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carried in solemn procession by the canons to the 
cathedral, and there honourably interred. Cap- 
grave says that the holy child’s mother having 
heard that the last time her son had been seen, 
he was playing with some Jewish children, went 
to the house of a Jew, and there found the body 
in the well. This is pretty closely related in the 
ballad, and if the missing verses could be reco- 
vered, they would probably be found to relate the 
discovery of the little martyr’s body in the “old 
Jew’s” well. F. C. H. 
Milton and Napoleon: ‘Note to “ Paradise Lost” 
(1* S. xii. 861.) —Mr. Davis has brought to 
light a very curious fact, and one not devoid of 
historic interest, in his transcript of the MS. notes 
of “J. Brown,” found, as he tells us, in a recently 
purchased copy of Symmons'’s Life of Milton. I 
need scarcely remark that the word “enquiry,” 
which has crept into the text in the quotation 
from Paradise Lost, is an error. It is a singular 
coincidence, I was going to add, that the great 
tactician N—apoleon (N—new? “ Apollyon”), 
should have made Milton’s Puradise Lost his mili- 
tary text-book! At the same time, I think the 
passage with which Mr. Davis has favoured us, 
describing in all its majestic imagery the great 
“‘war in Heaven,” loses nothing of its martial or 
stratagetic beauty, by the adoption of the ter- 
mination of the previous line: 
fg A ee . in hollow cube; 
Training his devilish engin’ry, impal’d 
On eyery side his shadowing squadrons deep, 
To hide the fraud.” 
On the first line I find the following foot-notes in 
an old edition of Milton : — 
“¢ In hollow cube:’ Dr Bentley reads square.” 
“T knew one who used to think it should be hollow 
tube; t» which it may be objected that enginry machines 
are the hollow tubes, or guns themselves.” 
Milton has a similar tactical idea carried out 
elsewhere : 
ci : 0 . Th’ inviolable Saints, 
In cubic phalanx firm, advanced entire, 
Invulnerable.” 
F, Purxorr. 
Descendant of Bunyan (1* S. xii. 491.) — Mr. 
Robert Bunyan, who, I am sorry to hear, is dead, 
was, as far as can be judged at present, the repre- 
sentative in direct male line of John Bunyan; 
that he was the last direct male descendant, I very 
much doubt; at least there is abundant margin 
for the contrary supposition. When I saw Mr. B. 
on the 17th Sept. last, his memory appeared dis- 
_ tinct and ready, and his health wonderfully 
vigorous for a man of his age (eighty) ; he had 
then been married ten years to his present widow. 
The pedigree in his possession was fuller than 
that given in the Lincolnshire Chronicle, and for a 
considerable distance back he was able to cor- 
roborate it, either personally or from tradition. 
It was drawn up by Charles Robinson, his nephew, 
who was formerly a rather eccentric schoolmaster, 
residing at Wilford (not Welford), on the south 
side of the Trent. ‘The critical point appears to 
be where the family pedigree begins, and that of 
Bunyan, as known from other sources, dovetails 
into it; although there are corroborative facts, 
such as the former existence in the family of relics 
said to have belonged to John, and the connection 
of the first Robert and his family with the Baptists. 
Mrs. Sanigear (née Bunyan), who is probably 
another descendant, although, as far as I can recol- 
lect, unknown to Mr. Bunyan at the time of my 
visit, has the portrait of the great allegorist, and, 
I believe, felt the force of the feelings Mz. Orror 
expresses, by willing it to some institution in 
Bedford. She is now at a very advanced age, and 
almost imbecile. S. F. CreswEzu. 
St. John’s College, Cambridge. 
Edmund Waple (2™S. i. 34.) Dr. Hessex 
begs to note what appear to him to be two errors 
in Mr. Denton’s letter : — 
1. The Rev. Edward Waple was never D.D. 
He did not proceed beyond B.D. 
2. For “resident” of Sion College, should surely 
be read president: an office which Waple would 
have held as a London incumbent. 
Dr. Hzssey cannot tell what Waple’s arms were. 
They are not preserved at Merchant Taylors’ 
School, where he was educated. But they are 
probably to be seen at St. John’s College, Oxford, 
of which he was a Fellow; and where he founded 
a eatechetical lecture. If not there, perhaps they 
may be found at Wells. He was prebendary of 
the cathedral church there, and Archdeacon of 
Taunton. 
Waple was born 1647; left Merchant Taylors’ 
to become Probatory Fellow of St. John’s in 1663; 
B.A. 1667; M.A. 1671; B.D. 1677. 
S. Wesley, in his Advice to a Young Clergy- 
man, says, Waple of St. Sepulchre’s was a great 
man, though almost unheard of in the world, and 
has left many valuable manuscripts behind him. 
He published a Paraphrase on the Book of 
Revelations, and various sermons. 
Merchant Taylors’. 
Sir Edward Grymes (1 S. x. 485.) — Sir Ed- 
ward Grymes, Bart., was, without doubt, the re- 
presentative of a Peckham family, which seems to - 
have obtained a warrant for the title of baronet, 
but did not care to apply for a patent. The pedi- 
gree of Grymes is to be found in Le Neve's Ba- 
ronets in the College of Arms, and in the Visita- 
tions of Surrey. Sir Edward Bysshe allows the 
title in his visitation. In one of the volumes of 
the Coll. Top. et Geneal. (I have it not before me), 
are many extracts from the church registers of 
