A take the following from ANTWICH, CHESHIRE (cli. 389).— A Short History of Nantwich and Neighbourhood,' by Miss E. A. Johnson. The place was called Hellath-Wen or White Pit by the Ancient Britons. After the Con quest it took the name of Wych Malbank, after its first Baron, William de Malbank. The name of Nantwich, which signifies Vale of Salt, was probaby the name used by the common people from remote ages. L. F. C. E. TOLLEMACHE. In the work, entitled A History of the Town and Parish of Nantwich, in the County Palatine of Chester,' by James Hall, Nantwich, 1883, p. 2, is the following: وو As its name implies, Nantwich is situated in a valley, through which the Weaver, here an inconsiderable stream, flows, dividing the town into two parts. Drayton, in his "Poly, olbion,' c. 161, calls the Weaver the " wizard river," and, as the valley has always been famous for its numerous salt-springs, it is still commonly believed that a subterranean brine-stream follows the course of the river. ALFRED SYDNEY LEWIS. Librarian. Constitutional Club, W.C.2. LA AMBARDE'S 'PERAMBULATION (cli. 190, 228, 249, 321). Since you published my note, I have heard of, but not seen, another engraving taken from the original portrait, viz., that which was prepared for Streatfield and Larkin's proposed new edition of Hasted.' At the Society of Antiquaries is a large paper edition of Lambarde's Dictionarium.' The frontispiece is that numbered 1. b. in my list at the last reference. It is folded to fit the book. In a scrapbook in the Society's library is a small 4to. portrait done on a yellowish paper with inscription of name only. This too is from Vertue's engraving. It looks like early nineteenth century work. General Lambarde tells me that there is yet another in The Honour and Dignity of Trade.' F. WILLIAM COCK. WORSE THAN THE "RE REMEDY The Library. The Impassibility of God. By J. K. Moziey. (Cambridge University Press, 7s. 6d. net.). THE questions whether or not God is impassible, and, assuming is impassibility, suffering and then to His own action in the the relation this bears first to human sin and Incarnation and the Atonement present problems which, in essence, must remain the same for the Christian thought of all time, but are subject to considerable change Until modern times the doctrine of the imof aspect. passibility of God was virtually undisputed. As a fixed truth it played its part in the development of the dogma of the Two Natures; and it must be to the universal agreement upon it from all sides that we have to impute the scantiness of treatises specially devoted to it. Our author has found but two, that written by Gregory Thaumaturgus in the third century: sibili in Deo,' and 'The Blessed God. ImpasDe passibili et impassibility,' by Dr. Marshall Randles, published at the end of the nineteenth century. The pages on Gregory Thaumaturgus are particularly valuable. This brief but scholarly and important history of belief on the subject shows us the doctors of the Church stating and re-stating the doctrine of the impassibility of God--as factor in a complicated argument-in terms fit to re-but the errors of successive heresies. But in modern times a change occurs. The conception of evolution has modified both our views about suffering and its significance and our ideas about God as Creator. Passibility does not to our minds so straint as it did in older thought; and impascertainly involve defect and subjection to consibility may even be held to imply defect of love. Modern views have nothing comparable to the majestic tradition of which this work gives an outline; but they open up a new line of enquiry which, whether for their refutation modern problems. Mr. Mozley in his Preface or their confirmation, have vital bearing on notes his most considerable omission, that of St. Paul's teaching concerning the Spirit in Rom. viii. But it may well be thought that a satisfactory discussion of it would have proved too much for the scale of the book. John Company. By Sir William Foster. (The Bodley Head. 12s. 6d.). one TH DISEASE" (cli. 389). The earliest author's book on the East India House, instance of this phrase is in Thomas Mid- which was published early in 1924, and reviewed in our columns at cxlvi. 241, aroused welcome this second volume, which rounds out well-deserved interest, and many readers will very satisfactorily the picture given by its predecessor of John Company, his servants, works and habitations. It is composed partly of new material, partly of articles which appeared, many years ago, in periodicals. We begin with a full chapter on the Company's first home, and the character and fortunes of Thomas Smythe, whose house it was, and who was the first Governor. There follows are of Good Hope, in 1738. The book concludes from down to 1840-give a shadowy life to the houses, This volume contains 134 plates with eighteen illustrations in the text, a map, and numerous heraldic illustrations. There is no need to emphasize the value of this Survey. The Ancestry of William Fleetwood, Bishop of OUR correspondent, Mr. R. W. Buss, whose William had six children, of whom Geoffrey, Clerk in the Ordnance Office at the Tower and father of the Bishop, was the third. Mr. Buss's notes set out several useful particulars of these persons. Printed and Published by the Bucks Free Press, Ltd.. at their Offices, High Street, Visitors to London are invited to The Piccadilly Auction Rooms (Calder House) to inspect the display of ancient Silver, Jewels and Antiques collected from the Ancestral Homes of England. To obtain the full value of your treasures, employ the Auctioneer with expert knowledge of values, and one who studies the customer's interest before his own personal gain. 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The London Office is at 22, Essex Street, W.C.2 (Telephone: Central 396), where the current issue is on sale. Orders for back numbers, indexes and bound volumes should be sent either to London or to Wycombe; letters for the Editor to the London Office. Memorabilia. He finished it before he left Paris; and by the late autumn it had been revised. The handbag containing the manuscript, with was left for a moment unguarded on the G. W.R. station been recovered. He set himself, in London, at Reading; it disappeared and has never during the following winter, to re-write the book. It now grew to an immense length; an experimental abridgment was made of it; publication was being prepared for, when unfortunately Lawrence was disturbed in his hiding place, and consigning his MS. to the Bodleian Library, sought obscurity again. to issue a private edition very much de luxe, When he was persuaded at last he yielded for two reasons: he wished few people to read the full story; and he wished to make an experiment in typography and illustration with no restrictions beyond what his own plans and taste should impose. ON Friday of last week the Select Com- Thus he has not only found his own printers, mittee on Peerages in Abeyance issued their report. Besides certain conditions concerned with propriety and integrity the Commission submits to His Majesty recommendation that in the absence of special reasons to the contrary no abeyance should be terminated the first commencement of which occurred more than a hundred years before the presentation of the petition, and that no petition should be allowed to proceed where the petitioner represents less than onethird of the entire dignity. It appears that there are many scores of possible baronies of great antiquity not accounted for, and that there are at present fifty-one baronies now in abeyance in which the necessary sittings could be proved. Eleven of these are under attainder, and eight, at least, have been subject of petition for termination without success. It is thought that thirty-four are now liable to be claimed. THOSE who are interested in Oriental history and affairs should not miss the article on Lawrence of Arabia which Dr. Hogarth communicates to The Times of Dec. 13. Its occasion is the appearance privately, and having been oversubscribed at thirty guineas-of Colonel Lawrence's account of the Arab revolt against the Turk and his exploits in the course of it. In an abridged form and at a more moderate price the book is to be published next year. Dr. Hogarth tells how, in the spring of 1919, Lawrence sat down in the temporary home of the Emir Feisal in the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne at Paris to write down the story. and commissioned artists, and revised and WE have received the November number of |