Posthumous Poems p. 651.; and Ellis reprinted it under his name.  In Cens.  Lit. ii. 102., another copy of it is given from a music book by Gibbons, 1612.  Now the longest, and apparently the earliest of these poems is signed ‘E.  DIER,’ in MS. Rawl.  Poet. 35., fol. 17.  That copy contains eight stanzas, and one of the two which are not in Byrd corresponds with a stanza which Percy added.  The following are the reasons which incline us to trust this MS.:—­(1.) Because it is the very MS. to which reference is commonly made for several of Dyer’s unprinted poems, as by Dr. Bliss, A.O. i. 743.; and apparently by Mr. Dyce, ed. of Greene, i. p. xxxv. n.; and by Park, note on Warton, iii. 230.  Park is the only person I can recollect who has mentioned this particular poem in the MS., and he cannot have read more than the first line, for he only says, ’one of them bears the popular burden of “My mind to me a kingdom is."’ (2.) Because it is quite impossible that Dyer wrote many extant poems, of which he is not known to be the author; for, as Mr. Dyce says, none of his (acknowledged) productions ’have descended to our times that seem to justify the contemporary applause which he received.’ (3.) Because I cannot discover that there is any other claimant to this poem.  One of Greene’s poems ends with the line,

      ‘A mind content both crown and kingdom is.’”

      (Works, ii. 288., ed.  Dyce.)

It will be observed that no mention is here made of the copy in Breton’s tract; therefore this summary gains from both the correspondents of “NOTES AND QUERIES”—­an addition from the one, a corroboration from the other.

R.A.

Gesta Grayorum (No. 22. p. 351.).—­“J.S.” is informed that copies of the Gesta Grayorum are by no means uncommon.  It was originally printed {490} for one shilling; but the bibliomaniac must now pay from twenty to thirty shillings for a copy.  The original, printed in 1688, does not contain the second part, which was published by Mr. Nichols for the first time.  Copies are in the Bodleian, and in the University Library, Cambridge.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

Marylebone Gardens (No. 24. p. 383.).—­These gardens were finally closed in 1777-8.  It is not generally known that, previous to the year 1737, this “fashionable” place of amusement was entered gratis by all ranks of people; but the company becoming more “select,” Mr. Gough, the proprietor, determined to charge a shilling as entrance money, for which the party paying was to receive an equivalent in viands.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.