interlaced, inclosing some capital letter or letters denoting the year
such ware was manufactured.

W.C. Jun.

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"_Esquire_" _and_ "_Gentleman_."--The amusing article in No. 27., on
the title of "Esquire," recalled to my memory the resolution passed by
the corporation of Stratford-on-Avon, when they presented the freedom
of that town to Garrick. It runs something like this:--

"Through love and regard to the memory of the immortal
_Mr._ William Shakspeare, and being fully sensible of the
extraordinary merits of his most judicious representative,
David Garrick, _Esquire_."

Had David a better right to the title than the great poet?
Shakespeare, in the latter part of his life, was no doubt _Master
Shakspeare_, a title so common as even to be bestowed upon the
geometer of Alexandria. In Bayford's collection is preserved a
Catalogue advertising "_Master_ Euclid's Elements of Plain Geometry."

J.O. HALLIWELL.

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_Pope Felix and Pope Gregory_.--"E.M.B." (No. 26. p. 415.) inquires
who was "Pope Felix," whom Ælfric called the "fifth father" of S.
Gregory the Great? This is a much disputed question, and a great