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 12 s. viz. AUG. 21, i92o.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 141 LONDON, AUGUST 21, 1920. CONTENTS. No. 123. NOTES : Extracts from the Aldeburgh Records. 1., 141 Italian Stage-Scenery in the Eighteenth Century : Pier Jacopo Martello, 143 London Coffee-houses, Taverns, and Inns in the Eighteenth Century, 145 An English Arm List of 1740, 146 -Forged Speeches and Prayers of the Regicides : Another Fraud hy Elizabeth Catvert An Earlier Abraham Lincoln, 147 Mrs. Betty Stiven's Epitaph. Tobago Balderdashed, 148. OUERIE3 : " Service Heraldry," 14S " Waldo-Lynnatus '' Exted Arthur William Devis (1763-1822) Parr's Bank Charles Marshall North American Indians Early Knglish Tourists at Chamonix Maclay or Macleay Nancy Parsons (Lady Maynard). 149 Rook Family The Aqua vita Man Rudyard Kipling: Reference Wanted Taillear dnbh na Tuaighe Rawlins The Jews' Way Franciscus Turrettinus The Word " Premier," 150 REPLIES: Macaulay Queries Finkle Street, 151-" Au pied de la Lettre " Influence of Foreign Language on .-Style St. Anthony of Padua Calverley's Parodies " Bug" in Plac*-Names Jottings from an Old Colonial Newspaper, 152 Rue de Bourg. Lausanne French 'Titles, 153 Barr : Bar, 154 Santa Cruz George 'Buchanan The Stature of Pepys, 155 Warwickshire Sayings A Meeting of Ways Shakespeare's 'Shylock' John Davidson: The Vale of Lone Ditton William -de Eu Mary Ann Bohun, 156 Marcella French Dryderi's ' Alexander's Feast ' Mahogany and the Dictionaries Principal London Coffee-houses, &c. Wideawake Hats, 157 Words of Hong Wanted Sir Pollycarpus Wharton : " Cashe (Couchee) Peices of (Brass" 'The Spectator 'Doctor of Decrees Young of Milverton Moss-Troopers: Bibliography Sergeant or Serjeant, 158 The Prefix" Right Honble " Ribes San- guineum, 159. NOTES ON BOOKS: ' Richard Steele '' The Year Book of Modern Languages, 1920' 'The Trout are Rising in England and South Africa.' OBITUARY: Richard John Fynmore. .Notices to Correspondents. EXTRACTS FROM THE ALDEBURGH RECORDS. I. READERS of ' N. & Q.' who appreciate the -value of Public and Local Records, must often have considered with interest the question of their preservation, arrangement
 * and possible publication. That a time will

come when these priceless memorials of the past will be duly examined, respected, and lioused, I have no doubt, but what is to be done until that time arrives ? Is it possible in any way to hasten the time ? This might perhaps be achieved if we could make the inhabitants of the towns, and even of many villages, realise the value attaching to their possessions (I speak of course of Loca] Records) by publishing such material from them as may prove interesting to the general public. This might arouse local interest, with the result that little or no opposition would be made to the levying of a small rate for the necessary purpose of providing perfectly safe accommodation for these treasures, and so ensuring them against decay, mutilation, and destruction. We, in Aldeburgh, possess a valuable collection of Records (and we are no excep- tion). Some are in the care of our Town Clerk at Ipswich ; the rest are in our beautiful early sixteenth-century Moot Hall. We have Charters and Royal Documents of 1524 and 1529 ; an Inspeximus of the Charter of Edw. VI. ; an Inspeximus of the Charter of Philip and Mary (I believe the Charters are in the keeping of the Town Clerk) ; Letters Patent, 156S, conceding a weekly market to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, with a Court of Pie Powder (pedis pulveri- sata), and other important documents cata- logued in the Reports on Manuscripts (Hist. MSS. Com.), 1907. In addition to these, we have numerous bundles of papers with unknown contents. With the aid of these books, papers, Church Registers and later Churchwardens' account -books, a history of Aldeburgh and a truthful one could be written. The Chamberlain's account-books which begin in 1566 are veritable storehouses of general English, local, and family history. Every item expended on the church appears therein, from the heavy expenses incurred in repairing the roof, to the buying of the material, making and painting " a coate for the Devill," who proudly exhibited himself in some church play. .Every " artificer " and tradesman is known by name and what he pays. A complete " Law List " (with the name of Bacon in it) could be drawn up. A medical " Register " could be compiled, including Mr. Raymond (1770), who agrees " to attend all the parish poore . . . .for twenty shillings a year, for which sum I engage to supply them with all necessaries as are wanting in the Physical Surgery or Midwifery way (Fractures ex- cepted)," &c., and who is so elated at his appointment that, he continues, " and in case an amputation is necessary to be per- formed on Jn. Edwards I beg the Parish will accept of my services as a trifling acknowledgment of the Favours," &c., in- cluding also, under date Sept. 17, 1775, after the town has dismissed Mr. Raymond, a note to the effect " that Mr. George Crab be, Junr., shall be employed to cure y e Boy Haward of the Itch. ' '