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cases only the particulars, abbreviated, on the oldest stones have been given, from lack of time when the churchyards were a long distance from where I happened to be staying or living.

Bedford. Luton (St. Mary, 'Park Street Baptist, Chapel Street Wesleyan), Caddington, Barton-in-the-Clay, Streatley, Higham Gobian, Dunstable (St. Peter, West Street Baptist), Houghton Regis, Toddington, Harlington, Sundon, Chalgrave, Totternhoe.

Devon. Colyton, Axminster, Musbury, TJplyme, Axmouth, South Leigh, Shute, Comb Pyne.

Dorset. Shaftesbury (Holy Trinity, St. Rum- bold, St. James old and new yards), Enmore Green, Gillingham. Motcombe, Todberie, Compton Abbas (old churchyard). Mulbury Abbas, Mel- borne Port, Castleton, Fontmell Magna, Sutton Waldron, Bridport (St. Mary's Unitarian ground), Walditch, Shipton Gorge, Allington, Askerswell, Eype, Swyre, Puncknowle, Loders, Beaminster, Burton - Bradstock, Chideock, Symondsbury, Bradpole, Netherbury, Bothenhampton.

Herts. Redbourn, Kensworth, Lilley, Great Offley, Flamstead, King's Waldron.

Lincoln. Great Grimsby, Old Clee, Little Cotes, Great Cotes.

London (all abbreviated, some incomplete). St. James, Clerkenwell ; Holy Trinity, St. Pancras ; St. Leonard, Shoreditch ; St. Mary Magdalene,' Holloway ; Christchurch, Spital- fields ; St. Botolph, Bishopsgate ; St. James, Pentonville.

Stafford (incomplete). Lichfield (St. Michael, St. Chad), Drayton Bassett, Harlaston, Edingale, Whittingham, Farewell.

I have also some few transcriptions from various churchyards in the counties of Gloucester, Wilts, Hants, Somerset, and Surrey.

This list is sent to 'N. & Q.' that genealo- gists and others interested may know what gravestones have already been transcribed. Most of these I have copied into nine small volumes, arranged according to counties. I shall be very glad to send these volumes, as completed, to any society interested in this class of work, for general use.

If a full list of all the transcriptions made in various churchyards in the kingdom were printed, it would enable transcribers to know what has already been copied, and thus prevent overlapping.

A. WEIGHT MATTHEWS.

HUNTINGDON BOOKSELLERS AND

PRINTERS. This is the third portion of my list of the past booksellers and printers of Huntingdonshire. The first list for St. Ives appeared at 10 S. viii. 201 ; the second, for St.'Xeots, at 1-0 S.-xii. 164. The present list for the county town appears for

the first time, and the information is gathered from the sources mentioned in the above lists :

Ellington (J. ), bookseller, 1753-64. Jenkinson (John), printer, 1768-1807. " First to set up a press in Huntingdon." Jenkinson sold the business to Thomas Loyell in 1807, but lived a long time after in poor circumstances. Mr. D. R. Tomson of St. Neots, who died 1 May, 1910, told me he knew him very well. Jenkinson (A.), printer, 1774. Jenkinson (Ann), printer, 1807. Wife of Thomas

Jenkinson.

Lovell (Thomas), printer, 1807-30. High Street, . successor to Jenkinson. He was also " estate agent, surveyor and auctioneer, stationer, bookbinder, musicseller, and dealer in patent medicines." Died 22 June, 1862, in his eighty- seventh year.

Lovell & Son, 1830. At this date Thomas Lovell sold his printing business to Robert Edis, but retained the business of auctioneer and sur- veyor, with his son as partner. Edis (Robert), High Street, 1 Jan., 1831-74. Apprenticed to Lovell, then clerk in the banking house of Rust & Veasey, and successor to Lovell in 1831. Retired about December, 1874. Born 6 Nov., 1802. Died 15 April, 1880. Edis & Cooper, 1875-85. Successors of Robert

Edis.

Cooper (Daniel), 1886-1906. Successor to Edis & Cooper. This business is still flourishing, and shows continuity from the first press. Row (Mr.), St. John's [Parish], 1801. Sold a pamphlet stating that " if any Swindling Printer, brings into the world an illegetimate Issue, on Conviction, the informer shall receive Ten pounds from Mr. Row, Huntingdon." Longland, 1803-7. Taylor & Carpenter, 1811.

Jones (G. E.), Hatfield (W.) & Lovell (T.), 1815. " The Huntingdon, Bedford, and Peter- borough Gazette and Northamptonshire General Advertiser was printed in London, but pub- lished in January, 1815, at Huntingdon, by the above gentlemen, and to all appearance was edited and managed there for many years " (cf. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, No. XXXVI., p. 357). Peterkin (Alexander), 1816-24. Circulating

library 1823, organist.

Hatfield (Weston), 1817-37. Twenty years editor 'of The Cambridge Independent Press; died on the 18th of August, 1837, at Huntingdon, the place of his birth, of a broken heart. Woolls (G.), publisher, October, 1822. Wood (Andrew Page), 1822-66. Printed "R. C.'s" 'History of Huntingdon,' 1824. He also printed The Huntingdon, Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge Weekly Journal, 1825. Died 1877, forty-five years a printer. Wood (Alfred), 1866-1910. Son of Andrew Page Wood ; succeeded his father in 1866. Born 31 Jan., 1838. Died 20 Aug., 1910. The business is continued by his son Herbert. Nichols (F.), printer, 1824.

Hatfield (William), 1830, Gazette office at Hunting- don. "'