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LONDON, SAT I RD AY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1916.

OONTKNTS.-No. 39.

"NOT ES : Almanacs printed at Cambridge in the Seven- teenth Century, 241 An English Army List of 1740, 243 Bibliography of Histories of Irish Counties and Towns, 246 Incunabula in Irish Libraries, 247 The Dick Whittington : Cloth Fair An Illustrated Speech from the Throne" Jobey " of Eton, 248.

QUERIES : Capt. John Charnley " Court " in French Place-Names The Gordons : " Gay " or " Gey " ? Author Wanted Henry and Edward Henry Purcell Bifeld or Byfeld, 249" S. J.," Water-Colour Artist Eev. David Durell, D.D., Prebendary of Canterbury Cathedral- General William Haviland "Coals to Newcastle " Toke of Notts Inscriptions on Communion Tables Rotton Family ' Cato ' and ' Anticaton ' Edward Stabler "Conversation" Sharp The Winchelsea Ghost, 250 Unidentified M.P.s The French and Frogs Mose Skinner The Sign Virgo, 261.

KEPLIES : Sir William Ogle : Sarah Stewkeley, 251 William of Malmesbury on Bird Life in the Fens- Joachim Ibarra "Laus Deo": Old Merchants' Custom The Kingsley Pedigree, 253 Foreign Graves of British Authors, 254 Ladies' Spurs The Novels and Short Stories of G. P. B. James, 255 The Cultus of King Henry VI. Fairfleld and Rathbone, Artists Emma Robinson, Author of ' Whitefriars,' 256 Du Bellamy: Bradstreet A Stewart Ring : the Hon. A. J. Stewart- Fisheries at Comacchio. 257 The Little Finger called " Pink," 258 P. S. Lawrence, Artist and Sailor Rev. Meredith Hanmer, D.D. Epitaph on a Pork Butcher- Touching for Luck Christopher Urswick Ching : Chinese or Cornish ? 259.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' A Classical Dictionary.' Works on Theology. Notices to Correspondents.

ALMANACS PRINTED AT CAMBRIDGE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

<See 6 S. xi. 221, 262, 301, 382 ; xii. 243, 323, 383, 462 ; 9 S. vi. 386.)

THE interesting paper o;i ' Huntingdonshire Almanacs ' supplied by MR. HERBERT E. NORRIS to the first number of ' N. & Q.' for the present year needs a slight correction in its opening statements. James I. extended the privilege granted by Queen Elizabeth to the Company of Stationers alone to print almanacs, primers, Psalters, &c., to the University of Cambridge, not to that of Oxford ; and Archbishop Laud's attention having been called to this inequality of privileges, he took steps whereby a charter of similar privileges was granted to Oxford, dated Nov. 12, 1632, confirmed by another, March 13, 1632/3. These allowed the

University to print Bibles, Prayer Books, grammars, almanacs, &c., hitherto the monopolies of the Stationers' Company and Cambridge University. As a result of this new privilege Lily's ' Grammar ' was printed at Oxford in 1636, and three almanacs by John Booker, Thomas Cowper, and John Wyberd in 1637. But in 1637 the Stationers' Company agreed to pay the University 2007. a year to forgo these newly granted powers, and that compact continued till after the Restoration. No Bibles or Prayer Books were printed at Oxford till 1675. See Madan's ' Oxford Press,' 191, 192, 195, 197, 203. Of these three Oxford almanacs, that of Cowper is only known in Brit. Mus. MSS. Harl.

The Cambridge Press do not seem to have run their London rivals very hard, to judge by these facts. In a set of twenty- seven almanacs which I have bound to- gether for the year 1694 six only were printed at Cambridge, and MR. H. R. PLOMER, in his lists (6 S. xii.), allows the Cambridge imprint to only twelve almanacs during the century. He has omitted at least one, and possibly more. It is signi- ficant that Bowes's Catalogue of Cambridge books does not contain a single almanac till 1689, when a volume for that year includes Dove, Pond, and Wing, with nine others printed in London. Those that are included in Mr. Jenkinson's list of early printed Cambridge books may be seen at 9 S. vi. 386.

The imprint of all those printed in 1694 is the same : " CAMBRIDGE. Printed by John Hayes, Printer to the University, 1694." (The set of type varies.) The titles are all within the same border, with no academic symbols, and not reproduced in Bowos's ' Ornaments.' It will be sufficient to print in full two title-pages, the longest and shortest of the set. A proportion of each title is printed in red :

1. " Culpepper Revived. \ BEING AN | AL- MANACK | for the Year of our I BLESSED SAVIOURS | Incarnation 1604. | And from the Creation of the World according | to the best of Ecclesiastical History 5645 | Being the Second after Bissextile or Leap year. | Wherein is briefly shewed, the general State of the Year, | the Solar ingresses, Eclipses, Full Sea at London Bridge, | Terms and their returns, the Sun and Moons rising and | setting, with Astrological Observations, and the probable I alteration of the air. | Also the certain time of any Mart or Fair in the City or | Town in England, with a description of the most emi- I nent Roads thereto.

" To which is added Rules for Physick and Husbandry with | many other usefull Observa- tions necessary for the com- | pleating such a work.