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NOTES AND QUERIES. in s. vm. OCT. is, 1913.

' Orpheus Britannicus '). Shore's playing is commended in The Gentleman's Journal for January, 1691/2. His name appears as one of the twenty -four musicians to Queen Anne. Rimbault in ' The Cheque Book of the Chapel Royal ' (Cam den Society) says that Mathias and William Shore were brothers, and that John was a nephew of William ; but it seems more likely that Grove's ' Diet, of Music ' is correct, and that William and John were brothers.

At John Shore's death (1752) Valentine Snow succeeded, and held the post until 1770, when he died. He was possibly a son of Moses Snow, a minor composer and lay vicar of Westminster Abbey (see Rimbault. ' Cheque Book ' ). His daughter Sophia (b. 1745) eloped with Robert Bad- deley, and became the famous actress. The successors of Snow were, many of them, not even musicians.

John Charles Crowle, who held the office in 1812, was meritorious in one thing, viz., that he presented to the British Museum the well-known extra-illustrated copy of Pennant's ' London ' in fourteen folio volumes.

In 1858 the post was again held by a musician Joseph Williams ; and in April, 1875, by J. G. Waetzig.

The Sergeant Trumpeter formerly claimed, under letters patent, a fee of 12c?. a day for every person sounding a trumpet, beating a drum, or playing a fife in any play or show without his licence, for which licence 20s. a year was demanded. Both Mathias and William Shore successively issued advertise- ments authorizing all magistrates to receive such fees, and apply them to the relief of the poor.

The Records of the Lord Chamberlain's Department, the Accounts of Coronations from Edward IV., the Establishment Books of the Household (1641 to 1759), and the Salary Accounts (1667 to 1782) are lodged in the Public Record Office, but are not open to inspection without permission from the Lord Chamberlain. Possibly further details could be obtained through the Earl Marshal and the Heralds' College. I have obtained much information from the valuable articles by Mr. W. H. Husk in Grove's ' Diet, of Music.' A. L. HUMPHREYS.

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I have in my possession a document en- dorsed "Thomas Maclean, sworn Household Trumpeter in Ordinary to His Majesty." He was appointed by warrant from the Earl of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain, 24 Jan., 1771.

At the Coronation (1821) of George IV, there was a Sergeant Trumpeter, carrying his mace, with sixteen Household Trumpeters. In 1835 the Sergeant Trumpeter was Thomas L. Parker, Esq., and under him eight House- hold Trumpeters. It is possible that he may have been the Queen's Trumpeter of 1838. R. J. FYNMORE.

CROMARTY (US. viii. 130, 178). If Cromar and Cromarty be of Viking origin, may not Cromer of the Norfolk coast have a similar source ? Repps and Thorpe, &c., appear to be Scandinavian. FRANCES HALES.

AN ELZEVIR (11 S. viii. 209, 250). To the valuable bibliographical notes of MR. A. L. HUMPHREYS it may be added that Berghman's ' Nouvelles Etudes sur la Bibliographie Elzevirienne Supplement a 1'ouvrage sur les Elzevier de M. Alphonse Willems,' was published in 1897, twelve years after the ' Etudes ' of 1885. It is a most important book, and an Appendix of five pages is devoted to a faithful " Compte- rendu " of Mr. Goldsmid's " complete cata- logue."

Of the * Etudes ' only 100 copies were printed, and of the ' Nouvelles Etudes ' 550 copies, including 50 on large paper. Bergh- man's works are invaluable in their way, but he is rather given to repeating himself. The note on Giannotti's book which is given ante, p. 250, by MR. HUMPHREYS from the Stockholm Catalogue, will be found in the ' liltudes ' on p. 37, and in the ' Nou- velles liltudes ' on p. 65.

A work that should not be overlooked is

" Catalogue d'une collection unique de volumes imprimis par les Elzevier et divers typographes hollandais du XVIP siecle. Redig6 par Edouarcl Rahir. Pre'ce'de' d'un Avant-Propps par y. . Ferdinand Brunetiere, de 1'Acade'mie franca ise, et d'une Lettre de M. Alphonse Willems, prc fesseur a rUniversite" de Bruxelles." Paris, Damascene Morgand, 1896.

There is an idea, prevalent chiefly among novelists, that " Elzevirs " are scarce and valuable. The wicked but cultured baronet usually has the walls of his study, where the spaces are not filled with Corots and Ziems, lined with priceless Aldines and Elzevirs. This only holds good of a very few when in the finest condition. Ordinary Elzevirs, especially the " Respublica " series, are common and cheap. When I was hardly more than a boy, I bought several of them at a stall for ninepence or a shilling apiece. They have hardly risen in price since.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.