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NOTES AND QUERIES. [10* s. m. JUNE 24, 1905.

light upon the dates of the publishers' births and deaths, or their work in, and period o their careers passed at, Amsterdam, in order that the date of publication of this old book may be approximately arrived at ?

The book contains 150 copper-plates, very beautifully conceived and thought out, anc splendidly executed, and it is believed is a rarity of value.

The undersigned will greatly appreciate any information concerning this fine ok work. G. GREEN SMITH.

Moorland Grange, Bournemouth.

PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL REGISTERS. Amongst the evidences quotec in support of the pedigree of Beauchamp Earls of Warwick, is the will of William de Beauchamp, dated 1268, and said to be in fo. xi of register " Giffard in ye Prerogative Office."

The records of this court now commence in 1383. It would be interesting to know at what date the earlier records were lost. This could not have been an error for the Archbishop's Registers, as Canterbury has not had a primate named Giffard. The first Archbishop's Register is Peckham. and starts in 1279.

The Beauchamp pedigree appears to have been written about the time of Charles I., and is brought down to temp. Henry VIII. It is to be found amongst the Maddox Collection, and the official number in the British Museum is Add. MS. 4551.

GERALD FOTHERGILL.

11, Brussels Road, New Wandsworth.

PRATTENTON: HEATLEY: DARBY. I should be obliged if any one could inform me if there are any pedigrees of the following families, which are not mentioned in Marshall's 'Guide ' : Prattenton of Hartlebury, Worces- tershire ; Heatley of Waterford ; Darby of Rowley, Yorkshire. A. J. C. GUIMARAENS.

115, The Grove, Ealing, W.

TACITUS TRANSLATED BY GREENWEY AND

SAVILE. This translation or these transla- tions are spoken of, and inquired about, in a reply on '// in Cockney' (see 10 th S. ii. 535). Richard Greenwey translated the Annals ' and the ' Description of Germany ' My copy is dated 1640 i.e., eighteen years later than the edition mentioned by MR. Y ARDLEY ; but it is not said to be of any par- ticular edition. The dedication to "Robert, .bar! of Essex and Ewe, Earle Marshall of England, Knight of the Garter," who was beheaded in 1601, shows that Greenwey published it 1597-1600, seeing that Essex was appointed Earl Marshal in 1597, and

was beheaded early in 1601. Sir Henry Savile translated the 'Histories' (excepting the fifth book) and the 'Life of Agricola/ My copy is of the sixth edition, 1640. It is dedicated " to her most Sacred Majesty." Greenwey's and Savile's translations, dated 1640, were botli printed by J. L. for Richard Whitaker. Allibone gives Oxf., 1581, as the first date of Savile's translation. He does not mention Greenwey.

It is worth noting that Greenwey having dedicated his translation of part of Tacitus in or about 1598 to the second Earl of Essex, Savile, being Warden of Merton College and Provost of Eton, took charge of the educa- tion of the third earl after his father's death. The second earl and Savile had been intimate friends. This appears to establish a con- nexion between Savile and Greenwey. It appears that the various issues of Greenwey's translation were dated, but not marked as to number of edition. May it not be that, Savile's translation of the ' Histories ' having appeared in 1581, Greenwey's translation of the 'Annals' was published in or about 1598 as a supplement, that the two were bound and sold together, the title-page of Savile's part being marked (?) third edition, and as it were covering the title-page of Green- wey's part, which was necessarily placed first ? Greenwey is not given in the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' ROBERT PIERPOINT.

' TABLE TALK OF SAMUEL ROGERS.' Can you help me to the authorship of this book, the second edition of which was published by Edward Moxon in 1856? The preface is signed A. D. The book was printed by Rob- son, Levey & Franklin. What was the date of the first edition ?

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A. F.S.A.

[Two long notices of the book appeared in The Athenaeum of 16 and 23 February, 1856, and a letter from A. D. (Alexander Dyce) was printed on 8 March. The bibliography appended to Samuel Rogers in the 'D.N.B.' misdates the book 1860 }

" CONCERTS OF ANTIENT Music." Mr. H. Barton Baker, in his history of the Totten- ham Street Theatre, omits the dates of these concerts or the erection of Signor Paschali's concert - room. I have a volume of pro- grammes of the " Concerts of Antient Music as performed at the New Rooms, 1780." Is this their first year? ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road, N.

ALLITERATIVE GREEK VERSES. In The Pall Mall Gazette, about ten years ago, some alliterative verses in Greek were published,, said to have been written on the occasion of Jie marriage of the Duke of York and Princess Mary of Teck.