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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vn. FEB. 15,1913

But on p. 150 Mr. Eames says :

" The volume covering the books issued in 1902, published in 1903, was the 66th year of issue."

This would make the first year 1837.

The cumulated ' British Catalogue ' for 1837 to 1849 is well known, but was there an annual ' British Catalogue ' from 1853 onwards, as Mr. Growoll's statement would seem to imply ? No such annual appears in Mr. Eames's list.

On pp. 92-4 Mr. Growoll says : " In I860 Mr. Low succeeded in making arrange- ments with Mr. Hodgson to take over the ' London

Catalogue.' This union of Catalogues thereafter

appeared under the title of * The English Catalogue of Books.' The volume for 1891 formed the sixty- fifth annual issue of the entire series."

The number sixty-five agrees neither with Mr. Eames's " 66th year of issue " for 1902 nor with Mr. Growoll's own date of 1845 as the first year of publication. Fur- ther, Mr. Eames's list (p. 154) appears to give 1863, not 1861, as the date of the earliest annual ' English Catalogue.'

Mr. W, P. Courtney's invaluable ' Register of National Bibliography ' gives (i. 170) an ' English Catalogue Index ' for the years 1837-57, as well as a ' British Catalogue Index ' for the same period ; and this seems to be confirmed by the British Museum printed Catalogue. Are these two essenti- ally distinct, or do they differ merely in the title-page ?

Lastly, for how many years prior to 1860 was there an annual ' London Cata- logue ' ? This is made clear neither by Mr. Growoll nor by Mr. Eames.

P. J. ANDERSON. University Library, Aberdeen.

WALTER, GARY. Can any reader supply information concerning the life of Walter Gary, author of ' Caries Farewell to Phy- sicke ' (1583), 'The Hammer for the Stone ' (1580), and ' The Present State of England ' (1626) ? His name is also associated with ' A Boke of the Propreties of Herbes.' Editions of ' The Hammer for the Stone ' are referred to (but not described) by Hazlitt as having been printed by Petyt (1543), Myddylton (1546), and R. Kele (without date). Has any reader seen these ?

H. M. BARLOW. Royal College of Physicians, Pall Mall East, S.W.

LEIGH HUNT AT HAMPSTEAD. What at present occupies the site of the cottage in which Leigh Hunt lived in the Vale of Health, Hampstead ? He lived here when editing The Examiner. JOHN ARDAGH. 40, Richmond Road, Drumcondra, Dublin.

DIOGENES LAERTIUS. A copy of a Latin translation of his work ' De Vita Philo- sophorum,' in octavo, 24 + 679 pp., begins with a prefatory note ' Candido Lectori,' followed by the epistle of Frater Ambrosius and an index in black-letter type. There is a large initial P on p. 1, repeated on p. 165. The Greek type used seems to be identically the same as that in the first edition of Erasmus's Greek Testament (1516). The title-page is missing. Can the particular edition be identified by the details given ? and where can a complete copy be seen ? It is not in the British Museum or the University Libraries at Oxford and Cam- bridge. J. B.

" LES ROCHERS." In the Knutsford Edi- tion of Mrs. Gaskell's ' Works,' vol. vii. y there is a charming paper entitled ' Freneh Life.' On 13 May, 1862, Mrs. Gaskell made an expedition (from Vitre) to Madame de Sevigne's chateau, " Les Rochers." She says : " The place belongs to the Marquis de Nethumieres, a descendant of the de Sevignes. so our host said."

Does a descendant of the family of the celebrated Marquise still own " Les Rochers " ? S. B.

CAMBRIDGE : ELY f; HULL. What is the source of the following lines quoted by a sixteenth-century writer ?

Cam bridge. Hsec sunt Cambrisse, durty streates, et halfpeny

pisse. Ely.-

Hsee sunt Elise, lanterna, capella Marise, Et molendinum, et multum dans vinea vinum. Kingston-upon-Hull.

Hsec sunt Hullina, Humber quddlings, et bona vina.

G. C. MOORE SMITH.

GOTHURST. In the ' Visitation of the County of Devon, 1564,' appears the short pedigree of a family named Gothurst or De Gothurst. Arms : Sable, a chevron between three goats' heads erased argent, In the ' Description of the County of Somerset, 1633,' drawn up by Thomas Gerard of Trent (Somerset Record Society, 1900, vol. xv.), in a short pedigree of the Lyte family which appears under the parish of Draycot, Robert Lyte is stated to have married " Margarett, dau. of Roger de Gotehurst," which Roger appears in the pedigree in the ' Visitation of Devon ' ; but the arms given him by Gerard vary from the foregoing, they being ' ; Sable, on a mount vert a goate passant arg." I am