Walden, within the entrenchments of a prehistoric camp. About 150 skeletons were exposed in all, of both sexes, and of various ages. From the measurements of skulls which are given, they appear to be mostly dolichocephalic, though it is remarked that the contour of the skulls varied exceedingly.

WHAT is said to be the oldest clock in the New World is now in the possession of a Boston undertaker. It is called the "Mycall clock," from the fact that it was taken to America from England by John Mycall, who settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1740. He moved to Newburyport in 1793, and presented the clock to his intimate friend, Benjamin Dearborn, the inventor of the balance scales, on condition that he would name his son John Mycall Dearborn. The clock passed through the hands of successive generations, and in 1881 it was sold at auction to Mr. Lewis Jones, its present owner.-Echo.

THE Royal Dramatic College at Woking having been purchased by Dr. Leitner, the founder of several institutions in England and India, is about to be converted into an Oriental University for the purpose of conducting the Oriental examinations of the Panjab University in Europe, and forming a link between European and Eastern Orientalists in the production of original and translated works, and in the prosecution of research. There will also be an Oriental Museum and Library, illustrating the same, for the promotion of Oriental literature, art, archæology, ethnology, industry, and commerce; and likewise a free Panjab Guesthouse, specially adapted to Mohammedans, Hindus, and Sikhs respectively. It is also intended to make arrangements for the tuition of Europeans and natives of good family for official careers in the East.

THE attention of Sir Evelyn Baring having been drawn by Mr. Stanley Lane Poole to a recent notice in the North German Gazette, referring to various depredations in the Khedive's library in the Durb el Gemmaniez, and affirming that "the pashas" were selling the books, he has replied that such statements are without foundation, and that far from any books or manuscripts having disappeared, considerable additions have been made to the collection. In the course of his letter to Sir E. Baring, Rogers Bey says: "The rules laid down some years ago are being strictly attended to. No MSS. are allowed to leave the library on any pretence whatever, nor is any printed book lent unless a second copy is in the library. Every facility is given for readers, students, or copyists on the establishment. Still, the fact remains that no European has any voice in the direction of the library, and the building is far from being suitable for this very valuable collection."

THE following articles, more or less of an antiquarian character, appear among the contents of the Magazines for April: Macmillan's, "Historic London," and "An Oxford College under James I. and Charles I.; " Longmans', "A Pilgrimage to Selborne;" English Illustrated Magazine, "Changes at Charing Cross," and "The Belfry at Bruges ; "All the Year Round, "Chronicles of English CountiesShropshire; " Magazine of Art, "Syon House," and "The Sword;" Army and Navy Gazette, "Pepys as an Official," and "The Feather Bonnet;" Library Chronicle," Librarianship in the Seventeenth Century," "Popular Libraries of Paris;" Fortnightly Review, "Homeric Troy;" Temple Bar, "In an Old Bookshop," and "Temples and Worshippers in Japan;" Clergyman's Magazine, "The Irish Bible." and "Biblical Notices of Egypt;" British Quarterly Review, "Dictionary Making, Past and Present;" Nineteenth Century, "The Arundel Society;" Dublin Review,

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"The Life of St. Olaf," and "Adrian IV. and Ireland;" Time, "The English Drama before Shakespeare."

DURING the first three days of the present month (May) all Pompeii will be en fête, a series of entertainments, in the shape of a revival of the ancient games, having been organised, to take place within the ruins, and under the patronage of the King of Italy, for the benefit of the survivors of the recent earthquake in Ischia. The proceedings will be conducted by the Minister of Public Instruction, who will be seconded in his efforts by that distinguished archæologist Signor Fiorelli, whose past labours are well known to antiquarian readers. It is to be hoped that so laudable an effort will meet with the liberal support and encouragement which it deserves. The spectacle bids fair to be as magnificent as it will be unique. The programme up to the present runs as follows:-First day : Within the walls of the city, and on the space still unexcavated, will be erected a circus, conducted scrupulously on the lines of the ancient games in the amphitheatre. The Emperor will be personated as surrounded by his attendants, senators, prætors, lictors, &c. The various factions, with their respective colours, will take part in the races. The various taverns will be restored pro tem., and attendants robed in the classic costumes of the period will dispense liquors in vessels copied from those discovered in the ruins. Second day: A nuptial procession will start from the house of Cornelius Rufus, and will proceed to the house of the bride, in the street of Mercury. Later in the day a funeral will be celebrated. The procession will leave the house of the Faun, and proceed to the Street of Tombs, beyond the Gate of Hercules. In the interval, excavations will be carried on at divers points of the ruins. Third day: A grand contest of gladiators, and procession across the arena, and single combats on foot and on horseback. Towards evening, departure of the Emperor and torch-light procession.

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THE "ANTIQUARY'S" LATIN !

SIR,-An epitaph in Peel Cathedral is made to run thus in the Correspondence of the Antiquary for April: "Jaceo spe Resurrectionis ad vitam, Sampermissione (!) Divinâ Episcopus." Will the Editor kindly inform his readers as to the exact meaning of the strange word which I have placed in italics and marked with a note of admiration? It is new to me, and I should fancy to all Latin scholars. It certainly is "quaint enough to be worth recording." MUS URBANUS.

EXTINCT MAGAZINES.

SIR,-In a fragment of a Hereford newspaper which recently came in my way, I observed an obituary notice of a Mr. W. Hyslop, the proprietor of a private lunatic asylum, in which, among other good things said of him, it was stated :

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"For some time a monthly publication was issued under his editorial supervision. The articles were written by the inmates of Stretton House, and very interesting reading this magazine was."

What was the title of this publication? I may add that I possess numbers and volumes of many short-lived magazines, particulars of which it is my intention to send you from time to time.* P. J. MULLIN. Leith, N.B.

LORD HUNSDON.

SIR, I should be obliged by your correcting an error in the article on an "Old Mural Painting at Tonbridge," inserted in your January number for this year, pp. 9 and 10. In mentioning Queen Elizabeth's kinsman, I wrote "Cecil" for " Carey." Sir William Carey (Lord Hunsdon) was the second son of Sir Thomas, of the Body Guard of King Henry VIII., who married Mary, daughter of Thomas Bullen, Earl of Wiltshire, sister to Lady Anne, the second wife of Henry VIII., who left one son, Henry, and one daughter, Constance. In consideration of Henry's relationship to Elizabeth, he was first knighted, and then made a baron, in the fourth year of her reign. In the following year he was made Governor of Berwick Castle, and in the twenty-ninth year of Elizabeth, Lord Chamberlain. He married Anne, daughter of Thomas Morgan, and died July 23, 1596. There is a monument to his memory in Westminster Abbey. See Dugdale Baronage, p. 397. J. F. WADMORE. Tonbridge.

"AN OLD CHESHIRE FAMILY."

(See ante, p. 190.)

SIR,-Kindly permit me to thank the Rev. John Pickford for his charming article upon the above-mentioned subject. His paper recalls to my memory very pleasant recollections. Whilst officially engaged in Cheshire in 1875, under the guidance of the Rev. Horatio Walmisley, of Odd Rode, I paid a visit to Moreton Hall. I then regretted I was unable to furnish myself with particulars concerning it and its people. This regret has been greatly modified by Mr. Pickford's article.

On that occasion I had the pleasure to dine at Rode Hall with Mr. Randle Wilbraham, "the great grandson" of the contemporary of the last of the Moretons.

Whilst thereabouts I gleaned (from the Rev. W. Besant, of Buglawton, and others) many particulars concerning the march of the Young Pretender through those parts in 1745, and, in company with the Rev. J. M. Bannerman, of St. Stephen's, Congleton, I visited the source of one of England's greatest rivers, the Trent, which is not far off. I also visited the beautiful church at Astbury. These, among other reminiscences, have been conjured up by Mr. Pickford's essay.-Yours sincerely, Bronwylfa, Rhyl. T. MORGAN OWEN.

THE VISCOUNTY OF HAMPDEN. SIR,-Much attention has been recently directed to the title selected by the ex-Speaker of the House of Commons, that of Viscount Hampden, and the authority of precedent seems for a long time to have awarded that grade in the peerage to one retiring from the highest position that can be held by a Commoner. The title is Viscount Hampden of Glynde, the ex-Speaker's own estate in Sussex, and not of Hampden, in Bucking

[*Such materials will always be welcome.-ED. A. M. AND B.]

hamshire, which is the property of the noble family of Hobart, and once the home of John Hampden. Though peerages are no longer territorial, yet in all probability when any title is conferred some special reason for its assumption is always demanded. The Earl of Carnarvon, however, on a recent visit to New York, seems to have surprised an inquiring person in the States because he "failed to convince his pertinacious questioner that a title derived from a Welsh county does not necessarily imply either Welsh nationality or the possession of Welsh quarries." (Daily News, November 17, 1883.)

The title of Viscount Hampden, of Great Hampden, became extinct in 1824, by the death of John, third Viscount, who enjoyed the title scarcely three weeks. He succeeded his elder brother, Thomas, second Viscount, who had inherited it from his father, Robert, fourth Baron Trevor, and first Viscount Hampden, in 1783. The father of the first Viscount was Thomas, first Baron Trevor of Bromham, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Lord President of the Council, one of the twelve peers created by Queen Anne in one day, in 1711-12. He died in 1730. Three sons in rotation succeeded him in the title. Thomas, who died in 1753, and whose only daughter, Elizabeth, was married to Charles, third Duke of Marlborough, and from whom the present Duke is descended; John, who died in 1764, and had by his wife, a daughter of Sir Richard Steele, an only child, Diana, who died young; and on his death his half-brother, Robert, became fourth Lord Trevor. This Robert, afterwards first Viscount Hampden, was an excellent Latin scholar, and a fine folio volume of his poetry is in existence. In an ode, consisting of a hundred stanzas of Latin sapphics, he describes the sylvan scenery at Bromham, and the winding Ouse, besides mirroring the chief events in his own life and in those of some of his relatives. On the opposite pages to the verses are inserted what he styles “Explanations in English," a few of which are here literally transcribed: "Bromham, forty miles by water to Turvey, by land four." "The old hall." "Family portraits." "Flower stands." "The overshot." "The Rookery." Of himself he gives the following history: "I was clerk in the Secretary of State's office in 1729. Secretary to the Embassy at the Hague 1734. Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at ditto 1739. Commissioner of Customs in Ireland 1750. Postmaster-General 1759. Dis-mist 1765."

It would seem from the same notes that, before his accession to the Trevor peerage, he had succeeded to the Hampden estates, on the death of the last male heir in 1754; and, be it observed, he was great grandson in the female line of the celebrated John Hampden, who was mortally wounded at Chalgrove Field in 1643. In 1776 he was, as he states, "created Viscount Hampden of Great and Little Hampden, Bucks." He died in 1783, and on the death of his younger son, John, third Viscount Hampden, the extensive estates in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Sussex were divided. The Glynde estate, in the last-named county, which had come to him, in 1771, by the death of his brother, Richard Trevor, Bishop Durham, has now descended by inheritance to the newlycreated peer, Henry, Viscount Hampden of Glynde. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

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THE Editor declines to pledge himself for the safety or return of MSS. voluntarily tendered to him by strangers.

1. Corfe Castle.

Books Received.

By T. Bond, B.A. London: E. Stanford. 1884. 2. Rambles in Rome. By S. Russell Forbes. Nelson & Sons. 1884. 3. Folk Moots. By J. Nicholson. Driffield: Observer Office. 1884. 4. Haig of Bemersyde: a Pedigree. Fol., in case. Privately printed. 1884.

5. Lincolnshire and the Danes. By the Rev. G. S. Streatfeild. Kegan Paul & Co. 1884.

6. Library Chronicle. No. 1. Library Association. March, 1884. 7. The Oldest Diarie of Englyssh Travell. Ye Leadenhalle Presse. 1884.

8. The Spelling Experimenter. Conducted by W. R. Evans. Farren & Fenton.

1884.

9. The Genealogist. No. 2 (New Series). 10. Johns Hopkins' University Studies. more. Jan., Feb., 1884.

Bell & Sons. April, 1884.
Second Series, i. ii. Balti-

II. Rivista Storica Italiana, Pubblicazione Trimestrale. Edited by Prof. C. Rinaldo. Turin: Bocca.

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1884.

New Light on Obscure Words and Phrases in Shakspeare. By C. Mackay, LL.D. Reeves & Turner.

1884.

13. Historical Tour; or, The Early Ancestors of the Prince of Wales of the House of Wettin. By S. T. Taylor, M.B. Williams & Norgate. 1884.

14. Westminster School, Past and Present. By F. H. Forshall Wyman & Sons. 1884.

15. Le Livre. No. 52. Paris: 7, Rue St. Benoit. April, 1884.

16. Phonetical Memory Book. By F. Appleby, C.E. London: F. Pitman. 1883.

Books, &c., for Sale.

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Guardian Newspaper, from commencement to 1864, bound; and 186570, in numbers. Offers to E. Walford, Hyde Park Mansions, Edgewareroad, N.W.

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The East Anglian, by S. Tymms, vol. i. Address D. C. Elwes, Esq., 9, Crescent, Bedford.

Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer, several copies of No. 2 (February, 1882) are wanted, in order to complete sets. Copies of the current number will be given in exchange at the office.

Dodd's Church History, 8vo., vols. i. ii. and v.; Waagen's Art and Artists in England, vol. i.; East Anglian, vol. i., Nos. 26 and 29. The Family Topographer, by Samuel Tymms, vols. iii. and iv.; Notes and Queries, 5th series, vols. vi., vii. (1876-7); also the third Index. Penny Magazine, 1843. A New Display of the Beauties of England, vol. i., 1774. Chambers' Cyclopædia of English Literature, vol. i. Address, E. Walford, 2, Hyde Park Mansions, Edgeware-road, N.W.