many gross errors in typography occur after the sheet is gone to press,
through the accidents that are constantly happening to the movable types.

CHARLES KNIGHT.

_Passage in Tennyson_ (Vol. ii., p. 479.)--The following extract from Sir
James Mackintosh's _History of England_ vol. ii. p. 185., will explain this
passage:

"The love of Margaret Roper continued to display itself in those
outwardly unavailing tokens of tenderness to his (her father, Sir
Thomas More's) remains, by which affection seeks to perpetuate itself;
ineffectually, indeed, for the object, but very effectually for {11}
softening the heart and exalting the soul. She procured his head be
taken down from London Bridge, where more odious passions had struggled
in pursuit of a species of infernal immortality by placing it. She kept
it during her life as a sacred relic, and was buried with that object
of fondness in her arms, nine years after she was separated from her
father."

X.Z.

_Was Quarles pensioned?_ (Vol. i., p. 201.).--I believe that no reply has
been made to this Query. The following passage, transcribed from the
_Epistle Dedicatory_ to the surreptitious edition of Quarles's _Judgment
and Mercy_, affords a slight negative proof to the contrary;--

"And being so usefull, dare not doubt your patronage of this _child_,
which survives a _father_, whose utmost abilities were (till death
darkned that great light in his soule) sacrificed to your service."