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allusions were made to Sir Edward Russell as former editor of The Islington Gazette, and the third member of a famous triad.

The following is the resume of the history of the journal :

" It is sixty years since a small print The Islington Gazette. first saw the light of day as a weekly newspaper. The first publishing office was half of a pie-shop in High Street, between the Angel and Liverpool Road. The Gazette was a small sheet of four pages of four columns each ; the size of the publishing office about 6 ft. square. The first editor was the late Mr. F. J. Minasi, the proprietor of a flourishing school in Islington. 'Six months later, owing to a difference with the proprietor, Mr. Minasi resigned, and forty-eight hours later Mr. Russell (now Sir Edward Russell) accepted the position, which he retained until he became editor of The Liverpool Daily Post. On March 21, 1857, six months after the first copy appeared, the Gazette was enlarged. It was again enlarged on April 3, 1858. On May 30, 1865, the Gazette was published twice a week; on Jan. 1, 1877, it appeared three times a week ; and on Sept. 26, 1881 three and a half years after the death of the founder, William Trounce his only son and successor, William Samuel Trounce, decided to publish the journal five times weekly. At the same time the number of columns was increased from 28 to 32. Originally published at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the hour of publication was advanced to 9 a.m. The growing demand for fresh and up-to-date news induced the proprietor, in the early part of 1901, to enlarge his journal to eight pages, comprising 48 columns, and publish at the same time as the other morning newspapers. The outbreak of war in August, 1914, was respon- sible for increasing the cost of paper something like 300 per cent, and a rise in the price of all materials necessary in the production of a news- paper compelled the proprietor, in conjunction "with other daily newspaper owners, to reduce the size of The Daily Gazette. This is only a temporary measure, and we hope to return to the status quo when the glorious day of peace shall arrive."

The roll of editors from the commencement to the present time is : 1856, F. J. Minasi ; 1857, Edward Russell ; 1873, Dr. Garvey ; 1873, William S. Trounce; 1875, Charles Townley ; 1905, Henry Trounce.

G. YAKROW BALDOCK.

South Hackney, N.E.

LAST USE OF STOCKS AT LATJNCESTON. The Daily Chronicle of Nov. 11, 1915, had the following :

" At Crantock, in Cornwall, with the object of preserving the form of stocks as they were used in olden times, a bas-relief is being prepared, and will be placed in the church as a memorial. These characteristic features of the English village are now seldom to be found in situ. So much importance was attached to the penalizing and admonitory power of the stocks that the Commons prayed Edward III. to establish them in every village. In later times each parish appears to have had its stocks, and the last in London was removed from St. Clement Danes in 1820. The final record of their use was at Rugby in 18G5."

There were stocks in use at Launceston as late as 1859. On Sept. 8, 1806, when the bounds of that borough were beaten with great solemnity, a rimed account of the proceedings, written contemporaneously by a local hand, mentioned :

The parish gossip's cucking stool, Down here, right by St. Thomas' pool, Held scolds and shrews in stocks.

Two men in 1859 were ordered for drunkenness to be placed in the stocks, when, the pair belonging to St. Mary Magdalene's parish, in the centre of the borough, having disappeared, those of the neighbouring parish of St. Stephen (St. Thomas, already men- tioned, lying in the Kensey Valley between) were borrowed for the occasion and placed in Broad Street, the town's principal thoroughfare. A bonfire in Castle Dyke the same night made an end of this particular ancient institution. DUNHEVED.

RICHARD RUSSELL, BISHOP OF PORTA- LEGRE, 1671, AND ViSETi, 1682. Under date Nov. 28, 1661, Evelyn records :

" There din'd with us Russell, Popish Bishop of Cape Verde, who was sent out to negotiate his Majesties match with the Infanta of Portugal after the Ambassador was return'd."

Similarly under date Dec. 4, 1661 :

" I took leave of the Bishop of Cape Verde, now going in the Fleet to bring over our new Queene."

There is an account of this prelate in the ' Catholic Encyclopaedia,' from the pen of the Rev. Edwin Burton, D.D., which states that he was nominated Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde in 1661, but declined the honour. He died Nov. 15, 1693.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

BOOKBINDERS' WORDS. 1. " Stab." The ' Oxford English Dictionary ' quotes no instance of the verb " stab," as used by bookbinders, earlier than the year 1863. Therefore it is interesting to quote from the advertisement of " School Books in Chirm's Binding," which is bound into the copy of

" The New English Spelling-Book : By

the Rev. J. B. Pike, A.M." (London, 1788), belonging to the Bodleian Library, the following sentences :

" It is called the punch'd or stabb'd Binding, and is done as follows : The Sheets being folded into a Book two Holes punched thro' them near the Back, and a String drawn thro' each Hole, into the Pasteboard Sides is the chief Fastening

and " as must be that of abolishing the deceitful

Practice of stabb'd Binding."

This advertisement was issued by " Geo. Herdsfield, Stationer and Bookseller, At the Golden Heart, (No. 112) Aldersgate Bars, near Charterhouse-Square, London."