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Various >> Notes and Queries, Number 46, Saturday, September 14, 1850
This volume is stamped in gold on both covers with C.R., surmounted by a
crown.
E.B. PRICE.
_Earl of Oxford's Patent_ (Vol. ii., PP. 194. 235.).--LORD BRAYBROOKE no
doubt knows, that the preamble to the patent was written by Dean Swift.
(See _Journal to Stella_.) I would add, in reply to O.P.Q., that there
is no doubt that _assassin_ and _assassinate_ are properly used even
when death does not ensue. Not so _murder_ and _murderer_, which are
strict terms of _law_ to which _death_ is indispensable.
C.
_Cave's Historia Litteraria_ (Vol. ii., p. 230.).--Part I. appeared at
London, 1688. An Appendix, by Wharton, followed, 1689. These were
reprinted, Geneva, 1693. Part II., Lond., 1698; repr. Genev., 1699. The
whole was reprinted, Genev., 1708 and 1720. After the author's death a
new and improved edition appeared, Oxon., 1740-43; rep. Basil, 1741-45.
I give the date 1708, not 1705, to the second Geneva impression, on the
authority of Walch.
J.E.B. MAYOR.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
Collections of Wills have always been regarded, and very justly so, as
among the most valuable materials which exist for illustrating the
social condition of the people at the period to which they belong.
Executed, as they must be, at moments the most solemn displaying, as we
cannot but believe they do, the real feelings which actuate the
testators; and having for their object the distribution of existing
property, and that of every possible variety of description, it is
obvious that they alike call for investigation, and are calculated to
repay any labour that may be bestowed upon them. It is therefore,
perhaps, somewhat matter of surprise that the Camden Society should not
hitherto have printed any of this interesting class of documents; and
that only in the twelfth year of its existence it should have given to
its members the very interesting volume of _Wills and Inventories from
the Registers of the Commissary of Bury St. Edmunds and the Archdeacon
of Sudbury_, which has been edited for the Society by Mr. Tymms, the
active and intelligent Treasurer and Secretary of the Bury and West
Suffolk Archaeological Institute. The selection contains upwards of fifty
Wills, dated between 1370 and 1649, and the documents are illustrated by
a number of brief but very instructive notes; and as the volume is
rendered more useful by a series of very complete indices, we have no
doubt it will be as satisfactory to the members as it is creditable to
its editor. Mr. Tymms acknowledges his obligations to Mr. Way and Mr. J.
Gough Nicols: we are sure the Camden Society would be under still
greater obligations to those gentlemen if they could be persuaded to
undertake the production of the series of Lambeth Wills which was to
have been edited by the late Mr. Stapleton, with Mr. Way's assistance.
When the proprietors of the _Gentleman's Magazine_ at the commencement
of the present year announced their projected improvements in that
periodical, we expressed our confidence that they would really and
earnestly put forth fresh claims to the favour of the public. Our
anticipations have been fully realised. Each succeeding number has shown
increased energy and talent in the "discovery and establishment of
historical truth in all its branches," and that the conductors of this
valuable periodical, the only "Historical Review" in the country,
continue to pursue these great objects faithfully and honestly, as in
times past, but more diligently and more undividedly. No student of
English history can now dispense with, no library which places
historical works upon its shelves can now be complete without _The
Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review_.
We have received the following Catalogues:--G. Willis's (Great Piazza,
Covent Garden) Catalogue No. 41. New Series of Second-hand Books,
Ancient and Modern; W.S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road)
Sixtieth (catalogue of Cheap Second-hand English and Foreign Books); C.
Hamilton's (4. Budge Place, City Road) Catalogue No. 41. of an important
Collection of the Cheapest Tracts, Books, Autographs, Manuscripts,
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JUNIUS IDENTIFIED. MR. TAYLOR'S _Letter on his authorship of this volume
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M., _who writes on the subject of_ Mr. Thomas's Account of the State
Paper Office, _will be glad to hear that a Calendar of the documents
contained in that department is in the press_.
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SECOND PART OF MR. ARNOLD'S GREEK PROSE COMPOSITION.
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Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
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obligations are increased by the able manner in which they have
described and illustrated them in the volume now under notice.
"These heads" (Ceres, Flora, and Pomona) are of a high order of art, and
Mr. De la Motte, by means of the Talbotype, has so successfully reduced
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are, perhaps, the best of the kind, every tessella apparently being
represented.
"Our authors have very advantageously brought to their task a knowledge
of geology and chemistry, and the important aid which an application of
these sciences confers on archaeology is strikingly shown in the chapter
on the materials of the tesselle, which also includes a valuable report
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composition of one of the Cirencester pavements. This portion of the
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City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street
aforesaid.--Saturday, September 14. 1850.