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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. v. JAN. 13, 1912.

Northants Bibliotheca Northantonensis, 1884.

Bibliographical Account, J. Taylor. (Limited to 6 copies.) Surrey History of Surrey, H. E. Maiden, 1900 :

Bibliography, pp. 310-18. Warwick History of Warwick, Sam Timmins,

1889: Bibliography, pp. 288-96. Westmorland History of Westmorland, B. S.

Ferguson, 1894: Bibliography, pp. 293-9. Yorkshire The Yorkshire Library, W. Boyne, 1869.

ROLAND AUSTIN. Gloucester Public Library.

The late Prof. Copinger, one of the founders and the first President of the Biblio- graphical Society, compiled an elaborate bibliographical index to the sources for the history of the county of Suffolk. It was issued to subscribers at one guinea per volume, and extended to five volumes, each of about 400 pages. It was published in 1904 under the title ' Records of Suffolk.' A sixth volume containing the index was issued in 1907. Prof. Copinger very pro- perly regarded the history of the county as incomplete until it had been written after reference to original records. It is estimated that there are nearly 100,000 references in the work, which is valuable as a history as well as being a guide to the most important records.

Prof. Copinger sent a description of his method of compiling this monumental work to the Congress of Archaeological Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries, in July, 1907. At that time less than 100 subscriptions had been received for copies. In the introduction to the first volume there is a list of the records indexed. This was repeated in the paper before the Archaeo- logical Societies. Though there are one or two omissions in the work, it is much in advance of anything done for any other county.

It may interest MB. FBY and your readers generally to know that a ' Biblio- graphy of London ' is now being attempted. The scheme will be fully described in The Library for the present month. Miss Hadley, 4, Hartington Road, Chiswick, is the secretary of the group undertaking the work, and Mr. Kenneth H. Vickers of 4, Verulam Buildings, Gray's Inn, W.C., is the president. THOMAS WM. HTJCK.

Saffron Walden.

I can add the following :

Buckinghamshire Bibliotheca Buckinghami- ensis : a List of Books relating to the County of Buckingham, B. H. Gough, 1890.

Essex Catalogue of Books, Maps, and Manu- scripts relating to or connected with the County of Essex, A. E. Cunnington, 1902.

Gloucestershire The Bibliographer's Manual of Gloucestershire Literature, being a Classified Catalogue of Books. . . .relating to G .... &c., F. A. Hyett and Wm. Bazeley, 3 vols., 1895-7.

Collectanea Gloucestriensia ; or a Catalogue of Books, Tracts, &c .... relating to the County of G. ... in the possession of J. D. Phelps, 1842.

Lancashire The Lancashire Library, a Biblio- graphical Account of Books on Topography, Biography .... relating to the County Pala- tinate, Lieut.-Col. H. Fishwick, 1875.

Lincoln A Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets and .... relating to the City and County of Lincoln preserved in the Reference Depart- ment of the City of Lincoln Public Library, A. B. Corns, 1904.

Norfolk The Norfolk Topographer's Manual : a Catalogue of the Books and Engravings hitherto published in relation to the County, S. Woodford and W. C. Ewing, 1842.

Bibliotheca Norfolciensis : a Catalogue of the Writings of Norfolk Men and of Works relating to the County of Norfolk in the Library of J. J. Colman, 1896.

Nottinghamshire Descriptive Catalogue of Books relating to Nottinghamshire in the Library of James Ward, 1892. Siipplement, 1897.

Manuscripts relating to the County of Nottingham in the possession of James Ward. 1900.

Worcestershire Bibliography of Worcestershire, J. B. Burton and F. S. Pearson. Part I., 1898 ; Part II., J. B. Burton, 1903 ; Part III., J. Humphreys, 1907.

Some are privately printed, but all are in the British Museum. A. RHODES.

See ' N. & Q.,' 8 S. ix. 361, 497 ; x. 32 ; xi. 17, 333. G. L. APPEBSON.

[MR. WILLIAM BBADBBOOK, COL. HENBY FISH- WICK, and MB. WILLIAM JAGGABD also thanked for replies. We ask correspondents to refrain from replies till MB. HUMPHBEYS'S list is completed.]

THBEADING ST. WILFRID'S NEEDLE (11 S. iv. 607). The reference sought occurs in an 8vo volume, "Anglorum Speculum, or the Worthies of England in Church and State. London, printed for John Wright at the Crown on Ludgate Hill, Thomas Passinger at the three Bibles on London- Bridge, and William Thackary at the Angel in Duck-lane. 1684." The preface is signed by G. S., who says that he has included the lives of many more eminent heroes and generous patrons than " Dr. Fuller in his large History in Folio." On p. 897 he says :

" Peter of Rippon, Canon of that Colledge, wrote a Book of the Life and Miracles of St. Wilfrid, the Founder thereof. There was a narrow place in his Church, through which chaste persons might easily pass, whilst the incontinent did stick therein. Many suspected persons did prick their credit, who could not thread his Needle."