St. Margaret, Rochester,
Feb. 11th, 1852.
Sir,—Allow me to correct a slight error in the communication of your correspondent G. E. S. contained in your "Current Notes" for December last, p. 92. The name of the gentleman who was mainly instrumental in restoring the Brass with the Effigy of a former Vicar of this Parish, Thomas Codd, was the late Mr. W. F. Harrison, not Hanson, as printed.
I am, Sir, yours obediently,
A Subscriber and Constant Reader.
Mr. Willis.
Cavendish's Life of Wolsey.
Sir,—In an anonymous treatise, entitled, "Who wrote Cavendish's Life of Wolsey?" London, 1814; (usually attributed to the Rev. Joseph Hunter), the writer considers the author to be a George Cavendish, a branch of the Devonshire family. But in the valuable collection of my friend Mr. W. S. Fitch, of this town, there is a well-preserved MS. copy of "The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey," by Th. Gainsford. This interesting MS. is a folio volume of 166 pages. It embraces all that is contained in Cavendish's "Life of Wolsey," with a considerable deal of extra matter. I refer to Lowndes and find that this Gainsford was the author of a Life of Perkin Warbeck, and other works. He printed nothing, it seems, after 1619.
I am, Sir, yours truly,
A Subscriber.
Ipswich, Feb. 6, 1852.