At the Restoration he was condemned to be drawn on a sledge yearly, on 27 January, from Tyburn to the Tower, a sentence afterwards altered to transportation to Tangier. He appears, however, to have died in Antwerp. The later Mildmays number among them several examples of longevity, the most notable being the Carew Hervey Mildmay who died in 1784 in his 94th year, and Jane, Lady Mildmay, in whose hands the greater part of the Mildmay wealth came to be concentrated, who died in 1857, aged 92. We have nothing but praise for the care with which family and public records have been ransacked to furnish details; but we confess we could have wished for a somewhat more skilful handling of all this material, in itself both interesting and valuable. It is not merely that the writing is apt to be careless; the arrangement also is often confused. A full genealogical table would have been of service, that in the appendix being inadequate; and, in the absence of an index, it would have been as well to give some indication as to where mention of the minor members of the family might be looked for. Books that Count. Edited by Mr. W. Forbes Gray. (A. & C. Black.) THIS " 66 Dictionary of Standard Books," edited by Mr. W. Forbes Gray, will prove, as the careful coinpiler desires, a help to the ordinary reader, and to the young student." The survey embraces 5,500 books, and includes works published as recently as last October. The arrangement is alphabetical, and divided into fourteen sections. The first is Biography. After the names of eleven Dictionaries, of course including the monumental Dictionary of National Biography, we have, under Individual Biographies,' five hundred recorded. The head-lines give the work selected by Mr. Gray as being the chief biography; this is followed by other biographies that have appeared on the same subject. As was to be expected, there are omissions; for instance, under Bacon mention should have been made of Hepworth Dixon's Personal History of him from unpublished papers (Murray). It is strange that there is no reference to Dixon in any part of the book. Under London his history of the Tower entitled 'Her Majesty's Tower,' in four volumes, the most important on the subject, ought to have been included. Visitors to the Tower should remember Dixon with gratitude, for it is owing to his influence that it is open free to the public. Under London might also have been included his London Prisons' as well as Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor.' Under Green's Short History' the illustrated edition in four volumes is omitted, Mr. Gray having apparently mistaken the History of the English People' for an enlargement of the 'Short History. An illustrated edition of the Short History was published in four volumes, edited by Mrs. Green, after Green's death. In this she was assisted by Miss Kate Norgate, whose services in forming the wonderful collection of plates she gratefully acknowledged. The History of the English People' is an entirely distinct work. Mrs. Green states in her Introduction to the illustrated edition of the Short History' that her husband "had at first proposed merely to prepare a library edition of the Short History, revised and corrected. In his hands, however, it became a totally different book, the chief part of it having been rewritten at much greater length and on an altered plan." On referring to Macmillan's most valuable 'Bibliographical Catalogue' of works published by them from 1843 to 1889, we find that the four volumes were issued at intervals, the first in 1877, and the fourth in 1880, the price being sixteen shillings each (not ten shillings, as stated by Mr. Gray). Under History we should have liked to see Miss Kate Norgate's Angevin Kings,' a work of great research, like all she writes. In offering these suggestions we congratulate Mr. Gray on having produced a very useful book, and as he requests inaccuracies and omissions to be pointed out, and suggestions for improvements to be sent to him, each edition should increase in value. The Deaths of the Kings of England. By James Rae. (Sherratt & Hughes.) THESE studies were originally offered as a thesis for the Doctorate of Medicine at Aberdeen, and the main substance of them has appeared in The Clinical Journal. The method is, first, quotation from contemporary, or the earliest available, accounts of the death of each king, and then a diagnosis based on the information thence obtained. Medical details almost exclusively are attended to; and the grim and painful story of the death of Philip II. is given a place. In an interesting Introduction the writer makes such few generalizations as the subjectmatter admits of. The book might have been yet more valuable if its scope had been somewhat less narrowly circumscribed. Thus, to give one example, though the state of health of Henry VI. has no direct bearing upon the mode of his death, it being certain that he was murdered, the accounts in the Chronicles of his attacks of melancholia would have been at least as well worth giving and discussing as the passages from Fabyan and Leland imputing his murder to the Duke of Gloucester which are given at length. The whole Burlington Magazine is that by Mr. Baldwin Brown THE most important article in this month's and Mrs. Archibald Christie on St. Cuthbert's Stole and Maniple at Durham.' This is only a first instalment, and consists of a very minute discussion of the technique of the weaving and embroidery, though there is subjoined a detailed description of the designs and figures on the vestments, which are also illustrated. should be carefully studied by any one who is interested in ancient figure-work, whether in embroidery or in stone. Mr. G. F. Hill continues his useful Notes on Italian Medals,' and Mr. Aymer Vallance his papers on Early Furniture.' There is a curious silver-gilt cup in the Treasury of St. Mark at Venice, the provenance of which has not been made out: this Sir Martin Conway gives reasons for attributing to an Ostrogothic artificer, and, if these hold good-the objects. for comparison are but few-it does, indeed, seem as likely as not that the cup once belonged to Theodoric. The early date of the Bewcastle and Ruthwell Crosses, which there is an inclination in some quarters to impugn in favour of a twelfthcentury origin, is vindicated in two papers by Mr. Baldwin Brown and Mr. Lethaby, which could not, of course, be other than scholarly and highly instructive. Critical, again, in their scope are the comments by M. Claude Anet and Mr. A. Cooma- among which the English classics are well repreraswamy on Dr. Martin's recent book about sented. They make interesting pages, but we have Oriental Miniature Painting. A welcome contri- space to mention only a very few specimens. We bution is M. Tancred Borenius's account of the noticed the following first editions: Goldsmith's Venetian pictures in the Augusteum at Oldenburg-Vicar of Wakefield' and 'She Stoops to Cona small gallery comparatively unvisited by tra- quer,' the latter (which has a copy of the original vellers. playbill for the first night, 15 March, 1773, inserted in it) being offered for 20., the former for 125/.; Beaumont and Fletcher's Comedies and Tragedies,' with portrait of Fletcher, bound by Riviere, 1647, 50.; Florio's Montaigne, in the original vellum, printed by Val. Sims for Edward Blount, 1603, 757.; Gulliver's Travels,' first issue of first edition, with the spurious third volume, 1727, 207.; first illustrated edition of Shakespeare in 7 vols.six volumes printed for Jacob Tonson, 1709, and vol. vii., containing the poems, printed for E. Curll,, 1710-457.; Bacon's Wisdome of the Ancients,' 1619, 167.; and Marvell's Poems,' with portrait, bound by Riviere, 10. 108. A curious item is the translation of a French work, "com. posed by grave persons," called Youth's Behaviour; or, Decency in Conversation amongst Men,' made by Francis Hawkins at the age of eight, 1653, 27. 10s. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-APRIL. MR. BLACKWELL of Oxford offers in his Catalozue 149 an Aldine Aristophanes-editio princeps 1498, for 16/. 168. Two interesting Bibles are the so-called " Vinegar" Bible, printed, it will be remembered, by Baskett at Oxford, 1717, the price of which here is 31. 3s.; and a copy of the faulty edition printed in 1653 by John Field, printer to the Parliament, in which, for the first time, pearl type was used. A copy of Guillim's ' Display of Heraldry,' 1724, is to be had for 5l. 10s., and Snape's Anatomy of the Horse,' 1683, for 71. 78. Another curious item is a copy of the 'Flores Historiarum' of Matthew of Westminster-to give it the title it lays claim to, though there is every reason to identify Matthew of Westminster's work with that of Matthew Paris, 1567, 57. 58. The list of private press books is a good one. It includes a copy of the Ashendene Dante, 1909, 10%. 10%., and two copies of the Ashendene Horace, 1903, for the better of which, on vellum, 107. 10%. is asked. From the Doves Press come a Browning's Men and Women,' 1908, 4. 48., and the 'Pervigilium Veneris,' in red and black on vellum, 1910, 51. 58.; and from the Kelmscott Press a copy of Caxton's Golden Legend,' 1892, 8. 10s. We may also mention Shaw's Arms of the Colleges of Oxford,' 1855, 61. 68. WE noticed the following interesting items among many others in the Catalogue No. 232 which Messrs. James Rimell & Sons have recently sent us: a letter of Nelson's, dated June 20, 1795, on board the Agamemnon, to his uncle Suckling, expressing his eagerness to meet the French in battle, 25.; an autograph copy of Matthew Arnold's 'Stagirius,' presenting several variations from the published version, signed M. A., 1844, 107. 10s.; a first edition of Bacon's 'Novum Organum,' 1620, 407.; a large number of Cruikshank items, including Holiday Books on America form an important section in Scenes,' which consists of four coloured etchings the Catalogue No. 105 which we have received from of (i.) children at play in the nursery, (ii.)" breakMessrs. Browne & Browne of Newcastle-on-Tyne. ing up," (iii.) arriving home from school, and They offer for 201. a copy, bound by Riviere, of the (iv.) on "Black Monday" going back to school, Impartial History of the War in America between with the original paper wrapper, which has Great Britain and her Colonies,' 1780. A copy in an etching of children in a Christmas Box," the Hoe library fetched 120 dollars. A complete set published by S. Knight, Royal Exchange, 1826, of Archeologia Eliana from the commencement 217.; Berville and Barrière's Collection de Mé to 1906, in 31 vols., is priced at 307. "A Curious moires relatifs à la Révolution Française,' 57 vols., Treatise of the Nature and Quality of Chocolate, 1821, &c., 17.; Horace Walpole's edition of the written in Spanish by Antonio Colmenero, Doctor Memoirs of the Duc de Grammont, having inserted in Physicke and Chirurgery, and put into English in it a large number of engravings and drawings, by Don Diego de Vades-forte," a small 4to volume Strawberry Hill, 1772, 247.; a set of twelve coloured of 27 pages, printed in 1640 by J. Okes, London, is plates, illustrating the cultivation of flax and the an interesting item for which 57. is asked. An manufacture of linen in Ireland, by W. Hincks, editio princeps, in Gothic letter, with some 2,250 1791, 137. 138.; a first edition (eighth title) of woodcuts by Wolgemuth and Pleydenwurf, bound Paradise Lost,' 1669, 15. 158. ; and a fine eighteenthin sixteenth-century calf, of the 'Chronicon Nurem-century edition of the 'Euvres' of Molière, with burgense,' 1493, is to be had for 15.; and for 10. a engravings, 1773, 451. copy of Biblia Pauperum-' Die siben Alter oder Pilgerschafft der jungfrawen Marie,' printed at Basle in 1520. Surtees's 'Durham,' together with Raine's 'History of North Durham,' making 5 vols. in all, is offered for 251. (1816-52). Messrs. Browne have also acquired a copy of the translation, entitled The Mighty Magician' and Such Stuff as Dreams are made of,' of Calderon's Vida es Sueño' done by FitzGerald, and printed only as gifts for his friends, 1853, 15. We may further mention a collector's fine series of 67 portraits after Van Dyck, mostly in first and second states, 1630-40, the price of which is given as 401. MR. FRANCIS EDWARDS's Catalogue No. 320 gives us some 537 items-old books of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, [Notices of other Catalogues held over.] Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print, and to this rule we can make no exception. W. FITCH.- Letter forwarded to querist on Fytche family. Katharine Hamlett, 306. Bath Jarman Family is generally some foundation of fact, but in the case of the 'Speeches and Prayers' of the regicides enumerated above there was none whatever. There were four editions of the book, the first being the most important. All the regicides named in it were executed between 13 and 19 Oct., 1660 (inclusive). According to Thomason's note on the title-page of his copy, the 'Speeches and Prayers' appeared on 1 Dec., 1660. The title-page of this copy runs :— QUERIES: The Younger Van Helmont, 307-Barnard Family-"Si vis pacem, para bellum "-Early Shorthand Society-Earliest Age of Knighthood-"Itte-dhandu," "The Speeches and Prayers of Major-General Indian Game-Poem Wanted, 308-Brigadier Walter Harrison, Octob. 13; Mr. John Carew, Octob. 15; Stapleton "Merrygreek"-Obelisk at Orange Grove, Mr. Justice Cooke, Mr. Hugh Peters, Octob. 16; · Biographical Information Wanted-Epitaph: Author Wanted-Smuggling Poems, Mr. Tho. Scott, Mr. Gregory Clement, Col. Adrian 309- Woodroffe "Domicellus" - -"Yeoman of the Scroop, Col. John Jones, October 17; Col. Daniel Signals-Old-time Children's Books-The Assyrians and Axtel and Col. Fran. Hacker, Oct. 19. The times Fish as Religious Symbol, 310. of their death. Together with severall occasional REPLIES:-St. Katharine's-by-the-Tower, 310-Christmas Rimers in Ulster, 311-Chantrey-W. Carr, Artist Speeches and Passages in their imprisonment till Medal, 312-Early Railway Travelling, 313-The Wax- they came to the place of Execution. Faithfully work Effigies in Westminster Abbey-Dr. Johnson's and impartially collected for further satisfaction. Copies of Burton's Anatomy,' 314-Miss Scott-Alms- Heb. ii. 4. And by it he being dead yet speaketh. houses near the Strand-The Inquisition in Fiction and Printed Anno Dom. 1660.” Drama-Norleigh-" Killing the calf in high style," 315Weston Patrick and King Family-Lions in the TowerLondon, British,' and English' Catalogues-Memoir of J. Wilson Croker-"The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea," 316-The Roman Rite in England-Washing ton's Connexion with Selby, 317-Earth-eating-Sir E. NOTES ON BOOKS: English Local Government: the Story of the King's Highway' -"Bohn's Popular Library" 'Old Eastbourne' English Catalogue of Books -"Queen" Book of Travel.' Hitchins-Comus' and Gray's Elegy,' 318. The printers of this edition, Simon Dover and Thomas Creeke, were not discovered until the year 1663, and then only because Creeke turned King's evidence. By the King's leniency Dover was tried, in 1664, not for high treason, but for misdemeanour, together with Brooks, the binder, Thomas Brewster, a bookseller, and one John Twyn, a printer, who was tried for compassing the King's death" by his share in a plot for the rising of 1663, for which all the literature I am about to 66 describe had paved the way. Twyn's book was called A Treatise of the Execution of Justice,' and for it he was executed, as it deliberately urged the extirpation of the Royal family. Part of the book remains at the Record Office. Masson's account of this trial is based upon the reprint of the THE first test for an unlicensed seditious or libellous book in the seventeenth century Exact Narrative of the trial' of John is to look to see whether it has a printer's Twyn and the others in State Trials,' or publisher's name attached to it. If not, vol. vi. This reprint is mutilated, in order it was unlicensed, and the publisher had to to condone the appearance in vol. v. of a be sought for and discovered before he mutilated reprint of the untrue 'Speeches could be prosecuted. With one exception, and Prayers.' There are three copies of all the books to which I wish to draw the Exact Narrative' at the British attention-viz., the forged Speeches and Museum, from which it appears that Dover Prayers' of the regicides, Thos. Harrison, and Creeke printed the book simultaneously, John Carew, John Cooke, Hugh Peters, there being two editions of 1,000 copies Gregory Clement, Thos. Scott, Adrian (96 pp.). Of one edition Dover printed Scroop, John Jones, Daniel Axtel, and the first half; and of the other, the second Francis Hacker, and the fraudulent litera-half of the 96 pages. Thus there are ture connected with them-are of this slight variations in the title, one impression class, and the Speeches and Prayers' commencing commencing "The Speeches and Prayers of the regicides executed in 1660 was first of some of the late King's judges viz.," the published at a time when there was no rest running as before. This impression was penalty in existence for unlicensed prints. given in evidence as it was the first. ThomaIn the case of most fraudulent books there son's copy was the second impression, and comments by M. Claude Anet and Mr. A. Cooma- among which the English classics are well repreraswamy on Dr. Martin's recent book about sented. They make interesting pages, but we have Oriental Miniature Painting. A welcome contri- space to mention only a very few specimens. We bution is M. Tancred Borenius's account of the noticed the following first editions: Goldsmith's Venetian pictures in the Augusteum at Oldenburg-Vicar of Wakefield' and 'She Stoops to Cona small gallery comparatively unvisited by travellers. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-APRIL. quer,' the latter (which has a copy of the original playbill for the first night, 15 March, 1773, inserted in it) being offered for 20., the former for 125.; Beaumont and Fletcher's Comedies and Tragedies,' with portrait of Fletcher, bound by Riviere, MR. BLACKWELL of Oxford offers in his Cata. 1647, 50.; Florio's Montaigne, in the original logue 149 an Aldine Aristophanes-editio princeps vellum, printed by Val. Sims for Edward Blount, 1498, for 16. 168. Two interesting Bibles are the 1603, 75.; Gulliver's Travels,' first issue of first so-called Vinegar" Bible, printed, it will be re-edition, with the spurious third volume, 1727, 201.; membered, by Baskett at Oxford, 1717, the price of first illustrated edition of Shakespeare in 7 vols. which here is 31. 38.; and a copy of the faulty six volumes printed for Jacob Tonson, 1709, and edition printed in 1653 by John Field, printer to the vol. vii., containing the poems, printed for Parliament, in which, for the first time, pearl type E. Curll, 1710-45.; Bacon's Wisdome of the was used. A copy of Guillim's 'Display of Heraldry,' Ancients,' 1619, 167.; and Marvell's Poems,' with 1724, is to be had for 5l. 10s., and Snape's Anatomy portrait, bound by Riviere, 10. 108. A curious of the Horse,' 1683, for 71. 78. Another curious item item is the translation of a French work, "comis a copy of the 'Flores Historiarum' of Matthew posed by grave persons," called Youth's Beof Westminster-to give it the title it lays claim to, haviour; or, Decency in Conversation amongst though there is every reason to identify Matthew Men,' made by Francis Hawkins at the age of eight, of Westminster's work with that of Matthew Paris, 1653, 21. 10s. 1567, 57. 58. The list of private press books is a good one. It includes a copy of the Ashendene Dante, 1909, 10%. 10s., and two copies of the Ashendene Horace, 1903, for the better of which, on vellum, 107. 10. is asked. From the Doves Press come a Browning's Men and Women,' 1908, 41. 4s., and the 'Pervigilium Veneris,' in red and black on vellum, 1910, 51. 58.; and from the Kelmscott Press a copy of Caxton's Golden Legend,' 1892, 8. 10s. We may also mention Shaw's Arms of the Colleges of 'Oxford,' 1855, 67. 68. WE noticed the following interesting items among many others in the Catalogue No. 232 which Messrs. James Rimell & Sons have recently sent us: a letter of Nelson's, dated June 20, 1795, on board the Agamemnon, to his uncle Suckling, expressing his eagerness to meet the French in battle, 25.; an autograph copy of Matthew Arnold's 'Stagirius,' version, signed M. A., 1844, 107. 10s.; a first edition presenting several variations from the published of Bacon's Novum Organum,' 1620, 407.; a large number of Cruikshank items, including 'Holiday Books on America form an important section in Scenes,' which consists of four coloured etchings the Catalogue No. 105 which we have received from of (i.) children at play in the nursery, (ii.)“ breakMessrs. Browne & Browne of Newcastle-on-Tyne. ing up," (iii.) arriving home from school, and They offer for 207. a copy, bound by Riviere, of the (iv.) on "Black Monday" going back to school, Impartial History of the War in America between with the original paper wrapper, which has Great Britain and her Colonies,' 1780. A copy in an etching of children in a Christmas Box," the Hoe library fetched 120 dollars. A complete set published by S. Knight, Royal Exchange, 1826, of Archæologia Eliana from the commencement 217.; Berville and Barrière's Collection de Mé to 1906, in 31 vols., is priced at 307. "A Curious moires relatifs à la Révolution Française,' 57 vols., Treatise of the Nature and Quality of Chocolate, 1821, &c., 17.; Horace Walpole's edition of the written in Spanish by Antonio Colmenero, Doctor Memoirs of the Duc de Grammont, having inserted in Physicke and Chirurgery, and put into English in it a large number of engravings and drawings, by Don Diego de Vades-forte," a small 4to volume Strawberry Hill, 1772, 247.; a set of twelve coloured of 27 pages, printed in 1640 by J. Okes, London, is plates, illustrating the cultivation of flax and the an interesting item for which 57. is asked. An manufacture of linen in Ireland, by W. Hincks, editio princeps, in Gothic letter, with some 2,250 1791, 13. 13s.; a first edition (eighth title) of woodcuts by Wolgemuth and Pleydenwurf, bound Paradise Lost,' 1669, 15/. 15s. ; and a fine eighteenthin sixteenth-century calf, of the 'Chronicon Nurem-century edition of the 'Euvres' of Molière, with burgense,' 1493, is to be had for 15.; and for 10. a engravings, 1773, 457. copy of Biblia Pauperum-Die siben Alter oder Pilgerschafft der jungfrawen Marie,' printed at Basle in 1520. Surtees's 'Durham,' together with Raine's 'History of North Durham,' making 5 vols. in all, is offered for 25l. (1816-52). Messrs. Browne have also acquired a copy of the translation, entitled "The Mighty Magician' and Such Stuff as Dreams are made of,' of Calderon's 'Vida es Sueño' done by FitzGerald, and printed only as gifts for his friends, 1853, 15. We may further mention a collector's fine series of 67 portraits after Van Dyck, mostly in first and second states, 1630-40, the price of which is given as 407. MR. FRANCIS EDWARDS's Catalogue No. 320 gives us some 537 items-old books of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, [Notices of other Catalogues held over.] Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print, and to this rule we can make no exception. W. FITCH. Letter forwarded to querist on Fytche family. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1913. CONTENTS.-No. 173. • NOTES:-The Forged Speeches and Prayers' of the Regi cides, 301-Gutpiuda": the Folk - Name of the Goths, 302-Inscriptions at St. James's, Piccadilly, 303-Pepys's Birthplace, 304-Two Kentish Memorials: Dickens and Charles I.-The Robbery on Gadshill-Jane Maxwell's Mother, 305-Election of Mayors in the Cinque Ports "Hunger Strike" Hamlet, I. ii.-The Drowning of Katharine Hamlett, 306. Bath QUERIES:-The Younger Van Helmont, 307-Barnard Family-"Si vis pacem, para bellum "-Early Shorthand Society-Earliest Age of Knighthood-"Itte-dhandu," Indian Game-Poen Wanted, 308-Brigadier Walter Stapleton "Merrygreek"-Obelisk at Orange Grove, Jarman Family - Biographical Information Wanted-Epitaph: Author Wanted-Smuggling Poems, 309- - Woodroffe "Domicellus"-"Yeoman of the Signals-Old-time Children's Books-The Assyrians and Fish as Religious Symbol, 310. REPLIES:-St. Katharine's-by-the-Tower, 310-Christmas Rimers in Ulster, 311-Chantrey-W. Carr, ArtistMedal, 312-Early Railway Travelling, 313-The Wax. work Effigies in Westminster Abbey-Dr. Johnson's Copies of Burton's Anatomy,' 314-Miss Scott-Almshouses near the Strand-The Inquisition in Fiction and ⚫ Drama-Norleigh-" Killing the calf in high style," 315Weston Patrick and King Family-Lions in the TowerLondon, British,' and English' Catalogues-Memoir of J. Wilson Croker-"The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea," 316-The Roman Rite in England-Washing. ton's Connexion with Selby, 317-Earth-eating-Sir E. NOTES ON BOOKS: English Local Government: the Story of the King's Highway' -"Bohn's Popular Library' Old Eastbourne' - English Catalogue of Books "Queen" Book of Travel.' Hitchins-Comus' and Gray's 'Elegy,' 318. 4.44 Notes. THE FORGED 'SPEECHES AND I. THE FIRSt Edition of THE 'SPEECHES THE first test for an unlicensed seditious or libellous book in the seventeenth century is to look to see whether it has a printer's or publisher's name attached to it. If not, it was unlicensed, and the publisher had to be sought for and discovered before he could be prosecuted. With one exception, all the books to which I wish to draw attention-viz., the forged Speeches and Prayers of the regicides, Thos. Harrison, John Carew, John Cooke, Hugh Peters, Gregory Clement, Thos. Scott, Adrian Scroop, John Jones, Daniel Axtel, and Francis Hacker, and the fraudulent literature connected with them-are of this class, and the Speeches and of the regicides executed in 1660 was first published at a time when there was no penalty in existence for unlicensed prints. In the case of most fraudulent books there is generally some foundation of fact, but in the case of the Speeches and Prayers of the regicides enumerated above there was none whatever. There were four editions of the book, the first being the most important. All the regicides named in it were executed between 13 and 19 Oct., 1660 (inclusive). According to Thomason's note on the title-page of his copy, the Speeches and Prayers' appeared on 1 Dec., 1660. The title-page of this copy runs : "The Speeches and Prayers of Major-General Harrison, Octob. 13; Mr. John Carew, Octob. 15; Mr. Justice Cooke, Mr. Hugh Peters, Octob. 16; Mr. Tho. Scott, Mr. Gregory Clement, Col. Adrian Scroop, Col. John Jones, October 17; Col. Daniel Axtel and Col. Fran. Hacker, Oct. 19. The times of their death. Together with severall occasional Speeches and Passages in their imprisonment till they came to the place of Execution. Faithfully and impartially collected for further satisfaction. Heb. ii. 4. And by it he being dead yet speaketh. Printed Anno Dom. 1660.” The printers of this edition, Simon Dover and Thomas Creeke, were not discovered until the year 1663, and then only because Creeke turned King's evidence. By the King's leniency Dover was tried, in 1664, not for high treason, but for misdemeanour, together with Brooks, the binder, Thomas Brewster, a bookseller, and one John Twyn, a printer, who was tried for 66 compassing the King's death " by his share in a plot for the rising of 1663, for which all the literature I am about to describe had paved the way. Twyn's book was called A Treatise of the Execution of Justice,' and for it he was executed, as it deliberately urged the extirpation of the Royal family. Part of the book remains at the Record Office. Masson's account of this trial is based upon the reprint of the Exact Narrative of the trial of John Twyn and the others in State Trials,' vol. vi. This reprint is mutilated, in order to condone the appearance in vol. v. of a mutilated reprint of the untrue Speeches and Prayers.' There are three copies of the Exact Narrative' at the British Museum, from which it appears that Dover and Creeke printed the book simultaneously, there being two editions of 1,000 copies (96 pp.). Of one edition Dover printed the first half; and of the other, the second half of the 96 pages. Thus there are slight variations in the title, one impression commencing "The Speeches and Prayers of some of the late King's judges viz.," the rest running as before. This impression was given in evidence as it was the first. Thomason's copy was the second impression, and |