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in that part of the county. The custom survives of tolling twelve strokes of the passing-bell for a man, nine for a woman, .and three for a child ; peals are rung on -Christmas morning, either at an early hour or later ; and the " Vestry Bell " (the treble or one of the small bells of the ring) is rung -as a summons to attend a vestry. See ' The Church Bells of the County and City of Lincoln,' by Thomas North, F.S.A., 1882, pp. 183, 221, 257. At p. 763 are given the inscriptions on the three bells.

In the first volume of The Antiquary, April, 1880, p. 183, it is noted that " some interesting archaeological discoveries have been recently made at the church of Leodegar, in Wyberton, Lincolnshire, during the work of clear- ing preparatory to the restoration of the fabric, which is about to be carried out under the super- intendence of Mr. G. Gilbert Scott, F.S.A."

Leodegarius (St. Leger), Bishop of Autun, .and martyr, was killed by Ebroin, Mayor of the Palace, in 678. His martyrdom is still commemorated in St. Leger's Wood, the scene of his death. See further Smith's ' Christian Antiquities.'

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

There is a short notice of St. Leodegar's, Wyberton, in ' Reports and Papers ' of Associated Architectural Societies, vol. x. p. 191. It was among the churches which the Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society visited from Boston in 1870. Murray has -also an interesting paragraph concerning it in the ' Handbook for Lincolnshire,' p. 122.

ST. SWITIHN.

LITTLETON'S ' HISTORY OF ISLINGTON '(10 S. vii. 70). MB. E. E. NEWTON, in his interesting query about this fragmentary publication, refers to the little book by Samuel Lewis, jun., ' Islington as It Was and .as It Is,' published by John Henry Jackson (an old friend of my family's) at 21, Pater- noster Row, and Islington Green, in 1854. It may be useful to add that another writer, bearing the same patronymic as the author in question (one Thomas Lewis), wrote ' A Retrospect of the Moral and Religious State of Islington during the last Forty Years,' published by Ward & Co., 27, Pater- noster Row, and K. J. Ford, Islington, in 1842.

The earliest reference to Islington I have met with is a broadside published in 1684, named ' A Morning Ramble ; or, Islington Wells Burlesqt,' printed in London by George Crown for an anonymous author.

Amongst rare little books upon Islington I possess a reprint (by J. O. Halliwell, F.R.S.

1861) of ' Islington Wells ; or, the Three- Denny Academy,' printed in London for E. Richardson, 1691 a very broad poem ndeed. I know of two others entitled respectively 'A Walk to Islington, with a Description of the New Tonbridge,' and sop from Islington,' both of which poems are dated 1699. HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

ADAMS'S MUSEUM, KINGSLAND ROAD (10 S. vi. 306). In my note I was only able to suggest that a catalogue of this " collection of curiosities and rarities " had been pub- lished, but it is now possible to be more definite, as there was a copy in George Daniel's library. In Sotheby's catalogue of the sale (July, 1864) of that remarkable collection it occurs in lot 296 :

"Catalogue of the Rarities to be seen at Adams's at the Royal Swan in the Kingsland Road, very scarce, 17o6. Catalogue of Rarities to be seen at Don Saltero's Coffee-House in Chelsea, n.d. Calf extra, g. e., in one vol. 8vo." The volume was bought by Bo one for 10s. 6d. It would provide interesting reading if it were possible to trace its present whereabouts. That the original and the parody should be bound together was essential. Robins's sale catalogue of the " Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill " should be accompanied by a copy of Croker's ' The Great Sale at Goosebery Hall with Puff atory Remarks.' ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmartoii Road, N.

ROWE'S ' SHAKESPEARE ' (10 S. vii. 69).

At first sight it is not, one is inclined to think, very probable that the only plays to be illustrated should be the six doubtful ones. That of itself, though not conclusive, lends some weight to the conjecture that MR. TUDOR'S copy is imperfect. A reference to Mr. Sidney Lee's biography of Shake- speare and Lowndes's * Bibliographical Manual ' does not throw much light on the subject, as in the former work there is no mention of there being any illustrations to Rowe's edition, and the latter merely states that it is " the first small edition and the first with plates."

In his edition of Charles Lamb's works Mr. Lucas gives a reproduction of one of the plates from Rowe's ' Shakespeare ' ('Troilus and Cressida '), to which Lamb alludes in his Elian essay ' My First Play.' Mr. Lucas, however, gives no indication as to the edition of the plays from which it was taken.

More conclusive evidence is perhaps to be found in a catalogue issued by Messrs. John