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inharmonious as a peacock, used to laugh outright* 

 and her audience with her. Mr. Reade, it will be 

 remembered, in the popular work above-named, 

 notices the rivalry of Mrs. Oldfield and Mrs. 

 Bracegirdle, the former as Statira, the latter as 

 fioxalana, in the Rival Queens. The town de- 

 clared for Statira, and Mrs. Bracegirdle gracefully 

 acknowledged the superiority of Mrs. Oldfield in 

 tragedy. They had a similar struggle in comedy, 

 which is unnoticed by Mr. Reade ; they both 

 played Mrs. Brittle, and again the public gave the 

 preference to Mrs. Oldfield. Few actresses took 

 such a wide range of character as Mrs. Wofiing- 

 ton. She was the original Charlotte in the Wed- 

 ding Day, and (in England) the original Lady 

 Randolph 1 J. Dor an. 



Allow me to add, by way of P.S. to this thea- 

 trical note, that Mr. Douglass is quite correct in 

 the date of Holman's first appearance, Oct. 25, 

 1784. I so copied it from the play-bill, and if the 

 error be mine, I can only account for it by the 

 fact that when writing my communication tp " N. 

 & Q." I had some bills of 178.5 before me, 



BASIL FIELDING KILLED BY HIS BEOTHER. 



In the old register of the parish of St. Olave, 

 Hart Street, London, is the followipg entry among 

 the burials : 



" 1667, May 10. Basil Fielding slayne by his broUier." 



This does not at first sight quite agree with 

 Pepys's Diary, May 9, 1667 : 



" In our street at the Three Tuns Tavern, I find a great 

 hubbub ; and what wa? it, but two brothers had fallen 

 out, and one killed the other; and who should they be 

 but the two Fieldings ? One whereof, Bazill, was page to 

 my Lady Sandwich, and he hath killed the other, himself 

 being very drunk, and so is sent to Newgate." 



May 10th. Here follows some further de- 

 scription, to which is added : 



" After dinner went into the church, and there saw his 

 corpse with the wound in his left breast ; a sad spectacle, 

 and a broad wound, which makes my hand now shake to 

 write of it." 



We shall see how the discrepancy as to the 

 name is reconciled. Meanwhile it will be noticed 

 that in that period the funeral followed close upon 

 the death of a person. The murder was on the 

 9th May, the burial on the 10th. It must, how- 

 ever, be remembered that only a year and a half 

 had then elapsed since the termination of the 

 great plague, which had rendered very early in- 

 terment necessary. 



July 4th. On this day the sight-seeing annalist 

 went to the Sessions House, to hear the trial of 

 Fielding before Chief Justice Keeling : 



" There was also tried this morning Fielding (which I 

 thought had been Bazill, but it proved the other, and 



Bazill was killed) that killed his brother, who was found 

 guilty of murder, and nobody pitied him." 



If any of your readers should be able to supply 

 particulars of this melancholy case from the public 

 records of the time, or other sources, it would 

 prove very interesting. I find no notice of the 

 event in the accounts of the noble family of which 

 these youths appear to have been members. Be- 

 fore I leave the subject of this remarkable register 

 of burials, allow me to record an instance of 

 frightful superstition, of which, alas ! the middle 

 of the nineteenth century, with all its boasted en- 

 lightenment, can furnish specimens : 



" 1579, 16th Maye, was buried Agnes Peirsonn, Svant 

 to Mr. Paule Banninge, aged 30 yeres. Bewitched." 



Perhaps another inmate of the same house may 

 have been thought to have fallen a victim to the 

 same imaginary infliction, though it is not men- 

 tioned ; as we read, on the 21st of December, 

 1579, of the bui'ial of Paule Bannlnge's wife, aged 

 twenty- eight, of a consumption. T, B. M. 



TREASURERS AND REGISTRARS OF THE ROYAL 

 COLLEGE OP PHYSICIANS OF liONDOfT. 



The following complete Series of the Treasurers 

 and Registrars of the Royal College of Physicians 

 of London may be acceptable to some readers of 

 "N". & Q." Like the List of Presidents (2"'' S. 

 ill. 211.), they have been compiled from the Col- 

 lege Annals, and may be relied on as authentic. 



William Munk, M.D. 

 Finsbury Place, March 31, 1857, 

 Treasurers. 

 The First recorded Treasurer of the College was : rr- 



1. 1583. William Baronsdale, M.D., appointed to that 



office 14 Nov. 1583. Obiit 1608. 



2. 1587. William Gilbert, M.D. Cantab. Obiit 1603. 



3. 1593. Radolph Wilkinson, M.D. Cantab. Obiit 1609. 



4. 1594. Christopher Johnson, M.D. Oxon. Obiit 1597. 

 1597. William Gilbert, M.D. Vide No. 2. 



5. 1600. Richard Forster, M.D. Oxon., 1573. Obiit 1616. 



6. 1601. Thomas Langton, M.D. Cantab. Obiit 1606. 

 1604. William Baronsdale, M.D. Vide No. 1. 



7. 1608. George Turner, M.D. Cantab. (?) Obiit 



1609-10. 



8. 1610. Mark Ridley. M.D. Cantab. 



9. 1612. Edward Lister, M.D. Cantab. Obiit 1€20. 

 1620. Mark Ridley, M.D. Vid« No, 8. 



10. 1621. Richard Palmer, M.D. Cantab. 



11. 1626. John Giffard, M.D. Oxon. Obiit 1647. 



12. 1628. William Harvey, M.D. The discoverer of the 



circulation of the blood. Obiit 3 June, 1657. 



13. 1629. William Clement, M.D. Obiit 1636. 



14. 1630. Simeon Fox, M.D. Obiit 20 April, 1642. 

 1634. John Giffard, M.D. Vide No. 11. 



15. 1643. John Clark, M.D. Cantab. Obiit 1653. 



16. 1645. Othowell Meverell, M.D. Lugd. Batav. Incorp. 



Cantab., 1616. Obiit 13 July, 1648. 



17. 1648. Sir Edward Alston, M.D. Cantab. Incorp. 



Oxon., 1626. Obiit 24 Dec. 1669. 



