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. iv. AUG. 12,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 139 Lady Maria Theresa Bruce, daughter of the Earl of Ailesbury, with the Prince of Homes, and that of their two daughters with the Princes of Salm- Kyrburgand Stolbere-Guedern, the blood of Clarence if carried to the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns. Naturally the volume is chiefly occupied with per- sons of British race and nationality, though many Americans, French, Germans,'Spaniards, Swedes, &c., find mention. Barillas, late President of Gua- temala, appears through his grandchildren, and Jeanne Papoutsopoulos is the solitary Greek de- scendant of Clarence. Though Charles of Rouma- nia is the only king descended from Duke Charles, Bertha of Rohan, the consort of Don Carlos, would, but for revolutionary upheaval, have occupied a throne, as would Louisa of Stolberg had the Revolution of Hiss never taken place, in which case she " would have been queen of these realms in fact as she was in name." While there are at pre- sent living some 00,000 descendants of Edward 111., that number, large as it seems, is but insignificant out of a total estimated conjecturally at 100,000,000 • British descent, and while, says the Marquis, Kdward 1. may be justly termed the father of the British people, "it is quite a different thing to be able to trace the line." Among recently deceased descendants of the Duke of Clarence we were prepared to find Charles Stewart Parnell. Car- dinal Vaughan and Miss Charlotte M. Yonge are also, it seems, of the number. We have already drawn attention to the obscure position of some individuals of highest descent, and have ourselves, as we believe, found a direct descendant of Saxon kings in a village tailor. To a genealogist the interest and importance of this work are inex- haustible. Other volumes are in progress, and how far the series may extend we are unable to say. Among the illustrations are photogravures of portraits of the Dukeof Clarence (servingas frontis- piece), of Isabel Nevill, Duchess of Clarence, of Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, and Reginald, Cardinal Pole, and portraits of King Edward 111., Queen Philippa of Hainault, Charles I., King of Roumania, Louisa of Stolberg, Bertha of Rohan, and very many others. A Ryght Profytabie Treatise. By Thomas Betaon. (Cambridge', University Press.) THIS, the second of the incunabula issued by the Cambridge University Press, is neither less scarce nor less curious than the' Augustini Dacti Libellus' by which it was preceded. Like this it comes from the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely 1707-14, and was presented by George I. to the University in 1715. Like it, too, it is the work of a man not otherwise known, and concerning whose very name there seems to be question. On the not often dis- puted authority of William Herbert, whose informa- tion was derived from William Cole " of Milton," his name is given as Thomas Betton. There is, how- ever, little question that the reading is correct of Mr. Francis Jenkinson, supported as it is by Mr. Bernard W. Henderson and Mr. Falconer Madan. The letter * in what may be accepted as a colophon has been blurred. On the evidence of the printer's mark and of the cut of the Crucifixion, which appears twice, the year of publication is given as 1500, when it was printed by Wynkyn de \ orde in Caxton's house. Wholly edifying are the contents, which are extracted from St. Jerome, St. Bernard, Uerson, and other pious writers. It is indeed, as BeUon says, " co'pendiously drawen out of mauny & dyuers wrytynges of holy men to dyspose men to be vertuously occupyed in theyr myndes & prayers," and is devotional or supplicatory. One- phrase of the Pater Noster is "Our echo dayly brede gyue vs to daye." The Ave and Credo follow. The seven virtues are opposed against the- seven vices; and much other matter tending to profit with which the pious reader is familiar is introduced. The facsimile, which has been taken from the original in the University Library of Cambridge, has been executed by M. P. Dujardin, of Paris, who certifies to having printed 250 copies only, and declares that the impressions have been rubbed off the plates and the negatives destroyed. Two more books are promised as this year's con- tribution. These are the ' Anelida and Arcite' of Geoffrey Chaucer and 'The Temple of Glas' of John Lydgate. It is difficult to speak too highly in praise of these volumes, which are in every way worthy of the great university to the enterprise and spirit of which they are owing. Each of the two that have appeared is upon hand-made paper, and is bound in sage - green paper boards, quarter vellum, with vellum side label. The appearance is thoroughly artistic, and the volume must necessarily be soon absorbed in the libraries of the lovers, of beautiful and curious books. The Hittory of the Society of Apothecaries of London. By C. R. B. Barrett, M.A. Illustrated by the Author. (Stock.) THOUGH boasting of no remarkable antiquity, the Society of Apothecaries is the owner of inter- esting and instructive records and has a story- worth telling. It seems at one time to have been in possession of materials for a full history. now no longer accessible, but still, it is to be hoped, recoverable. In the excellent work compiled by- Mr. Barrett we hear, in 1790-1, of the presentation to the Society of " a very valuable collection of: tracts" relating to its history. The donor of these was a former Master, a Mr. Join* Field. Whether these are yet in existence is unknown to Mr. Barrett. They can scarcely have been lost without culpable negligence, if nothing- worse, on the part of the authorities. Their dis- appearance is the more surprising since a minute dated 19 October, 1804, supplies an order that the- collection be not shown to anybody without the permission of the Court of Assistants. A question? in our own columns might conceivably lead to a knowledge of their whereabouts. They may have been misappropriated, but can scarcely have been destroyed. It is satisfactory to learn that the minutes of the Society, from which the writer has drawn the greater part of his information, are "in an abso- lutely perfect state." Except in the case of entries referring to the " Physic Garden" at Chelsea, they offer, indeed, virgin soil to the antiquary. Mr. Barrett has elected to give a species of description or informal digest of their contents, or rather a transcription. Where the object is to commend a book to general perusal this is presumably wise, books full of documents being apt, as is sug- gested, to become wearisome. The first mention of an apothecary in England occurs, we are told in limine, in Rymer's 'Fitdera,' where one Coursus de Gangeland, '"an Apothecary of London," is mentioned as receiving in 1345 a pension of M. per diem for attending on King Edward III. while Iving sick in Scotland. The earliest charter granted to-