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Clegg, James (Editor). The International Direc- tory of Booksellers, and Bibliophile's Manual. Including Lists of the Public Libraries of the World, Publishers, Book Collectors, Learned Societies, and Institutes, also Bibliographies of Book and Library Catalogues, Concordances, Book-plates, &c. Crown 8vo, Rochdale, 1903.

Cobbett, William, 1762-1835. The Life of William

Cobbett. By his Son. London, 1837. Cobbett was in business as a bookseller in Philadelphia ;

also in Pall Mall at the sign of " The Crown, the Bible, and

the Mitre."

Collet, Collet Dobson. History of the Taxes on Knowledge. 2 vols. London, 1899.

Colman, George, the Younger, 1762-1836. Eccen- tricities for Edinburgh (containing a poem entitled ' Lamentation to Scotch Booksellers '). Svo, 1816.

Constable, Archibald, 1774-1827. Archibald Con- stable and his Literary Correspondents. By his Son, Thomas Constable. 3 vols. Svo, Edin- burgh, 1873.

Cornhill Magazine.

Publishing before the Age of Printing. Jan- uary, 1864.

Bookselling in the Thirteenth Century. April, 1864. And see s.n. George Smith.

Cost, The, of Production. (Society of Authors.)

Crown Svo, London, 1891. Cottle, Joseph, 1770 - 1853. Reminiscences of

Coleridge, Southey, &c. Post Svo, London,

1847.

Cottle was a bookseller in Bristol from 1791 to 1198.

Creech, William, 1745-1815. Edinburgh Fugitive Pieces. New Edition, with Memoir. Edinburgh, 1S15.

A famous Edinburgh Bookseller. Published for Burns, Blair, Dugald Stewart, and Beattie Lord Provost, 1811-13. Creech, William, Robert Burns' Best Friend. By the Rev. J. C. Carrick, B.D., Minister of Newbattle. Fcap. Svo, Dalkeith, 1903. Critic, The (Weekly Newspaper). Mr. F. Espinasse contributed a series of articles on various pub- lishing houses as follows (see his ' Literary Reminiscences,' chap, xx., 1893) : Charles Knight. May (two articles), I860. Longman, House of. 24 March, 7, 21 April, 1860.

John Murray, House of. 7, 14, 21, 28 Jan., I860.

Blackwood, House of. 7, 14, 21, 28 July, 4, 11 Aug., I860.

Curio, The, an Illustrated Monthly Magazine. 4to, New York, 1887-S.

The Great Booksellers of the World. By Max Maury. Bernard Quaritch, of London ; Ludwig Eosenthal. of Munich ; Damascene Mor- gand, of Paris ; Henry Sotheran, of London ; E. Bonaventure, of New York. With 2 Por- traits.

Eminent Publishing Houses, by G. Hedeler. Curll, Edmund, 1675-1747.

The Curll Papers. By W. J. Thorns. See ' N. & Q.,' 2nd S. ii. iii. iv. ix. x., and privately reprinted, 187V.

Pope's Literary Correspondence, 1704 - 34 (Curll's Edition.) 4 vols. 12mp, 1735-6. This edition contains much interesting matter by Curl respecting his connexion with Pope and other eminent

persons. See 'N. & Q.,' 6th S. xi. 381-2, for Curll's Biblio-
 * raphy by W. Roberts.

)urwen, Henry, 1845-92. A History of Booksellers, the Old and the New. With Portraits. Crown Svo, London, 1873.

Curwen was editor of the Times of India. See ' N. & Q. * Qth S. vi. 288, 338, 376, 454.

WM. H. FEET.

(To be continued.)

THE PLOUGHGANG AND OTHER

MEASURES. (See ante, p. 101.)

3. AMONG the words by which the English ride, higid, hnvisc, or hiwscipe, was translated nto Latin was casata. Now just as canicata is derived from cariica, a plough, and is the ploughland, so casata is derived from casa, a louse, and is the houseland.* It is plain that our four measures come from a pair of oxen, a rod, a plough, and a house. And if Dhe first three are measures of much larger areas, so the fourth may have been. There may have been a lesser, as well as a greater, casate, the lesser casate being an acre and the measure of a hide. In Domesday Book a bishop is described as holding at Latesberie in Buckinghamshire "one hide less fivefeet."t This cannot be square feet, and it must refer to the breadth of the acre or messuage which measured the hide. It will be seen in the note below that a placia of land is said to have a length of half an acre and 4 feet. If the carucate refers to the breadth of a full-sized team, the casate may very well have referred to the breadth of a full-sized homestead, the breadth of such a homestead being regarded as the breadth of an acre.t

We can rear an acre of 4,800 square yards (=a juger and a half) from a rod of 15 feet,

in Latin is familia, family, household. See on this point the ' Crawford Charters,' ed. by Napier and Stevenson, p. 127.
 * One of the words by which hiicisc is represented

t " Tenet episcopus Lisiacensis de episcopo Baiocensi j hidam v pedes minus." If the messuage of the hide is taken as 60 feet in breadth, the hide was diminished by one-twelfth, or ten acres, and the messuage was also diminished by one-twelfth. The word hlwisc is found in place-names, as in Huish Episcopi, bishop's hide.

J We have evidence that tofts or messuages were half an acre, &c., in breadth. In a charter dated circa 1206 we have: "Unum toftum in Ledestona latitudinis dimidie acre cum crofto ejusdem latitu- dinis qui jacet juxta toftum meum versus solem, et unam plaeiam juxta eundem toftum versus north, latitudinis cluarum rodarum et dimidie, et longi- tudinis dimidie acre et quatuor pedum." ' Ponte- fract Chartulary,' p. 235. The perticata terras (rood) was also used as a linear measure. Ibid., p. 233.