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 118 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 S.VIII.FBB. 5,1921. The Greek original is in lamblichus's 'De mysteriis Aegyptiorum,' Section 7, near the end of the fifth chapter : Ba/o/3apoi $ yotovt/xot TOIS yOto-iv ovres KOU rots Aoyois /?e/2ai(os TOIS ai'Tots e/x/xevovcri' avroi re etcri Trpoo-^jtAet? TOIS $povo-i Keyapivukvovs. lamblichus is discussing the rites of the barbarian, that is non-Hellenic, nations of the Egyptians, Assyrians, and Persians ; especially the Egyptians. EDWABD BENSLY. DANIEL DEFOE IN THE PILLORY (12 S' viii. 12, 78). In spite of the familiar line in the ' Dunciad ' (ii. 147) there can be no doubt that Defoe did not suffer mutilation. Mr. W. J. Courthope, commenting on this passage, Pope's 'Works,' vol. iv., p. 329, writes : " Daniel Defoe never lost his ears, though Pope, by comparing him to Prynne in Book i. 103, seems to insist on the fact." The writer of the article on Defoe in ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica,' says that Pope "knew that the sentence to the pillory had long ceased to entail the loss of ears." Defoe had been found guilty of a seditious libel, the performance in question being his pamphlet ' The Shortest Way with the Dissenters.' EDWARD BENSLY. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. (12 S. viii, 72.) 1. These lines in their correct form, are found in the anonymous life of Samuel Butler prefixed to the 1704 edition of ' Hudibras,' and reprinted in several later editions. " There are some Verses, which for Reason of State, easie to be guess'd at, were thought fit to be omitted in the first Impression, as these which follow : Did not the Learned Glyn and Maynard, To make good Subjects Traitors strain hard, Was not the King by Proclamation, Declar'd a Traitor thro' the Nation? " They do not appear in any impression of the poem itself. This ' Life,' " according to Oldys, was written by one Sir James Astrey, a learned lawyer who resided at Wood Green, Harlington, in Bedford- shire, and published an edition of Spelman's Glossary with his life." (R. Brimley Johnson's edition of Samuel Butler's Poetical Works, vol. i. p. xxix.) EDWABD BENSLY. 3. The last stanza in Dryden's poem ' On the Young Statesmen.' It run correctly thus : So have I seen a King at Chess (His Rooks and Knights withdrawn) His Queen and Bishops hi distress Shifting about, grow less and less, With here and there a Pawn. H. DAVEY. TERCENTENARY HANDLIST OF NEWSPAPERS (12 S. viii. 91). The date of The Cirencester Flying Post on p. 92 (col. 2, 1. 12) should read 1744 r not 1774. ROLAND AUSTIN. The Burford Records : a Study in Minor Town Government. By R. H. Gretton, M.B.E, (Clarendon Press, 42s. net). BOOKS about the beautiful old Cotswold town of Burford are becoming fairly numerous. In 1861 the Rev. John Fisher, who was curate there r wrote a short history of the place. More recently Mr. Wm. J. Monk, a local antiquary, produced a ' History of Burford,' and several other guide- books and notes. In 1905 Dr. Hutton, now the Dean of Winchester, published his ' Burford Papers ' letters to Mrs. Gast who lived in the Great House there, from her brother Samuel Crisp of London, the friend of Fanny Burney who con- stantly comes hi to their pages. Last year Mrs. Sturge Gretton produced ' Burford : Past and Present,' a delightful volume, fit companion to her charming ' Three Centuries in North Oxford- shire,' based upon her husband's larger book which, so long awaited by lovers of Burford^ has now seen the light. Mr. Gretton has undertaken a very arduous task and has performed it well. The large volume of over 700 pages which the Clarendon Press has just published consists of a study of the history of the Burford Corporation, based on the town's records, together with chapters on local history and topography, the Manor, the Priory, and the Church, the last from the pen of the vicar, the Rev. Wm. C. Emeris. The second half of the book is a classification and transcription of the local documents, enriched by many other records and extracts from the Public Record Office, the British Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the muniments of Brasenose College, together with the Burford and Upton Enclosure Awards. Mr. Gretton's critical study of the rise and decay of the Corporation is admirably done. The original grant of liberties to Burford is the earliest dated instance of the establishment of a gild merchant, the first charter in the name of Robert FitzHamon having been granted some- time between 1088 and 1107. It included also " the liberties customary in the setting up of a borough.... and other 'free customs 'in this case the free customs of the men of Oxford." The author adduces reasons for believing that the bestowal of these liberties arose from the desire of Robert FitzHamon to make this outlying manor of his possessions a source of monetary revenue ; the motive was not apparently given by the in- habitants of the place. An examination of the charters granted to the town shows that the two Royal charters are not strictly charters granted to the inhabitants of Burford but Royal con- firmations of manorial grants. The privileges and liberties secured by other British towns are quite unrepresented here. Mr. Gretton then pro- ceeds to show how the Burgesses of the town were misled as to their legal position throughout the centuries before Sir Lawrence Tanfield acquired the manor. The lords of Burford living