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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. in. APRIL 29, 1005.

He is called "a pastor of the Anglican Church." Some particulars of this somewhat unusual " perversion " would be welcome.

FRED. G. ACKERLEY. Libau, Russia.

APOTHECARIES' ACT OP 1815. I am desirous of consulting the lists of surgeons and apothe- caries who were registered under the above Act soon after it came into operation.

Would any reader kindly inform me where I might find any early registers applying to country districts throughout England, apart from those of London ? I have searched in the British Museum, and written to the Registrar of the General Medical Council, without result. CHARLES E. HEWITT.

20, Cyril Mansions, Battersea Park.

JOHN CROWE. Information is desired as to the ancestors and birthplace of John Crowe (probably of Wales), who settled in Charles- town, Mass., in 1635, removing to Yarmouth, Mass., in 1638. GEORGE G. HARRAP.

15, York Street, Covent Garden.

SCOTTISH PROCLAMATION. In Dickson and Edmond's 'Annals of Scottish Printing,' p. 233, a proclamation by the Privy Council against Both well, dated 26 June, 1567, is said to be in the Library of the Faculty of Advo- cates, Edinburgh. As it is not in the cata- logue, it is probable a mistake has been made, and the copy exists in some other library. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' say where a copy is to be seen ? ROBERT STEELE.

Savage Club, W.C.

"HE SAT BESIDE THE LOAVLY DOOR." Could

any of your readers tell me where to find the poem of which I know only these two stanzas I believe by Aubrey de Vere? He sat beside the lowly door,

His homeward eyes appeared to trace In evening skies remembered law,

And shadows of His Father's face. One only knew Him she alone

Who nightly to His cradle crept, And lying, like the moonbeam, prone, Worshipped her Maker as He slept.

G. L. A. WAY.

" THE HEART HAS MANY A DWELLING-PLACE."

Who wrote the lines

The heart has many a dwelling-place, But only once a home ?

A. G. T.

ADDITION TO CHRISTIAN NAME. In the event of a person wishing to add another name to the one he already has had in baptism (as a forename only, not a surname) is any legal procedure necessary? If so,

what is this procedure 1 and what would be the cost 1 ? Are any methods open, other than legal, which a person may adopt himself? and, if so, what are they ? JUDGE.

IRISH SOIL EXPORTED. In a ' Discourse on the Kealm of Ireland,' written in the last quarter of the sixteenth century, I find the statement (MS. Sloane 2180, If. 52 b) :

" There is born there no sort of serpents or venomous animals, save perhaps a frog ; so that earth is carried thence into England and Scotland for remedy against serpents."

Where can I find information as to the methods, the extent, and the results of this commerce? Q. V.

GOETHE AND BOOK-KEEPING. Where does Goethe commend the study of book-keeping as a valuable intellectual training ?

P. F. H.

NICHOLAS, BISHOP OF COVENTRY AND LICH- FIELD. A few months since the Trustees of the British Museum acquired a copy of Edmond Willis's ' Abreuiation of Writing by Character,' 1618. In the Stationers' Register it is entered on 28 June, 1618. This beautiful specimen of early printing and engraving is being exhibited on the north side of Show- Case xix. I believe the only other known copy of the book is in the Bodleian Library. It is dedicated to "Nicholas, under Divine Providence Lord Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield," from whose mouth, " by the space of many yeeres," Willis had practised taking many sermons. Rev. Thos. Harwood's ' His- tory and Antiquities of Lichfield ' and other authorities divide 1618 between John Overall, who was bishop for four years, and his suc- cessor Thomas Morton. Who was Nicholas ? Rev. Philip Gibbs, in his ' Historical Account of Compendious and Swift Writing,' 1736, writing with a copy of Edmond Willis's book before him, from which he freely quotes, says at p. 41 that it is dedicated to the Bishop of Bristol. A. T. WRIGHT.

22, Chancery Lane.

MILLER OF HIDE HALL. I find in Clutter- buck's 'Hertfordshire,' under the pedigree of Miller of Hide Hall (an estate originally belonging to the Franklyn family), that the last male representative of this branch, who acquired it by marriage, died unmarried in 1747. His sister is stated to have married Edward Mundy of the Mundys of Derby- shire, but on the monument to Hester Mundy in the church of Heanor, co. Derby, she is called the daughter of Lieut.-Cpl. Nicholas Miller, of the Guards, and niece of Sir Humphrey Miller, Bart, (another branch of