Sept. 4. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



225 



FBANCES, DUCHESS OF SUFFOLK, AND ADRIAN 

 STOKES. 



(Vol. vi., p. 128.) 



For the information of A. S. A. (Wuzzeerabad), 

 I forward the following particulars respecting 

 Adrian Stokes, which will principally be found in 

 Potter's Chamwood Forest, p. 79. : 



" The Duchess, after the death of her husband (be- 

 l)caded February 23rd, 1553-4, for his share in raising 

 his daughter Lady Jane to the throne), underwent al- 

 most incredible hardships, but afterwards enjoyed much 

 tranquillity and domestic happiness, at Beaumanor (in 

 this county), in a second matrimonial connexion with 

 iVIr. Adrian Stocks, who had been her Master of the 

 Horse." 



They were married March 1st, 1554-5. 



" This alliance, though censured by some as beneath 

 lier dignity, has been praised by others for its policy, as 

 providing for her own security ; which, from her near 

 relationship to the Crown, might, in case of an equal 

 match, have been disturbed. The Duchess died in 

 1559, in three years after which Mr. Stocks obtained, 

 by letters patent from Elizabeth, a new lease of twenty- 

 one years of her Highness's manor of Beaumanor. . . . 

 Mr. Stocks had a daughter (who died an infant) by 

 the Duchess; and about 1571, when he was returned 

 as one of the members for the county, he took, for his 

 second wife, Dame Anne, widow of Sir Nicholas 

 Throckmorton, Knt." 



In 1558, a George Stokes was one of the Knights 

 of the Shire for this county. 



" Mr. Stocks died in 1586 (Nov. 30th), leaving his 

 brother William, then aged sixty, his heir." 



Other particulars will be found in Nichols's 

 Leicestershire, vol. iii. pp. 144 — 146., and Dug- 

 dale's WarwicksJiire, vol. i. p. 113. 



By the following extracts, which I have made 

 from the Chamberlain's accounts of this borough 

 for the year 1576-7, it will be seen that he was at 

 that time one of the Commissioners of the Musters 

 for this county. 



" The charges for the soldyars trayned. s. d. 



Inprimis, paid to Nedeham, the smyth, "j^ 

 for ij calevers . . . . .J 



Itm, p* to the tenne psones appoynted 

 for soldyars to be trayned, at there 

 firste going to Melton to be trayned ^xxvj viij 

 there iij dayes to geyther, eu'ye of 

 them alowed viijc?. a daye . 



Itm of Sondaye, the xxiij"^ of June, 

 geven to the said ten psones towardes 

 there charges att Loughborowe, then 

 being sente to S' George Hastings, 

 Knight, & to Adrian Stookes, Esquier_ 



This is the only instance in which I have met 

 with his name in these accounts ; and, as it was 

 customary for the Corporation to present wine to 



the noblemen, county justices, and others, on their 

 visits to the town, it would seem to indicate that 

 he must have led, probably from policy, a very re- 

 tired life. 



Thomas Stokes, Esq., of New Parks, recently 

 High Sheriff of the county, is, I believe, a lineal 

 descendant of the same family. 



In the article on "Springs and Wells, &c.," 

 p. 152. (No. 146.), read Fosse Road for Vosse 

 Koad. Leicesteiensis. 



VARIATIONS IN COPIES OP THE SECOND FOLIO 

 EDITION OF SHAKSPEAKE, 1632. 



(VoLvi., p. 141.) 



Mr. Collier has had so much practice, and 

 such long experience in the collation of the various 

 old editions of Shakspeare, that I have no_ doubt 

 he has taken the due precaution of examining, b^ 

 means of a powerful magnifier, the passages in his 

 corrected copy of the second folio, in which he 

 states that it differs from all the other copies he 

 has consulted. It is with considerable hesitation, 

 therefore, that I venture to state the result of an 

 examination of several copies which may seem to 

 throw a shade of doubt upon the subject.^ 



I have three copies of the second folio in my 

 possession, which, for the convenience of reference, 

 I shall designate by the letters W, S, and H. In 

 all of these, the passages to which Mr. Collier 

 refers, when subjected to the test of a magnifying 

 glass, give results at variance with his statement. 

 In Measure for Measure, p. 70. col. 2. line 8 from 

 bottom, the copy H reads unequivocally — 

 " For thine owne bowels which doe call thee, fire." 



The copy S has been tampered with, the inner 

 part of the cross line of the " f " has been scratched 

 out, and the comma at thee removed to the end of 

 the line. 



The copy W is in its original binding, and has 

 been carefully corrected throughout in a neat old 

 hand, which, from some evidences in the volume, 

 may be safely considered of the date of the close 

 of the seventeenth century. The conjectural 

 readings are numerous, and some of them I have 

 had the pleasure to find confirmatory of my own. 

 This volume I have but recently acquired. Tlie 

 line in question is corrected by the erasure of the 

 f in fire, and the substitution of a capital S. 



In the other passage. King Richard II., p. 26. 

 col. 2. line 21., the copy W reads clearly, 



« The flye flow hours," &c.* 

 The inner part of the cross-line of the f, though 

 short, is quite evident to the naked eye. 



* In my edition of Shakspeare, T have printed " The 

 fly-slow hours" as conveying an image highly beautiful 

 and just. 



