222. Dryden—Illustrations by T. Holt White.
—The late T. Holt White, Esq. (who edited and published in 1819 the Areopagitica of Milton, adding a very ably composed preface, erudite notes, and interesting illustrations), had compiled in many interleaved volumes of the works of Dryden, such a mass of information, that Sir Walter Scott, when he had turned over the leaves of a few volumes, closed them, and is reported to have said, "It would be unjust to meddle with such a compilation; I see that I have not even straw to make my bricks with." Can any one of your correspondents inform me if that compilation has been preserved, and where it is?
ÆGROTUS.
223. Pauper's Badge, Meaning of.
—In the Churchwarden's Accounts for the parish of Eye for the year 1716, is the following entry:
"22 July, 1716.
"It is agreed that, forasmuch as Frances Gibbons hath refused to weare the badge, that she should not be allowed the collection [i.e. the weekly parish allowance] now due, nor for the future wh shall be due."
Can any correspondent inform me what this badge was, and also if it was of general use in other places?
J. B. COLMAN.