Without specially binding myself to either one of these conflicting testimonies, I may be allowed to suggest that, apart from any proof to the contrary, the inference that he was a native of Chester is a perfectly fair and legitimate one. His _Short Treatise of the Isle of Man_, which was the only work he ever sent to press, was printed at the end of that famous Cheshire work, the _Vale Royal of England_, in 1656, and was illustrated with engravings by Daniel King, the editor of that work, himself a Cheshire man. Independent of this, his biographer Wood informs us that he was "a singular lover of antiquities," and that he "made collections of arms, monuments, &c., in Staffordshire, Salop, and _Chester_," the which collections are now, I believe, in the British Museum.* He made no collections for Yorkshire, nor yet for London, where he is stated by Wood to have been born. One thing is certain, James Chaloner of Chester was living at the time this treatise was written, and was, moreover, a famous antiquary, and a collector for this, his native county; but whether he was, _de facto_, the regicide, or merely his cotemporary, I leave it to older and wiser heads to determine. T. HUGHES. Chester. *[In the _Harleian Collection_, No. 1927., will be found "A paper Book in 8vo., wherein are contained, Poems, Impreses, and other Collections in Prose and Verse; written by Thomas Chaloner and Randle Holme, senior, both Armes-Painters in Chester, with other Notes of less value."--ED.] * * * * * "ANYWHEN" AND "SELDOM-WHEN:" UNOBSERVED INSTANCES OF SHAKSPEARE'S USE OF THE LATTER. (Vol. vii., p. 38.) MR. FRASER'S remark about the word _anywhen_ has brought to my mind two passages in Shakspeare which have been always hitherto rendered obscure by wrong printing and wrong pointing. The first occurs in _Measure for Measure_, Act IV. Sc. 2., where the Duke says: "This is a gentle provost: _seldom-when_ The steeled gaoler is the friend of men." Here the compound word, signifying _rarely_, _not often_, has been always printed as two words; and MR. COLLIER, following others, has even placed a comma between _seldom_ and _when_. The other passage occurs in the Second Part of _King Henry IV._, Act IV. Sc. 4.; where Worcester endeavours to persuade the king that Prince Henry will leave his wild courses. King Henry replies: "'Tis _seldom-when_ the bee doth leave her comb In the dead carrion." Here also the editors have always printed it as two words; and, as before, MR. COLLIER here repeats the comma. That the word was current with our ancestors, is certain; and I have no doubt that other instances of it may be found. We have a similar compound in Chaucer's _Knight's Tale_, v. 7958.: "I me rejoyced of my lyberté, That _selden-tyme_ is founde in mariage." Palsgrave, too, in his _Eclaircissement de la Langue Françoise_, 1530, has-- "_Seldom-what_, Gueres souvent."