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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. m. MAY 13, 1911.

' THE CHURCHES OF YORKSHIRE. 'As this book appears sometimes in catalogues with the note " Vol. I. (all published)," it may be well to say that two volumes at least were issued. The work was published toy T. W. Green of Leeds, in parts appa- rently. Vol. i. has 7 parts, each part con- taining some historical matter, as well as .an architectural description with plates. They are Introduction, &c., with Adel ; Methley, Skelton, Bolton Percy, Thirsk, Birkin, Bubwith. The parts are separately paged, but each sheet has in its signature the number of the continuous paging. The title-page is dated 1844. My copy has no title-page to vol. ii : it is paged continuously ; but the first sheet has in the signature 143, in continuation of vol. i. It contains Patrington, Skirlaugh, Rotherham, and chapels at Ripon, Stainburn, and Nun Monkton, with 26 plates. On p. Ill is " End of Vol. II."

I should be glad to know the author or editor. I have heard it spoken of as by Poole ; but the Rev. G. A. Poole is quoted .at i. p. 4. He is at least part author, as he is credited with the descriptions of Birkin, Patrington, and Skirlaugh. At ii. p. 73 we read : " The author of this description [of Rotherham] is greatly indebted to a

paper by the Hon. and Rev. W. Howard."

E. H. BROMBY.

University, Melbourne.

SHAKESPEARE ALLUSIONS IN BURTON. The following from Burton's * Anatomy of Melancholy ' are not given in the recent edition of the ' Shakspere Allusion Book':

1. ' Rape of Lucrece,' 1287-8 :

For that deep torture may be call'd an hell, Where more is felt, then one hath power to tell. Part. 1, sect. 4, memb. 1

2. ' Venus and Adonis,' 575-6 : Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,

Yet love breaks through, and picks them all at last.

Part. 3, sect. 2, memb. 2, subs. 2. The references are to the sixth edition of the * Anatomy,' 1651-2.

M. A. M. MACALISTER.

FIRST HALFPENNY NEWSPAPER. (See 9 S. ii. 504 ; iv. 270, 357, 425, 526 ; v. 153.) The Times of 21 April had the following paragraph :

" The First Halfpenny Daily Newspaper. To-day The Dundee Courier celebrates its jubilee as a daily newspaper. In 1816 it was established as a weekly newspaper and published at Id. a copy, and in 1861 it became a penny daily journal. Five years later it reduced its price to a half-

penny, thereby becoming the first halfpenny daily newspaper in the United Kingdom. The special number issued to-day consists of 18 pages."

No precise date is given for the change in price, but, according to MR. GEO. B. HODGSON at 9 S. iv. 526, The Shields Daily Gazette, established on 2 July, 1855, as a penny journal, was converted into a half- penny one on 2 January, 1864. The date of The Dundee Courier's like conversion, there- fore, is of special importance.

On the general subject of cheap news- papers the following may be added from The Observer of 23 April :

" The Dundee Courier, which celebrated its jubilee on Friday, may have been the first half- penny paper in the kingdom, but it was not the cheapest. As long ago as June, 1840, began The Farthing Journal, a four-page publication of high-class tone, which struggled along into fifty-four numbers. Still cheaper (to regular subscribers) was The Penny -a-Week Country Daily Miscellany, which, in 1873, offered a large title for an infinitesimal price, and sold itself to occasional customers at a farthing a copy."

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

" WAIT AND SEE." Politics are very properly excluded from the pages of ' N. & Q.' but the origin of political catchwords has often been discussed in these columns. Mr. Asquith's phrase " Wait and see " is likely to become historic. I have just come across another phrase which might be put along- side of it, and of which it looks almost like an echo. In the recently published life of ' Gathome Hardy, First Earl of Cranbrook,' there is this quotation from his diary (vol. i. p. 110) : ,

" Lord Deroy is certainly a master of expres- sion, and some of his speeches admirable. He advises watching and waiting, which is of course the only mode in which we can safely act."

This was written in 1857 or 1858. The italics are mine. R. F. GARDINER.

RAIKES CENTENARY. In view of the recent commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the demise of Robert Raikes, the pioneer of Sunday schools, it may be of interest to readers of ' N. & Q.' to note that the marriage from which he sprang took place at this church on 16 May, 1725. The entry in the register is as follows :

" Rob* Raikes, of y" City of Gloucester, & Ann Monk of S fc Mich" Bassishaw, Lond 11 ; w th Licence, p r W m Butler."

All the biographies of Raikes (including

that in the 'D.N.B.') appear to have been

compiled in ignorance of the fact that the

marriage of his parents was celebrated here.

WILLIAM MCMURRAY.

St. Anne and St. Agnes, Gresham Street, E.G.