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403 i 23 for was probably the read has been wrongly stated to be
26-27 for and was born . . . . Elizabeth read This couple only married in 1597 when the poet was about 30. Campion's connexion with the Witham family is not clear
19 f.e. for at home read at Cambridge (cf. Clerke's Polimanteia, 1595)
11 f.e. for He appealed read He was entered at Gray's Inn in 1586 but before 1595 withdrew from the society. He was writing verse in 1593, but
6-4 f.e. for The book is one . . . . early bibliographers read No copy seems now accessible
ii 15-16 for we lose sight . . . when he read In January 1606-7 Campion
24-25 for and in 1610 . . . . accompaniments read Already in 1601 he had published 'A Booke of Ayres.' There followed without date, probably in 1613, 'Two Bookes of Ayres.'
26 for in 1612 read about 1617
27 for Next year read In 1612
18-17 f.e. for of the same year read 1613
12-11 f.e. for During the same year read About 1617
404 i 15 for Campion's publications . . . collected read Campion's works (save the treatise on counterpoint) were collected by Mr. A. H. Bullen in 1889, and his lyric gift is now generally acknowledged to give him a very high place among the song-writers of his age.
23 before Brit. Mus. Cat. insert Mr. Bullen's Introduction to the Works of Dr. Thomas Campion, 1889.
412 i 4 Canne, John: for 1649 read 1649-50
30 after Overton insert [q. v.], who must be distinguished from the pamphleteer Richard Overton [q. v.]
31 for he read Canne
414 i 8 f.e. Canning, Charles J., Earl Canning: for the spring of 1851 read February 1832
417 ii 2 f.e. after death insert He had been make K.S.I. on the institution of the order in 1861
421 i 10 f.e. Canning, George: for Newport read Newtown
ii 4-7 for In 1796 . . . Wendover read In 1796, when he exchanged Newtown for Wendover, Canning was made under-secretary of state for foreign affairs. He held that post till 1799, when he became a commissioner of the board of control and (1800-1) was paymaster-general. He was M.P. for Tralee (1802-6), for Newtown again (1806-7), arid for Hastings (1807-12)
8-9 for From 1799 to 1801 . . . . Ellis read From September 1797 to July 1798 he contributed to the 'Anti-Jacobin or Weekly Examiner ' with Ellis
11 omit contributed
28 omit such was
29-32 for that we only wonder . . . . in the following July read was great. The 'Anti-Jacobin or Weekly Examiner' was continued after July 1798 as the 'Anti-Jacobin Review,' a monthly magazine, which lasted till 1821
35-36 for and sister to the Duchess of Portland read (Her sister married in 1795 William Henry Cavendish Scott Bentinck, Marquis of Titchfield, who became Duke of Portland in 1809)
422 i 35 for at war read for war and the colonies
41 for the fall read the course
425 i 41-42 for his only son in the previous April read his eldest son in the previous March
9 after Harwich insert In 1826-7 he was M.P. for Newport, and in 1827 for Seaford
11-12 for fifteen read thirteen
427 i 18 f.e. omit his relative
428 ii 30 for 27 Jan. read 5 Jan. 1827
430 ii 8 for marquis Clanricarde read marquis of Clanricarde
443 ii 7-9 Canning, Stratford, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe: omit on the second occasion . . . . the Bath
445 i 11 Cannon, Robert: for 1707 read 1707-8
452 i 8 Cantelupe, Thomas de: omit He was the last canonised Englishman
457 i 38 Canton, John: after Electricity; insert the Canton papers, 'Athenæum,' 1849, pp. 5, 162, 375;

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