(1) To this family is believed to have belonged John Moreman, Canon and eventually Dean of Exeter (though he died, October, 1554, "before he was presented to the Deanery"), of whom an account will be found in Prince's _Worthies of Devon_ (ed. 1701, pp. 452-453), as well as in Wood's _Athenoe_ and _Fasti Oxonienses_ and Foxe's _Book of Martyrs_. He was "the first in those days to teach his parishioners to say the Lord's Prayer, the Belief and the Commandments in the English tongue" (whether the contrast is with Latin or Cornish, for he was then Vicar of Menynhed, in East Cornwall, does not appear). He was imprisoned, as a determined Catholic, in Edward VI.'s reign, but "enlarged under Queen Mary, with whom he grew into very great favour," and was chosen to defend the doctrine of Transubstantiation before the Convocation of 1553. (2) His thesis for this degree, on _The Interpretation of Nature in English Poetry from Beowulf to Shakespeare_, was published in 1905. (3) He published editions of _The Faithful Shepherdess_, _The Knight of the Burning Pestle_ and _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ in 1897, and an elaborately critical edition of Herrick's _Poems_, in completion of his _Study_, in 1915. He also contributed the chapter on "Shakespeare's Apocrypha" to the _Cambridge History of English Literature_; and for many years acted as English editor of the _Shakespeare Jahrbuch_. (4) Dean Bourne, the parish to which Herrick was not very willingly wedded, is within five miles of Ashburton, Moorman's birthplace. (5) The words in inverted commas are quoted from the records of the Class, kindly communicated by the secretary, Mr Hind. It is difficult to imagine anything stronger than the expressions of affectionate respect which recur again and again in them. I add one more, from the pen which wrote the second quotation: "So quiet, yet so pervading, was his love that each felt the individual tie; and our class, so diverse in spirit, thought and training, has never heard or uttered an angry word. We felt it would be acting disloyally to hurt anyone whom he loved." (6) _The May King_, written in 1913, has been twice acted by school children, once in the open air, once in the large hall of the University. _Potter Thompson_, written in 1911-1912, was acted by students of the University in 1913 and is at present in rehearsal for acting by pupils of the Secondary School of Halifax. The Towneley _Shepherds' Play_ was acted with slight modifications by University students, under Moorman's guidance, in 1907. His adaptation of it, written in 1919, has not yet been acted, but was written in the hope that some day it might be. It may be added that he was largely responsible for a very successful performance of Fletcher's _Elder Brother_ by the University students in 1908. (7) First published serially in _The Yorkshire Weekly Post_ of 1917-1918. A LAOCOON OF THE ROCKS