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be to the bearers or borrowers of three names, it will be some comfort to them to know that its point was not directed against them, but against a class of men of much higher pretensions, of one of whom it has been said: "_He left the name_, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale." HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia. "_I put a spoke in his wheel_" (Vol. viii., p. 269.).--If G.K., being wronged, should cherish the unchristian spirit of revenge, let him playfully insert a spoke in the wheel of his friend's tandem, as it bowls along behind a pair of thorough-bred tits, with twelve months' hard condition upon old oats in them. By simply putting a spoke in the wheel of the waggon employed in the removal of the Manchester College to London, one trustee opposed a decided "impediment to the movement" of that institution. W. C. P. S.--Allow me to point out a misprint at Vol. viii., p. 279, "Manners of the Irish:" for _chuse_ read _cheese_. _Judges styled Reverend_ (Vol. viii., pp. 158. 276.).--With respect to the error into which I was led in making Anthony Fitzherbert _Chief_ Justice of the Common Pleas, I beg to express my thanks for our good friend's correction. My statement {352} was founded on the authority of the Visitation-Book of the county of Derby, A.D. 1634, in which Anthony Fitzherbert is "Chief Justice of ----;" and, as the question of his rank as a judge was not one at the moment of communicating my Note, I made no farther inquiry. I find, however, upon reference to Vincent's _Collections for Derbyshire_, that Anthony Fitzherbert is styled, in a very good pedigree of his family, "Unus Justiciariorum de Co[=i] Banco." Had I turned to Dugdale's _Origines Juridiciales_, the error might have been avoided. THOS. W. KING (York Herald). _Palace at Enfield_ (Vol. viii., p. 271.).--Queen Elizabeth, in the early part of her reign, frequently kept her court at Enfield. Her palace was the manor-house, near the church, of which little now remains. In Lysons' time (1793) it had been in a great measure rebuilt, and divided into tenements. He adds, "the part which contains the _old room_ is in the occupation of Mrs. Perry." When I saw this room, about twenty years ago, it was in its original state, with oak panels and a richly ornamented ceiling. The chimney-piece was supported by columns of the Ionic and Corinthian order, and decorated with the cognizances of the rose and portcullis, a
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