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V. A | Compleat History | of | Magick, Sorcery I and | Witchcraft ; | Containing | II. A

"Collection of several very scarce and valuable TRYALS, of Witches, particularly that famous

one, of the WITCHES of Warboyse Vol. I.

London. Printed for E. Curll. 1715.

2 vols. 8vo.

Attributed to Richard Boulton (fl. 1697-1724). Vol. I. chap. iii. pp. 49-152, and an engraved frontispiece ' The Witches of Warboyse.' This is the only engraved illustration of the Witches I Iknow of. The book is very scarce, and does not appear to be in the B.M. No. VI. is a criticism vof the work, to which Boulton replied in 1722.

VI. An Historical Essay | concerning | Witch- craft. | By Francis Hutchinson, D.D. London MDCCXVIII.

8vo.

Chap. vii. pp. 101-8. " Is an answer to the <case of the Three Witches of Warbois, the execu- tion of whom is annually commemorated by a sermon at Huntington preach'd by one of the Fellows of Queen's Colledge in Cambridge ; and "their case is newly reprinted by the author of the ' Compleat History of Witchcraft.' " See Nos. V., XL, and XXV.

VII. Second edition of No. VI. 1720.

See No. V., against which it was directed, and -also No. XL

VIII. Rawlinson's The English Topographer, 1720, p. 77, includes the ' Witches of Warboys,' Nos. II. , V., and VI.

IX. Anecdotes | of | British Topography | - . . .London. MDCCLXVIII. [By Richard Gough.]

Pp. 206-7, " of a very ridiculous piece of witch-

craft which is pretended to have happened in this County." A foot-note refers to Nos. V. and VI.

X. Memoirs | of the | Protectoral-House | of

Cromwell By Mark Noble The Third

Edition, with improvements. London : 1787.

2 vols. 8vo.

Vol. i. pp. 24-6, refer to the Witches of Warboys

and the sermon preached annually at Huntingdon. An earlier edition, Birmingham, 1784, does not contain this reference.

The passage quoted by CUTHBEBT BEDE in ' N. & Q.,' 5 S. xii. 71, is from the second edition, 1787, and not 1784 as he states. He probably

copied it from Brayley, who is wrong.

XL The Inantity [sic] and Mischief of | Vulgar Superstitions | Four Sermons | preached at | All
 * Saints' Church, Huntingdon, | on the 25th day of

March, in the years 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795 | By

M. J. Naylor, M.A To which is added, some

account of the witches of Warboys .... Cam- bridge. MDCCXCV.

8vo. Title, 1 leaf ; dedication, 1 leaf ; pre- face, 6 leaves ; Sermons, pp. 11-98 ; The Witches of Warboys, pp. 99-129. Abridged. The pre- face is interesting.

See No. XXV.

XII. A Catalogue of the Books relating to British Topography .... bequeathed to the Bod- leian Library in the year MDCCXCTX, by Richard 'Gough, Esq., F.S.A. Oxford. MDCCCXIV.

Included in this bequest were Nos. I. and II.

HERBERT E. NORRIS. Cireneester.

(To be. concluded.)

HENRY FIELDING : Two CORRECTIONS. 1. In the interesting and exhaustive reprint of Fielding's Covent Garden Journal just issued at New Haven by the Yale University Press, the editor, Dr. G. E. Jensen of Phila- delphia, says in his Introduction, vol. i. p. 120, that the text is partly taken

" from photographs of the supplementary numbers found in the collection formerly owned by Mr. Austin Dobson, but now a part of the estate of the late Mr. John Henry Wrenn of Chicago."

This is a misapprehension. I never had but one copy of The Covent Garden Journal, which I employed for my essay on that paper, reprinted in ' Sidewalk Studies,' 1902, pp. 63-92, and which I was privileged to lend both to Mr. Saintsbury and to the late W. E. Henley. That copy is now in the London Library, to which I pre- sented it some time ago, and it is duly entered in their catalogue of 1913.

2. When editing Fielding's ' Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon ' in 1892 for the Chiswick Press, I stated in the final note that Fielding " landed at Lisbon on Wednesday, Aug. 14," 1754, and this statement was repeated at p. 187 of the enlarged " World's Classics " reprint of 1907. Watson (1807, p. 140) makes the date Aug. 10; and Lawrence (' Life of Fielding,' 1855, p. 349) says that Fielding " arrived at Lisbon about the middle of August." Coupling this with Fielding's own account that the day of his landing was a Wednesday (' Journal,' 1755, p. 194), I no doubt concluded that the Wednesday in question was Wednesday, Aug. 14. I am now informed by your correspondent MR. DE CASTRO that from the ' Ship News ' of The Public Advertiser for Aug. 29, 1754, it appears that the Queen of Portugal, in which the novelist was a passenger, really reached the Portuguese capital on Tuesday, Aug. 6, thus abridging the length of the protracted voyage by eight days. On the following day, Wednesday, the 7th, Fielding went on shore. I may add that, in view of the Fielding letters which came to light not long sinco, the dates of the ' Journal ' seem sadly in want of re- adjustment and co-ordination.

AUSTIN DOBSON.

MENAI BOATING CALAMITY COINCIDENCES. On Dec. 5, 1664, eighty- one passengers were conveyed in Talyfoel ferryboat from Carnarvon, and all drowned save one. The Abermenai boat on Dec. 5, 1785, conveyed fifty-four passengers and met with similar disaster only one saved. Aug. 5, 1820, the Barms boat carried twenty-five persons,