lect," Mr. Gough, the
proprietor, determined to charge a shilling as entrance money, for which
the party paying was to receive an equivalent in viands.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Mother of Thomas a Becket_ (No. 26. p. 415.).--An inspection of some of
the numerous legends touching the blessed martyr, St. Thomas of
Canterbury, would probably supply many interesting particulars
concerning the story of his father's romantic marriage. But the most
important narrative is that of Herbert Bosham, Becket's secretary, who,
it will be remembered, was present at his martyrdom. Bosham's _Vita et
Res Gestae Thomae Episcopi Cantuariensis_ is published in the
_Quadrilogus_, Paris, 1495. Consult also the French translation of Peter
Langtoft, and the English one by Laurence Wade, a Benedictine monk of
Canterbury. Robert of Gloucester's metrical _Legend of the Life and
Martyrdom of Thomas Beket_, published by the Percy Society, under the
editorial care of Mr. W.H. Black, fully confirms the "romance;" as also
do the later historians, Hollingshed, Fox, and Baker.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Dr. Strode's Poem_ (no. 10. p. 147.).--Dr. Strode's poem, beginning--

"Return my joys, and hither bring--"

which Dr. Rimbault does "not remember to have seen in print," is in
Ellis's _Specimens_, iii. 173. ed. 1811. He took it from _Wit Restored_,
p. 66. ed. 1658, or i. 168. reprint. It is the second poem mentioned by
Dr. Bliss, _A.O._ iii. 152., as occurring with Strode's name in MS.
Rawl. 142.

R.A.

"_All to-broke_" (No. 25. p. 395.).--Surely the explanation of Judges,
ix. 53, is incorrect. Ought not the words to be printed "and all-to
brake his scull," where "all-to" = "altogether"?

R.A.

_Woolton's Christian Manual_ (No. 25. p. 399.).--There is a copy in the
Grenville Collection.

NOVUS.

_Tract by F.H._ (No. 25. p. 400.).--"J.E." may advance his knowledge
about F.H. slightly, by referring to Herbert's _Ames_, p. 1123.

NOVUS.

_Duke of Marlborough_ (No. 26. p. 415.).--Your correspondent "BURIENSIS"
is referred to the Trial of William Barnard, Howell's _State Trials_,
xix. 815-846.; the case of Rex _v._ Fielding, Esq., Burrow's _Reports_,
ii. 719. and Lounger's _Common Place Book_, tit. Barnard, William. The
greater part of this latter article is in Leigh Hunt's _One Hundred
Romances of Real Life_, No. 1.

C.H. COOPER.
Cambridge, April 29. 1850.

["C.I.R." refers "BURIENSIS" to Burke's _Celebrated Trials
conne