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 ii s. ix. MAY 23, i9i4.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY ?>, 19U.

CONTENTS. No. 230.

NOTES : Bishop Jewel's Library, 401 Gretna Green Records 403 Webster : a Question of Authorship, 404 - Thomis J. Barratt A Letter from Sir Robert Throck- raorton, 405 Matthew Shorting, D.D. The Last of the War Bow-The Persistence of the Kilt. 406 Dr. J. S. PhentS Sir Richard Wentworth Roman Catholic Fellows of Oxford and Cambridge, 407.

QUERIES : Soncef Family in Russia and America General Francis Columbine Tippoo Sahib's Stick Silvio Pellico's ' Duties of Man 'Heraldic- Bagnio in Chancery La n e_Old Ktonians Authors of Quotations Wanted, 408

Hydon's Ball, Surrey John Ward Domestic Cooking

with Lime Biographical Information Wanted J. Pauley : Robert Payne : Ralph Pykeryng : P. Russell, 409 Toward Castle, A rgyleshire Grimol " Douse " Llewelyn ap Rees ap Grono Battle of Lohfeldt Nell Gwyn: Rose Gwyn Helmets in Churches -Missionary Ship Duff D'.ck's 'Summer Morning on the Thames' 4 Old Rose,' 410.

REPLIES : The Taylor Sisters Birmingham Statues : Sir William Wilson, 411 Great Chart" Among the blind the one-eyed man is king," 412 Authors Wanted French Verge Watch Kitchin : Parry Dodd Family " Ruck- sack " Johnsoniana, 413 Diaries William Bromley Rolandsaulen Death Folk-LoreDick Turpin's Pistol Waller's ' Panegyrick ' [Saffron Walden, 414 "The Secretary at War " Altars Paris in 1780 and 1860 Parish Registers German Funeral Custom Lancashire Sobriquets, 415 " Burganes " Kipling Items Peele's ' Edward the First ' Ancient Drainage, 416" Blood- boltered " Sir John Steuart, 417 Touchwood Royal Descents Brydges Duelling Walter de Lechlade, 418.

NOTES ON BOOKS: ' Bibliotheca Pepysiana' 'Journal of the Folk-Song Society ' Printers' Pie ' ' " The Queen " Newspaper Book of Travel.'

Booksellers' Catalogues.

BISHOP JEWEL'S LIBRARY.

UNDER this heading in ' N. & Q.' (1 S. ii. 54) the subjoined query was (so far back as 1850) inserted :

" What became of Bishop Jewell's [sic'] library ? Cassan mentions (' Lives of Bishops of Salisbury,' vol. ii. p. 55) that

" ' He had collected an excellent library of books of all sorts, not excepting the most impertinent of the Popish authors, and here it was that he it the greatest and the best part of his time,'

"Bishop Jewell died Sept. 22, 1571.

" In the Account Book^ of Magdalen College, Oxford, I find the following items :

" ' A.D. 1572. Solut. D no Prftisidi equitanti "Sarisbur. pro libris per billam, iij !i xvi".

" ' Solut. pro libris D ni episco'pi Sar., c 11.

" ' A.D. 1574. Solut. per Dom. Praesidem pro libris M ri Jewell, xx 11 .'

" Whether these books were a portion only, or the whole of the library of Bishop Jewell, I am unable to discover ; nor am T aware at present whether Bishop Jewell's autograph is in any of the books of Magdalen College Library. The presi- dent was Lawrence Humphrey, author of a Life of Jewell. MAGDALENENSIS."

This query has never, so far as I can ascer- tain, been answered, and even if it has been replied to, this note will probably throw new light upon an alluring matter. " Ha- bent sua fata libelli," and honest research into their oftentimes strange lot is its own reward. It has been so recently with me in the case of Bishop Bury r s library ; it is equally so in the present instance, and what success I have achieved herein is mainly due to Mr. H. A. Wilson of Magdalen College, Oxford, whose illuminating comment on the now ancient query of MAGDALENENSIS has been only too long delayed.

" There are [he writes under date 22 Nov., 1913] in pur College Library about a dozen volumes which were evidently in the possession of Bishop Jewel. Two have presentation inscriptions by their authors one is a work by Bullinger, the other by Peter Martyr. The others bear a book- stamp with the inscription : ' Johan. Jewel. Episcop. Sarisb. 1571.' I do not know of any volume which contains his autograph signature. There is a list of these books in Dr. W. D. Macray's ' Register of St. Mary Magdalen College ' (New Series), vol. ii. pp. 43-4. The note in ' N. & Q.' which you mention was no doubt written by Dr. J. R. Bloxam, the author of the original series of the ' Register,' whose work Dr. Macray has carried on.

" I noticed that there was a rather serious discrepancy between the two authorities on the point of the sum paid for the books in 1572 ; ' Magdalenensis ' gives it as 1001. ; Dr. Macray says 51. My own recollection was in favour of the figure given by ' Magdalenensis,' but Dr. Macray so seldom makes a mistake that I thought it well to get sight of the account and verify the reference. There is no doubt at all that ' Magda- enensis ' is right. 100?. was paid in 1572, and a further sum, in 1574, of 20Z. was paid to the Presi- dent, who had no doubt advanced it, and claimed repayment. I cannot account for Dr. Macray's slip he may have read ' C s ' for 'C 1 ',' or he may just possibly have thought that the ' C ' had been corrected into ' V ' there is an odd stroke which might give this impression ; but the addition of the items of the account shows that the sum must be 100Z.

" 120Z. would in 1572 buy a very considerable number of books, even allowing for the fact that Jewel's books would be bound copies, whereas most of the prices recorded are probably for books in unbound sheets. But I doubt if it would have sufficed to buy Jewel's whole library.

" Having the accounts for several years before me, it occurred to me that the charges for chaining books would give some indication of the number of volumes coming into the Library in 1572-4, and T. have tried the experiment of examining these. For some years before 1572 few books were apparently given or purchased, and the total charge for chains and chaining is about 2s. 6d. In one year there is a note of two chains for a particular work (in two volumes), but no charge is entered for them. In 1572 there is a charge for chains ' per billam ' (i.e., according to a detailed account rendered, not at so much a dozen) of 63s. Irf. ; in 1573 three dozen chains are provided