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valle, Jorvall, Jorevale, Jerovall, Jervall, Jerevall, 

 Jervaulx, Jervalx, Jervaux, Jervax, Jerveux, 

 Jarvaiix, Jarvax, Geroval, Gervaulx, Gervaux, 

 Gervaix, Gervasia, Gervis, Geruise, Gerveux, 

 Yore vale, Yorevalx. Mr. Ingledew and Cetbep 

 write " Jerveaux," a form which I have not before 

 seen. Thus we have twenty- six metamorphoses, 

 and yet there is another, the modern name Jarvis, 

 which bids fair to keep its ground for some time to 

 come. Patonce. 



Touching for the King's Evil. — The records of 

 the corporation of Preston contain two votes of 

 money to enable persons to go from Preston to be 

 touched for the evil. Both are in the reign of 

 James II. In 1684 the bailiffs were ordered to 



" pay unto James Harrison, bricklayer, 10s. towards the 

 carrying of his sonn to London in order to y° pcuring of 

 his Ma''®" touch." 



And in 1687, when James was at Chester, the 

 council passed a vote that — 



" y Bailiffs pay unto the psons un"" menconed each of 

 them 5s. towards their charge in going to Chester to gett 

 his Majesties touch. 



Anne, daughter of Abell Mosse. 

 , daughter of Rich. Letmore." 



WlIXIAM DOBSON. 



Preston. 



aSLUtvitS, 



MILTON S AUTOGRAPH. 



It is remarkable, considering how much in- 

 terest has been taken in Shakspeare's auto- 

 graph, that so little research has been expended 

 on Milton's, which is the rarer of the two. 

 There is, I believe, no facsimile of the words 

 " John Milton " in any of the common col- 

 lections of autographs. Certainly it is not in 

 NichoUs's, nor have I, though much interested in 

 the handwriting of eminent men, been so fortunate 

 as to obtain a sight of it anywhere. Perhaps 

 some correspondent could inform me whether the 

 copy of the manuscript of Camus, now in the 

 library of Trinity College, Cambridge, presents 

 any internal evidence of its genuineness. What 

 indeed is the proof that it was really written by 

 Milton ? Warton and Todd seem to assume 

 this as a well-known fact, but give no evidence 

 on the subject. Milton's will, we know, was 

 not signed ; and indeed there are, I believe, only 

 two specimens of his sijjnature extant. These 

 are referred to by Mr. Hunter, in his tract en- 

 titled A Sheaf of Gleanings after Milton's Bio- 

 graphers and Annotators. One is in a copy of 

 EitzHerbert's Natura Brevium, 1584, on the title- 

 page of which appear the words " Johes Milton : 

 me possidet;" and the other is in an Album 

 which once belonged to a Neapolitan nobleman 



(Count " Camillus Cardoyne"), who, being settled 

 at Geneva between the years 1608 and 1640, was, 

 it would appear, visited by Milton, as we may in- 

 fer from the following interesting entry : — 



" If Virtue feeble were. 



Heaven itselfe would stoop to her. 



Coelum, non animu, muto, da trans mare curro." 



" Joannes Miltonius Anglus. 

 "Junii 10O1639." 



To Mr. Hunter's information may be inci- 

 dentally added the fact that this Album is among 

 the articles in Thorpe's Catalogue for 1836, and is 

 priced 401. From what has been stated it appears 

 that though in these two cases we have Milton's 

 signature, yet the simple "John Milton" is still a 

 desideratum. Perhaps some correspondent can 

 say where both the above-named volumes now 

 are, and whether any other specimens of Milton's 

 signature, Latin or English, are known to exist ? 



Letheediensis. 



Minav ©uorie*. 



" Liez de Castro" by Nicola Luiz. — I shall be 

 grateful to any Portuguese student who will in- 

 form me of an original edition of the play of Inez 

 de Castro, by Nicola Luiz, which is referred to by 

 Murphy in his work on Portugal, and was trans- 

 lated by the late J. Adamson, Esq. Southey 

 (Life, iii. 158.), in a letter to that gentleman, 

 suggests Ferreira's tragedy to have been " pub- 

 lished under this fictitious name ;" but Mr. Adam- 

 son's version could not have been taken from the 

 ordinary editions of Ant. Ferreira. W. M. M. 



^^ Til come to thee." — Would Dr. Rimbault 

 kindly inform me whether there is any old song, 

 with a burden or any prominent line in it having 

 these words ? I have a faint recollection of an 

 early ballad with the line " Illy, love, I'll come to 

 thee," or something of similar Import ; but Dr. 

 Rimbatjlt would, no doubt, be able to refer me 

 to the song itself. C. R. P. 



Maurice Greene, Mus. Doc. — I shall feel par- 

 ticularly obliged to any correspondent of " N. & 

 Q." who will kindly give me information, through 

 this same medium, relating to the family of the 

 above-named gentleman. He was the grandson 

 of one, and I believe the nephew of another, Ser- 

 geant Greene : one, if not both of whom, lie buried 

 In the chancel of Knavestock Church, Essex. 

 There was formerly a fine estate there belonging 

 to the Greene family. From papers my family 

 are In possession of, I find that a room was hired 

 somewhere In London, for which a considerable 

 annual rent was paid, where the papers and re- 

 cords of the Greene family were kept. With the 

 exception of a very few, including some pocket- 



