the further prosecution of offensive war upon the continent of America.' Before 11 o'clock in the morning after the division North informed the King that he could no longer remain in office, and, although the King endeavoured by frequent interviews to recall North, he remained firm, and a new Ministry had to be formed.

With the fall of North, Sir George Trevelyan brings his book to a close-to the regret, we are sure, of all his readers. It is a work belonging to one of the best traditions of historical writing -that of easy, comprehensive narrative in which the progress of events, though fraught with much of serious import, may yet be viewed also somewhat as a spectacle offered to an intelligent and sympathetic spectator.

against the name of one man is written "felo de Jane Hoult, buried "3 Janua: 1700/1,” is described as vetus virgo."

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At the end we are given the text of a memorandum in the Register concerning the surrender of certain land for the benefit of the school at Wolfenden; and a Latin note by Thomas Leigh, incumbent of Newchurch, upon his predecessor Thomas Sanders. Thomas Leigh on p. 204 of the Register records that it" came into my hands wanting ten fol out of it counted by mee Tho: Leigh, Richard Ormerod Churchwarden, April 7, 1696." The array of names is highly interesting. Those which occur most frequently are Ashworth (above all, and with sundry aliases), Hargreaves, Haworth,. Lord, Nuttall, Ormerod, and Tattersall. We may also mention Schofield, Ramsbottom, Crawshaw, The Registers of the Parish Church of Newchurch-in-Haydock, and Rishton. It is hardly necessary to Rossendale, 1653-1723. Transcribed by Archi- remark that the volume is a worthy member of bald Sparke. (Rochdale, Lancashire Parish a class of publication which modern historical Register Society.) methods are rendering more and more essential to the study of the past of our country.

THE original of the Register which we have here in print is inscribed on 102 parchment leaves, 13 in. by 6 in., which have not been treated by all the hands to whom they were confided with the respect which such documents are entitled to. The church to which it belongs, now called that of St. Nicholas, but, according to Whitaker's History of Whalley,' once known as All Saints', stands about seven miles north-west of Rochdale, between Bacup and Rawtenstall, and was formerly a chapel of the parish of Whalley. The name Newchurch was given to the place on its erection about 1511. No doubt the transcription was a labour of love on the part of Mr. Archibald Sparke, yet in itself none the less the labour must have been considerable and exacting, and well merits the gratitude both of the Society in whose behoof it was performed and of antiquaries generally.

From 1653 to 1661 the Register, with but two exceptions, was kept in English. Thereafter the majority of the entries are, either wholly or as to some element, in Latin. For s and d we read f and fa long after the forms of the names have been left in plain English; and de is used for of in setting down the place of residence somewhat longer still. It is amusing to note for how short a time-apparently only by one careful personthe proper Latin forms of the names with the correct inflections are set forth. It is clear that these were soon found too troublesome. Those of our correspondents who have been exercised as to the spelling of "ffrancis may care to know that the word occurs tolerably frequently here, and ffeb,' is so spelt, while we get also regularly ffoebank," "ffearns,' ffairewell," and other names in which the ff is put for F, though the capital does occasionally occur.

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The Antiquary: November. (Elliot Stock, 6d.) IN the Notes of the Month' it is recorded that the skull and antlers of a deer have been discovered on the foreshore of Barmouth by Mr. John Jones, Trawsdir Farm. The skull was embedded in clay, and it took some time to extract. discovery proves that the foreshore was at one time a forest. The skull and antlers are of enormous proportions.

This

Mr. J. Tavenor-Perry-describes the wanderings. of the river Crane, and illustrations are given showing the beginning of it at Headstone Grange and where it is dammed in Cranford Park. Under 'Discoveries in Bolivia' extracts are taken from an article, Ruins of Ancient City in Dense Jungle,' by Mr. Frank G. Carpenter, in the magazine supplement of the Galveston, Texas, Daily News of 9 August. The ruins are scattered over a large area, and consist of massive walls,. terraced mounds, and the great edifice sometimes called the Temple, which covers four acres and was made of blocks of black stone 30 inches Mr. John A. Knowles concludes his thick. articles Glass-Painting in Mediæval and Renaissance Times'; and Mr. J. Holden MacMichael continues his searches among London signs. There is a very pretty illustration of the Packhorse Bridge over the river Brock in Bleas an obituary dale, Lancashire. There is also notice (with portrait) of our old contributor Col.. Fishwick, the well-known Lancashire antiquary and historian, of whom an obituary notice from the pen of Mr. Archibald Sparke appeared in our columns on 3 October.

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It cannot be said that there are many entries here of startling interest. We noticed that on 11 May, 1701, Rich Heworth got leave for Mr ME SRS. DOUGLAS & FOULIS of Edinburgh inHargreaves to baptiz his child but done by Rich: their Catalogue XXXIII. describe something under Ashworth ye anabaptist." In 1691, on 2 Sept., 600 books of very various interest, and, for the is recorded the burial of " James Lord senex most part, within the reach of the curious readermonoculus de Derpley Clough," and it is curious who cannot afford to spend pounds by the score that the burial of James Crawshaw is registered on his taste. The Scotch items naturally are ten days after, he being described as senex among the most attractive. Thus they have the monoculus de Chappel hill." On the 11th ffeb." Spalding Club's Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' of the same year was buried one John Piccop in 2 vols., containing 269 plates, with essays on "nive frigidaque procellâ 10brutus." Of two archæology and descriptive accounts, 1856-67, persons it is said " morte repentina obiit "; of 91. 98. are also Nisbet's System of a woman that she was "occisa fulgure"; and | Heraldry,' the two folio volumes published in 1816,

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offered for 71. 78.; and McGibbon and Ross's from the large number we find we have marked Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scot- as worth attention. There are a first edition of land, from the Twelfth to the Eighteenth Century,' Evelyn's translation of the Instructions conbrought out, as many of our readers will remember, cerning Erecting of a Library,' by Gabriel Naudé, between 1887 and 1892, offered for 107. 108. A 1661 (127. 12s.); an edition, said to be of c. 1474, very attractive item is the edition of Historians and printed at Rome by Johannes Schurener, of Scotland' issued in the seventies of the of the letters of the Younger Pliny (391.); a first last century, comprising Fordun, the Liber edition of The Workes of Beniamin Jonson,' the Pluscardensis,' Wyntoun's Chronicle,' with the first folio of 1616, a good copy in a seventeenthLife of St. Columba,' and some other matters, in century calf binding (421.); and a series of 10 octavo volumes, of which the price here is 41. anatomical plates, copied by Jaques Grevin, There are several good facsimiles : we "Médecin à Paris," from plates engraved by Thomas mention the reproduction done at Oxford some Gemini at the order of Henry VIII. after the drawten years ago of the First Folio of Shakespeare's ings of Vesalius, interesting now chiefly as being plays, 101., and one of the Gospel Book of the first copper-plate engravings done in England. Queen Margaret of Scotland in the Bodleian, for Under the heading Bookbinding is a good collecwhich 31. 38. is asked. A copy of Prynne's tion of, fine examples; and, to turn to matter Antiquæ Constitutiones Regni Angliæ' (1672, of more ordinary and somewhat more modern 17. 18.); Gardyne's 'Life of a Regiment-the interest, we noticed a copy of the 1832-3 edition Gordon Highlanders,' 21. 28.; and twenty of Maria Edgeworth's Tales and Novels, 18 vols. different works of varying value, but some of in sm. 8vo, offered for 81. 15s. them very good, under the heading Family History,' may also be mentioned.

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MESSRS. ELLIS have sent us their Winter Catalogue 1914-15 (No. 156), which describes 525 items, and proves one of the most interesting we have recently examined. Of the entries 244 relate to old newspapers and periodicals. Among these is a goodly array of seventeenth-century examples -odd numbers of the Mercurius Aulicus and its antagonist the Mercurius Britannicus, as well as of the other varieties of Mercurius which dispensed exciting news and violent opinions in days which, not long ago, many of us thought somewhat more stirring than our own. Under the heading of Newsbooks the best item is the 10 vols. (offered for 281.) of Mercurius Gallobelgicus, a publication issued at Cologne and Frankfort at the turn of the seventeenth century, purporting to give the news of France and Belgium, and of the rest of Western Europe as well. Good, too, is The Fatall Vesper,' printed by John Haviland for Richard Whitaker, being an account of the fall of a floor in the top story of the French Ambassador's house in Blackfriars on 5 Nov., 1623, where a number of people had assembled to hear a sermon by a Jesuit priest, Robert Drury: an accident in which ninety-one lives are said to have been lost, and which impressed people at the time sufficiently for the Venetian Ambassador to send home some details of it (27. 28.).

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Under the heading of Rare Old Books are many delightful things. Foremost among them undoubtedly a good copy, black-letter, folio, of Berners's Froissart,' the first edition in 2 vols. (here bound in one), both having Pynson's imprint. The first volume is more often the later one printed by Myddelton. This is not dear at 751. Another book which will tempt collectors (who may acquire it for 241.) is Cranmer's copy of Erasmus's Greek Testament in the 4th edition, bearing the Archbishop's autograph on the top of This had come to the British Museum through George II. and Prince Henry, son of James I., who bought Cranmer's books from Lord Lumley, to whom they had descended, and in 1818 was sold as a duplicate. A third book which may be ranked with these is a first edition of Paradise Lost,' bound by Riviere, the titlepage (according to the particulars given) being of the seventh, and the Argument of the second edition. We may mention two or three more

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Obituary.

J. T. HERBERT BAILY.

By the death of Mr. Herbert Baily the literary and artistic world is robbed of one of its most picturesque figures. Some fourteen years ago he founded The Connoisseur, which ever since, under his able management, has remained the representative magazine of the collector. A man of varied knowledge, with a very attractive personality, he and will be missed by a large circle of friends. Mr. was extremely popular in Clubland and in society, Baily was the author of many considerable works, among the most popular of which are The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton,' and 'The Life of George Morland.' He was also the biographer of Napoleon. Graceful in style and distinguished by shrewd common sense, these books won no meagre suc of business and literary work did not allow him cess and enjoyed a large sale. Although pressure the time to contribute very frequently to N. & Q.,' he was one of its most assiduous readers.

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