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CONTENTS. -No. 62.
'NOTES -.Correspondence of Richard Edwards, 161 Origin of 'The Winter's Tale,' 164 Foreign Books of Fortune, 165 Frances, Viscountess Vane "Runt" Turkey- Red Dyeing in England, 167 The Cock : Carving of a Legend, 16?.
^QUERIES : Representations of the Blessed Trinity John Nathaniel Messeena, 168-^-Source of Quotation Wanted Mediaeval Work on making of Enamel -Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough Sir Roger Smyth Matthias Finucar 'Military Quarterly Review' B. Killingbeck : Portrait of Wolfe Old Inns Author Wanted ".Small Books on Great Subjects," 169 " Nosey Parker "English Collo- quial Similes " Tattering a kip" 'The Mayor of Quinborough' Capital City of U.S.A., 170.
-^REPLIES : Bull-fighting in Spain and Portugal, 170 Dominican Order, 171 ' Adventures of a Post Captain,' 172 St. Thomas's Day Rimes Naming of Locomotives A Lost Poem by Kipling Lord Chesterfield's Poems, 173 Satan as an Angel of Light St. Barbara, 175 Stokes : Stocker Staffordshire M.P.s Foreign Graves of British Authors, 176 Witchcraft : Mrs. Hicks -Colloquial Similes Philip Winton, 177 Bishop of Sorron From Liverpool to Worcester Richard Lambert Jones, 178 Rev. Michael Ferrebee North American Indian : Morning Star Ploughing Snow into Ground London Societies for Reli- gious Purposes in 1821 Odours, 179.
NOTES ON BOOKS : The Oxford English Dictionary.
Notices to Correspondents.
THE CORRESPONDENCE OF RICHARD
EDWARDS, 1669-79. ' (See ante, pp. 1, 44, 81, 122.)
LETTER XVI.
John Vickers to Richard Edwards, (O.C. 3412.)
Hugly the llth March 1669/70 Dear Freind
Yours of the Primo Current I Re- ceived the 7th d. having bin in Hugly 9 dayes, Mr Bridges Arriving here the 5th present.
In your last you make mention of A Parcel! of silks and Girdle Coming downe for Mr March's and your Account, which when Arrived shall dispose of as fast as possible, and advise whether A greater quantity will vend, which at present I cannot doe having noe sample to shew them, but fear shall gett little Copper, pepper or tin, the Directore* having ingroced it all in other mens names
- Directore was the title given to the heads of
factories controlled by the Dutch East India Company. The individual referred to may be Matthias van den Brouke, who was head of the Dutch affairs in Bengal in 1662. In 1672 Fran- cois de Hase succeeded to that post.
and holds it up at great rates, and but little
come this year as I hear ; however Per the
first opertunity pray fail not to advise what
prices they bare at Cassumbazar [that] if I
should meet with any I may know how to
give.
I have brought A P 8 . sannoes from Balla- sore which shall send up Per Mr Haselwood,* who I suppose will set out next Week. I should have writt more at large, as likewise to Mr March (to whom pray Present my humble service) but did not know of the Cossetts going till he was dispatcht , soe must Conclude at present and Remaine
Your Reall Loving Freind
JNO. VICKERS
excuse bad writing in hast.f [Endorsed] To Mr Richard Edwards
Merchant In Cassumbazar
LETTER XVTI.
Robert Freeman to Richard Edwards. (O.C. 3413.)
[Robert Freeman entered the Company's service as a writer in November, 1667, and sailed to India at the same time as Richard Edwards. On his arrival, he was employed at the factory at Masulipatam, where, in 1675, he held the office of steward. In July of that year he resigned the service, " his time as a writer being expired," because he considered he was de- frauded of preferment. He remained in India as a " free merchant " until 1681, when he petitioned for re-employment under the Com- pany. He was then appointed Third of .Council at Masulipatam, and in the following year was sent to Cuddalore factory as Chief. Thence (in September, 1682) he was again transferred to Masulipatam. In 1687, at his own request, he went to Fort St. George, Madras, and took his place as Fifth of Council. He died there on Feb. 7, 1688/9, "of a dropsy, after a long and painfull illness," and was baried in the Compound of St. Mary's Church in Fort St. George, where a fragment of his tombstone still exists. His wife, a daughter of Robert Fleetwood, Chief of Madapollam, whom he had married in July, 1673, appears to have predeceased him, as she is not men- tioned in his will. Neither does there appear to have been any issue of the marriage. The will provided for bequests to Robert Freeman's mother-in-law Margery, then the wife of John Heathfield, surgeon, and to his three sisters- in-law, who were all widows. Probate was granted the executor, John Freeman, brother of the deceased, probably identical with the " John Freeman of London, merchant," who
- Thomas Haselwood, one of Edwards's corre-
spondents, will be noticed later on.
t The writing is, however, clearer and much easier to read than when the writer is not " in
last."
