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 M*B. in. JUNE 17, 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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history of English glass - making, by Mr. E. W. Hulrae, which appeared in The Anti- quary for May, 1895, p. 135. K. B. P.

"ALLEN" (10 th S. iii. 208). Louis II. le Bon et le Grand, the third Duke of Bourbon, 1356-1410, was one of the hostages of the treaty of Bretigny, and remained in England for eight years. On his return to Moulins he instituted (1369) the order of the Ecu d'Or. It consisted of a golden shield upon which was a bend charged with the word "Allen," "all." Respecting the word "Allen," Favine's 'Theater of Honour,' &c., 1623, p. 487, says :

" He told them within a while after, that oner- thwart his Golden-Shield, hee had caused a Bende to bee painted, containing in it this Bourbonnois word or Motto, Allen ; as if he intended to say, Aliens tous ensemble au seruice de Dieu," &c.

On the belts of the knights was wrought the 'oyeux mot " Esperance." The motto " Allen " was placed upon their caps, and they wore a mantle of sky-blue lined with red satin. See ' Historic Devices, Badges, and War Cries,' by Mrs. Bury Palliser, 1870, pp. 49-50. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES (10 th S. iii. 227, 292). Regarding the (correct) observation made by COL. PRIDEAUX that, " from a bib- liographical point of view, measurements from a bound and cut copy are almost useless," it may be in order to remark that, after much serious deliberation, the American Library Association has adopted, for purposes of cataloguing, the rule of the Library of Con- gress partially quoted below :

" Give height of book (of cover in bound books)

in centimeters, exact to one-half centimeter

When books are ' narrow,' ' square,' or ' oblong,' or otherwise of very unusual size, give both dimensions."

See 'A.L.A. Rules,' advance edition, p. 15, section 70, Washington, Government Print- ing Office, Library Division, July, 1904.

A report of a special committee on book sizes, of the American Library Association, may be found in Library Journal, iii. 19, 20, the rule then recommended being reprinted in ' Rules for a Dictionary Catalog,' by Chas. A. Cutter, fourth edition, rewritten, Wash- ington, Government Printing Office, 1904 (see Appendix ii. pp. 155-6).

The two works above cited are of great assistance to any one preparing material for a bibliography, and are positively invaluable to the American librarian. With them and the article by George Watson Cole on ' Com- piling a Bibliography ' as guides, even a novice ought not to go far astray. Every

bibliographer and cataloguer, however, well knows that there is a mine of other material to be consulted and used. Mr. Cole's contribution is noticed below : Cole, George Watson. Compiling a Bibliography- Practical Hints, with Illustrative Examples, con- cerning the Collection, Recording, and Arrange- ment of Bibliographical Materials, by George Watson Cole. An Address delivered before the Pratt Institute School of Library Training, March 15. 1901 : reprinted, with additions, from The Library Journal (xxvi. 791, 859), pp. 21. New York, The Library Journal, 1902. Two hundred and fifty copies printed for private distribution.

E. F. McPlKE. Chicago, U.S.

YORK, 1517 AND 1540 (10 th S. iii. 409). Although unable to answer MR. E. S. DODGSON'S questions, I venture to think that the following notes may be worthy of his attention. Drake ('Eboracum,' p. 187) records : "Anno 1489, sir John Gylliot,. mayor, one John Dodson was fined forty pound for not taking on him the office of chamberlain."

Mr. Robert Davies tells in ' Walks through- the City of York ' (pp. 50-51) that "in the llth year of King Henry VII. (1496> Thomas Chapman, a saddler, to avoid being elected Sheriff, agreed to pay a tine of 1(V., and to ' give a, hundred waynscotts towardes the ceillyng of the- Common Hall.' Three years afterwards the Cor- poration agreed that the 100 waynscots given by- Thomas Chapman, together with 20 given by Thomas Jameson and 40 by John Doggeson, should be delivered to the Master of the Guild of St. Chris- topher and St. George towards the 'selyng' of the walls of the common hall, and the guild to pay the costs of the selyng thereof. Both Thomas Jameson and John Doggeson subsequently filled the office of Lord Mayor, and very probably theirs are among the merchants' marks which now adorn the bosses of the ceiling of the hall they contributed to complete."

Mr. R. H. Scaife, who annotated Mr. Davies's work, added the information :

"John Dodgson was elected Lord Mayor 14th November, 1508, in the room of John Petty,. who died in office. Eight years afterwards he again filled the civic chair, being appointed 15th March, 1516/17, by the King's letters patent, vice William Nelson, whose election had been declared void owing to his being a prisoner in the Fleet, London. Alderman Uodgson died Jn 1531, and was interred in the church of St. Nicholas,, Micklegate."

ST. SWITHIN.

LONGMAN, BARREL-ORGAN BUILDER, C SIDE (10 th 8. iii. 348). John Longman, of Penton Street. Pentonville, in the county o Middlesex, organ builder, obtained a patent for barrel organs on 27 January, 1801 (No. 2468). This is probably the John Long- man mentioned at the above reference aa