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tity), I am not sufficiently versed in early Chris- 

 tian poetry to say. But seeing that Prudentius, 

 who is one of A. A.'s authorities for the tribrach 

 use, has written hymns in Iambic [as well as in 

 heroic and elegiac measure (see Cardinal Thoma- 

 sius' Hymnarium), the latter of the two alterna- 

 tives appears the more probable. John Jambs. 

 Avington, Hungerford, Berks. 



Tub Pkices of Llanffwtst (2°'^ S. ix. 503.)— 

 Were a very ancient family in Monmouthshire, 

 but are supposed to be utterly extinct in the male 

 line. The last known representative of the name 

 and family was Thomas Price, described in 1773 

 as of Coney Court, Gray's Inn, London; and 

 irom circumstances thought to have been then 

 about sixty years of age, and unmarried. Pedi- 

 grees of the family may be found in the Visitation 

 of the county in the College of Arms, in the Harl. 

 MS. No. 2291., and Additional MS. 9865., in the 

 British Museum, and in the private collection of 

 the writer. T. W. 



Battiscombb Family (2°"^ S. ix. 45.) — In 

 answer to Mr. Ellis's Queries, it is not impro- 

 bable that William Battiscombe of Chancery Lane, 

 &c., was a member of a branch of the Battis- 

 oombes of Verse, seated at Cleve in the parish of 

 Yatton and county of Somerset ; a family which, 

 I presume, became extinct on the death (.f. p.) of 

 the late Mr. Battiscombe of Cleve about forty 

 years since. Their arms (gules, a chevron be- 

 tween three bats, sable) appear on a mural tablet 

 in Tatton church, which records several of ^this 

 fiimily, among them : — 



Richard Battiscombe, gent, died 1740. 

 Christopher Battiscombe, gent., died 1793. 

 John Battiscombe, of London, gent., died 1793. 



Elizabeth, daughter of the last-named' gentle- 

 man, married the Rev. Carrington Garrick, vicar 

 of Hendon in Middlesex, nephew of the cele- 

 brated David Garrick; she died in 1808, aged 

 fifty. It is more than likely that the said Mr. 

 William Battiscombe of Chancery Lane, &c. was 

 a brother of Mrs. Carrington Garrick. Richard 

 Battiscomb, gent., appears to have been the father 

 of Christopher and John, and a younger son of the 

 Verse family. S. H. 



AcHESON Family (2""1 S. Ix. 344.) —The father 

 of Sir Archibald Acheson, of Glencairny, in Ire- 

 land, Bai-onet of Scotland and Lord of Session, 

 and Secretary of State in that kingdom, was Pa- 

 trick Acheson, the younger son of a prolific 

 family of the name settled at Salt Preston, or 

 Prestonpans, in East Lothian, one branch of which 

 possessed the estate of Gosford in that county 

 for about sixty-five years. When Sir Archibald's 

 successor, the 6th Baronet, was raised to the Irish 

 peerage, he took the title of Gosford in memory 

 of that connexion, though the Scottish estate had 



been parted with a century and a half before, and 

 had never been in the possession of his lineal pro- 

 genitors. Various members of the family, flour- 

 ishing in the sixteenth century, were burgesses of 

 Edinburgh and Haddington. Three of these held 

 the office of Master Cuinzieor, or Master of the 

 Mint, and one married a sister of Heriot of Tra- 

 brown, a near relative of the celebrated George 

 Heriot. Although Sir Archibald acquired lands 

 in Ireland in 1611, he did not leave Scotland, in 

 which he continued to discharge high official 

 posts ; but he occasionally visited his estates in 

 that island, and died there in 1634. From the 

 service of his son, Sir Patrick, as heir to him, 

 it appears that he was possessed of a tenement in 

 the Canongate of Edinburgh, and of Saltpans and 

 other subjects in Prestonpans and the neighbour- 

 hood. After this the connexion with Scotland of 

 this line of the Aehesons terminated, but various 

 collateral families of the name continued to exist 

 in Mid and East Lothians. R- R. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy. 

 By Reginald Pecock, D.D., sometime Lord Bishop of Chi- 

 chester. Edited by Churchill Babington, B.D., Fellow of 

 St. John's College, Cambridge. Published under the Direc- 

 tion of the Master of the Rolls. 2 Vols. 8vo. (Longman.) 



The important services rendered and rendering to his- 

 torical literature by the Master of the Rolls are cumula 

 tive. Almost month by month throughout the year some 

 work or other is sent forth under his auspices which adds 

 value to our literature, and deepens and strengthens the 

 obligation which Englishmen owe him for his enlightened 

 exertions. Differing from him as we have done on some 

 previous occasions and subjects, we have all the greater 

 pleasure in now calling attention to a work in the series 

 publishing under his direction about which there can be 

 no difference of opinion. Reginald Pecock was no ordi- 

 nary man. Lewis's Life of him, despite of its obvious de- 

 fects, has long made students of our early ecclesiastical 

 history desire to know more both of the author and of 

 his writings. That want is now supplied. Of the part 

 played by him in the controversies which he lived to 

 witness, Mr. Babington, in the valuable Introduction to 

 the present work, speaks with great moderation ; and few 

 readers of The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the 

 Clergy but will agree with Mr. Babington, that it is a 

 masterly performance, and " preserves the best argu- 

 ments of the Lollards against existing practices which 

 Pecock was able to find, together with such answers as 

 a very acute opponent was able to give," while as few 

 will dissent from the Editor's opinion, " that both Pecock 

 and his opponents contributed very materially to the 

 Reformation which took place in the following century, 

 whatever abatements they may make from the soundness 

 of the views advocated by either, or whatever opinions 

 they may entertain of the merits of the Reformation 

 itself." Pecock, as shown by his editor, would indeed have 

 been remarkable in any age, and was in his own age most 

 remarkable ; and the publication of his great work, under 

 the editorship of one so well qualified for the task as Mr. 

 Babington, and accompanied as it is with extracts from 

 the Gladius Stilomonis of his great opponent John^ of 



