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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1913.

CONTENTS. No. 1&3.

NOTES : Records of the City Livery Companies, 101 Mewce: Washington: Halley : Pyke, 102 Wellancl Sermon Register, 104 St. Alban's Abbey Model Topo- graphy at the London Museum, 105 Alexander Cumming, Watchmaker Webster's ' Devil's Law Case,' 106 Relic of Australian Explorers, 107.

QUERIES: Petronius, Cap. LXXXL Marblemen Iden- tification of Painter Earls of Rochford, 107' Book of Hours ' Moonwort Magdalen College, Oxford Curious Division of Estate Merchant Adventurers in Holland Francis Vaughan Seven Oars at Henley St. Sunday, 108 Wine-Fungus Superstition Regiments : " Delhi Rebels," &c. Author Wanted Early Railway Travelling Diaries Stone from Carthage White Horses Battle of Quiberon Bay W. M. Praed, 109 Biographical Infor- mation Wanted "Scaling the Hennery " : " Mouse Buttock" Battle of Maldon Alchemist's Ape, 110.

REPLIES : Churchyard Inscriptions, 110 Pepys's ' Diary,' 111 Misleading Milestones King Families in Ireland, 112 -Family of Sir Christopher Milton Wreck of the Royal George, 113 'The Black Joke,' 114 Author Wanted Bewickiana Johanna Williamscote The 'Last Governor of Calais." 115 Jane Austen: Godmers- ham Charter of Henry II. The Inquisition in Fiction and Drama, 116 "Of sorts" "To carry one's life in one's hands" " Plumpe" Watch Curfew Bell, 117 Ashford Family, 118.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-'The Life of Benjamin Disraeli,' Vol. II. Reviews and Magazines.

Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

THE RECORDS OF THE CITY LIVERY COMPANIES.

(See 11 S. vi. 464.)

IN continuing my notes in regard to the above it appears, perhaps, advisable to point out that my references to lists of Masters, &c., of the respective Companies are of necessity confined to printed lists. My contributions are in no sense to be taken as a bibliography of the Companies enumerated. The latter work has already been undertaken by MB. A. RHODES (under the heading of ' Municipal Records Printed ' ) at 11 S. iv. 451, and by Mr. Charles Welch in the form of a pamphlet issued in 1890. The first of these bibliographies at least will be found useful for purposes of com- parison with my notes, as it gives the authors and titles of most of the works from which my information is derived'.

It is distinctly unfortunate that several of the historians of the Companies omit all reference to the commencing date of their records, a matter with which my present notes alone deal.

Founders. From extracts cited by Wil- liams in his ' Annals ' (1867), at p. 43 et seq., it appears that the Company's Accounts open in 1497 ; while the Minutes would seem from entries at p. 79 et seq. to begin about 1604 or 1605.

Fruiterers. The Schedule of Records set out at p. 64 of Gould's ' History ' (1912) informs us that the existing Registers of Apprentices and of Freemen date " from the seventeenth century " and 1749 respec- tively ; while the Accounts open in 1711 (' Renter- Warden's Book '), and the Minutes in 1748. A list of Masters and Wardens from 1701 (complete from 1749) is given, as are periodical lists of Members from 1537 to 1687, and a complete alphabetical list of same from 1 700 onward to the present time.

Gardeners. A reference to a ' Minute Book of the Court of Assistants, 1764-1872,' is set out in the Appendix to Welch's ' His- tory ' (1900), though whether this constitutes the earliest record of the kind now preserved by the Company is not precisely stated.

Qirdlers. Smythe's ' Account ' (1905) sets out, at p. 164, a reference to " one of the Company's old cash books [i.e., a charity account book] dated in 1550 " ; while at p. 192 it is stated that " the old general Accounts go back as far as the year 1654 . . . .and in some years are most beautifully written and kept." A list of Masters continuous from 1617 only, but citing many earlier names is given at the end.

Glass Sellers.

" The oldest Minute Book of the Company commences with a meeting of the Court at the George in Newgate Market on February 29 th, 1671,"

as appears from Moore's ' Account ' (1899), p. 12. No reference to the date of the earliest Accounts seems to be given.

Goldsmiths. A lengthy note as to the date of the Company's existing Accounts is set out by Herbert at p. 129 of his * History,' while there is a further note also at p. 178. It is stated that they begin 5 Edw. III. (1331-2), and amount to many volumes. From 8 Edw. III. (1334-5) they are in Norman-French, being subsequently entered in French and English indifferently for a few years. Down to temp. Rich. II., Herbert further informs us, the Accounts " seldom average more than a page or two each year," and uniformly begin with the names of the Company's four Wardens.

Grocers. Herbert states in the * Historical Essay ' forming the introduction to his account of this Company that their records