ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. P. 77. line 21. Byrom." VOL. I-PART I. For "a letter from Byrom" read "a letter enclosed in one from p. 84, l. 13 (note). "Gery," as Mr. F. M. Jackson suggests, may possibly be "Lewis L. Guerre," referred to in Strutt's Biographical Dictionary, i. 357, as “an engraver of no great note. "He was," adds Strutt, "I believe, a native of France, and died A.D. 1721, aged 58." The Modenese Guerra's are of course out of the question. For "ib." read “26." For ". 971," read "l. 973." p. 91, line 1 from bottom. p. 95, line 3 from bottom. pp. 10-11I. (Bone and Skin.) In the Letters of Richard Reynolds (1852), edited with a Memoir by his granddaughter, Mrs. Hannah Rathbone (authoress of Lady Willoughby's Diary), that admirable man is said to have frequently quoted this epigram. Mrs. Rathbone surmises it to have been written by an acquaintance of her grandfather, whose residence was at Keltey in Shropshire, on the occasion of a season of extreme scarcity, when two millers of importance living in his neighbourhood held back their stocks of grain and flour for extravagant prices. From Remains, i. 562, note, it appears that the designations "Bone" and "Skin" respectively alluded by a special innuendo to the professions of Mr. William Dawson, a surgeon, and of Mr. Joseph Yates, an attorney. Both are repeatedly mentioned in Byrom's Journal. p. 138, 1. 24. For "Adder's" read “Adders." p. 185, 1. 4 from bottom. For "intented" read "intended." pp. 215-8. (Lines to Stephen Duck.) The Poems of the excellent "Mrs." Elizabeth Carter, which fill vol. ii. of her Memoirs, edited by Montagu Pennington (2nd edn., 1816), contain (pp. 24-36) some couplets To Mr. Duck, occasioned by a present of his Poems. The editor observes, with apparently unconscious felicity, that these verses were suggested by Mr. Duck's own Muse, adding that he would not have inserted them, "had they not been published before." P. 282. PART II. (Byrom's Jacobitism.) The Historical MSS. Commission's Fourteenth Report, Appendix, Part iv. (1894) contains an interesting illustration of the longcontinued loyalty of the Byrom family to the Stuart cause. Among the subscribers to the addresses sent from Manchester to the Earl of Derby as Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire, setting forth the readiness of the signatories to provide men and horses for use in quelling Monmouth's rebellion (1685), are John Byrom, Joseph Byrom, and Edward Byrom, who respectively undertake to furnish "a foot souldier, well-armed pike, a musketeer" and "a foot souldier " (pp. 181, 182). 99 66 p. 368, 1. 11 and note. ("Mountebank Green.") I am sorry to say that my note offers an unintentional illustration of the folly of "looking beyond one's nose." See Byrom's Diary, October 13th, 1722 (Remains, i. 46): “Mountebank Green's stage set up in the square." (St. Ann's Square at Manchester.) p. 369, 1. 1 and note. ("Baddam.") Mr. F. M. Jackson suggests that this may be John Bodenham, the well-known anthologist of both prose and verse, of whose Wits Theater of the little World, a copy (24m0, 1599) is in Byrom's Library. (See Catalogue, p. 32.) p. 379, l. 4 from bottom. For "Vicerory" read “Viceroy." p. 457, l. 10 from bottom. For "Abbot" read “Abbey." pp. 477, 479, 481. (Headings of pages.) For "Three Epistles" read "An Epistle.” P. 499, 11. 6 and 9 from bottom. For "Rhimes" read "Rimes." p. 504, l. 5, and note. Byrom seems to have made a slip in crediting Euripides with a line by Menander: “ Χρυσὸς δὲ ἀνοίγει πάντα καὶ ἅδου πύλας.” See for this and other parallel passages Orelli's Horace, 4th edn., revised by Hirschfelder, 1892. p. 551, l. 9, and note. A small tract in my possession entitled "A Collection of Curious Papers," printed for the author, n. d., comprises a series of "Reasons showing the Rev. Richard Assheton to be justly suspected of Disaffection to his Majesty King George," supposed to be the work of the Bishop of Chester (Samuel Peploe), and two supplementary essays by an admirer of his Lordship, together with other satirical It is referred to in Remains, i. 231, note, where its style is with reason (though rather hyperbolically) praised. matter. p. 589, 1. 17, and note. The Saint in question is Saint Denis. The legend which confounds Dionysius the Areopagite with St. Denis of France relates how, after the executioner had struck off the heads of the venerable and holy prelate and his companions, the body of Dionysius rose up on its feet and, taking up the head in its hands, walked the space of two miles to a place called the Mount of Martyrs (since known as Montmartre), the angels singing hymns by the way. Many persons were converted by this great miracle. See Mrs. Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art (1848), ii. 343-4; where it is stated that the popular figures of St. Denis in the Gothic sculpture and stained glass of French Churches—representing him as carrying his head in his hand, and occasionally at the same time bearing his own mitred head on his shoulders while carrying the severed head in his hand as an offering-appear to have suggested the legends of various other headless saints promulgated with a view of gratifying the popular taste for the marvellous. p. 68. (Phebe's Fan.) I should not have omitted to point out that ll. 11-24 of the verses called Phebe's Fan repeat, with certain variations which may be due to the author, but are possibly due to the transcriber, ll. 1-12 and 29-30 of A Penitential Soliloquy (pp. 53-7, ante). A similar, although less close repetition, occurs on p. 64 (cf. 11. 9-10 of Humility and 11. 3-4 of The Poor in Spirit). It will of course be borne in mind that all these pieces are merely jottings in a note-book, where there is no reason why a writer should not repeat himself as often as he chooses, P. 591, 1. 21. For "pugatory" read "purgatory." P. 595, nole. Mr. F. M. Jackson has been informed by Mr. J. Sheriff Roberts of Chester, that the firm of Messrs. Bennett, one of the oldest firms of wine merchants in the district, occupied premises opposite "the old Crypt" (said to date from about 1180) in Watergate Street, and that a small portion of these premises consisted of cellars now in the occupation of Messrs. Rowson and Sons. In the Chester Directory for 1797 (published by F. Broster & Son, Chester) occur the entries "Bennett, J., Alderman, Wine Merchant, Watergate Street," and "Bennett, Samuel, Wine Merchant, Watergate Street." p. 578, No. 10. Dele this item. The lines beginning "O Thou, Whose Powerful Word gave birth," occur in the Chetham Library MS., and are reprinted from it ante, p. 69. p. 600, 1. 9. p. 633, note 3. p. 634, note 4. For "of it" read "if it." For "i. 544" read “i. 545.” INDEX. [For this Index to the present edition of Byrom's Poems, and to the |