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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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LONDON, SATVKDAY, AUGUST 30, 1902.
CONTENTS. No. 244.
NOTES: The British Academy ' Morte Arthure' and the War of Brittany, 161 Dr. John Bond, 165 Corona- tion Advertisement of 1685 " Barrator " " Concert ": "Dance," 166 "Chesnut," 167.
QUERIES : Coleridge Bibliography Title of Book Wanted, 167 Cavaliers and Roundheads in Carmarthen " In matters of commerce" C. J. Mathews Whitsun Far- thingsLion and Unicorn Bell Inscription Visiting Cards in Italy Cornish Motto, 168 Signs American Knee-breeches Weight or Token " Barbitonsor" "Wig- wands " : " Fat-halves " Chorley's Poems ' The Vicar and Moses,' 169 Nana Sahib, 170.
REPLIES : ' Woodstock,' 170 "Only too thankful" Dis- appearing Chartists Pam Mrs. Jane Barker, 171 Lady Elizabeth Percy The Iron Duke Stamp Collecting, 172 Family Crests De Laci Family " Mallet " or " Mullet" Capt. Morris's Wife, 173 English Parsimony Malt and Hops, 174 Almond Tree. 175 Monastic Sheep-Farming Prince of Wales's Theatre Cries of Animals Greek My thology Waterloo Ballroom, 176 Watson of Barras- bridge " Beatific vision" Arms of Continental Cities- Celebrated Banking Firm Flint : Ferrey Frost of 1683-4 Boudicca, 177 Eighteenth-Century Indexes Spiera's Despair, 178.
NOTES ON BOOKS : Supplement to ' Encyclopedia Britannica' Clarke's 'Bermondsey Cardiff Records' Button's ' Lesson of Evolution."
Notices to Correspondents.
THE BRITISH ACADEMY: CHARTER
GRANTED BY THE KING.
ON the 14th of January the London Gazette announced that the petition presented to the King for the incorporation of the British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical, and Philological Studies had been referred to a committee of the Privy Council. It is now announced that His Majesty has been pleased to accede to the petition and to grant to the British Academy a Royal Charter. The Charter states that the Academy aims at the promo- tion of the study of moral and political sciences, including history, philosophy, law, politics and economics, archseology, and philo- logy. Of the original fifty-one petitioners, who, according to the draft charter, were to be the first Fellows of the Academy and to elect a president and council from amon, their own number, three have died Lor Acton, Mr. S. R. Gardiner, and the Rev. A. B. Davidson. Lord Rosebery has been added to the list, and the following forty-nine now become the first Fellows of the British Academy :
Sir William Anson.
Mr. Arthur Balfour.
Mr. James Bryce.
Prof. J. B. Bury.
Prof. S. H. Butcher.
Prof. F. W. Maitland.
Prof. Alfred Marshall.
Sir Henry Churchill Maxwell-Lyte.
Rev. J. E. B. Mayor.
Prof. Ingrarn Bywater. Dr. D. B. Monro. Dr. Edward Caird. Mr. John Morley.
Prof. E. B. Cowell. Dr. J. A. H. Murray.
Rev. William Cunning- Dr. H. F. Pelham.
ham, D.D. Sir Frederick Pollock.
Prof. Rhys Davids. Prof. W. M. Ramsay.
Prof. Albert Dicey. Lord Reay.
Viscount Dillon. Dr. John Khys.
Rev. Canon S. R. Driver, The Earl of Rosebery.
D.D. Rev. George Salmon, D.D.
Prof. Robinson Ellis. Rev. Canon William Mr. Arthur John Evans. Sanday, D.D. Principal Fairbairn, Ox- Rev. W. W. Skeat.
ford. SirLeslieStephen,K.C.B.
Rev. Robert Flint, D.D. Mr. Whitley Stokes. Mr. J. G. Frazer. Rev. H. B. Swete, D.D.
Mr. Israel Gollancz. Sir Edward Maunde
Mr. Thomas Hodgkin. Thompson, K.C.B.
Mr. S. H. Hodgson. Rev. H. F. Tozer.
Prof. T. E. Holland. Prof. Robert Yelverton Sir Courtenay Ilbert. " Tyrrell. Sir Richard Jebb. Dr. A. W. Ward.
Mr. W. E. H. Lecky. Prof. James Ward.
Readers of 'N. & Q.' will recognize that the names of some of the most distinguished in the above list are those of frequent con- tributors to its columns. In the absence of other accommodation the British Museum may possibly find aVroom for the delibera- tions of the new Academy. A. N. Q.
' MORTE ARTHURE 1 AND THE WAR OF
BRITTANY.
BY degrees those processes which began with the detection of a description of the battle of Crecy in the alliterative ' Morte Arthure ' have led to conclusions no less cir- cumstantially vouched, involving a series of other historical equations. No doubt the method of the poet was singular ; it may be questioned whether it has in early literature any complete parallel. Yet it is perfectly intelligible, and will assuredly (unless I extra- ordinarily misunderstand historical evidence such as has been my familiar study for twenty years) establish itself by the sneer weight and clearness of its own authority as the acknowledged basis of the poet's composition, and necessarily the similar basis of all future historical criticism. Let rne briefly glance, by way of summary, at what has already been worked out in detail elsewhere. In my book 'Huchown of the Awle Ryale,' reviewed with extreme cordiality of sympathy not long ago in ' N. & Q.' (9 th S. ix. 458), the proofs were advanced for the proposition that the poet who was translating Geoffrey of Mon- mouth's account of the expedition of King
