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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. JAN. 22, ma. 1685,' in 1904. Collins's map, 1686, of the Bay of Dublin, gives an interesting plan of the city. Mills' s map came in 1714; Brooking's in 1728. John Rocque issued a map about 1754. Maps have been issued with the Dublin Directories from 1773 onwards.

Charles Brooking's map of Dublin, published in the year 1728, will probably give the information he requires. All the parishes are marked on the map and their boundaries coloured.

The present Royal Barracks are described on the map simply as "barracks." I have heard (or read) that these barracks were the first built in the British Islands, and were built in Dublin by the order of the great Duke of Marlborough. The English dislike to a standing army prevented the erection of barracks in England, soldiers being there accommodated in camps or billeted at inns.

No doubt Brooking's map is to be found in the British Museum.

(11 S. xii. 481; 12 S. i. 34).—The Kents were an old Tilehurst family. Part of their property was sold to the Wilders in the fifteenth century.

'L'ESPION ANGLOIS' (12 S. i. 29). The London Library has this book under the entry of ' L'Espion Anglois, ou Correspond - ance secrete entre Milord All' Eye et Milord All'Ear ' (the first four vols. by P. M. F. Pidansat de Mairobert originally published under the title ' L'Observateur Anglois'), 11. ed. corr. and augm. 10 tomes s. 8vo. Londres, 1784-5.

In Dunlop's ' History of Prose Fiction,' edited by H. Wilson, 1888, the name of the same author is given with the date 1777-85.

A. COLLINGWOOD LEE.

Wa'tham Abbey, Essex.

'L'Espion Anglois, ou Correspondance secrete entre Milord All' Eye et Milord All'- Ear,' is now very generally attributed to Pidansat de Mairobert, but M. Guillaume Apollinaire, the celebrated bibliographer, warns us that, " en realite, on ne salt trop a qui en faire supporter la pat emit e."

The famous ' Parapilla,' from which long extracts nearly the whole poem are given in ' L'Espion Anglois,' vol. iii., was claimed by Mirabeau. The original is Italian, " une bouffonner'e i Itramontaine."

MONTAGUE J. SUMMERS.

ENEMIES OF BOOKS (11 S. xii. 480 ; 12 S. i. 32). The following extract from a report upon the condition of the Bodleian Library,, drawn up in November, 1697, by Humfrey Wanley, who was then an assistant librarian- there (and afterwards librarian to Lord Harley), is given by Mr. G. F. Barwick in a paper contributed to The Library (Series 2 r iii. 243-55) :

" The way of scrawling the title of the book upon the back of it is but a very scurvy one ? x many times there is not room for one-eighth of the contents, and the birds pick off that which is there, if it- be not rubbed off when the book is used.*' Mr. Barwick observes that the reason for the birds picking off the scrawled title does not seem apparent until the use of the pounce- box and the powdered cuttlefish bone, or silver sand, which birds seek so eagerly, are- remembered. ROLAND AUSTIN.

Gloucester.

' THE METEOR, OR MONTHLY CENSOR ' (12 S. i. 29). This periodical, enriched by George Cruikshank, ran from 1813 to 1816, and apparently continued to fulfil the scope of that described next. The valuation of 100Z. mentioned, if meant as an average, is rather misleading, in view of the sum usually realized.

Its forerunner, a similar work, called The Satirist, or Monthly Meteor, was edited by George Manners, and illustrated by G. Cruikshank and T. Rowlandson. This ran from 1807 to 1814.

A score or two of sets of the two journals are scheduled in my ' Indexes to " B. P. C." 1901-09,' to be seen at the British Museumv WM. JAGGARD, Lieut..

PARISH REGISTERS (12 S. i. 29). So far as Cambridgeshire is concerned, your correspondent may be glad to know that a General Index to the Marriage Registers of the thirty-two Cambridgeshire parishes printed in the six vols. of Phillimore's Series is now in the press, and will be issued shortly.. It comprises some 50,000 names.

THOMAS M. BLAGG,

124 Chancery Lane, W.C.

The parish register of St. Michael (1538 1837) may be found in the Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. xxv. 1891, the Secretary of which is F. J. Allen, M.D., 8 Halifax Road, Cambridge ; while that of St. Clement (marriages only), 1559- 1812, may be found in the 'Cambridgeshire Parish Registers,' vol. i., 1907. The parish registers of Oxfordshire and the town of Eton do not appear to have been published- ARCHIBALD SPARKE..