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mbridge. _Cromwell's Estates--Magor_ (Vol. i., p. 277. 389.).--As the South Wales line is now open as far as Chepstow, it may not be uninteresting to V. to know, that it diverges from the coast between Chepstow and Newport, in order to pass Bishopston and _Magor_, the last of which he rightly placed in Monmouthshire. SELEUCUS. _Vincent Gookin_ (Vol. i., pp. 385. 473. 492.; Vol. ii. p. 44.) is described in a _Narrative of the late Parliament_ (Cromwell's Parliament, d. 1656), in the _Harleian Miscellany_, as "One of the letters of land in Ireland, receiving three hundred pounds per annum." He and three other Irish members, Colonel Jephson, Ralph King, and Bice, are classed together in this tract, which is hostile to Cromwell, as "Persons not thought meet to be in command, though they much desire it, and are of such poor principles and so unfit to make rulers of as they would not have been set with the dogs of the flock, if the army and others who once pretended to be honest had kept close to their former good and honest principles." Vincent Gookin voted for the clause in the "Petition and Advice" giving the title of "King" to Cromwell. CH. _All-to brake_ (Vol. i., p. 395.).--The interpretation given is incorrect. "All-to" is very commonly used by early writers for "altogether:" e.g., "all-to behacked," Calfhill's _Answer to Martiall's Treatise of the Cross_, Parker Society's edition, p. 3.; "all-to becrossed," _ibid._ p. 91.; "all-to bebatted," _ibid._ p. 133., &c. &c. The Parker Society reprints will supply innumerable examples of the use of the expression. * * * * * MISCELLANEOUS. NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. The two of Mr. Hunter's _Critical and Historical Tracts_, which we have had the opportunity of examining, justify to the fullest the expectations we had formed of them. The first, _Agincourt; a Contribution towards an authentic List of the Commanders of the English Host, in King Henry the Fifth's Expedition, in the Third Year of his Reign_, Mr. Hunter describes as "an instalment," we venture to add "a very valuable instalment," from evidence which has been buried for centuries in the unknown masses of national records, towards a complete list of the English Commanders who served with the King in that expedition, with, in most cases, the number of the retinue which each Commander undertook to bring into the field,
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