Chapter M: Oxford

_Fraternitye of Vagabondes._--It does not appear very clearly from the wording of the query at p. 184. of your 12th number, whether the object of your correspondent, "A. GRIFFINHOOF, JUN.," be to ascertain the fact of the reprint in question having been published by Stace, or (having ascertained that fact) to procure further information as to the publisher. I cannot find any allusion to the work in the _Censura Literuria_, (2nd ed. 1815), another instance of the absolute necessity for exact references, the want of which you would do well in making a ground of exclusion from your columns. However, on the chance of being useful I send you an exact copy of the rubricated title-page of the reprint, which is as follows:

"The Fraternitye of Vacabondes; As wel of ruflyng Vacabondes, as
of beggerley, of Women as of Men, of Gyrles as of Boyes, With
Their proper Names and Qualities. With a Description of the
Crafty Company of Cousoners and Shifters. Whereunto also is
adioined The XXV orders of Knaues, Otherwyse called A Quartern
of Knaues. Confirmed for euer by Cocke Lorell.--¶ The Vprightman
speaketh.

¶ Our Brotherhood of Vacabondes,
If you would know where dwell:
In grauesend Barge which syldome standes,
The talke wyll shew ryght well.

¶ Cocke Lorell answereth.

¶ Some orders of my knaues also
In that Barge shall ye fynde:
for no where shall ye walke I trow,
But ye shall see their knynde.

¶ Imprinted at London by John Awdely, dwellyng in little
Britayne Streete without Aldersgate. 1575.

Westminster: Reprinted for Machell Stace, No. 12, Little
Queen-Street, and R. Triphook, St. James's Street. 1813."

Those who are curious about Mr. Stace may consult Boaden on the _Shakespeare Portraits_, p. 141., Wivell on do., p. 189., and _Chaleographimania_, p. 16. 32. 95.

J.F.M.

_Anonymous Ravennas._--In answer to the query of "W.C.," in No. 8., p. 124., I beg to state that Gronovius published the _Cosmography of Ravennas_, with other ancient scraps of geography, annexed to a neat edition of _Pomponius Mela_, printed at Leyden, in 1696. Gronovius refers the _anonymous_ author to the seventh century. His _Chorography of Britain_ forms a part of the work; but it is printed from one MS., and wretchedly obscure.

J.I.

_Dick Shore._--Your correspondent, J.T. HAMMACK, is not quite correct in stating, No. 9., p. 141., that the modern maps present no trace of the locality of "_Dick Shoare_," mentioned in the Pepysian _Diary_. In one of Smith's maps, now before me, of the date of 1806, I find "Duke Shore Stairs," not far from the great turn of the river southward, opposite to the Isle of Dogs. Whether the proper spelling to be Dick, Dyke, Dock, Dog, or Duke, I leave to your readers to determine; but I presume there can be no doubt as to the identity of the place. As the origin of the name of "Isle of Doggs," according to the Pepysian orthography, is said to be still underdetermined; may it not be connected with the modern term DOCKS? We are daily familiarised to worse corruptions. _Docks_ are excavations, large or small, formed by the operation of digging, in Dutch called _Dóken_.

J.I.

[DICK'S SHORE, _Fore Street_, _Limehouse_, and DICK'S SHORE
ALLEY, _by Dick's Shore_, are both mentioned in _London and its
Environs_, vol. ii. p. 233.]

_Travelling in England._--Mr. Steven's quotation (No. 11., p. 167.) of Bernard Calvert's rapid journey, as from _an anonymous History of England written in the early part of the reign of George I._, is to be found in more detail in Stow (1032.), and is transcribed in Mr. Croker's _Notes on Bassompière's Embassy_, 1819.

_Sanuto._--The _Ragguagli sulla Vita e sulle Opere di Maria Sanuto_, referred to in No. 5., p. 75., were edited by Mr. Rawdon Browne, an English gentleman long resident at Venice, and a most accomplished Italian scholar. The _Diary of Sanuto_ could hardly be printed, filling, as it does, some twenty or thirty thick large folio volumes.

R.M.M.

_Darnley's Birth-place._--In answer to the inquiry in No. 8., p. 123., as to the birth-place of Henry Lord Darnley, I believe he was born at Temple-Newsom, near Leeds, the seat of the Lords Irvine, and now of Meynell Ingram, Esq. A noble room is there shown as the traditional scene of his birth.

R.M.M.

_History of Edward II._--The compilers of the _British Museum Catalogue_ attribute the _History of Edward II._ (referred to in No. 4., p. 59.) to Edward Fannant, who also published a _Narration of the Memorable Parliament of 1386_, which has been several times printed.

J.R.S.

_Lord Chatham's Speech on the American Stamp Act._--When I read the question of your correspondent {221} (in No. 1. p. 12.) on this subject, I saw at once its importance; for, if my Lord Brougham's statements were correct, our historians must forthwith re-write a somewhat important chapter in our history. I felt assured, however, that it was not correct; and the result of a somewhat tedious search is as I had anticipated. His lordship had made an error in a date and 1764 should be 1766. The authority, not acknowledged by his lordship, was, no doubt, the _Parliamentary History of_ 1766 (vol. xvi. p. 96.), where your correspondent will find the statement, which of course, the date being correctly given, contains nothing that is not consistent with known facts.