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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. m. APBIL i, 1911.

STOKE NEWINGTON PARISH REGISTERS. The work of transcribing and indexing th Registers of the parish church of St. Mary Stoke Newington, covering the years 1559 1812, has been recently carried out by Mr Frank W. Baxter. A copy, consisting o three volumes of transcripts and thre volumes of indexes has been presented t the Stoke Newington Public Library fo public use. The Registers of Stoke Newington have been well preserved, and have sufferec very slightly from the ravages of time and present an almost uninterrupted recorc from 1559 to the present day.

In addition to these, Mr. Baxter has pre pared, and presented to the Library, a transcript of the inscriptions on the tombs and monuments and stones in the church and churchyard, with key-plan and index.

The Library also possesses the collection of books, prints, and portraits, and the genealogical papers relating to the Romforc and Barking district of Essex, bequeathec by Mr. Edward J. Sage. The arrangement o: these papers is now being carried out, anc it is hoped that they will be available for public use at an early date.

G. PREECE, Librarian.

' NICHOLAS NICKLEBY' : " POPYLORUM TIBI." The discussion on Dickens's " She.Ua- balah" (see ante, pp. 68, 111, 153, 231) suggests the number of strange allusions many hitherto unexplained which lend an air of mystery to his stories. I believe I was the first to expound the cabalistic reference to Mr. Pickwick's portrait, which, by the way, " he never wished to have destroyed," or some phrase of the kind. But I have never met the learned Pick- wickian say an LL.D. who was troubled in his mind by Mr. Mantalini's term of .endearment " my Popylorum tibi" What did it mean ? Only those familiar with the Latin version of the ' Te Deum Laudamus ' oan supply it.

Where the eccentric Mantalini could have picked up these distorted words we cannot speculate : a more curious thing is it to wonder where Boz could have heard this bit of mediaeval Latinity, save at some Roman Catholic chapel. Forster, it will be remembered, mentions some curious rumours that were abroad about this time. But this, like so many things in Dickens's writings, may be one of his " mysteries " one of those little secrets which, like the Blacking, mystery, he kept for his own strict privacy. PERCY FITZGERALD.

Athenaeum Club.

BOZ AND DOMBEY AS FRENCH PLACE- NAMES. In the ' Guide Album de la Com- pagnie des Chemins de fer P. L. M.,' 22 mc annee, 1910, p. 90, in the chapter ' De Dijon a Lyon,' one may read :

" En face, et de 1'autre c6te de la Saone, que 1'on suit toujours depuis Tournus, on aper^oit ]e village de Boz."

This particular bit of the line is that between Pont -de - Vaux - Fleurville station and Senozan, the point being some 12 kilometres north of Macon.

On the next page but one (i.e. p. 92), in the description of Macon, is the following :

" Signalons encore une maison en bois sculpt^ du XV e siecle, situ^e dans la rue Dombey."

The ' Album ' is a guide-book which one always finds in the carriages of the " trains rapides " between Paris and Marseilles.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

Avignon.

SAMUEL RUDDER. An error in the ' D.N.B.' with reference to Samuel Rudder, author of the ' New History of Gloucester- shire,' 1779, may be worth noting. The statement as to Cirencester having been the place of his birth is incorrect, for the mural slab in the Lady Chapel of Cirencester Parish Church records that he was born at Stout's Hill, Uley (Gloucestershire). This ilab and the tombstone of his father Roger died 30 August, 1771) give the date of Rudder's birth as 24 December, 1726, but Mr. W. P. W. Phillimore states that he was Daptized (as Samuel Rutter) at Uley on 5 December, 1726, and that both inscrip- ions must thus be wrong.

Buried with Rudder is his wife Mary, orn at Cranham, also in Gloucestershire, n 13 December, 1724 ; she died 29 Decem- >er, 1800. The slab also records the deaths f three of their eight children.

ROLAND AUSTIN.

Public Library, Gloucester.

DR. ALEXANDER CARLYLE OF INVERESK. The new edition of the Autobiography of

Jupiter" Carlyle (1722-1805), which has een brought out with many pdditional lotes by an anonymous hand, is welcome, ut it should be placed on record that the tatements (p. viii) as to Dr. Carlyle' s edigree are not quite accurate. He was ,6t the great-grandson of Lodowick Carliell, he courtier and playwright (1602-75), but 7as a descendant of Lodowick' s elder rother James (of Newpark, Annan). The ditor does not appear to have consulted the istory of the Carlyles of Bridekirk included