NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vm. OCT. is, 1913.
add a few items from my present collection
(which may interest MB. FROST), picked up
here and there at odd times and in odd
places.
I possess, in addition to those already enumerated in above references, the follow- ing (A) :
1. Comic Opera of Robin Hood, or Sherwood Forest. 1784.
2. History and Famous Exploits of Robin Hood. 1810.
3. Robin Hood : Historical Anecdotes of his Life. 1820.
4. Anecdotes of Archery. E. Hargrove. 1845.
5. Robin Hood's Courtship with Jack Cade's Daughter. 1888.
6. Religious Institutions of Old Nottingham. A. Stapleton. 1899.
7. Life and Adventures of Robin Hood. J. B. Marsh. 1900.
8. A. Lang in Longman's Magazine, July, 1900.
9. Kirklees Priory. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 1901.
10. Stories of Robin Hood. H. E. Marshall. 1905.
11. Tales of Robin Hood. S. Percy. 1905.
12. Robin Hood and Little John. Yorkshire Notes and Queries, 1907, p. 337.
13. King John, Robin Hood, and Matilda. Yorkshire Notes and Queries, 1907, p. 365.
14. Jolly Pinder of Wakefield. Yorkshire Notes and Queries, 1907, p. 12.
15. Sherwood Forest. J. Rodgers. 1908.
16. Strange Story of the Dunmow Flitch. J. W. Robertson-Scott. ' 1910.
B. Books and articles not in my collection :
1. Gentleman's Magazine, 1795. Articles by O. Pegge.
2. The Penny Magazine, 1838, May to Septem- ber.
3. Charles Knight's ' Old England.'
4. The Forester's Offering. T. Hall. 1841.
5. Maid Marian, the Forest Queen. J. H. Stocqueler. 1851.
6. Story of Robin Hood. The Argosy, April, 1899.
There are forty -four pages devoted to Robin Hood literature in the B.M. Cata- logue. J. B. McGovERN.
St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.
PAULET OF EDDINGTON (11 S. viii. 208). Sir William Paulet of Edington, co. Wilts (born c. 1578, knighted 1603, died 3 March, 1628/9, eldest natural son of Sir William Paulet, third Marquis of Winchester, by Jane Lambert), married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Seymour (son of Sir Henry, younger brother of Edward, first Duke of Somerset) of Marwell, co. Hants, by Susan, youngest daughter of Lord Chidiock Paulet of Wade, co. Hants, by his first wife, Eliza- beth, daughter of Sir Thomas White of South Warnborough, co. Hants ; and had issue two sons (William, b. 1613, d. 1684 ; and Essex, d. 1682), both of whom married
and had issue; and five daughters: (1)
Honor Paulet ; (2) Elizabeth Paulet, who
married first, in 1631, Robert Devereux
(b. 1592, d. 1646), third Earl of Essex, and
secondly, in 1647, Sir Thomas Higgons
(b. 1626, d. 1692) of Grewell, co. Hants
she died in 1656 ; (3) Frances Paulet, who
married, about 1635, Col. Thomas Leveson,
Governor of Dudley Castle ; (4) Mary
Paulet ; and (5) Alice Paulet.
ALFRED T. EVEBITT. Portsmouth.
DESPICHT (11 S. viii. 248). 'In 1999,' a school play for girls, 15 pp., was pub- lished by J. Hughes & Co., London, in 1894. The firm of Hughes & Co., 1, Three Tuns Passage, Newgate Street, E.G., drops out of the 'English Catalogue' 'Directory of Publishers ' in 1906.
ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.
Bolton.
SIR SAMTJEL WHITE BAKER (11 S. viii. 265). In The Illustrated London News of 11 Oct., 1873, appeared portraits of Sir Samuel White Baker and Lady Baker. The letterpress which accompanied them con- tained a short review of his life. It is there stated that " in November, 1866, her Majesty the Queen bestowed 011 him the honour of knighthood."
JOHN T. PAGE.
The date of his knighthood as given in ' Men of the Time ' is correct, viz., 10 Nov., 1866. ALFRED B. BEAVEN.
Leamington.
[C. W. S. and H. I. A. who quotes W. A. Shaw's 'The Knights of England,' ii. 358 also thanked for reply.]
AN AMBIGUOUS POSSESSIVE CASE (11 S. viii. 25, 91, 135, 153, 174). This discussion has been very interesting, and, if it has done nothing else, has at least shown that this form of words should be used with the utmost caution, otherwise nonsense or absurdity is the inevitable result. I am not surprised to learn that Mr. Nesfield in his ' Modern English Grammar ' (ante, p. 153) does not accept any of the three explanations he mentions as decisive. The attempt to solve the difficulty by calling it " a double possessive " was made as far back as the year 1762, when ' A Short Intro- duction to English Grammar ' was published, of which Dr. Lowth was the author. On pp. 27-8 he says :
" Both the sign and the preposition seem some- times to be used : as, ' A soldier of the King's ' ; but here are really two possessives, for it means ' one of the soldiers of the King.' "
