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(;2nd s. No 62,, Mae. 7. '57. 



Tyburn and Banbury (2°'* S. iii. 92.) — Your 

 Note in regard of " Banbury " standing as an 

 equivalent of " Puritan " in the passage from Sir 

 Thomas Overbury, is at variance with Beesley's 

 History of Banbury^ p. 458., where reference is 

 made to a newspaper of 1641 in Lord Spencer's 

 library at Althorp, which has the following pas- 

 sage : " Since the memorable execution of Tinkers 

 in this towne, no severity of any itinerant Judge 

 hath been filed upon our records." May not 

 Tyburn and Banbury, therefore, have been re- 

 garded as synonymous by Sir Thomas Overbury ? 

 Possibly some of your readers may be able to give 

 some account of the circumstance referred to. 

 The execution must have taken place long prior 

 to the date of the newspaper aforesaid, 1613 being 

 the year of Sir Thomas's death. Forestarids. 



J. George Holman (2""* S. iii. 172.) — Allow me 

 to correct an error into which Mr. Lownb has 

 fallen, and also one in your reply to his Query. 

 First, Holman was not a contemporary of Garrick 

 as an actor ; the latter left the stage in June, 

 1776, and died in January, 1779. Holman made 

 his first appearance on any stage on the 25 th 

 April, 1785. The character was Romeo, the place 

 Covent Garden. The debutant was named (in a 

 prologue, spoken by Hull) as a young Oxonian, 

 iou are wrong in supposing that graceful, but 

 over-zealous Holman left England in 1810. His 

 last season was at the Haymarket, in 1811, where, 

 during the month of August, he played Jaflier to 

 his daughter's Belvidera, Lord Townly to her 

 Lady Townly, Horatio to her Calista {Fair Peni- 

 tent), Osmond to her Angela (^Castle Spectre), 

 Zorinski, and finally, his last appearance on the 

 English stage, Faulkland to his daughter's Julia, 

 on the 12lh September, for the benefit of Mrs. 

 Gibbs. Of about a dozen characters of which he 

 was the original representative, only two, Harry 

 Thunder in Wild Oats, and Harry Dornton in 

 The Road to Ruin, are known to modern playgoers. 



J. Doran, 



Inscriptions on Bells (2""^ S. iii. 147.) — In 

 Fox's Monks and Monasteries occurs the following : 



" Great Tom of Christchurch had this inscription not 

 long since remaining upon it : ' In Thonue laude resono 

 BiEN BoM sine frauds.' " 



E,. W. Hackwood. 



" Cow and Snuffers" (^"'^ S. ii. 20.)— I believe 

 the farce that Juverna alludes to, and where he 

 will find "Looney M'^Twolter," and his song, is 

 The Review, or The Wags of Windsor, a musical 

 farce in two acts, by George Colman, Jun. I. K. 



Meaning of " Two Turkeyses and London Dra- 

 pers " (2"" S. iii. 168.) — In my edition of Cam- 

 den's Remains (the fifth), dated 1637, the passage 

 appears as quoted by Mb. Lower. A young lady 



(Miss Ellen) suggests as a solution the comparison 

 of two turquoises together ; or as " the London 

 Drapers," Messrs. Swan and Edgar, or Hodge and 

 Lowman, for instance, would compare Coventry 

 ribbons with Lyons manufacture, or a love of a 

 Genoa velvet with Spitalfields. S. H. H. 



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