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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°'i S. V. 117., Mar. 27. '58. 



terest by John Payne, published in 1758 ; would 

 not a reprint of the aforesaid Preface and Dedi- 

 cation be acceptable to many, as they must be 

 generally unknown ? 



2. In Letters of Literature by Robt. Heron, 

 Lend. 1785, are printed corrections (" with his 

 own hand") by Akenside, of his Pleasures of 

 Imagination. Have they been adopted in the later 

 editions of that work ? * 



3. The author of the Reflections upon Learning, 

 7th edition, 1738, p. 23. states that : 



" The common Grammar, that goes under the name of 

 Lily, was done by some of the most considerable men of 

 the age ; the English Rudiments by Dr. Colet, Dean of 

 Paul's, with a Preface to the tirst editions directing its 

 use, by no less a man than Cardinal Wolsey ; the most 

 rational part, the Syntax, was writ or corrected by Eras- 

 mus, and the other parts by other hands ; so that though 

 Lily now bears the name which while living he alwaj's 

 modestly refused, yet it was carried on by the joint en- 

 deavours of several learned men, and he perhaps had not 

 the largest share in that work." 



These facts may be new to some. K. 



New York. 



Length of the great Wall of China. — Hue 

 (^Christianity in China, vol. ii. p. 201.) represents 

 the great wall, Wan-Li-Tchang-Tching, as ten 

 thousand leagues in length. Instead of leagues, it 

 should be li, a Chinese measure of 1750 feet. 

 (Miiller, Univ. Hist., I. x. 6.) Ten thousand 

 leagues are more than the earth's circumference ; 

 whilst ten thousand li are equal to 3314 miles, 

 more than twice the real length of the wall, an 

 extension of masonry, however, sufficiently mar- 

 vellous without supposing it in fact, which it is not, 

 continuously of the same dimensions and material 

 throughout. Were the wall double for its whole 

 length, — it is partly so, — the ten thousand li of 

 the Chinese would be a sufficient approximation to 

 the truth. Nine li are nearly equal to one league. 

 Fifteen hundred English miles is very nearly the 

 actual length of the great wall. (Map of China, 

 U. K. S.) T. J. BucKTON. 



Lichfield. 



WESTMINSTER PROLOGUES AND EPILOGUES. 



You will confer a great favour if you can permit 

 me to inquire through the medium of your columns, 

 whether any of your readers can assist in com- 

 pleting a collection of Westminster Prologues and 

 Epilogues, now in progress with a view to pub- 

 lication. From the year 1782 onward the series 

 is perfect. Before this date, however, we have 

 only 1722 (Prologue), '26 (Epilogue), '40, '47, 



[* A few of these alterations were adopted by Mr. 

 Dyson in his edition of Akenside's Poems, 4to. 1772; 

 which have been reprinted in the subsequent editions, — 

 Ed.] 



and '51 (Prologues), '53 (Epil.), '57 (Prol.), '58 

 to '63 (all), '69 (Prol. and Epil), '72 (Do.), '73, 

 '74, '75, '77 (Epilogues), '78 (Prol. and Epil.), 

 and '80 (Epil.). There are therefore many gaps. 

 It is almost needless to say that all known sources 

 of information have been resorted to ; but there 

 may be MSS. unknown to me or my fellow- 

 editors which would supply what we want. 



Charles B. Scott (Head Master). 

 Dean's Yard, Westminster. 



SIB MAURICE BERKELEY, STANDARD-BEARER TO 

 KING HENRY VIII. 



May I request any reader of " N. & Q." who 

 is conversant with the genealogy of the Berkeley 

 family, to assist me in distinguishing between two 

 knights named Sir Maurice Berkeley, who were 

 both living at the middle of the sixteenth century. 



1. Sir Maurice Berkeley, the younger son of 

 Thomas tenth Lord Berkeley. 



2. Sir Maurice Berkeley, of Bruton in Somer- 

 setshire. 



The latter is in the pedigree of that branch 

 styled standard-bearer (vexillifer) to Henry VIII., 

 Edward VI., and Elizabeth. If that honorary office 

 made him also a courtier, we may conclude he 

 was the same Sir Maurice, who, being one of the 

 knights of the privy chamber, shortly before the 

 death of Edward Vl. in 1553, signed the settle- 

 ment of the crown on the Lady Jane (see The 

 Chronicle of Queen Jane and Queen Mary, p. 100.); 

 and also the knight who, when the rebel Sir 

 Thomas Wyat surrendered at Temple Bar on 

 Ash Wednesday in the following year, carried 

 him on the crupper of his horse to the court at 

 Whitehall. {Ibid. p. 50.) 



Machyn, in his Diary, p. 227., notices the funeral 

 of the wife of Sir Maurice Berkeley at " Dytton," 

 on March 12, 1559-60. Who was this lady ? and 

 in what county was Dytton ? Was it Ditton in 

 Kent ? According to Dugdale's Baronage, i. 368., 

 the Sir Maurice I have first named married 

 Frances, daughter and co-heir of Richard Rowdon. 

 A pedigree in the College of Arms (Vincent 20, 

 f. 351.) says Alice, daughter and heir of Thomas 

 Rowdon of East Peckham in Kent ; and that she 

 was mother of Edward Berkeley of Bradley, who 

 married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Brice 

 Berkeley, but died without issue. Another MS. 

 (Vincent 31, f. 183.) terms the wife of Maurice 

 " neice of Walter Rowdon." If she was really of 

 the East Peckham family, it is the same that is 

 better known under the orthography of Roydon. 

 Is the lady's true name and real parentage to be 

 ascertained ? 



With respect to Sir Maurice Berkeley of Bruton, 

 Collinson, in his History of Somersetshire, states 

 that he married, 1. Katharine, daughter of Wil 



