=Page 168.=--_Corresponded to our 3d of May._ The difference between Old and New Style in reckoning dates, and the fact that the Gregorian Calendar (or New Style) was not adopted in England until 1752, or nearly two hundred years after it was accepted by Catholic nations on the Continent, have often led historians, biographers, and other writers into mistakes concerning dates in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. For instance, it has been often asserted that Shakespeare and the Spanish dramatist Cervantes died on the same day, April 23, 1616; but Shakespeare actually died ten days later than his great contemporary, New Style having been adopted in Spain in 1582. If we were certain that Shakespeare was born on the 23d of April, 1564, we ought now to celebrate the anniversary of his birth on the 3d of May. As we do not know the precise date of his birth, and the 23d of April has come to be generally recognized as the anniversary, there is no particular reason for changing it. _Richard Johnson._ He was born in 1573 and died about 1659. He is chiefly noted as the author of this _Famous History of the Seven Champions of Christendom_. These, according to him, were St. George of England, St. Denis of France, St. James of Spain, St. Antony of Italy, St. Andrew of Scotland, St. Patrick of Ireland, and St. David of Wales. _Mr. A. H. Wall_, of Stratford-on-Avon, was for several years the librarian of the Shakespeare Memorial Library there, and is the author of many scholarly articles in English periodicals on subjects connected with Shakespeare and Warwickshire. _The Percy Reliques._ A collection of old ballads, entitled _Reliques of Ancient English Poetry_ (1765), made by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), a clergyman (in 1782 made Bishop of Dromore in Ireland) and poet. =Page 170.=--_Chambers._ These are mentioned in more than one account of the burning of the Globe Theatre in London, on the 29th of June, 1613, when, as the critics generally agree, Shakespeare's _Henry VIII._ was the play being performed. A letter written by John Chamberlain to Sir Ralph Winwood, describing the fire, says that it "fell out by a peale of chambers," and a letter from Thomas Lorkin to Sir Thomas Puckering, dated "this last of June, 1613," says: "No longer since than yesterday, while Bourbege[6] his companie were acting at y^e Globe the play of Hen=8, and there shooting of certayne chambers in way of triumph, the fire catch'd." Another account states that these cannon were fired on King Henry's arrival at Cardinal Wolsey's house; and the original stage-direction in _Henry VIII._ (iv. 1.) orders "chambers discharged" at the entrance of the king to the "mask at the cardinal's house." =Page 171.=--_Ambrose Dudley._ He was born about 1530, made Earl of Warwick when Elizabeth came to the throne, and died in 1589.