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first three years to April, 1717. The Reform Club Library has a copy containing the numbers for May, June, September, and October, 1717, but wanting those for Janu- ary, February, July, and August, 1717. This copy has a title-page which runs :

' A | catalogue j of all | books, | sermons, | and | pamphlets, | publish'd in May 1714, | and in every month to this time. j| To be continued monthly. [
 * Price 3d. each month. || London : | Printed for

Bernard Lintott, | between the Temple -Gates in Fleetstreet."

There is no date. With vol. ii., Nos. 6 and 7 (Oct.-Nov., 1715), two numbers began to appear together, the price being Qd. , with October, 1716, when it was 4d. It would be interesting to laam whether other copies of the later numbers are in existence.
 * the exception of the number for September-
 * .> E. G. T.

SERVIAN TERMS : "NARODNA OBRANA " AND "SAMOUPRAVA." It maybe desirable at the present moment to record and inter- pret the sense and signification of two Servian terms now frequently met with in our daily newspapers, viz.: (1) " Narodna Obrana," i.e. National Defence ; (2) " Samou- prava," i.e. Autonomy, or Home Rule. (Observe: "Obrana," not "Okrana," as now and then misprinted.) H. KREBS.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

' THE JACKDAW OF RHEIMS.' ' The Jack- daw of Rheims ' is still sufficiently popular to make its pedigree of some general interest. In a letter dated 29 April, 1837, Mr. Barham says :

" I have no time to do more for this number [.of Bentley's Miscellany] than scratch off a doggerel version of an old Catholic legend that J picked up out of a High Dutch author."

That the original of his poem is of a very respectable age there is no doubt, as the story, wanting in no material detail " fluere ah alis sponte remiges plumae " and " itur in nidum Interque paleas sordidatus elucet Tandem repertus Annulus " is to be found in ' Pia Hilaria R. P. Angelini Gazaei e Societate Jesu a Trebatis,' of which I have a copy of the second edition, issued by the Plantin Press in 1629. The title of this Latin metrical version (pp. 725) is ' Coruus ob furtum occultum anathemate percussus contebescit ; solutus deinde reuiuiscit. Ex

lib. de Viris illust. Ord. Cistert.' I should be very glad if any of your readers could furnish the references to a still earlier version of this well-known Ingoldsby legend, which seems to be associated with the annals of the Cister- cian Order. D. A. CRUSE, Librarian. Leeds Library, Commercial Street, Leeds.

[W. E. A. A(XON) referred to Angelinas Gazseus at 5 S. i. 516. Other parallels are mentioned at 4S. i. 577; ii. 21.]

THIRTEENTH - CENTURY DYERS' ORDI- NANCE. The ' Liber Custumarum ' (Rolls Series, i. 121 et seq.) contains some ordi- nances agreed upon by the civic authorities and the representatives of the cloth-working gilds in London in 1298. Among them is one forbidding, under pain of a fine, " qe nul teynturer qe teynt burnetz blus, et autres manere de colours, ne teygne blecche ne taune." It appears from this ordinance that " burnet " had become the name of a par- ticular kind of cloth, not necessarily of a brown colour. " Blecche " may be either a corruption of " black," or may be " bleach," i.e., white (see ' O.E.D.,' s.v. ' Bleche '). ' O.E.D.,' s.v. ' Burnet,' quotes " blak bornet," c. 1325. Can any reader suggest what was the gravamen of the abuse which this ordinance was passed to prevent ?

G. R. Y. R.

Snt WILLIAM TEMPLE ON HUNIADES. According to Miss Hannah Brand, Sir William stated somewhere that Huniades " was one of the three worthies who de- served a crown without wearing one " (' Huniades ; or, The Siege of Belgrade,' Norwich, 1798). Could some kind reader supply the exa^t reference in Sir William's writings ? L. L. K.

BOMBAY AS A SURNAME. I have been told that there are, or were, families named Bombay. For any instances I should be greatly obliged. J. A. ALBRECHT.

THE PATAGONIAN THEATRE, EXETER CHANGE, STRAND. Will some reader kindly inform me how long this additional attraction to Exeter Change existed ? It was only a winter house, and I have records of it during 1777 and 1778. There were box and pit seats, at three and two shillings respectively ; and the entertainment, although largely musical, included in season a pantomime. Presumably, it was situated in the large supper room of the Change. Were any play- bills issued ? I cannot trace any in the Lysons Collectanea at the B.M.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.