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 12 S. IV. JAN., 1918.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

with the manner how they are to bee used and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, .ftgaiiist divers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Gathered by the long experience and industry of William Langham, Practitioner in Riysicke. The second Edition corrected and A mended. London, Printed by Thomas Harper, with permission of the Company of Stationers. M DC xxxm."

The book is described as sm. 4to. This opy had an ownership note of 1668.

AGNES ABBEB. 52 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.

"ACT OF PARLIAMENT CLOCK" (11 S. X. 130; 12 S. iii. 462). The following extract from ' Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers,' by F. J. Britten, answers ST. SWITHIN'S query:

'* In 1797 an Act of Parliament was passed to tax all clocks and watches. Although the im- position of this obnoxious tax paralysed the horological trade, it had the effect of creating one kind of time-keeper ; for tavern-keepers, anticipating a scarcity of time-keepers among individuals, with one mind seem to have adopted a bold mural time-piece for the benefit of those who visited their public rooms.... An 'Act of Parliament clock ' had usually a large dial of wood painted black with gilt figures, not covered by a glass, and a trunk long enough to allow of a seconds pendulum .... In country inns 'Act of Parliament clocks ' may still occasionally be seen."

I have seen three of these clocks : one at the King's Head, Horsham ; another at Friston Place, near Eastbourne ; while the third is at Bedle's Hill, near Lindfield.

M. W.

Hayward's Heath.

TANKARDS WITH MEDALS INSERTED (12 S. iii. 445, 483, 520). Some years ago I saw at a friend's, not a tankard indeed, but a silver toddy-ladle with ebony stem, into the centre of the bowl of which was inserted a gold guinea piece of Queen Anne, the head showing inwards, the royal arms outwards. I remember telling my friend that, according to prices at a recent sale, the coin itself was -worth 12?. This was about 1894.

She now informs me that the ladle, being an heirloom, was sent with other plate and valuables to her banker's ; and, though she does ^ not remember the exact date of the inscription, she is sure it bore Queen Anne's head, and was no counterfeit, but a true coin of the realm. 1ST. W. HILL.

36 Leigh Road, Highbury, N.5.

CLITHEROE PROVERBIAL FOR BRIBERY (12 S. iii. 417, 510). I am sure the readers of ' N. & T Q.' must have been interested in the light thrown on the history of Parlia- I mentary elections by MR. WEEKS' s excellent !

account at the latter reference. I must express to him and the people of Clitheroe my regret that, from misunderstanding the reference hi the letter to which I was re- ferring, I should, in addressing the inquiry which elicited MR. WEEKS' s statement, have expressed the idea that Clitheroe was proverbial for bribery. As MR. WEEKS' s narrative shows, though money must have flowed like water in connexion with the expenses attendant on the returns, petitions, and inquiries at Clitheroe and in Parliament, there is little evidence and no proof of bribery in the technical sense.

JOHN R. MAQRATH. Queen's College, Oxford.

WROTH FAMILY (12 S. iii. 510). One o this family married a Stafford of Bradfield, Berks. E. E. COPE.

TREACLE BIBLE (12 S. iii. 446). This Bible is usually ascribed to 1568. The word from which it has derived one of its names will be found in Jeremiah viii. 22, although this word is found in many Bibles of an earlier date, from 1535 downwards : " Is there no triacle [instead of balm\ in Gilead ; " It is a revision of the Great Bible (1539), and is also known as the Bishops' Bible, from the fact that twelve bishops in addition to other well-known scholars aided Archbishop Matthew Parker in its revision. The book is very handsomely printed and illustrated, and has an engraved title-page by F. Hcgenberg bearing in the centre a portrait of Queen Elizabeth and two of her statesmen, Leicester and Cecil, prefixed respectively to the Book of Judges and the Psalms. The price when published was about 16. at present value. The Bible was printed by Richard Jugge, and a second edition came out in 1572. It was ordered to be placed in every cathedral and exposed in every ecclesiastical dignitary's house for the use of their visitors and servants, and copies of the first edition through constant thumbing have become rare. There are copies of the 1568 edition in the British Museum, the John Rylands Library, Manchester, and the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society. A copy was offered for sale by Sotheran in 1907. The Ashburnham and Crawford copies have both been sold, and fetched 70Z. each.

A full description of English Bibles will be found in ' The Historical Catalogue of the Printed Copies of Holy Scripture ' in the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society, published at the Bible House in 1903. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.