 100 feet to the westward of the line of the two lighthouses in one which was supposed to guide vessels safely into the harbour. Between May, 1845, and October, 1856, there had been a total extension of 560 feet, or about 50 feet per annum; and as the length of the point had increased, its width had diminished, and it was 70 feet less in "that none of the Choristers or Children of the Chappell, soe to be taken by force of this Com1856 than in 1845. A report in 1853 men- mission, shalbe used or imployed as Comedians or tions the washing away of land on the sea Stage players, or to exercise or acte any Stage side, especially near the Ordnance burial-plaies, interludes, Comedies or Tragedies." ground.

A prevalence of westerly winds, on the other hand, had always checked the growth of the point.

Theatre; but an order was made in 1626, while Dr. Nathaniel Giles (see 10 S. vi. 3) was Master in Song and Organist, to pacify

the Puritans,

Shepherd is classed by Morley among famous English composers.

Thomas Sherley or Shirley (1638-78), physician in ordinary to Charles II.-Lived

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with his father, Sir Thomas, in Magdalen of note; Prebendary of Lincoln and rector attended Hampton Court while Oxford was garrisoned by royal troops of Bletchley; His and went to M.C.S.; obtained M.D. degree Conference; influenced by James I. in France; imprisoned by Commons for son William (1587-1641), Demy 1606 and appealing to Upper House against a member Fellow, chaplain to Duke of Buckingham, (Sir John Fagge), whom they had declared succeeded him at Bletchley. exempt from lawsuits during session (1675). Fagge having been granted Sherley's paternal estate of Wiston during Civil War, Sherley died of disappointment at his ill success.

Richard Sherry or Shirrye (1506 ?-56 ?), author. Demy 1522; Master of M.C.S. 1534-40 (between Robertson and Goodall): wrote 'A Treatise of the Figures of Grammer and Rhetorike.'

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John Sibthorp (1758-96), botanist.-At M.C.S.; Radcliffe travelling Fellow; ceeded his father (Humphrey) as Sherardian Professor of Botany, Oxon, but returned to Continent; visited Crete, Smyrna, Cyprus, Greece, &c.; published Flora Oxoniensis'; endowed Chair of Rural Economy at Oxford. Bloxam (iii. 237) gives the following anecdote of his elder brother while at M.C.S. :"About 1766 took place in the Schoolroom the mock trial of Gervase, third son of Dr. Sibthorp, convicted of highway robbery and sentenced to be hanged from a hook in one of the pillars, who, but for the accidental arrival of the Master (Robert Bryne) and his cutting the cord just in time, would have died."

John Smith or Smyth (1662–1717), dramatist. Probably great-grandson of the genealogical antiquary of same names; chorister 1676; Usher of M.C.S. (succeeding Richard Wright) 1689 until his death, when buried in College Chapel.

Miles Smith (1618-71), secretary of Arch bishop Sheldon.—A near kinsman of Bishop of Gloucester of same chorister 1634-41; B.C.L.; produced a metrical version of the Psalms.

names;

Richard Smith or Smyth (1554-1638), father of book-collector and author of Obituary' of same names (q.v. 'D.N.B.').Demy; grandson of Gentleman-Usher to Elizabeth of same names; in Holy Orders.

Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Nonjuring divine and scholar.-Master of M C.S. (between Timothy Parker and John Curle) 1663-6; Fellow, Vice-President, Bursar; went for three years to Constantinople (1668) as Chaplain; ejected from Magd. as antiPapist (1688), but refused oaths to William and Mary; librarian of Cottonian Library; wrote learned works on the Turks; nicknamed Rabbi Smith"; left MSS. to Thos. Hearne.

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Thomas Sparke (1548-1616), divine.Demy 1567; Fellow; conforming Puritan

John Stanbridge or Stanbrygge (1463– 1510), grammarian.-Of Winchester and New Coll., where Fellow; Usher of M.C.S. and, upon John Anwykyll's death, Master 1487-94; Master of Hospital of St. John at Banbury; rector of Winwick and Prewrote Vocabula,' bendary of Lincoln; Vulgaria,' Accidentia,' &c. ; Andrew

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Scarbott was Master of M.C.S. between him
and Wolsey. His brother, or near relative,
Thomas Stanbridge, Master of M.C.S. 1517-
1522 (succeeding Hayle or Halye); Master
of Banbury Grammar School, where Sir
Pope (1507 ?—59),
Thomas

founder

of Trinity College, Oxon, was a scholar. John Stokesley (1475 ?-1539), Bishop of London.-Fellow; Usher of M.C.S. for one month in 1497; Vice-President, when engaged in fierce dissensions with other Fellows, who accused him (inter a ia) of heresy, theft, adultery, and of christening a cat; at the Bishop of Winchester's visitation the Fellows in sign of unity all drank of a loving-cup together ; Principal Magd. Hall; Dean of Chapel Royal; envoy to France; tried to win over Italian universities to Henry VIII.'s divorce; condemned John Frith and other Protestants; opposed translation of Bible into English; resisted Cranmer's visitation; incurred Cromwell's hostility. A portrait by Holbein at Windsor, and a copy of it, presented by Dr. Bloxam, at M.C.S.

(1807-71), John Addington Symonds physician.-Showed at M.C.S. an aptitude for classical studies and a strong bent towards literature"; held several posts on staff of Bristol Hospital; author; father of critic and poet of same names.

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William Symonds or Simons (1556-1616 ?), divine. Master (Ludimagister) of M.C.S. 1583-6 (between Nicholas Balguay and in his time great Paul Smith); plaints were made by some of the Fellows, both to the Chancellor of the University and to their own visitor, respecting the condition of the School, it being asserted the Master was non-resident, and that the President (Humphrey) of the College had sold the appointment to him; held many church preferments, and at one time resided in Virginia; published theological works.

Christopher Taylor (1615-86), Quaker schoolmaster.-Chorister 1623; converted

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by George Fox, he started a school at Walt-brought up from a child in the University," ham Abbey 1670; followed William Penn seems to imply his matriculation at a very to Pennsylvania; published religious works; early age, and if so, almost certainly as a brother of Thomas T. (q.v. ‘D.N.B.'). scholar of M.C.S. (v. Hamilton's ' Hertford Coll.,' 105); B.A. Magd. Hall 1512; it is extremely doubtful whether he was nominated an original Canon of Cardinal College by Wolsey, who may have been his master at M.C.S.; ordered by Wolsey to be seized at Worms; escaped to Marburg; approved for a time by Henry VIII.; engaged in bitter controversy with Sir Thomas More ; Henry VIII. sought to kidnap him; betrayed by Henry Phillips to imperial officers and arrested for heresy; imprisoned at Vilvorde; strangled and burned at the stake, in spite of Cromwell's intercession. Hertford College (olim Magdalen Hall) possesses his portrait; and a similar picture, but upon panel, belongs to the British and Foreign Bible. Society. A. R. BAYLEY.

John Thornborough (1551-1641), Bishop of Worcester.-Demy 1569; at Oxford led a gay life, associating with Robert Pinkney of St. Mary Hall. These two," says Wood ('Athenæ, ii. 99), "loved Simon Forman well, but, being given much to pleasure, they would make him go to the Keeper of the Forest of Shotover for his hounds to go ahunting from morning to night. They never studied, as Simon saith, nor gave themselves to their books, but spent their time in the fencing-schools, dancingschools, in stealing dear and conies, in hunting the hare, and wooing girls. They went often to the house of Dr. Giles Lawrence (Regius Professor of Greek) at Cowley, to see his two fair daughters, Elizabeth and Martha, the first of whom Thornborough wooed, the other Pinkney, who at length married her, but Thornborough' deceived the

other."

Chaplain to second Earl of Pembroke and to Queen Elizabeth; Dean of York; Bishop of Limerick; of Bristol; zealous against recusants and in raising forced loans. His younger brother Giles (1562-1637) Demy 1576; Sub-dean of Sarum, &c.

St. Margaret's, Great Malvern.
(To be continued.)

GRANGER ANNOTATED BY

CAULFIELD.

Henry John Todd (1763-1845), editor of I HAVE before me an interleaved copy of Milton and author.-Chorister 1771; libra- the fourth volume of Granger's Biographi rian at Lambeth Palace and royal chaplain; cal History (second edition, 1775), exrector of Settrington; Archdeacon of York; tensively annotated by James Caulfield, edited Spenser ; wrote life of Cranmer; the printseller. The greater number of presented his collection of books relating to Milton to the College; his portrait in M.C.S. painted by Joseph Smith from a sketch taken in 1822.

John Tombes (b. 1636.-Chorister 1651, son of the Baptist divine of same names, who entering Magdalen Hall, aged fifteen, became a noted tutor there, and subsequently vicar of Leominster (q.v. 'D.N.B.').

Nathanael Tomkins (b. 1584).-Chorister 1596; Usher of M.C.S. 1606-10 (between Richard Newton and Mercadine Hunnis). Owes his inclusion in 'D.N.B.' in small print, at end of article on Thomas Tomkins the musician to Wood's confusion of the former with the latter in Fasti,' 799; a mistake found in Bloxam, i. 27, but corrected in ii. 47. Laurence Tomson (1539-1608), politician, author, and transcriber. Demy 1553; Fellow; accompanied Sir Thomas Hoby to France; M.P. for Weymouth, &c.; travelled extensively and knew many languages; employed by Walsingham; author of theological and commercial works.

William Tyndale, alias Huchyns (d. 1536), translator of the Bible. Born probably between 1490 and 1495; "Foxe's phrase,

his comments refer to the comparative scarcity of the prints, every one of which he has priced; but some of his notes provide interesting side-lights on the printsellers and collectors of his day and their methods. Here are a few selected at random :

"Sir Aston Cockain, 57. 58. Od. The print of Cockain is extremely rare. Sir William Musgrave, who had been collecting portraits for many years, Mr. Tighe had one, could never meet with one. before Richardson had copied it for his work." which sold at Richardson's for 5, 5s. Od., but not

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Richard Head, 15s. Od. Richard Head used to sell for 7s. 6d., but the book from which it comes (The English Rogue') is now very scarce, and the portrait seldom to be met with. I copied it for my to have several impressions taken off on old paper, Remarkable Persons,' and permitted a young man which he imposed on several persons for original prints, though he told me it was to put them before some copies of the work he had by him." sold in Musgrave's sale for 127. 12s. Od. I had an Jacob Bobart, 12. 12s. Od. The print of Bobart opinion I should meet with some of this rare print at Oxford, where Burghers, the engraver, always resided, but was disappointed in my search. The family of Bobart are settled at Woodstock, and a place in Oxfordshire called Nettlebed, where a Mrs. Bobart, of the elder branch, has a considerable estate, and is reputed worth 800. a year. His brother, who was educated at the Charter House,

has likewise a good property, but is uncommonly Great Russell Street, and all whose avocafond of horses, and to indulge this propensity has tions of any kind take them often to Bloomsbought a share in some of the Oxford stages, one of which he constantly drives. I enquired of him if bury, must be familiar with the sight of he had any prints of his ancestor, but found he had George I. on the top of St. George's Church; not, though he said a brother who is a hosier at but the old jokes about making the king Woodstock has a very fine painting of him." the head of the steeple are forgotten, and Part of this biographical memorandum is probably few who look up at the statue know given by Bray in his foot-note to Evelyn's whose it is. The figure of George III. on Diary, 24 October, 1664 (vide the recent horseback in Pall Mall is known to multitudes edition in 4 vols., ii. p. 171). A copy of the who pass that way. But I find that conprint was in the Sykes Sale, March, 1824, spicuous as is the equestrian statue of lot 849, bought by Grave for 6l. 88. 6d. George IV. in Trafalgar Square (the horse's tail turned towards the National Gallery), many persons do not know it to be of that not exactly popular king. Perhaps this is partly because there is no name on it, which it seems to me every statue should have. It is by Chantrey, as I mentioned in 10 S. iii. 448. By a curious pleonasm, Marochetti's statue of Richard Coeur de Lion in Old Palace Yard is mentioned twice in the list in Haydn. W. T. LYNN.

“François Le Pipre, 15%. Od. The mezzotinto of Le Pipre is an anonymous print, and very little known to either printsellers or collectors. It is a small quarto in the manner of Vaillaint's prints, and represents a rough-looking man without hat or cap, the collar of his shirt unbuttoned, and upon comparison with Walpole's print is known to be Le Pipre. Coram has bought 3 or 4 lately in sales, with many other prints in a lot for 2s. 6d. or 3s., though young Grave and many printsellers of note have been in the room at the time, but did not know this print. According to the impression, it will bring from 15s. to 17. 18. Od."

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Louise, Dutchess of Portsmouth, 6/. 68. Od. The plate of the Dutchess of Portsmouth by Baudet SHAKESPEARE'S RESIDENCE NEW PLACE. must be at Paris among the plates of Basan, though-In Mr. Sidney Lee's Life of William here the print is so rarely met with that it sells for Shakespeare '-a work which, in my opinion, 5 or 6 guineas. Paris is a place that has never been should be universally studied-we are told, visited by any other than gentlemen collectors who know not how to seek after scarce prints-Mr. Wal- on the authority of Halliwell-Phillipps, that pole and Ant" Storer only excepted, who certainly New Place was purchased in 1675 by Sir met with many of their most curious prints while in Edward Walker, through whose daughter France. Barbara, wife of Sir John Clopton, it reverted to the Clopton family. In 1702 (eighty-six years after Shakespeare's death) Sir John rebuilt it. On the death of Sir John's son, in 1752, it was bought by the Rev. Francis Gastrell, who died in 1768, having in 1759 demolished the "new building."

If these few excerpta from Caulfield's jottings are found of sufficient interest, I shall be pleased to give a further selection at a later date. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, N.

RAJA-I-RAJGAN: INDIAN TITLE.-There is an amusing blunder in the January I have just discovered that in the follownumber of The Nineteenth Century. The ing year, namely, in July, 1760, a letter Raja of Kapurthala, who contributes an appeared in The London Magazine, written interesting article on The Education of by a lady on a journey from Stratford-uponIndian Princes,' is described in the table Avon to her friend in Kent, from which of contents as "H.H. the Raja I. Rajgan the following is an extract :— of Kapurthala." This looks as if the printer thought Rajgan was a surname. Of course the proper way to write this title is Rājā-iRajgan. It means "King of Kings." The vowel in Persian denotes the possessive case; compare King Edward's title, Kaisari-Hind, which no one would dream of writing "Kaisar I. Hind."

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

STATUES Of the GeorgeS.-Three of the four Georges have statues in London, which are all impartially ignored in the list in the 'Dictionary of Dates.' Those who frequently visit the great hive of learning in

"There stood here till lately the house in which Shakespeare lived, and a mulberry tree of his planting; the house was large, strong, and handsome; the tree so large that it would shade the grass-plat in your garden, which I think is more than 20 yards square, and supply the whole town with mulberries every year. As the curiosity of this house and tree brought much fame, and more company and profit, to the town, a certain man, on some disgust, has pulled the house down, so as not to leave one stone upon another, and cut down the tree, and piled it as a stack of fire-wood, to the great vexation, loss and disappointment of the inthe whole stock of wood, and makes many odd habitants; however, an honest silversmith bought things of this wood for the curious, some of which I hope to bring with me to town. I am," &c.