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have not here the facility of resort to a British 

 Museum, or to German booksellers. Should your 

 correspondent find any difficulty in effecting a 

 collation of his edition with others, I shall be wil- 

 ling to part with my copy for a short time for his 

 use ; or, if he will oblige me with his copy, I will 

 collate it with mine, and return it within the week 

 with the various readings of the cited passages. 



T. J. BUCKTON. 

 Lichfield. 



'' Coh" and '^ Conners" (Vol.vii., p. 234.).— 

 These words are Celtic. Cob means a mouth, a 

 harbour, an entrance. Conners appears to be a 

 compound word, from cuan, a bay or harbour, and 

 mar or mara, the sea ; pronounced " Cuan wara," 

 then shortened into Conner. Conna-mara, in the 

 west of Ireland, properly spelled Cuan na mara, 

 means " bays of the sea." Fras. Ckossley. 



Lady High Sheriff (Vol. vil., p. 236.). — Your 

 correspondent W. M. is informed that in Dun- 

 cumb's Herefordshire there is no mention made of 

 the fact, that a lady executed the office of high 

 sheriff of the county. The high sheriffs for the 

 years 1768 — 1771 inclusive were Richard Gorges, 

 William Nourse, Price Glutton, and Charles Hos- 

 kyns, Bart. The lady alluded to would be the 

 widow of one of these. H. C. K. 



Rectory, Hereford. 



Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, 

 and Montgomery, exercised the office of heredi- 

 tary sheriff of Westmoreland, and, at the assizes 

 at Appleby, sat with the judges on the bench 

 (temp. Car. I.) Vide Blackstone's Comment., and 

 Pocock's Memorials of the Tufton Family, p. 78 . 

 (1800.) 



I may add that ladies have also been included 

 In the commission of the peace. The Lady Bart- 

 let was made a justice of the peace by Queen 

 Mary in Gloucestershire (Harl. MSS ) ; Margaret, 

 Countess of Richmond, mother of Henry VIL, 

 was made a justice of peace ; and a lady in Sus- 

 sex, of the name of Rowse, did usually sit on the 

 bench at the assizes and sessions amongst other 

 justices cincta gladio (op. cit.). W. S. 



Northiam. 



Death of Nelson (Vol. vil, p. 52.) .—The "beau- 

 tiful picture which hangs in a bad light in the hall 

 of Greenwich Hospital" was not painted by West, 

 but by Arthur William Devis, a very talented 

 artist, but somewhat careless in financial matters. 

 He was a pupil of Zoffeny, was in India for some 

 years, where he practised portrait-painting with 

 considerable success. The well-known print of the 

 " Marquis Cornwallis receiving the Sons of Tippoo 

 Saib as Hostages," was from a picture painted by 

 him. The " Death of Nelson " at Greenwich was 

 a commission from the house of Boydell, Cheap- 



side ; and a large print was afterwards published 

 by them from it. Devis met the vessel on its 

 return to England, and on its way homeward 

 painted, very carefully, the portraits of the per- 

 sons represented in his picture, and also a very 

 exact view of the cockpit in which the hero died. 

 The picture has great merit, and deserves to be 

 better placed. T. W. T. 



Editions of the Prayer- Book prior to 1662 

 (Vol. vi., pp. 435. 564. ; Vol. vii., p. 18.). — As a 

 small instalment towards completing this desirable 

 object, I send you the following : 



1551. 

 1552. 

 1553. 

 1564. 

 1565. 

 1571. 

 1580. 

 1607. 

 1615. 

 1632. 

 1634. 

 1636. 



Humphrey Powell. Folio. (Emmanuel Coll.) 



Jugge and Cawood. 4to. 



Grafton. 8vo. (White Knight's, 3283.) 



Jugge and Cawood. 4to. 



W. Seres. Svo. (Christ Church, Oxford.) 



Cawood. 4to. (White Knight's, 3539.) 



Widow of R. Juggak Folio. 



Barker. Folio. (Sir M. Sykes, Part IIL, 1019.) 



Barker. Folio. (St. John's Coll., Oxford.) 



Barker. 4to. (In my possession.) 



Edinburgh. 12mo. 



Bill. Folio. (Bindley, Part L, 955.) 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



Passage in Juvenal (Vol.vii., p. 165.). — The 

 Delphin edition of Juvenal, in a note on Sat. x. 

 V. 365., says : " Sunt qui legunt. Nullum numen 

 abest." It would be very easy, in carelessly copy- 

 ing a MS., to substitute either word for the other. 

 When Mr. J. S. Warden has ascertained which 

 is the true reading, he may fairly call the other an 

 "alteration." R. Y. Th— b. 



Tennyson (Vol. vii., p. 84.). — The first Query 

 of H. J. J. having been already answered (p. 189.), 

 in reply to his second inquiry, I beg to inform him 

 that he will find the custom referred to in the 

 passage of the " Princess," of which he desires to 

 know the meaning, fully explained in the Gentle- 

 man s Magazine for October 1848, p. 379. 



W. L. N. 



Capital Punishment (Vol. vii., p. 181.). — Your 

 correspondent S. Y. may find the date of the last 

 instance of capital punishment for exercising the 

 Roman Catholic religion in Bishop Challoner's 

 very interesting Memoirs of Missionary Priests : 

 Keating, 1836. Every reader of Fox's Booh of 

 Martyrs should, in fairness, consult the above 

 work. There is another earlier work. Theatre 

 des Cruautes des Herectiques de nostre temps, 

 Anvers, 1588 : but it is unfortunately very scarce. 



W.L.N. 



