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place called Nabsend in Yorkshire (the same place 

 as is called Neepsend, near Sheffield,) to King's 

 Lynn ; and the first mention I find of him here is 

 as a witness to an assurance of an estate in Lynn, 

 dated May 17, 1731 ; and, from his crest of a 

 martlet, I imagine him to be the fourth son of the 

 first house; but the first house, or rather those 

 with whom he is connected in that house, are at 

 present veiled in obscurity, and I shall feel much 

 indebted to any correspondent who can trace this 

 John Chadwick's antecedents. I find also in 1737 

 he marries in this town (Lynn), where his family, 

 both of his first and second wives, are readily 

 traceable ; and I am anxious to trace his father 

 and mother, and his place of birth, for the purposes 

 of my family pedigree. John Nukse Chadwick. 

 King's Lynn. 



Plantagenet Residence in Oillingham. — Some of 

 the earlier Plantagenet kings occasionally resided 

 at a palace, or royal hunting-seat, in the Forest of 

 Gillingham, Dorset. Will some of your corre- 

 spondents favour me with references to any char- 

 ters or records in which mention is made of it ? * 



Quid AM. 



Archdeacon Corrie of Calcutta. — This gentle- 

 man is believed to have died in England some 

 twenty- eight or thirty years ago. Information as 

 to his place of birth, preferments, and date of de- 

 cease will be acceptable. Where was he buried ? 



T. Hughes. 

 Chester. 



[Daniel Corrie was born on April 10, 1777 ; bis father 

 was vicar of Osbournby, co. Lincoln, and afterwards rector 

 of Morcott, CO. Rutland. In 1799, he was entered at Clare 

 Hall, Cambridge ; ordained deacon, June 13, 1802, and 

 priest, June 10, 1804 ; and was for a short time curate of 

 Stoke Rochford. Having been appointed a chaplain to the 

 Bengal establishment, he arrived in India towards the close 

 of the year 1806, in the twenty- ninth year of his age, where 

 he met his old college companion Henry Martyn. He first 

 laboured at Chunar, and afterwards at Cawnpore, Agra, 

 and Benares. In November, 1812, he married Miss Myers, 

 who died in December, 1836. In 1823, Bishop Heber con- 

 ferred on Mr. Corrie the archdeaconry of Calcutta. When 

 Madras was erected into a bishopric, Archdeacon Corrie 

 was appointed the first bishop, and was consecrated on 

 June 14, 1835, bv the Archbishop of Canterbury and the 

 Bishops of Lichfield, Carlisle, and Bangor. Bishop Corrie 

 died on Feb. 6, 1837, and was buried in St. George's Ca- 

 thedral, Madras, within a few feet of the spot where, six 

 weeks before, he bent over the remains of his affectionate 

 partner. A long biographical notice of the Bishop is 

 given in the Christian Observer, July, 1837, p. 479., which, 

 however, does not furnish any particulars of his parent- 

 age, birth, or education ; but his Memoirs have been since 

 published by his two brothers.] 



[* Has our correspondent consulted Hutchins's Dorset- 

 shire, iii. 196— 200,^which contains a good account of this 

 forest, with references to ancient records?" — Eo. J 



Milton's " Comus." — In Bishop Newton's Life 

 of Milton, prefixed to that poet's works, he says, 

 on the authority of Sir Henry Wotton, that it 

 was printed at Oxford, at the end of Mr. ll.'s 

 Poems, " but whether Randolph the poet or who 

 else is uncertain." In Sir Henry Wotton's letter 

 of April 10, 1638, Sir Henry, writing to Milton 

 in allusion to Comus, says, — 



"For the work itself I had view'd some good while 

 before, with singular delight, having received it from our 

 common friend, Mr. R., in the close of the late R.'s poems 

 printed at Oxford," &c. 



Now, I have Randolph's Poems, printed at Ox- 

 ford, 1638, in the original binding, collected and 

 published by his brother Robert Randolph ; true, 

 there is a leaf or two wanting at the end, but no 

 perceptible hiatus for a poem of the length of 

 Comus. Who, then, was the Mr. R. alluded to ? 

 The inference fairly points to Randolph's Poems, 

 sent by his brother. Randolph died in 1634, aged 

 twenty-nine. Was there an edition of his Poems 

 published before 1638 ? If not, I repeat, who was 

 the Mr. R. mentioned by Wotton ? 



M. E. Beret. 



[This Quer3' has been anticipated by Mr. Todd in his 

 edition of Comus, 8vo., 1798, p. 4. Mr. Todd says, " I be- 

 lieve Mr. R. to be John Rouse, Bodley's librarian. The 

 late R. is unquestionably Thomas Randolph, the poet. 

 But who has ever seen a copy of this edition of Ran- 

 dolph's Foams' with Comus at the end? I tliink this 

 perplexity may be thus adjusted. Henry Lawes the 

 musician, who composed Comus, being wearied with giv- 

 ing written copies, printed and published this drama 

 about three years after the presentation, omitting Mil- 

 ton's name, with the following title : " A Maske presented 

 at Ludtoiv Castle, 1634, on Michaelmasse night, before 

 the right honorable the Earle of Bridgewater, Vicount 

 Brackly, Lord President of Wales. London, printed for 

 Hvmphrey Robinson at the signe of the three Pidgeons 

 in Paul's Churchj'ard, 1637." 4to. Now it is verj' pro- 

 bable, that when Rouse transmitted from Oxford, in 

 1638, the first or quarto edition of Randolph's Poems to 

 Sir Henry Wotton, he very officiously stitched up at the 

 end Lawes's edition of Comus, a slight quarto of thirty 

 pages only, and ranging, as he thought, not improperly 

 with Randolph's two dramas. The Muse's Looking Glass 

 and Amyntas. Wotton did not know the name of the 

 author of Comus, till Milton sent him a copy, ' intimating 

 the name of the true artificer,' on April 6, 1638. This, 

 we may presume, was therefore the Comus which Wotton 

 had seen at the end of Randolph." The copy of Lawes's 

 edition of A Maske in George Steevens's library, lot 972., 

 sold for 11. 2s., and on a fly-leaf are the following MS. 

 notes : " I take this edition of the Maske, the first pub- 

 lished work of Milton's, to be much the scarcest of his 

 original poetical pieces. J. Bowle." " Mr. Warton ob- 

 serves that Lawes's edition of Comus is seldom to be 

 found. See his edition, p. 121." It contains a plate of 

 Ludlow Castle.] 



Friars Mendicant, Bull against. — In the year 

 1317 (10 Edw. IL), a Bull was issued by Pope 

 John XXII. against certain Friars Mendicants 

 who preached rebellion in Ireland. Where shall I 

 find this Bull in extenso ? Enivbi. 



[In Cocquiline's Bullarum PrivUeffiorum ac Diplomatum 



