Andrews says (_Hist_. i. 342.) that Richard II. renewed the
application for Thomas's canonization; but he does not give his
authority, and I have not time to look further through Rymer.

p. 184. _Jhon-John_.--I wonder Mr. Williams does not see that the
_h_ is not "_introduced_" for any purpose; it is an integral
part of the original name _Johannes_, which was contracted
into _Johan_, and in French into _Jehan_.

p. 185. _Slang Phrases_.--"_A Rowland for an Oliver_" is
no slang phrase of the eighteenth century; it is a proverbial
expression as old as the days of the romances of _Roland_ and
_Olivier_. The other two were phrases put into the mouths of
two characters (Dr. Ollapod, in Colman's _Poor Gentleman_, and
Young Rapid, in Morton's _Cure for the Heart-ache_), which grew
into vogue only from the success of the actors Fawcett and Lewis,
and had no meaning or allusion beyond what the words obviously
meant.

C.


{235}_Full of Rain in England._--"ROYDON" (No. 11. p. 73) will
find the average quantity of rain fallen at Greenwich, for
twenty-five years, 1815 to 1839, in a very useful and clever
pamphlet, price 1s., by J.H. Belville, of the Royal Observatory,
published by Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, called _Manual
of the Mercurial and Aneroid Barometers._

HENRY WILKINSON