SEVENTH SERIES. VOLUME EIGHTH. LONDON: PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE, 22, TOOK'S COURT, CHANCERY LANE, E.C. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1889. CONTENTS. - N° 184. NOTES: -Bishop Scory, 1-Books on Gaming, 3- New Eng- lish Dictionary,' 4-Hebrew Name borne by Men and Women, 5-Jane and Anne Addison - Gulf of Lyons - Annotated Copy of 'Euphues'-Latin Elegiacs-Error in QUERIES:-Zeunen-Inscription - Lissa Medal-Abbots of Ramsey-Blois Family-Universal Language-Berkshire and Oxfordshire - Sir F. Leigh, 7-" Soveraign of Belfast "- Chin-stay-W. B. Daniel-Isabella Piccini-Auterine 'The Fireman'-Innocent Coat-Mythologics-Irish Church His- tory-Heraldic-Author Wanted-Doddridge's Epitaph- Seventeenth Century Trial, 8-Union Jack-St. Jeiliau- "A church vermilion "-Cornish Forms of Exorcism-Samp- REPLIES:-Italian and French Cathedrals, 9-Game of the Goose-Mary de la R. Manley-The Pelican, 11-Richter's Titan' - Wordsworth's 'Ode to the Cuckoo'- Punch' Publications-Italian Literature - "Mors mortis morti," &c., 12-"A riddle of claret" - Rebecca-Speech in Animals- Boulangist-Sir Francis Drake, 13-The Young England Poet-Anson's 'Voyages,' 14-The "Grave Maurice "-A History of England-Liddell and Scott's 'Lexicon-Shak- speare, 15-Tears on Tombstones, 16-" Dan Mackinnon "- "Your wits are gone wool-gathering"-Mater Dei, 17-Lord Hartington-Cumberland Phrases, 18. NOTES ON BOOKS:- Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. XIX. Courtney's 'Life of Mill.' BISHOP SCORY AND SWITHUN BUTTERFIELD. under Mary. "He made his appearance before Butterfield, "of whom presently," as Sir Bernard In. 1577, when the spacious times of great Eliza beth were in full swing, John Scory had been At the age of thirty, then, and in the year 1577 aforesaid, Swithun Butterfield set himself, or was set by Giles Allen, to make a "supervisus" of the bishop's lands and rental, which took him nearly three years to do, and a year more to arrange and index the result. And this "supervisus" is the book whereby I came to know him. He has cast his bread upon the waters with some effect; for his work, the work literally of his own hands, is still the standard and ultimate authority upon the subject of which it treats. It is a noble square folio, bound in old calf, and consisting of 249 leaves of parchment, each of them (except two) fully written over on both sides by S. B. himself. And the title of it, written in bold black letter, and in manner of a colophon, upon the first page, "Liber supervisus maneriorum terrarum tenementorum Ac omnium Reddituum & aliorum profic--orum annua- |