on his deathbed. Wood insists that ample corroboration of the truth of the legend existed, and says that no inquiry was ever made after the two unfortunate lovers. His ipsa verba as to their identity are,

"who the victims were, and whence they came, is not satisfactorily known: Clara was supposed to be an English nobleman's daughter, and Allan, a gentleman from the south of England." W. B. H.

In The Ballads and Songs of Derbyshire (Derby, Bemrose & Sons, 1887), by Llewellynn Jewitt, is Henry and Clara," a Peak ballad on the murder at Winnats. The couple were returning from their marriage at the chapel of Peak Forest, a runaway marriage in 1758 or 1768. They were on horseback, and fell benighted on reaching "The Winnats." Five miners set upon them, dragged them into a barn, and robbed and murdered them. What the murderers did with the bodies is not stated; their horses were found wandering later on, and were taken to Chatsworth Park, and ran there as waifs; nor were they ever claimed. It is said that the saddles are still preserved at Chats worth. The ballad Henry and Clara' was written by the Rev. Arthur George Jewitt, brother of the compiler of 'Derbyshire Ballads.' It begins,

Christians, to my tragic ditty
Deign to lend a patient ear;
If your breasts e'er heav'd with pity
Now prepare to shed a tear.

It is written in the dear old style, and runs to thirty verses. It was first printed in the author's Wanderings of Memory,' 1815, and at the time, I believe, when the Jewitt family resided at Duffield, near Derby. It was by no means an uncommon thing for a ballad-monger to come to the villages, with a sheaf of ditties over his arm, and sing or recite local pieces told in simple verse. I am not sure, but think that Henry and Clara was dealt with in the 'Notes and Queries' columns of The Derbyshire Times upwards of thirty years ago. I do not think that the full names of the murdered couple were then given.

Worksop.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

the Saviour drank at the Last Supper. But the vessel which received the Saviour's blood probably would be something different from a cup. The Grail was said also to be a dish which was used at the Last Supper, and afterwards received the blood at the Cross. But I do not know that this fits much better with the description of its splendid appearance and many miraculous qualities. The diamond, or emerald, that fell from the crown of Satan, fashioned by angels into the vessel which received the Holy Blood, would make the best Grail. Satan, when he was contending with an archangel, would be of enormous size. said of him. "His stature reached the sky," as Milton And the diamond, or emerald, would be correspondingly large.

E. YARDLEY.

The etymology is fully discussed, in fact at Arimathie,' published for the Early English great length, in my Preface to Joseph of Text Society, and it is given briefly in my from the O.Fr. greal, representing the Late Concise Etymological Dictionary. It is Latin gradale. The latter is a "voiced" form of *cratale, a derivative of crāter, a bowl. See Diez and others.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

LATIN LINES ON SLEEP (10 S. ix. 390).— The English version of these lines is given in a slightly different form from that quoted where it is attributed to Dr. Wolcot. Beeby C. K. in Beeton's 'Great Book of Poetry,' ton's collection has, of course, no critical value, but it may be worth while to quote the lines as there given :

Come, gentle sleep! attend thy votary's prayer,
And, though death's image, to my couch repair;
How sweet, though lifeless, yet with life to lie,
And, without dying, O how sweet to die!

C. C. B.

I have these lines written in a commonplace book, with a note that they were a composition of Thomas Warton to be placed under a statue of Somnus in the garden of Harris the philologist, and had been translated by Peter Pindar. The source of this information is not given; possibly it is Wolcot's version that is quoted by your correspondent. R. L. MORETON.

ST. MARY'S ABBEY, YORK (10 S. ix. 388, 496).-We are much indebted to MR. MACMICHAEL for his note on the earlier or monastic use of the terms " prebend," prebendary," &c., which I had overlooked (p. 388). We may refer to Ducange as well

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The Scots Peerage. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul. Vol. V. (Edinburgh, David Douglas.) THE Scots Peerage has broken the back of the heavy task on which it started four years ago, for the fifth volume, starting with Lord Innermeath, takes us down to the amazing tangle of the Earldom of Mar. It treats of thirty-one different peerages and twenty-one families, namely Boyd, Campbell (Irvine and Loudon), Erskine (Kellie and Mar), Falconer, Gordon (Kenmure), Hay, Ingram, Keith, Ker (Jedburgh and Lothian), Kinnaird, Lennox, Leslie (Leven and Lindores), Livingston (Kilsyth and Linlithgow), Lyle, Macdonald, Macdonell, Maclellan, Maitland, Morgan-Grenville, Seton, and Stewart (Innermeath, Lennox and Mar). The work has been done by fifteen different authors, the editor himself supplying six of the articles. The co-operative method is the only practicable one in dealing quickly with genealogical work on such a scale, and yet it is full of difficulties. Except under the eye of a dominant editor, such a book is apt to differ in scope and texture. On the other hand, that dominance may banish the personal touch which makes G. E. C. a delight; and it is, moreover, apt to create disaffection, for the family historian tends to become so obsessed as to permit no meddling with his method. Sir James Balfour Paul is not a hard taskmaster, but we believe it is an open secret that even he has had to jettison some of the contributions; and he might with advantage have insisted on greater uniformity in those published. It is not only that different writers have a different method, but the same writer sometimes varies. For example, Mr. A. Francis Steuart in treating Steuart, Duke of Lennox, gives as many as twelve reference notes to a page, whereas Mr. F. J. Grant describes Lennox, Duke of Lennox, without a single reference. Again Mr. Grant says that Lord Alexander Gordon-Lennox "had issue without stating that issue as Mr. Cosmo GordonLennox, the well-known player and playwright, who married Miss Marie Tempest. On the other hand, he works out the descendants of George Lindsay (1691-1764) through the female line to a great-greatgreat grandson named Rudd, born as recently as July 13, 1906, although he does not give the issue of Lady Muriel Watkins, the daughter of the present Lord Lindsay. Some of the descents are not a bit more illuminative than those given in Burke. For example Mr. Grant might at least have taken the trouble to refer to the 'D.N.B.' for that remarkable young man the Hon. Ion Keith-Falconer (1856-87), who was not only an Arabic scholar of note, but the writer on shorthand in the Encyclopædia Britannica,' and the first to cycle from John o' Groats to Land's End. Precisely the same thing occurs with living people. The annual peerages are very inhuman in this respect, chronicling only dull official facts. The Scots Peerage' gets ahead of

Burke by telling us that Lord Kinnaird is a banker, but it might have given a line to his great interest interesting to state that Mr. Claude Hay is a stock in football; and under Kinnoull it would be broker as well as M.P.; even our little friend Whitaker goes that length. The omission cannot be on the ground that trade is inadmissible, for in the same article we learn that Charles, son of the second Earl of Kinnoull had a monopoly for the manufacture of glass.

Among the most satisfying articles in this volume are Mr. Macmath's accounts of Kenmure, although curious Romance of the Ranks' in his note on the he might have given us a reference to Conolly's claimants for the peerage; Mr. Macphail's long account of the Earls of Lauderdale; the Marquis de Ruvigny's description of the Earls of Kilmarnock; and the Rev. John Anderson's learned disquisition on the Celtic Earls of Lennox and the Earls of Mar, though he cannily declines to express an opinion on the rival claims which roused the righteous indignation of Lord Crawford.

Among the intruders in this volume are the Ingrams, for whom the Viscounty of Irvine was created-why, it is not clear. They began with a tallow chandler of London, who married a haberdasher (why are these facts interesting in the sixteenth century when omitted in the twentieth ?), but found it so difficult to maintain their line that the third viscount, who died in 1702, was succeeded in turn by five of his nine sons, and then by his grandson, the ninth and last viscount, who left only five daughters. It is a curious comment on the point of view of another day that one of these left a goodly estate to her husband's illegitimate son, who founded a well-known military family. Improvements might be effected in the Scots Peerage,' but if it is not definitive it forms a good framework for the great masses of material that have come to light since Douglas's day.

The Shakespeare Apocrypha: being a Collection of Fourteen Plays which have been ascribed to Shakespeare. Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography, by C. F. Tucker Brooke, B.Litt. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.)

THIS excellent edition, tastefully bound in limp cloth, will at once take standard rank as a satisfactory issue of the doubtful Shakespearian plays. A text founded on careful examination of the originals by a competent scholar has been needed for years, and such the present editor provides. His ample knowledge alike of native and foreign criticism in books and fugitive publications will be realized by all who read his compact and judicious introduction. Notes on the text are printed at the bottom of the page, and there are a few explanatory notes at the end which are distinguished by their practical brevity.

We read that "the collation of the early editions has been done twice to secure accuracy, and the proof-sheets revised by the original quartos. Particular care has been taken to verify readings which are in opposition to those recorded by other modern editors."

We add that every five lines is numbered at the side throughout the scenes, an important practical aid to reference which is sometimes forgotten. To keep within the limits of some 450 pages a small type has had to be used, but the merits of the edition will, we hope, ensure another issue, perhaps in three volumes or more, in which larger print can

be used. Unequal as all the plays are in execution, they contain, taken together, a body of fine poetry, which no lover of our literature can afford to miss. Confronted with a lyric like "Roses, their sharp spines being gone," we may say that, if this is not Shakespeare's, it is worthy of him.

There are thirteen facsimiles of title-pages reprinted. The play which lacks such adornment, Sir Thomas More,' is not the least interesting. It was first printed in 1844, and is here re-edited from the Harleian MS. 7368 in the British Museum. Lines 1-172, in Act II. sc. iv., have been attributed with the greatest confidence to Shakespeare, nor can we, in view of their wonderful quality, be astonished at the suggestion, which is very different from the wild imaginings of many scholars concerning these Apocrypha. Dyce first transcribed this play from the MS., and since it has now crumbled away or become indecipherable, a number of words and lines have to be taken on his authority alone. The MS. is in several hands, and one of these has been assigned to Shakespeare himself, but we view what some would regard as satisfactory evidence on such points with the gravest suspicion. A note by Mr. Spedding on the question in N. &Q (p. xlviii) is referred to as '4 'N. & Q.,' x. 227. Here 4 means "4th Series." We cannot go into the details of the disputed authorship set forth in the introduction, but we are pleased to see recognition of the admirable work of our contributor Mr. Charles Crawford, and of a veteran in the field of Shakespearian scholarship, Mr. P. A. Daniel. Mr. Brooke usually writes well and clearly, but we must protest against such a phrase as "her really revolting wishy-washiness," used of Emilia in The Two Noble Kinsmen.' We presume that the absence of "Valingford" from the list of characters in Faire Em' is a slip on the part either of the MS. or the editor.

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