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the further prosecution of offensive war upon the

(continent of America." Before 11 o'clock in

j the morning after the division North informed the

Kin:,' that he could no longer remain in office, and,

i although the King endeavoured by frequent

interviews to recall North, he remained firm, and

a ue\v Ministry had to be formed.

With the fall of North, Sir George Trevelyan .brings his book to a close to the regret, we are sure, of all his readers. It is a work belonging that of easy, comprehensive narrative in which the progress of events, though fraught with much of serious import, may yet be viewed also some- what as a spectacle offered to an intelligent and sympathetic spectator.
 * to one of the best traditions of historical writing

1 The Registers of the Pariah Church of Neu-chitrch-in- Rossendale, 1053-1723. Transcribed by Archi- bald Sparke. (Rochdale, Lancashire Parish Register Society.)

THE original of the Register which we have here

in print is inscribed on 102 parchment leaves,

by 6 in., which have not been treated by all

uds to whom they were confided with the re.-p -ft which such documents are entitled to. The church to which it belongs, now called that of St. Nicholas, but, according to Whitaker's ' Ili.Mory of Whalley,' once known as All Saints',

- about seven miles north-west of Rochdale, <-n Bacup and Rawtenstall, and was formerly

.i <ha pel of the parish of Whalley. The name .\. \vchurch was given to the place on its erection .tin nit 1511. No doubt the transcription Was a

labour of love on the part of Mr. Archibald Sparke, yet in itself none the less the labour must have

' been considerable and exacting, and well merits the gratitude both of the Society in whose behoof it was performed and of antiquaries generally. From 1653 to 1661 the Register, with but two

exceptions, was kept in English. Thereafter the , majority of the entries are, either wholly or as to, some element, in Latin. For a and d we read /

.1 tnd fa long after the forms of the names have

i been left in plain English ; and de is used for of in

1 setting down the place of residence somewhat

longer still. It is amusing to note for how short

apparently only by one careful person

tin- i > roper Latin forms of the names with the

correct inflections are set forth. It is clear that

were soon found too troublesome. Those

of our correspondents who have been exercised

j as to the spelling of " ffrancis " may care to know

that the word occurs tolerably frequently here, and

! is so spelt, while we get also regularly " ffeb,"

" itofbank," " ff earns," " ffairewell," and other

in which the ff is put for F, though the

capital does occasionally occur.

It cannot be said that there are many entries lii-rc of startling interest. We noticed that on 11 May, ITui. Kich d Hewprth got leave for M r Hargreaves to baptiz his child but done by Rich: A.s I ! \\-orth y anabaptist." In 1691, on 2 Sept., i> recorded the burial of " James Lord s-in-\ monorulus de Derpley Clough," and it is curious that the burial of James Crawshaw is registered t "ii days alter, he being described as " senex uln.- d, Chappel hill." On the " 11 th ffeb." of the .same year was buried one John Piccop " nive frigidaque procellA xobrutus." Of two ptr^ms it is said " morte repentina obiit " ; of a woman that she was " occisa fulgure " ; and

agajnst the name of one man is written " felo de- se." Jane Hoult, buried " 3 Janua: 1700/1 " is described as " vetus virgo."

At the end we are given the text of a memo- randum in the Register concerning the surrender- of certain land for the benefit of the school at Wolfendon ; and a Latin note by Thomas Leigh incumbent of Newchurch, upon his predecessor Thomas Sanders. Thomas Leigh on p. 204 of the Register records that it " came into my hands want- ing ten fol out of it counted by mee Tho: Leigh Richard Ormerod Churchwarden, April 7, 16967"^

The array of names is highly interesting. Those which occur most frequently are Ashworth (above all, and with sundry aliases), Hargreaves, Haworth Lord, Nuttall, Ormerod, and Tattersall. We mav also mention Schofield, Ramsbottom, Crawshaw, Haydock, and Rishton. It is hardly necessary to remark that the volume is a worthy member of a class of publication which modern historica! methods are rendering more and more essential to the study of the past of our country.

The Antiquary : November. (Elliot Stock, 6d.) IN the ' Notes of the Month ' it is recorded that the skull and antlers of a deer have been discovered on the foreshore of Barmouth by Mr. John Jones, Trawsdir Farm. The skull was embedded ini clay, and it took some time to extract. This discovery proves that the foreshore was at one- time a forest. The skull and antlers are of enormous proportions.

Mr. J. Tavenor-Perry describes the wanderings of the river Crane, and illustrations are given showing the beginning of it at Headstone Grange and where it is dammed in Cranford Park. Under ' Discoveries in Bolivia ' extracts are taken from- an article, ' Ruins of Ancient City in Dense Jungle,' by Mr. Frank G. Carpenter, in the magazine supplement of the Galveston, Texas,. Daily News of 9 August. The ruins are scattered' over a large area, and consist of massive walls,, terraced mounds, and the great edifice some- times called the Temple, which covers four acres and was made of blocks of black stone 30 inches- thick. Mr. John A. Knowles concludes his articles on ' Glass-Painting in Mediaeval and' Renaissance Times ' ; and Mr. J. Holden Mac- Michael continues his searches among London signs. There is a very pretty illustration of the Packhorse Bridge over the river Brock in Bleas- dale, Lancashire. There is also an obituary notice (with portrait) of our old contributor Col.. Fishwick, the well-known Lancashire antiquary and historian, of whom an obituary notice from the pen of Mr. Archibald Sparke appeared in our- columns on 3 October.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. NOVEMBER. Mf-sus. DorroLAS & FOUIJS of Edinburgh in their Catalogue XXXIII. describe something under 600 books of very various interest, and, for the most part, within the reach of the curious reader who cannot afford \ spend pounds by the so, re on his taste. The Scotch items naturally are among the nso-l attractive. Thus they have the Spalding C'lub'.s 'Sculptured St. me- ..f Scotland." in 2 vols.. containing 260 plate*, with essays on* archflPology and de-criptivc accounts, 1856-67, 9/. Us. There are also Nisbet's 'Sy-t.-in ..f Heraldry,' the two folio volumes published in 1816,.