8 Jan. For going by water wth my wife to St. Mary Overies and coming backe by water without her.

11 Jan. For coming by water from Westm❜ to the Temple, 5d.

13 Jan.-For botteling at supper, 6d.

14. For five yards of ribon for shoostringes, 2s. 16. For a velvet nightcap for myselfe, 68. 18. For a paire of three soled shoes liquored, 28. 8d.

26. For a paire of three soled shooes neatsleather, 28. 8d.

1611, November.-2. For cutting of my haire, 12d.

6. For 9 yardes of cloth for three liveries for my men, 5li.

29. For a kegge of sturgeon for Justice Wm3, 218. 1811, December. For a paire of Kidskin shoes bought of Jo Bird, 15d.

4. For a quarter of qurranes whereof 25 li. weight given me, 108.

For a quarter and halfe a quarter new Raisings of the Sun which 25 li. weight given to me, 178. Forgot Pruines at 148. p.c. whereof twentie pounds weight given to my brother, 3s. 6d.

6. For a paire of thicker Kidskin gloves bought of Jo Birde, 15d.

10. For 90 yds. and a qrt. yd. of blacke Naples silke lace for a cloth cote at 2s. 6d. the ownce, 28. 8d.

For an oz. of sowing and stitching silke for the same, 24d.

For 3 dozen buttons for the same, 12d. For 12 gallons and a pottle of Muscadine for my Lo. Coke at 4s. the gallon.

23. For a paire of double Kidskinne gloves faced with tafeta and fringed and lined with silke for Mrs. Anne Sadler, 38. 5d.

Januarie, 1811[12].-20. For a fealt hat faced and lined with tafeta and a treble Cipres bande, 138.

1811/12, Februarie.-5. For two paire of whyte woosted stockins sent me from Norwich by Mr. John Grey, 17s. 6d.

18. To the minister of St. Dunstane according to the Stt [Statute] uppon my license to eat flesh,

68.

22. For a runlett of sacke of 14 gallons and a pottle and a pinte for Mr. Andrew Powell, reader

elect for Lent next.

For a paire of embroidered gloves sent by Mr. Nelsone, 58.

For a paire of double black silke Frenche garters....

1612, April.-10. For two dozen round silke points, 6d.

11. For two round cappes, the one a clothe cappe lined and furred with velvet, the other an ordinarie cappe, 12s.

October 31. To Ries Powell for carieng my wives pilion to Hackney, 6d.

November 7. To the Steward his man who brought me a minced pie and two little pots of jelly from his Mrs., 6d.

1613, May 6.-For a paire of spectacles, havinge .lost my olde which I found again, 38.

For a paire of Spanish lether shoes, 38. 4d. May 16. To Jo Rolles for running by my horse from Hackney to London, 38.

October 28. For garnishing of a stone pot given me by Mr. Jacob Torado, the potte being cut out as he said of the stone called Lapis serpentino, 40s.

Dec. 11. For 16 gallons and three quarters of Muscadine for Sr Edw. Coke, Lo. Chief Justice of England, £3 7s.

1814, April 5. To Mr. Chambers his man Blythe that brought the mairning cloth for a gown for myselfe and cloke for my man after the death of the yo. Lord Harington.

6. For a new key to the Benchers' House of Office, 10s.

1614, May 23.-To the cokes boxe this daye, 18d. June 3.-To Dor. Chetwin, chambermaid to my sister Hen,, for her paines taken in making almon milkes, brothes, Posset ale and other things for me in the tyme of my being visited wth an ague. 6. For an ounce of syrup of violets bought yesterdaie, 6d.

July 2.-For one wrought drawen worke cup, 68. 9. For a lode and a half of old coles at 40s. the lode.

December. To my servant Jo. Chilton for his wages, 108.

16. For a paire of irish sheepskin gloves bought of Wm Knight, 9d.

20. For making of holes in my bedstead at Mrs. Gravenor's in Paternoster Row to put Bedstaves in, 4d.

For sugar candie and luxe num for my wives daughter, 2d.

24. For sixe paire of lambricke ruffles bought of Jane, my Laundres daughter, 38.

31. For a paire of shoes for my wife lined wth cotton, 28. xd.

1614/15, Januarie.-1. To Jn. Watkins for a paire of blacke silke garters wch I gave my wives father yesterdaie, 68.

For conserve of Roses for my wives daughter, having taken colde, 2d.

16. To Tho. Harley to buy three bushelles more of hastie peaze to sowe my new broken field at Hackney, 228, 6d.

17. For a boke called the Jewell hour of art and nature.

1614/15, Febr. 8. To the Vicar of Hackney for the poor uppon my license to eat fleshe.

Swan to old paris garden sluices and backe from 1615, April 20.-For bote hyre from the old thence to the Temple, 8d.

in 8°, an a new testament by itselfe bought at May 3. For the whole Bible bought by itselfe

the second h...., 38.

For a knot of seales bought of Tho. Watkins, 2d. May 24. To a woman that found the keyes of my studie and chamber doore, they falling out of my gowne pocket as I passed from Ram Alley to my chamber in the Temple, 6d.

June 5. To Mr. Tassell, my taylor, for a yard of satten wch he bought to make canions to my new satten breeches and for all other thinges to make them up, the outside excepted.

June 13. For a paire of writing tables wth a pen wth blacke leddor, 12d.

1615, October 16. To Jo Chilton for buttons, thread and silke weh he bought to amend my thick laced satten doublet, 5d.

1616, May 27. For bokes covered wth vellum, the one intituled Hills Art of gardenning, the other the Gardines labarynth, 28.

June 5.-To goodwife Whitworth that brought Strawburyes from Hackney, 2d.

15. To goodwife Whitworth that brought me a litle basket of harte chearies from my gardener, 4d.

October 12.-For a round table wth a wanscote or walnut tree fote, bought of Sr Henry Croke, 78. 25. For a sette of bedstaves bought by my Laundres Mabel for my bed in my new chamber in the Temple, 4d.

November 28.-For halfe a lode of great cleare coals bought of Jo. Harrison, 188.

For seven sackes more of the like coales, 88. December 3. For a tinder boxe wth a steel and flint and for an extinguisher, 6d.

1616/17, Januarie.-To Jo. Harrison for halfe a lode of small coles and halfe a thousand of billets bought by my man a litle before Christide last, 208. 6d.

15d.

Februarie....For a paire of Goteskin gloves, 19. For 3 yardes of sad marble colored cloth to make me a riding cloke wth bases for my armes, 518. 6d.

For 3 yardes of bayes to line it at 38. 6d. the yard, 108. 6d. For a qrt. a yard of russet colod velvet for the cape, 58.

1817, April 21.-For two paire of woosted white stockins knitte wth silke thread sent me from Mr. George of Norwiche, 208.

For two combes brought for me by Jo. Adney, th' one of Ivorie, the other of wood, wth a case for them, 38. J. HARVEY BLOOM.

"the first General meeting or Feast of the Scholars was on St. Paul's Day (January 25), 1660, or the following year. In the year 1664 it was intermitted till 1674: then revived again, and continued till 1679."

The Feast was again revived in 1699, and continued, with certain omissions, to be held annually throughout a portion of the eighteenth century. The celebration consisted of a meeting of present and past pupils of the School at a service held on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul in St. Paul's Cathedral, or occasionally in some other City church. A sermon was preached by a distinguished Old Pauline divine, and the collection was devoted to various purposes connected with the School, such as the sending of certain scholars to the Universities, the apprenticing of others, the restoration of the library (which had been destroyed with the School buildings in the Great Fire), or lastly, the teaching of writing and arithmetic to certain boys, for which purpose the services of wellknown writing masters, such as Edward Cocker, John Rayner, and Col. John Ayres, appear to have been obtained.

Eton, Charterhouse, Merchant Taylors', and Westminster seem-towards the end of the seventeenth century in some cases, or early in the eighteenth century in others -to have followed the example of St. Paul's in instituting anniversary feasts which combined reunions of "old boys" with a religious celebration.

St. Paul's School is unfortunate in the fact that no complete registers of its pupils are known to be in existence for any year centuries after its foundation). For this earlier than 1748 (nearly two and a half reason the preservation of the sermons at the successive School Feasts has proved of great value, for, of those which are extant in print subsequent to the revival of the function in 1674, most contain a list of Stewards of the Feast, who were Old Paulines who had made a certain mark in the world.

Many of these names have led, to the identification of men of distinction in their day as pupils of St. Paul's, but there remain a large number whose careers have not been traced, or whose identification has remained a matter of surmise, and the publication of the names of such persons, with the date at which they served as Stewards, will, it is hoped, lead to further information which may lead to their recognition :

William Bartlett, 1678.
William Butler, 1674.
James Cardrow, 1675.
Charles Chamberlayne, 1675.
James Escourt, 1678.
Edmund Gardiner, 1674.
Thomas Goddard, 1677. He was Surveyor
Accountant of St. Paul's School in 1699-1700,
and was hence a member of the Mercers'
Company.

James Hayes, 1678. Can he be identified with one James Hayes who matriculated at Corpus, Oxford, in 1648-9, was called to the Bar of Lincoln's Inn in 1656, and became Recorder of, and M.P. for, Marlborough in 1659 ?

John Knight, 1678. Was this any relation of Samuel Knight, the antiquary who preached at the Feast in 1717, and was a Steward in 1723 ?

Was this a son of John Richard Lightfoot, 1675. Lightfoot, who was intruded Master of St.. Catherine's College, Cambridge, in 1650 ? John Lightfoot, a son of the future Master of St.. Catherine's, is known to have gone up to Peterhouse from St. Paul's in 1646. Francis Nixon, 1675.

He was LL.D. of

Henry Simmonds, 1674.
Thomas Swallow, 1675.
Robert Thompson, 1677.
Trinity Hall in 1670.
Edward Trotman, 1675.
Edward Alexander, 1701; Thomas Alexander,
1702. Were these related to Thomas Alex-
ander of Framlingham, Suffolk, who was

LETTER LXXIX.

John Smith to Richard Edwards.

(O.C. 3622.)

Decca January 23d 1671

Mr Richard Edwards. Esteemed freind

present.

Yours of date 8th* received 16th

Am sorry my Letters met with soe Long a passage. Thank you kindly for your care in provideing and sending my things to Ballasore, which Mr Reade writes hee received and sent for England.

I writ severall times to Mr Clavell for the Bale Silk Mr March provided for mee, but hee did not deliver it, by which means Im greatly disappointed, and I heare hee hath 2 of my Europe Letters in his custody which hee sends not, nor have I received any answer to any Generall or perticulert sent him this 5 months. I understand not the meaning of it.

Am sorry you are like to come to a losse for your trouble in tracking the Companys goods, but glad to heare of your advance in Sallary and place, in which wish you much happinesse and prosperity. Am sorry to read you are not well; hope your Sicknesse will have left you ere this reach your hands. I have at last Sold our Pepper at 19 rupees, a poore price; feare there will bee Little or noe proffet. As soone as have oppertunity, shall remitt your mony with your Case etca. here, which I intended to have carried with mee if had gone last Shipping. Your successe as well as mine is bad in tradeing here, the Swords beleive will ly as long as the Pepper, here being many arrived. I received the peice Taftat; for its procury thank you. I rest

Your assured freind and servant

JOHN SMITH.

Have writt to Mr Vincent if hee remitt any more mony to pay your 500 Rupees out of it; you are pardoned.

[Endorsed] To Mr Richard Edwards Merchant in Cassumbuzar.

R. C. TEMPLE.

(To be continued.)

This letter has not been traced. Smith's letter here given is the only one addressed to Edwards that has been preserved for the year 1671 (ending March 24, 1671/2). After 1870 no further drafts of Edwards's replies to his correspondents appear to exist.

Official or private letters.
Taffeta. See Letter XIII.

SHAKESPEARIANA.

SHAKESPEARE AND THE BALLAD.-Referring to the Interlude in A Midsummer Night's Dream,' Howard Staunton suggested that

in the rude dramatic performance of these handicraftsmen of Athens, Shakespeare was referring to the plays and pageants exhibited by the trading companies of Coventry, which were celebrated down to his own time, and which he might very probably have witnessed."-Variorum Edition, p. 33, ed. Furness.

If, as Staunton suggested, such were the case, it would be interesting to know whether a custom is referred to in the following words spoken by Bottom (IV. i.):

"I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dreame, it shall be called Bottomes Dreame, because it hath no bottome; and I will sing it in the latter end of a play, before the Duke."Furness's Variorum Edition.

How far these words refer to a dramatic custom facts alone can tell. I find, on examining the Coventry cycle of plays, that The Shearmen and Taylors' Pageant and The Weavers' Pageant' (E.E.T.S., ed. Dr. Hardin Craig) both end with songs that need not of necessity form an integral part of the plays. These songs appear to me to have been written independently by Thomas Mawdrycke and James Hewyt; at least their names are associated with the songs. Quince's "ballet" may therefore have been sung at "the latter end of a play " in accordance with a more or less accepted dramatic custom. It may be suggested, perhaps, that this custom explains in part the meaning of the Clown's song at the end of Twelfth Night.' With the exception of Knight, most commentators of the play regard this song as not being Shakespeare's own production. Warburton referred it to the Players." Farmer considered it had no other authority than theatrical tradition.' Staunton, however, came nearer the truth in considering it as

one of those jigs with which it was the rude custom of the clown to gratify the groundlings upon the conclusion of a play."

The interpretation of a jig as a lyric set to ballad measure and accompanying a dance finds support in references in Elizabethan dramatic literature. 'Twelfth Night' might therefore end with the Clown singing while the players, in whole or in part, dance to the music of his final song.

Queen Margaret at Coventry, in 1456, ends A pageant given at the reception of with a balet," for there is the following remark referring to the "balet" as given: