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restoration to his lectureship, we may be allowed 

 to point out that his lordship's sister was the 

 second wife of Mr. Smith's father. 



It has been said that Mr. Smith resigned his 

 patrimony to his younger brother. The fact that 

 he died many years before his father seems to 

 have been overlooked. 



Joshua Sylvester turned Henry Smith's Latin 

 Sapphics and epigrams into English verse. 



Mr. Collier's note (p. 100.) of his edition of 

 Nash's Pierce Penniless, satisfies us that it is hope- 

 less to expect that the English poetry of Henry 

 Smith can now be recovered or identified. We 

 marvel, however, that Mr. Collier could have 

 failed to recognise in silver-tongued Smith the 

 greatest preacher of the age. Mr. Hunter, in his 

 Illustrations of Shakspeare, twice refers to him. 



Fuller (whom others follow) conjectured that 

 he died about 1600. Wood says : " This person 

 was in very great renown among men in fifteen 

 hundred ninety and three, in which year, if I mis- 

 take not, he died." Dr. Bliss, from the allusion 

 to him in Nash's Pierce Penniless, came to the 

 conclusion that Wood had dated his death some- 

 what after its occurrence. Seven of his sermons, 

 published in 1591, are stated to have been perused 

 by the author before his death. It is curious that 

 Fuller, who collected his works, did not see that 

 this was conclusive proof that he died in or before 

 1591. All doubt upon the subject is disposed of 

 by the statement in the parish register of Hus- 

 bands Bosworth, Leicestershire, to the effect that 

 Henry Smith, theologist, son of Erasmus Smith, 

 Esq., was buried there 4fh July, 1591. This en- 

 try is given in Nichols's Leicestershii'e (ii. 468.) ; 

 but Mr. Nichols (whose labours we can never 

 name without the highest respect and commenda- 

 tion) did not comprehend its significance, and 

 actually contended (p. 889. of the same volume) 

 that Mr. Smith must have been living in 1597, 

 because a work under his name appeared in that 

 year. 



His mother was daughter of .... . 



Bydd. Can any of your correspondents enable 

 us to fill up these blanks ? 



C. H. & Thompson Coopeh. 

 Cambridge. 



HEEBERT KNOWLES. 



(2""iS. viii. 28. 55. 116.) 



I recollect Herbert Knowles in my first half- 

 year at Richmond School. I am not able to speak 

 of him from personal acquaintance, for I was 

 much his junior ; but I may here mention a tri- 

 vial matter which has long lingered in my me- 

 mory, and which may perhaps be some slight 

 evidence of a retiring and meditative disposition 

 as characteristic at that time of the youthful bard. 



Some of us were returning at dusk of evening 



from the well-known field which was then our 

 play-ground, by the side of the river. Herbert 

 Knowles was walking in the contrary direction, 

 towards Easby, when some remark was made play- 

 fully by one of the scholars, about his own stand- 

 ing, as to Herbert liking a late and solitary walk. 



After the Christmas vacation he returned not 

 to the school. Shortly after his death his " Lines 

 written in the Churchyard of Richmond, York- 

 shire," were printed on letter-sheet paper, and 

 circulated far and wide. There is, I believe, little 

 doubt of his having written some other pieces. I 

 find a memorandum of my own that " H. K. wrote 

 some lines which appeared in The Literary Sou- 

 venir for 1825." 



The " Lines in Richmond Churchyard," and a 

 brief account of their author, may be found in 

 Carlisle's Grammar Schools, 1818, vol. U. p. 880.; 

 Quarterly Review, vol. xxi. p. 39^. ; Life of 

 Southey, 1850, vol. iv. pp. 221-7.; Clapperton's 

 Poetical Scrap-Book, 1824, p. 77.; Robinson's 

 Guide to Richmond, 1833, p. 60. ; Bowman's Guide 

 to Richmond, 1853, p. 34. ; Black's Guide to York- 

 shire, 1858, p. 248. 



In the Saturday Mag. (vol. xvi. p. 206.) are 

 the following lines, to which Knowles's name is 

 appended. I remember having a copy of them 

 given to me as the production of Herbert 

 Knowles : — 



" Forgive thy foes ; nor that alone ; 

 Their evil deeds with good repa}' ; 

 Fill those with joy who leave thee none, 

 And kiss the hand upi'aised to slay. 



" So does the fragrant sandal bow, 

 In meek forgiveness to its doom ; 

 And o'er the axe, at every blow, 

 Sheds in abundance rich perfume." 



In the Literary Gazette for Dec. 26, 1818, was 

 copied the well-known poem of Herbert Knowles, 

 on the " Three Tabernacles," with a notice that 

 the author died, aged nineteen, Sept. 17, 1818. 

 In the subsequent number for January 9, 1819, 

 appeared a " Fragment of an unfinished Poem " 

 by the same author, with a correction of the 

 former date, stating that Knowles died in April, 

 1818. How this is to be reconciled with the date 

 given by J. F. W., February 17, 1817, is beyond 

 the ken of F. C. H. 



HOW THE LORD HIGH CHANCELLOB GOES TO 

 WESTMINSTER. 



(2"^ S. viii. 104.) 



Your legal readers will be grateful for H.'s 

 communication headed as above, and be glad to 

 receive farther information relative to forensic 

 ceremonies, many of which have been wholly dis- 

 continued, and some of which have only the sha- 



