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throughout ' Englands Parnassus.' If Allot
had not had a special thought for Roydon,
he chances are that he would have given
the lines from the ode to Watson, as he
gave " Content's " poem to the Earl of
Oxford, and as he has given Brysket's
poem and the poem of the Countess of
Pembroke to Edmund Spenser.
Tottel did not know how to assign the greater number of the poems in his ' Mis- cellany,' and therefore he put all doubtful ones under the heading of " Uncertain Authors." But it is known that Church- yard, Thomas Lord Vaux, John Heywood, Edward Somerset, and Sir Francis Bryan were amongst the contributors to the col- lection, although only two poems have been traced to Lord Vaux, one to John Heywood, and another, probably, to Edward Somerset. The question now arises, How does Allot assist us in determining the authorship of unassigned poems in Tottel ? What are his credentials ? We shall see.
There are eighteen passages in ' Englands Parnassus ' that have been traced to ' Tottel's Miscellany,' fifteen of these being found by Collier and three by myself, the latter proving to be of such interest as to demand some notice later on. Of these eighteen passages, Allot assigns ten to the Earl of Surrey, five to Sir Thomas Wyatt, one to George Chapman, one to " S. T. B.," and one to " T. W." In addition to these, Allot signs Surrey's name to a quotation of five lines which Collier found in Spencer's
- Faerie Queene.' On examination, it is
found that only one of Surrey's signatures is rightly placed, and two of Wyatt' s ; that four quotations from Wyatt, one from Grimald, and four from "Uncertain Authors " have been wrongly credited to Surrey ; and that we must go to Grimald for one of the supposed Wyatt entries, and to " Uncertain Authors " for the other two.
It is absolutely certain that Allot obtained his quotations from ' Tottel's Miscellany,' and from the second edition of the work, which was published 31 July, 1557 ; why, then, does he toss Tottel's signatures about in this manner ? Am I rash when I say that here, as elsewhere, he did not trouble to consult the editor of the book he was reading, but dashed names down that came most readily to his memory, caring only to remember that such names were signed to poems in other parts of the volume ? Did Allot have better means of knowing the authors than Tottel had ? It seems necessary to ask these questions, because t has been thought that Allot's authority
is of some value in connexion with the Tottel
poems. Well, I will endeavour to show
once more that Allot is a treacherous guide,
and that all his doubtful signatures should
be ignored unless corroborated by other
and more certain authority.
CHARLES CRAWFORD.
(To be continued.)
" CARDINAL " OF ST. PAUL'S. In the
course of his address at the memorial service
for the late Rev. W. H. Milman, at St. Augus-
tine's, Old Change, the Archdeacon of
London made, says The Guardian of 1 July,
"an interesting reference to the office of Senior
Cardinal which Mr. Milman held as a member of
the College of Minor Canons. The Archdeacon
said : * The office of Cardinal, which he and one
other Minor Canon held in St. Paul's Cathedral,
was unique in this country. In an ancient docu-
ment we read that ** the Church of St. Paul had
before the time of the Conqueror two Cardinals,
which office still continues. They are chosen by
the Dean and Chapter out of the number of the
twelve petty Canons, and are called Cardinales
Chori (the hinges of the choir). Not any Cathedral
Church in England hath Cardinals beside this, nor
are any beyond seas found to be dignified with this
title, saving the Churches of Rome, Ravenna,
Aquileia, Milan, Pisa, and Benevent in Italy, and
Compostella in Spain." The name has sometimes
been thought to refer to the four corners of the
altar, but as in St. Paul's they have reference to the
choir, the probable meaning is the former. Their
ducy was to catechise the choristers, to note those
absent from the choir (a duty now performed by
the Dean's verger), while to the Junior Cardinal
fell the office of visiting the sick in the College of
Minor Canons and administering to them the
Sacraments. The name of Cardinal cannot be found
in any writer earlier than Gregory the Great, who
died in 604. With the growth of the supremacy of
the Roman Church there came a tendency to con-
fine the office to the chiefs of the Papal Court, and
in other Sees, as at St. Paul's, it gradually dropped
into desuetude.'"
It may be well to store this in * N. & Q.'
ST. SWITHIN.
GREENE'S * MENAPHON.' In Fleay's 'Bio- graphical Chronology of the English Drama ' (London, 1891) it is stated in the article on Greene :
"My hypothesis as to the identification of
Melicert with Lyly, Menaphon with Marlow,
and Pleusidippus with Greene is too conjectural to claim further notice here ; but I think that Moron, lately deceased, is surely Tarleton " ;
while in the account of Kyd it is said": " Menaphon is Marlow, and Melicert most likely Greene himself." ^
Pleusidippus can hardly have been in - tended for Greene, though from his youth that character might perhaps stand for
