near; and more names than I can now remember were inhabitants of either Ramsgate or Broadstairs. Dickens hardly ever laid his friends under contribution either for ridicule or notoriety. When he found earnest men doing good work unobserved he might draw aside the veil of obscurity to depict the "silver lining" to the black clouds of life, such as in the case of the Brothers Cheeryble; but daily life and pereginations at midnight furnished him with such a world of incident that his task was more that of a cheerful historian than of an ESSINGTON. imaginative novelist. the problem further back into the mists of prehistoric antiquity. printed was, in Mr. Mowat's opinion, written in or about The manuscript from which this volume has been 1465. It breaks off in the middle of the letter 8; but there is another copy of the same work in the British Museum (Sloane, 284). From these a complete text has been constructed. As it at present exists it is full of corruptions. Such books as these were, we may well believe, constantly transcribed by ignorant copyists, each one of whom added new errors to those of his predecessors. The work is annotated with the greatest care. The amount of patient labour that has been spent upon it is very great; but so difficult is the subject, and so corrupt the version before us, that it has been found AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (7th S. iii. impossible to clear up all difficulties. It is well known 498). I canter by the place each afternoon. This, inaccurately quoted, is the stanza ciii. of canto iv. of Byron's Don Juan,' originally published in August, 1821. The true reading is as follows: I canter by the spot each afternoon But which neglect is hastening to destroy, Records Ravenna's carnage on its face, &c. This memorial of Gaston de Foix and the battle of Ravenna I sketched in the year 1853, and have it in an old note-book. At that time, let me do the Italians the justice of recording, the condition of the monument betrayed no such signs of petty malignity as Lord Byron mentioned. Let me, in passing, express the loathing with which some of us regard the recent attacks on the genius of Byron under the shallow disguise of criticism, J. W. EBSWORTH. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. Anecdota Oxoniensia.—Alphita: a Medico-Botanical Glossary. From the Bodleian MS. Selden B. 35. Edited by J. L. G. Mowat. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) PROF. EARLE'S little book on early plant-names has had a marked effect in directing attention to medieval botany and medicine. The two sciences are now quite distinct. A man may be eminent in the medical profession yet as ignorant of botany as the least instructed of his patients. On the other hand, the botanist may be, and often is, quite ignorant of the healing art. It was not so in the Middle Ages. Medicine was then, it is to be feared, mostly magical; and such botanical knowledge as existed was blended with it in a way that is not very easy for the ordinary moderns to comprehend, The value of books of the kind now before us is twofold. They furnish us with old plant-names which, but for such collections as this, would have perished, and they throw a faint and flickering light on the old medical practice. We are not among those vain and light persons who believe that the value of experiment was unknown until it was taught us by Francis Bacon; but it is a fact that cannot be gainsaid that in the Middle Ages but few persons appreciated this method of acquiring new knowledge. How, then, did our forefathers obtain the information which they undoubtedly possessed as to the medicinal properties of various herbs? The question is difficult; for if we say that they derived it from Greek and Teutonic traditions, we are only throwing that Egyptian mummies were used as medicine in the Middle Ages. We gather from the explanation of the word Mummia that our forefathers did not know that they were swallowing portions of human bodies, but thought that it was something-probably spices-found with them. In a note (p. 140) the editor suggests a derivation for the word" donkey." It may be true; but in the present state of our knowledge must only be accepted provisionally. "Donn or Dun," he says, "seems to have been an old name for horse; hence don-key, little horse." Any future editor of Du Cange, or any one who shall take upon himself the labour of compiling a new medieval Latin dictionary which shall incorporate the results of modern scholarship, will find this book of great value. If we are not mistaken, there are many words here which do not occur in the dictionaries. Corrupt forms they undoubtedly for the most part are; but it is on that very account that they are puzzling, and require registration and comment. Yorkshire Archaeological Association_Record Series. Vol. II.-Yorkshire Fines. I. (Printed for the Society.) Journal of the Yorkshire Archæological Association. Parts XXXVI, and XXXVII. Vol. IX. Part IV.; Vol. X. Part I. (Printed for the Society.) DR. FRANCIS COLLINS has done good service to all genealogists by editing for the Yorkshire Archæological Association a portly volume of Yorkshire fines for the Tudor period. Prefixed is a useful explanation of the nature of the documents known as fines, or feet of fines, as to which our own columns have shown that there is not much general knowledge afloat. The index of names of persons and places is so scrupulously faithful to the original as to exhibit its contractions. In the case of such well-known names as Metham, Calverley, &c., this seems almost an excess of scrupulosity, and perhaps a little likely to mislead the general reader as to the frequency of the occurrence of a given name. Among names in which some of our readers have shown aŭ interest we may mention that Lythe occurs under Hilary Term, 6 Eliz., when John Lythe and William Lythe were plaintiffs in a fine of two messuages and lands in Newton-upon-Roclyffe. Among the more remarkable or unusual names which occur we may cite Langfelowe, Ferthyng (whose ancestor may have been a Farthingman), Drinkrawe (who, it may be supposed, took his spirituous comfort "neat "), Straytebarrell, Vycarman. Wadsworth is represented as well as Longfellow, and his Excellency the present French Ambassador is not without a Waddington. The Journal of the Association, of which Parts XXXVI, and XXXVII., for 1886 and 1887, are now before us, continues to be as full as ever of valuable matter for the genealogist as well as for the archæologist. Mr. R. E. Chester Waters is represented in Part XXXVI. by the second portion of his historical account of the Counts of Eu, Lords of Tickhill; while in the same number figures his opponent on the Gundreda controversy-Sir George Duckett-who prints the original foundation charter of Lewes from the Clugny records in the French archives. We doubt whether Sir George has done more than scotch his snake, though he evidently writes under conviction, and believes himself to have killed it. He is in any case entitled to our thanks for the documents printed with his article in the Journal of the Yorkshire Archæological Association. In the opening part of Vol. X. we hail with pleasure the continuation by Rev. C. B. Norcliffe of his valuable transcript of Paver's marriage licences, being the portion for 1597-99. The Cistercian Statutes,' by our wellknown correspondent Rev. J. T. Fowler, constitute another welcome continuation. Among new features we may mention that Rev. W. C. Boulter opens up the interesting field of Court Rolls of Yorkshire manors, while Mr. W. H. St. John Hope deals with the Premonstratensian House of St. Agatha juxta Richmond,' and Mr. Clements Markham, C.B., gives us another battle-piece in the battle of Towton. the portions dealing with 'King John,' ' Julius Cæsar,' THIS pleasant volume, to which on its first appearance IN the latest number of Le Livre appears an article by M. Henri Welschinger upon 'La Direction Générale de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie (1810-1815). In this, which is a continuation of a study of 'La Censure Imperiale' which appeared five years ago, M. Welschinger shows from manuscripts in the Bibliothèque Nationale the singular precaution taken under the First Empire by successive censors of the press. Much curious information as to the manner in which writers of authority and A Letter upon the Roman Catholic Emancipation Ques-position were dealt with is supplied. In his 'Causerie tion and the State of Ireland in 1829. By Prof. Nie- M. Octave Uzanne deals, among other subjects, with the buhr. (Hatchards.) recently published work of Miss Devey upon Lady Lytton. THE opinions of so great an historian as Niebuhr on any Cucumber Chronicles: a Book to be taken in Slices. By Hard Knots of Shakespeare. By Sir Philip Perring, UPON its first appearance, Sir Philip Perring's contri- of fifteen years, has been compiled by Mr. G. H. Brierley, AN index to Byegones, vols. i. to vii., covering a period and published at Oswestry and Wrexham by Messrs. Woodell, Minshall & Co. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rule. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate." C. D.-The Life and Death of the English Rogue; or, his last Legacy to the World: with a Canting Dictionary, was first published in 4to., London, 1679. An edition also appeared in 1719. The authorship is unknown. 'The English Rogue; or, the Life of Jeremy Sharp' is a different work, with, we believe, no "canting dictionary." There is, of course, another "English Rogue," described as the Life of Meriton Latroon,' which is by Richard Head, 4 vols., 8vo., 1671-80. Head also wrote 'The Canting Academy; or, Villainies Discovered,' London, 1674, 12mo., and other works. J. B. S.-Article McMurrough' will appear, The other communication you mention cannot be traced. ERRATUM.-P. 496, col. 2, 11. 2, 3, and 7, in an inquiry after Cornish Tokens,' for "Bougthen "read Bonython. Contributors would do well to write proper names with special distinctness. NOTICE. Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries ""-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, 22, Took's Court, Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, E.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception. Queries, with No. 82, July 23, 1887. INDE X. SEVENTH SERIES.-VOL. III. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, Epigrams, EPITAPHS, A.M., introduction of the abbreviation, 72, 178 A. (A.) on Oriental china, 154 Hit-it, 295 Lincoln, imp of, 18 St. John, his emblem, 352 "Vox Stellarum,' 255 A. (A. G.) on Brigadier Crowther, 477 A. (B. T.) on jokes on death, 480 A. (G. P.) on Quarles's 'Virgin Widow,' 485 A. (H. J.) on foreign English, 195 A. (H. S.) on Mdlle. Heinel, 169 A. (J. E.) on 'Stories of Dogs,' 272 Abhba on 'Authentic Memoirs of George III.,' 168 Garnet as a Christian name, 78 'Kildare (Earls of) and their Ancestors,' 106 Abracadabra, its derivation, 369, 504 Ace of clubs called basto, 157 Ada on Bromflat: Lowther, 429 Acromerostich, 167 Adam, his life in Eden, 32 Adam (C. E.) on Independent Friends, 388 Afghanistan, wars in, 268, 352 Akenside (Mark), his death, 247, 372 Al-borak and borak, 476 Alderwoman alderman's wife, 347 Alfred (King), his name in ancient calendars, 428, 50 Alger (J. G.) on Galignani family, 366 All the Year Round': 'A Mystery Still,' 288 Allen (T.) on the birthplace of Crabbe, 306 Allnutt (W. H.) on Fleetwood's Life of Christ,' 450 Alpha on binding of magazines, 155 Amenhetep III., his jubilee, 492 America, its Chinese discovery, 265 Anderson (D.) on feudal laws in Scotland, 294 Anderson (P. J.) on Gregory family, 147 Reid (Dr. Thomas), 427 Adamson (John), sonnet on the loss of his books by Andrews (Henry) and Moore's 'Vox Stellarum,' 164, fire, 225 Addy (S. O.) on bowling-greens, 41 Chappell: Markland, 28 'Cheape and Good,' 463 Flower (Thomas), Oxford proctor, 188 Ny or -ney, suffix in place-names, 475 'Return from Parnassus,' 316 Ruskin surname, 438 Sitwell: Stotville, 27 Tam o' Shanter, 305 Urn burial near Sheffield, 421 Woman or lady, 11 Advent as a Christian name, 106 255 Andrews (Rev. Mordecai), his parentage, 114, 251, 499 Anglin and Scarlett families, 461 Anglo-Burman on " Make no bones," 408 Anglo-Irish ballads, 147 Anglo-Israel mania, 27, 70, 96, 136 Angus (G.) on woman or lady, 12 Anne (Queen), value of her farthings, 85, 215, 335 "Credo quia impossibile est," 308 Golden Legend,' 476 Mary, Queen of Scots, 309 'Anonymous Literature,' Halkett and [Laing's Dic- Athol: "It shall yet cry in Athol," 308 Cheape and Good, 347, 463 Continuation of Journals, 429 De Laudibus Hortorum, 149, 213, 254, 339 Delitti e Pene, 188, 258, 395 Ecce Homo, 497 English Rogue, 528 Epistle of Yarico to Inkle, 327 Fruitless Enquiry, 517 George III., Authentic Memoirs of, 168 Kennett (White), Life of, 69, 118 Killing no Murder, 326 Mary Magdalen's Tears Wipt Off, 48 Notes Abroad and Rhapsodies at Home, 10 Original Poems for Infant Minds, 225, 290, 361, Original Poems: calculated to improve the Mind Atkin (E.) on Major Lawrence Dundas, 349 Atone, "to be at one," 86 Attwood (J. 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