io» u. iv. JULY is, IMS.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 47 Mr. Hodge n'a pu me dire quel etait ce Durand, et m'adresse a vous. Je serais trea desireux de savoir ce que sont devenus ces volumes, et je voudrais trouver quelqu'un qui fit des recherches a mon compte afin <Ie lea retrouver. Pouvez-vous m'aider en cela? J. ECOECHEVILLE. Paris, 2, Rue Jean Bologne. CHAUCER AND THE ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES ABOUT 1590.—I should be much obliged if »ny of your readers could give me informa- tion which would enable me to trace the two following allusions. In the letter of Francis Beaumont (the judge, father of the dramatist) "to his very loving friend" Thomas Speght, which ia prefixed to the latter's edition (1598) •of Chaucer's works, occur the following •vords:— " And here I cannot forget to remember unto you those auncient learned men of our time in Cam- Iridge, whose diligence in reading of his workes tbemselves, and commending them to others of the sounger sorte, did first bring you and mee in love nth him: and one of them at that time was and now is (as you knowe) one of the rarest schollers of tie worlde. The samb may bee saide of that worthy nan for learning, your good friend in Oxford, who rith many other of like excellent Judgement have «er had Chaucer in most high reputation From Leicester the last of lune 1597."—Sign, a iv. 6 nd a v. In the edition (1602) of Chaucer's works (dgn. a vj.) the words are slightly different:— " And one of them at that time, and all his life tier, was (as you know) one of the rarest men for burning in the whole world." The latter reading seems to suggest that tte scholar referred to was then dead. Beau- nnnt himself died in 1598, so the alteration •ws probably made before that date. Both In and Speght were at Peterhouse between 1564 and 1570—Beaumont as a fellow-com- mjner of his college in 1564, Speght as a sizar inl566. The Cambridge scholar might mean Archbishop Whitgift, at that time a rising mm in the university, or possibly William Wiitaker, though he must have been rather ycnng to be a scholar in the sixties. I have BO idea who "your good friend in Oxford" my have been. EVELYN Fox. 'THE LOVERS,' 1683.—I should be pleased if rou could supply me, through 'N. <fe Q.,1 •wih any particulars respecting 'The Lovers Fortunate, Deceived, Unfortunate. Hlutrated with Figures. London: Printed for Wiliam Cademan at the Popes head in the lower wak of the new Exchange in the strand, 1683." I_h.ve searched the indexes at our Public Libary, but cannot find it mentioned in any of hem. J. P. MICKXEBURGH. JJ.rwich. IZARD.—Ralph Izard, son of Ralph Izard, of Charlestown, South Carolina, was admitted to Westminster School 17 September, 1764, and to Trinity College, Cambridge, as a fellow commoner, 28 May, 1770. Walter Izard was admitted to Westminster School 15 Sep- tember, 1766. Can American or other corre- spondents of 'N. & Q.' give me any details of the careers of these Izards • G. F. R. B. ' EDWARD AND ELLEN.'—Who wrote 'Edward and Ellen, a Tale, and other Poems'? Dedi- cated by permission to H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Cobourg. Published by Walker & Edwards, London, 1817. F. JESSEL. JENNINGS OF SODDYLT HALL.—I wish to find the pedigree of John Jennings, who lived with Jane his wife, about 1690, at Soddylt Hall, Duddleston, Ellesmere, Salop. (Miss) SARAH WALTON. 34, Strand Street, Liverpool. QASTRELL AND SHAKESPEARE'S HOME. — Who was the Rev. Francis Gastrell, known as the Shakespeare iconoclast? He may, perhaps, be numbered among the remarkable omissions of the'D.N.B.' Owing to friction with the Stratford Cor- poration, he demolished in 1759 what was erroneously thought to be Shakespeare's last dwelling-house, but in reality the house built by Sir John Clopton in 1700 upon the site of the real homestead of the poet. Gastrell thus unwittingly revealed remains of the earlier and more sacred erection which Sir John Clopton had ruthlessly destroyed. Ann. Skrimshire, sole heiress of Sir Hugh Clopton, conveyed in May, 1756, the property, New Place, to Gastrell, who is said to have been a Cheshire rector. Possibly he was a son of Dr. Francis Gastrell, Bishop of Chester, author of 'The Christian Institutes,' who died in 1725. War. JAGGARD. ENGLISH ANCESTRY OF GENERAL GRANT.— There is a common impression that General U. S. Grant was of Scotch descent, but he himself gave no countenance to this belief. In his ' Personal Memoirs' he states his descent in the eighth generation from Matthew Grant, one of a band of 140 Puritans who emigrated from Dorsetshire in 1630, and founded the town of Dorchester in Massachusetts. This Puritan movement was inspired and organized by the Rev. John White (1075-1648), who was rector of Holy Trinity Church, Dorchester, England, for forty years, and became known as " the patriarch of Dorchester." He advocated
