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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. SEPT., 1917.

Schuylenberg : Verkolje. Both these artists have a picture of the ' East India Company in Bengal ' in the Rijks Museum, Amsterdam. When did they work ?

Van Byne. Painted pictures of Forts St. George and St. William in 1754, reproduced in Beve- ridge's ' History of India.' Was he ever in India, or did he merely work up other people's sketches ?

C. H. S. There is a coloured aquatint (by Stadler after C. H. S.) of a Sergeant and a Private in the H.E.I.C.'s native troops. For whom do these initials stand ?

W. H. There is a lithograph of a Sergeant in the Ceylon Rifles by W. H. For whom do these initials stand ?

Please reply direct. JOHN LANE.

The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.

GRATIAN'S ' DECRETTJM ' : BERTHOLD REMBOLT. Will some reader be kind enough to identify the edition, and supply the date of publication, of a copy of Gratian's 4 Decretum ' that is in Exeter Cathedral Library ?

It .bears no date, and has no colophon at the end, but on the first page is the imprint : on a shield placed before the trunk of a grape-laden tree, and supported by lions standing above a label inscribed " B. REMBOLT," a device (evidently a merchant's mark) resembling a figure 4 with a cross at the end of its horizontal stroke, the tall stem resting on the diameter of a circle, in the lower half of which are the initials " B. R." The page has a richly ornamented border, and the head-line " Decreti huius Plenissimii argumentum " is followed by a table of contents and some lines of blank verse, in which occur the names " Bertholdi " and " Rembolt." On the back is a cut represent- ing a scribe visited in his scriptorium by a company of ecclesiastics holding open books towards him, and below it is a double column of about 20 lines of verse, the top one in red letters.

Henri Bouchot (' The Printed Book,' p. 47) mentions that Berthold Rembold (sic) became associated in 1494 with Gering at his printing works in the Rue de la Sorbonne, Paris. In a contribution of mine to Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries (ix. 173) referring to this subject the year 1494 has been erroneously printed " 1414," and 1131 (when Gratian flourished) as " 1311."

With regard to the use by Rembolt of a merchant's mark, it is interesting to recall that Caxton, too, introduced what is believed to be a merchant's mark in his imprint, viz., a figure somewhat resembling an incomplete " &," crossed by a short-stemmed " 7," between the initials " W C " and two flourishes that may read " S <7" Caxton

! was a freeman of the London Livery Corn- pan y of Mercers, and in 1463 became governor of " the English Nation " f Merchant Adventurers) at Bruges. A device very similar to his (but without initials) appears on the monumental brass (in Standoa Church, Herts) of John Felde, Alderman of London, merchant of the staple of Calais, who died in 1377 (see Blades' s ' Life of Caxton,' pp. 14-29, 139).

Can the name or mark of Bert hold Rembolt be found in the records of any merchants' company or trade gild ?

E. LEGA-WEEKES.

KENNEDY'S PROPOSED MEDICAL BIBLIO- GRAPHY (BRITISH) TO 1800. Could any of your readers tell me what became of the MSS. of this work, which was completed and ready for the press at the time of the author's death ? See ' D.N.B.,' vol. xxx. p. 422. WILLIAM OSLER.

13 Norham Gardens, Oxford.

' MORRIS, ARNOLD, AND BATTERSBY,' 1 782. In the ' Life of Major John Andre,' by Winthrop Sargent, 2nd ed., 1902, pp. 513-15, is mentioned a pamphlet entitled ' Morris, Arnold, and Battersby ....,' by R. Morris, London, 1782. The following libraries have no copy of it : British Museum, Bodleian, and Cambridge University. Can any one inform me where a copy may be seen ?

E. ALFRED JONES.

6 Fig Tree Court, Temple, E.C.4.

' LANCASHIRE GLOSSARY.' In a prepara- tory note to part ii. of the ' Lancashire Glossary,' by Nodal and Milner, issued by the English " Dialect Society in 1882, there is promised a third part which would con- tain introductory chapters on the literature, grammar, and pronunciation of the dialect ; also an appendix of omitted words, towards which contributions were invited. It was hoped that this third part would be ready early in 1883. Can any one say if it was ever published ? I cannot find it in my set of the Society's publications.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

RECORDS OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL COM- MISSION FOR THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. Can any one tell me where the Act Books of this Commission are preserved ? The late Canon Raine referred to them as being in existence, and as throwing a flood of light upon the religious history of the Northern Province in Elizabethan times, but did not say where they could be seen. Dexter in his ' England and Holland of the