the Use of the Afflicted_. The Introduction is dated "London: at the Door
of Eternity, Aug. 7. 1681."

He yet survived ten years, in the course of which he was twice imprisoned
and fined under {37} the profligate and persecuting reigns of Charles II.
and James II. for his zeal and piety.

J.M.G.

Hallamshire.

_Authors of Anonymous Works._--On the title-page of the first volume of my
copy of _The Monthly Intelligencer_ for 1728 and 1729, which was published
anonymously, is written in MS., "By the Rev. Mr. Kimber."

This book belonged to, and is marked with the autograph of D. Hughes, 1730;
but the MS. note was written by another hand.

P.H.F.

_Umbrellas_ (Vol. ii., pp. 491. 523., &c.).--I have talked with an old lady
who remembered the first umbrella used in Oxford, and with another who
described the surprise elicited by the first in Birmingham. An aunt of
mine, born 1754, could not remember when the house was without one, though
in her youth they were little used. May not the word umbrella have been
applied to various sorts of _impluvia_? Swift, in his "Description of a
City Shower," says:--

"Now in contiguous drops the flood comes down,
Threatening with deluge this devoted town.