—I beg leave to transcribe for A. A. D. the following passage from the Facetiæ Cantabrigiensis, p. 95. (London, Charles Mason, 1836):

"Porson observing that he could pun on any subject, a person present defied him to do so on the Latin gerunds, which however he immediately did in the following admirable couplet:

'When Dido found Æneas would not come,

She mourned in silence, and was DI-DO-DUM.'"

I have also seen these lines attributed to Porson in an old volume of The Mirror. Of any other authorities I have no knowledge.

J. S. W.

Stockwell.

Compositions during the Protectorate (Vol. iv., pp. 406. 490.).

—W. H. L. suspects that there is an error in the list of these compositions for Lincolnshire, as given in Oldfield's History of Wainfleet, and asks, "Where is there any account or list of these?" H. F. refers W. H. L. to a small volume entitled A Catalogue of the Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen that have compounded for their Estates. London, 1655. I have compared Oldfield's list with the reprint of the Catalogue (Chester, 1733), and find that, with some slight exceptions, they agree. Oldfield, however, omits the following compositions for Lincolnshire:

£s.d.
"Benson, Clement, of North Kelsey, Gent. 12000
Burcroft, Thomas, late of Waltham, pro Frances and Jane, his sisters 7000
Dalton, John, late of Barton on Humber 4600
Fines, Morris, of Christhead (Kirkstead) 5000
Leesing, Thomas, of North Somercotes 1276
Monson, Sir John, of South Carleton 264200
Moore, Alexander, of Grantham 35000
Manson, Sir John, Jun., of North Thorpe 13300
Thorold, Joseph, of Boston, Gent. 9600
Whichcoat, Edward, of Bishop's Norton, Esq., with 50l. per annum settled 51300."