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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — 



Marlowe's " Lust's Dominion " - 



Dover Castle : a Note to Hasted . - - . 



Dean Swift : Autographs in Books, by Georpe Daniel - 



Shakspeare Elucidations, by Thomas Keightley 



Imprecatory Epitaphs, by Dr. E. Charlton 



Derivation of " Lad " and " Lass " - . - 



HiNOR Notes : — lona— Inscriptions in Parochial Regis- 

 ters — Lieutenant — " Prigging Tooth " or " Pugging 

 Tooth " — London — Note from the Cathedral at 

 SeTille— Riddles for the Post Office 



Queries : — 



National Portraits : Portrait of the Duke of Gloucester, 

 Son of Charles I., by Albert Way . , . 



Boston Queries, by Pishey Thompson ... 



Welborne Family ...... 



Descendants of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, by C. Gonville 



Minor Queries : — English Bishops deprived by Queen ' 



Elizabeth, 1559— John Williams of Southwark, Esq 



" A Screw"— Tanner's MSS. — The Westminster As- 

 sembly of Divines — The Witch Countess of Morton 



— Mary, Daughter of King James I. of Scotland 



Hibernicis Hibernior— The Cucking-stool, when last 

 used — Grafts and the Parent Tree — Conway Family 



— Salt — Geological Query — Wandering Jew — 

 Frescheville Family — The Wednesday Club — Ora- 

 tories—Arms of De Turneham— Poisons— Open Seats 

 or Pews in Churches— Burial of unclaimed Corpse - 



Minor Queries with Answers : — Sir John Powell 



— " Reynard the Fox " — Campvere, Privileges of 



Bishops Inglis and Stanser of Nova Scotia -. 



Replies: — 



Monument to Barbara Mowbray and Elizabeth Curie at 

 Antwerp ....... 



Rigby Correspondence ..... 



Marigmerii — Melinglerii — Berefellarii ... 



Photographic Notes and Queries: — Replies to Pho- 

 tographic Questions— Developing Paper Pictures with 

 Pyrogallic Acid,- Photography in the Open Air; Im- 

 proved Camera — New Effect in Collodion Pictures 



Powdered Alum : How does it act ? . 



Replies to Minor Queries : _ Chatterton — Princes' 

 Whipping-boys—" Grub Street Journal "— " Pinch of 

 Snuff"'— Race for Canterbury — Chichester Pallant — 

 Scarfs worn by Clergvmen— Alicia Lady Lisle— Major- 



General Lambert— Mistletoe— The Sizain— Venda 



Meaning of " Assassin"— Dimidium Scientiae — Epi- 

 grams—Use of Tobacco before the Discovery of 

 America— Oldham, Bishop of Exeter— Tortoiseshell 

 Tom Cat— Irish Rhymes— Consecrated Rings— Brasses 

 since 1688— Derivation of Lowbell— The Negative 

 given to the Demand of the Clergy at Merton— Nugget 

 — Blackguard ...... 



Miscellaneous : — 



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



Books and Odd Volumes wanted .... 

 Notices to Correspondents .... 



Advertisements --..-. 



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V0L.VII. — No. 176. 



"maelowe's "lust's dominion." 



The Rev. Mr. Dyce omits the play of Lusfs 

 Dominion, or the Lascivious Queen, from the ex- 

 cellent, and (in all other respects) complete edi- 

 tion of Marlowe's Works which he has lately pub- 

 lished, considering it to have been "distinctly 

 shown by Mr. Collier" that it could not have been 

 the work of that poet. I must say, however, that 

 the argument for its rejection does not appear to 

 me by any means conclusive. It runs thus : in 

 the first act is presented the death of a certain 

 King Philip of Spain ; and this King Philip must 

 be Philip II., because in a tract printed in the 

 Somers' Collection, giving an account of the " last 

 words " of that monarch, are found passages which 

 are plainly copied in the play. Now, Philip II. 

 did not die till 1598, and the tract was not pub- 

 lished till 1599, whereas Marlowe's death took 

 place in 1593. Ergo, Marlowe could not have 

 written Lust's Dominion. But we know that it 

 was the constant custom of managers to cause 

 acting plays to be altered and added to from time 

 to time : the curious Diary of Manager Henslowe 

 is full of entries of the payment of sums of twenty 

 shillings or so, to the authors whom he kept, for 

 I' adycyons " to the works of others. And surely 

 it is no forced hypothesis to suppose that some 

 literary cobbler employed to touch up Marlowe's 

 work, finding a King Philip in it, should have 

 thought to improve and give it an air of historic 

 truth, by introducing the circumstances furnished 

 by the pamphlet into the death-scene. Apart 

 from these particulars, the king is neither Philip I. 

 nor Philip II., but a mere King Philip of Spain 

 in_ general, quite 'superior to historical consider- 

 ations. The positive evidence in support of Mar- 

 lowe's authorship is tolerably strong, though not 

 absolutely conclusive. The earliest extant edition 

 of the play bears his name at full length on the 

 title-page. It is true that the date of that edition 

 is 1650, sixty-six years after his death: still the 

 publisher must have had some reasonable ground 

 for attributing the work to him ; and in all cases 

 comparatively little value ought to be attached to 

 negative, when opposed by positive evidence. We 



