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 iv. OCT. H, loos.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 301 LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1905. CONTENTS.—No. 94. HOTES :—Hookes's 'Amanda,' 301—Montaigne, Webster, and Mareton, 302—A Private Library c. Charles I., 303— "Pagan," 304 —St. Luke's Day — "Belapplt" —Black Images of the Madonna—" The first warlike king," 305— Roderigo Lopez — Metropolitan Municipal Councils — " Beside " —The Hare and Baster— " Drownd"— Deer- bound-Charles Lamb, 306. QUERIES :—Canning's Riming Dispatch —Detectives In Fiction—Joliffe Family of Dorset—Principal Gilbert Gray —Cromwell Death—Prisoner suckled by his Daughter— • "Pearls cannot equal the whiteness of his teeth." 307— "Kollups"—Macdonald of Moidart—Sanderson Dance- Liverpool University : Institute of Archeology—Charles Churchill: T. Underwood —'Wedding Invitation-Cards— Joane Grosvenor or Gravenor—Honesty on a Competence — Caravanserai to Public-House, 308—Headly Arms— Mungo—Edward Vaughan—'Les Miserable*!': Its Topo- graohy, 309. REPLIES :—Virgil or Vergil? 309—" Christ's Hospital"— Sarah Curran, Kobert Emmet, and Major Slrr, 310—' The Cloister and the Hearth '—• Don Quixote,' 15»5-«—Fleet Street, No. 53—Bton School Lists—The Purpose of a Flaw —Ripley Arms—Officers of State la Ireland—John Bland, Actor-Manager—Isaac Johnson, of Massachusetts — The Almsmen, Westminster Abbey, 314—Combermere Abbey —Almansa—Dummer Family—Bexfield— Gibbets, 316— Author of Quotation Wanted —Duchess of Cannlzaro— " Tinterero." 316—George Buchanan—The Origin of ' She Stoops to Conquer'—Dudley Arms—'The First, Earring' —Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford—" Piccaninny," 317— •Villlkins and his Dinah' —Jane Wenham — " Bobby Dizzier." 31H. HOTES ON BOOKS :—Hunt's • History of England, 1760- 1801 •—'Registers of Burials at the Temple Church'— 'Quaint Sayings from Sir Thomas Browne' — Goethe's •Faust'—' The Newspaper Reader's Companion.' gaits. HOOKES'S 'AMANDA.' (See 6'h S. vii. 7, 36, 11T, 129.) IT may be remembered that in the begin- ning of 1883 this scarce book formed the subject of a correspondence in these columns. I had recently purchased a copy from the library of the late Mr. F. Ouvry; and although it was generally in very fine condition, I had a suspicion that in some respects it was not quite perfect. So uncertain, however, were the bibliographers on the subject that the auctioneers, in cataloguing the book, failed to record any imperfections. The corre- spondence, though inconclusive to some ex- tent, was of use in enabling me to assure myself of the true condition of the book, and, in verification of the old saying " Tout vient a point a qui sait attendre," I have been successful, after the lapse of two-and-twenty years, in completing my copy from other imperfect examples, and converting _it into perhaps as fine a copy as there is in existence. A difficulty arose from the fact that Mr. Hazlitt, in nis ' Collections and Notes,' p_. 176. recorded a leaf of Errata. I have convinced myself, after an examination of several copies, that no separate leaf of Errata ever belonged to the book. The Errata are, in fact, printed at the bottom of the leaf a4, verso; and, as an old and respected correspondent of 4 N. & Q.,' R. R. (the late Mr. Eobert Roberts, of Boston), pointed out, if the Errata had been printed subsequently on a separate leaf, leaf a4 would have been cancelled. But it is a curious fact, which has hitherto escaped the notice of bibliographers, that the first impression of this leaf actually was cancelled, and an addition to the Errata, was made in the leaf that replaced it. In the first im- pression the Errata were printed in six lines, the last entry being "in the Epist. Dedic. blab-cheek't for blub-cheek't." In the revised leaf another line, containing the following entries, is added to the Errata, making seven lines in all: " p, 80, 1, 23, Tradesmen for Aradesmen, ibid, Querp. coat for Querpo coat." Over the Errata there is a poem of sixteen lines, headed ' The Authour to the Ladies.' In the cancelled leaf the thirteenth line runs, With the moat heav'nly sweetest lovely, she— while in the revised leaf commas are inserted as under:— With the most heavn'Iy, sweetest, lovely, she— All the copies that I have seen, except that which I obtained from Mr. Ouvry's collection, have the revised leaf, and, by a stroke of luck, I have been able to make up my own copy with both the cancelled and the substi- tuted leaves. The title and correct collation of the book are as follows :— "Amanda, I A | Sacrifice i To an Unknown I Goddesse, 1 or, | A Free-will Offering I Of a loving Heart to a | Sweet - Heart. I By 2f. H. of Trinity- Colledge in Cambridge. — Unus «t alter  Forsitan hate spemet juveni»— | —Sed quisquis en accipe charta*,  Scribe.— I London, Printed by T. R. and E. M. for Hum-  phrey Tuckey, at the signe of the black 'Spread-  Eagle, near St. Dunatans Church. 1653." Collation: Small octavo, pp. [xxiv] + 192, consisting of half-title, " Amanda," pp. [i, ii], verso blank ; frontispiece inserted, and not included in register, facing title-page; title, as above, pp. [iii, iv], verso blank ; dedication "To the Honourable Edward Mountague," &c., pp. [v, xiii]; p. [xiv] blank ; Compli- mentary Verses, pp. [xv-xxi]; ' The Author to the Reader,' pp. [xxii, xxiiif; ' The Authour to the Ladies,' p. [xxiv], with Errata at foot of page; 'Amanda,' pp. 1-88; pp. [89, 90] blank ; title-page, " Miscellanea Ppetica," <fec., pp. [91, 92]; dedication "Ornatissimo viro, Mr" Alexandra Akehurst," &c., pp. 93-96 ; pp. [97, 98] blank, with the exception of letter H on recto; Poems, pp. 99 (misprinted 299)—191 ; p. [192] blank. The signatures are Al—A8, al—a4, B—N in eight, comprising