of Milcham, by the Bhps appointm't.

October, 1680.
Collected towards the redemption of English
Captives out of their slavery and
bondage in Algiers 3 16 0

Which sum was sent to Mr. Nicholas Browne, Registrar under Dr.
Connant, Archdeacon of Norwich, Octr. 2d. 1680."

Probably similar entries will be found in other registers of the same
date, as the collections appear to have been made by special mandate,
and paid into the hands of the proper authorities.

E.S.T.


_Passage in Gibbon_ (Vol. i., p. 348.).--The passage in Gibbon I
should have thought was well known to be taken from what Clarendon
says of Hampden, and which Lord Nugent says in his preface to
_Hampden's Life_ had before been said of Cinna. Gibbon must either
have meant to put inverted commas, or at least to have intended to
take nobody in.

C.B.


_Borrowed Thoughts_ (Vol. i., p. 482.)--_La fameuse_ La Galisse is an
error. The French pleasantly records the exploits of the celebrated
_Monsieur_ de la Galisse. Many of Goldsmith's lighter poems are