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I have cited, in the text of the paper to which that note applies, the broadside wherein this error Patron Saint of Auchterarder-Blanco White's Sonnet appeared in 1680; but there apparently prevailed considerable confusion in the popular-at least, in the metropolitan-mind at this period, for, in an analogous broadside, published in the preceding year 1679, the day specified is referred to as the anniversary of the Protestant queen's coronation. This, of course, is also an error, which has, not unnaturally, misled so able a romancist as Sir Walter Besant, as we may see by a reference to his charming novel,' For Faith and Freedom.' " "Twill"—" Arsé-versé”. 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(See 8th S. x. 134, 221.) I gather from your foot-note that you now regard this subject as closed; but I venture, notwithstanding, to submit that there remains something to be said by way of useful protest and warning to your contemporaries, and, in inditing the necessary criticism, I ask of your courtesy that I may be allowed to correct an error in my previous communication, and thus practically demonstrate my entire agreement with MR. WARREN. In my calculation-the parenthetical proposition at the close of my letter not occurring to me at the moment, that, in law, there is no division of a day-I failed to perceive that the first day of each reign (as well as the last of the reign or period) must be counted inclusive. Hence I omitted one day in each computation, namely, 25 Oct., 1760, and 20 June, 1830. This adds one day to each total, and the sum should be 21,645, as MR. WARREN has it, and not 21,644, as I inadvertently made it. At p. 30 of vol. x., in a note to the second column, in my reply anent Parish Constables' Staves,' I pointed out a popular error as to Queen Elizabeth prevalent in London at the time of the Popish Plot in Charles II.'s reign, whereby 17 November in each year was kept as I think Sir Walter Scott also makes the same mistake in 'Peveril of the Peak.' Queen Elizabeth was crowned on the second Sunday after the feast of the Epiphany, 15 Jan., 1558/9. Are wemaking history to-day-in danger of falling into similar confusion anent good and great Queen Victoria? It would seem like it. In the Daily Telegraph of Tuesday, 15 September, 1896 (twothirds down col. 1, p. 8), in the reported particulars of the then recently revealed dynamite conspiracy, we find Accession Day (20 June)-at all events, by the context-attributed to 23 September, and in the next column of the same number and page (three-fourths down), the error is repeated in express terms, on the 23rd of the present month, the date of the Queen's accession to the throne [italics mine], a dynamite outrage should be perpetrated in this country," &c. A similar mistake is to be found in several other serials, and it is not uncommon to come across another erroneous phrase, "the 23rd inst. [i. e., Sept., 1896], the completion of the sixtieth year of Her Majesty's reign," &c. Now readers of N. & Q.,' at all events, do not need to be informed that the "Accession Day" of Victoria is 20 June, and that the sixtieth year of her benignant reign will not be completed until the midnight of Saturday, 19 June, 1897; but casual readers of the current journals of to-day seem as liable to fall into chronological error as their ancestors of two centuries ago in their mixing up of Gunpowder Plot Day, Queen Elizabeth's birthday, her accession and her coronation; and the Stuart public had the greater excuse, not only in the immature condition of the press of that day, but in the fact that the early events of the virgin monarch's life were double the distance away in point of time from them that the corresponding epochs in Victoria's career are from us. Writers for the press would even now do well to take note of this warning. At least they would be spared for the future displaying the confusion that pervades the Daily Telegraph in its issue of the memorable day of the past year, Wednesday, 23 September, a state of mental confusion which even so accomplished a writer as Sir Edwin Arnold seems to share. This gentleman appearswith another contributor, writing under the head |