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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. x. DEC. 19, m*.

best bibliographical list of regimental history of which I know is that contained in ' The Records and Badges of the British Army,' to which I have so frequently referred in your columns.

G. YARROW BALDOCK (Major). South Hackney, N.E.

I believe I am right in saying that Mr. Andrew Ross, the learned Ross Herald, Edinburgh, is at work on a history of the Scots Guards. If it is as good as his ' Scottish Colours,' it will be a first-rate piece of work, which regimental histories rarely are.

By far the best bibliography of regimental h'stories I know is Mr. Francis Edwards's ' Naval and Military Catalogue,' June, 1907 August, 1908 (pp. 520). MRS. COPE may like to know that an elaborate bibliography and iconography of the Gordon Highlanders will appear in my book, ' Territorial Soldiering in the North-East of Scotland, 1759-1814,' to be published by the New Spalding Club, Aberdeen, in a few weeks. It deals also with the 81st, 89th, and 109th Regiments.

J. M. BTJLLOCH.

123, Pall Mall, S.W.

MOURNING LETTER-PAPER AND BLACK- BORDERED TITLE-PAGES (4 S. iv. 390 ; 11 S. x. 371, 412, 454). I have a black-bordered sermon the border of which is relieved by skulls, hour-glasses, bones, and, at the base, by a complete skeleton in white. The title is :

" A | cedars | sad and solemn | Fall. | De- livered in a Sermon at the Parish- | Church of Waliham Abbey in Essex. \ By Thomas Reeve, D.D. | Preacher of Gods \Vord there. | At the funeral of James late Earl of Carlisle | [Two texts.] London, | Printed for William Grantham, at the black Bear in S* Pauls \ Church-yard, near the little North-door, 1661." (Pp. viii, 47.)

I think the above must be an early specimen of this black-edged style for funeral sermons or literature connected with mourning. The sermon preached by R. Vines at the funeral of Robert, Earl of Essex, in Westminster Abbey, on 22 Oct., 1646, has on its title only the ornamental edging usual at that date. This is to be seen on London -printed pamphlets in great variety.

In Mr. Almack's ' Bibliography of EIKWV BatriXuct), 1649,' there is no evidence of a single edition being black-bordered. One would therefore conclude that this fashion began either in the interregnum or imme- diately after, and became common soon after 1700. A very effective design for a border of flowers on a black ground is to be

seen on the title of ' The Epistles and Gospelles with a brief Postyll upon the same from Trinitie Sonday tyll Advent/ printed in 1540 by "Richarde Bankes." Of course there is no suspicion of mourning in this. Did the fashion ever prevail on the Continent ? I do not remember to have seen an instance. C. DEEDES.

Chichester.

An equally early specimen to that quoted by MR. R. AUSTIN is Dr. Anthony Walker's

" Eureka, Eureka ; The virtuous woman found ....in a Sermon at the Funeral of.... Mary Countess Dowager of Warwick .... London : Nathaniel Ranew at the King's Arms in Saint Paul's Church Yard. 1678." 12mo.

The title is bordered with a thick black rule,

WM. JAGGARD. Rose Bank, Stratford-on-Avon.

I possess " England's black Tribunal!. London, Printed for J. Playford. 1660." The second part, containing the dying speeches of the nobility and gentry, has a very thick black border round the title-page. It may be noted that Grove's ' Dictionary of Music ' says that from 1651 Playford's " publications were en tirely musical." Mani- festly an error.

WILLIAM H. CTTMHINGS.

I have three examples of funeral sermons with black borders in my possession, the earliest being dated 1673 (five years prior to the earliest one mentioned ante. p. 454). particulars of which I append :

1. " Leez Lachrymans | Sive | Comitis Warwiei Justa | A ! Sermon | delivered at the Funeral of the | Right Honourable | Charles | Earl of War- wick, Baron | Rich of Leez | who being the Fourth Earl of his family | and last of the Direct Line : Dyed at his Mansion | House of Leez le Rich, in the County of Essex, | August 24, 1673, in the 58 th year of his age. | And was Solemnly InterrM amongst his Ancestors (in | their Vault) at Felsted adjacent, the 9 th of September | following. | By Anthony Walker D.D. Rector of Fyfe.ild in the | same County, and one of His Majesties Chap- lains. | London, Printed by Tho. Milbouru, for Dorman | Newman, at the King's Armes in the Poultry. 1673."

2. " The | Virtuous Woman j Found : ! Her Loss bewayl'd | and | Character | Exemplified | in a | Sermon | Preach't at Felsted ] in Essex, | At the Funeral of the most Excel- | lent and Religious Lady, the Right Ho- | nourable Mary Countess Dowager of | Warwick. | By Anthony Walker D.D. Rector of | Fyfield in the said County. | To which are annexed some of her Lady- | ships pious & useful Meditations. | The Second Edition Corrected. | London Printed for Nathanael | Ranew at the King's-Arms in St. Paul's I Church- Yard. 1680."

(The first edition, also with black border, was issued in 1678.)