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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — Page 



Ctiapman's Plays mentioned In Henslow's Diary, by 

 Samuel Hiclison ------ 453 



The Dodo, by Bolton Corney - - - - 454 



Clabber Napper's Hole— Cold Harbour, by Dr. E. F. 

 Rimbault - - - - - - - 455 



Maltese Proverbs ...--- 455 



Minor Notes: — Customary Freeholds in Cumberland — 

 " Beauty and Booty " — Convocation — Supplying Im- 

 perfections in Books — Sir Phelim O'Neile - - 456 



Queries : — 



An Ancient Dutch' Allegorical Picture, by Dr. J. H. 



Todd 457 



Medallic Queries, by John J. A. Boase - - - 459 



Minor Queries: — Berkeley's Sublime System— Name 

 of Martyn— Passage in Milton — Emblems— Rhyming 

 Rats to Death — Catcalls — "For 'tis God only," &c. 

 — Edward Polhill — Lord Mayors of Loudon — Barons 

 of Ulster — Sir Walter Scott and the Edinburgh Ma- 

 gazine — Wit referred to by Coleridge — The Charm 

 of a Clan — Admiral Vernon — Privilege at Fairs — 

 Genealogies wanted — Families of Sir Francis Drake 

 and Lord Chancellor Bowes — Leader, whence de- 

 rived — Ecclesiastical Year — Georgia Office — Wel- 

 lington — Town Plough ----- 460 



Minor Queries Answered : — Ziervogel — Lovell (Ro- 

 bert), Paoibotanologia — Ch. Harvie — Hugh Brough- 

 ton — Carthusian Order — Vegetable Ivory — Dutch 

 Inscription — Antiquities of Chess - - - 462 



Replies : — 



"Whoe'er has travell'd Life's dull round," &c., by S.W. 



Singer, Bolton Corney, &c. - - - - 464 



Sir Robert Aytoun ------ 465 



Newspaper Folk Lore, by C. Mansfield Ingleby - - 466 



Dutensiana, by William Bates - . - - 466 



Early Cast-iron Grave Slabs, by W. J. Bernhard Smith 467 



Epitaph _ 468 



Shakspe.are Emendations, by S. W. Singer, &c. - , - 468 



Tumble-Down Dick, by B. B. Woodward - - 469 



Daridianus Inscription at Bavenno - . - 409 



Difierences between Copies of the Folio Editions ot 



Shakspeare, by Sir F. Madden and Richard C. Heath . 469 



Photographic Notes and Queries - - - - 470 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Coins placed in Found- 

 ations — Lady Day in Harvest — Quotations in Locke 

 wanted — Singing Bread -2- Profane Swearing by the 

 Englisli — Raspberry Plants from Seed found in the 

 Stomach of an Ancient Briton — Pompeythe Little — 

 The Venerable Bede — Hermits, ornamental and ex- 

 perimental — Customs Duties — Family Likenesses — 

 "Epistles Philosophical and Moral " — Furye Family 470 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - - - . _ 473 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted . - - - 474 



Notices to Correspondents - - - - 474 



Advertisements .-...• 475 



Vol. VL — No. 15». . 



chapman's plats mentioned in henslow's 



DIARY. 



I trust the following Notes on Chapman may 

 not be without interest ; I send them as the be- 

 ginning of an investigation that might prove use- 

 ful should the works of this writer ever be pub- 

 lished In a collected form. 



In Mr. Collier's valuable edition of Henslow's 

 Diary, published by the Shakspeare Society, the 

 earliest notice of Chapman is at p. 64., in record- 

 ing the first performance of his play, The Blind 

 Beggar of Alezand?-ia, on February 12, 1595-6. 

 If we may judge by the manager's share of the 

 receipts, this would appear to have been very 

 popular : the performance of it was continued oc- 

 casionally for more than a twelvemonth. We do 

 not meet with him again till the 16th May, 1598, 

 when we find there was lent to him, " in earneste 

 of a boocke for the companye, xxxx'." Seven 

 days afterwards, on the 23rd May, was further 

 lent to him, " upon his boocke which he pro- 

 mised us, xx'." On the following 10th June he 

 received a further lO*. ; and on the 15 th June, 

 " in earneste of his boocke called The Wylle of a 

 Woman, xx'," pp. 123 — 125. Mr. Collier has a 

 note upon this as follows : 



" This may not have been a separate play, but the 

 same called in pp. 119. and 122. ' A Woman will have 

 her Will,' where it is imputed to William Haughton 

 alone. Chapman may have added to it, or assisted him 

 in it. It seems unlikely that two plays, so resembling 

 in title, would have been produced at the same time." 



I cannot say I think this view correct. It was 

 by no means of unfrequent occurrence to have as 

 great a similarity in the titles of plays. " Young 

 Haughton " had already received 40*. for his work, 

 which, considering he had had but 10s. for his 

 previous performance In the preceding November, 

 would probably be thought sufliclent. And the 

 title of Chapman's play may not improbably have 

 been altered. The amount received for the two 

 was certainly above the usual price of plays at 

 that date. The next notices are September 31, 

 1598 : "To bye a boocke of Mr. Chapman, called 

 The Founte of new Fadanes : pd. in pte., iij";" 



