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 56 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vm. JAN. is, 1921. There is a reason for the conformity of quality which marks these books. The enviable and much-sought office of " official printer to the city " was given only to work- men of established reputation. Before ap- pointment they undertook to produce good work at a fair price. W. JAGGARD, Capt. I possess a copy of this scarce work in its original binding (whole leather) in excellent condition with a preface signed, Goodfellows, which belonged to my grand- father, Ralph Price, Treasurer of Bridewell Hospital in 1836. In the beginning is written, " very scarce. " LEONARD C. PRICE. Essex Lodge, Ewell. 'LIFE IN BOMBAY ' (12 S. viii. 29). Has been attributed to James Gray ; possibly a son of James Gray, poet and linguist, who died in India in 1830, where, says 'The Dictionary of National Biography,' his family mostly settled and also to a Miss Cormack. The lithographs in the book are from drawings by the author. Do these bear any name (OT initials) other than that of the lithographers ? R. B. LONDON POSTMARKS (12 S. vii. 290, 365 ; viii. 18, 34). One of the most objectionable of these, perhaps, is current at the present time for ship-letters, viz., "London: Paquebot." As the letters are conveyed on English vessels surely the older form "ship letter " might be preserved in place of the mixture o'f lan- guages noted above. English postmarks, too, are sadly illegible yet those from abroad (United States or Switzerland, for example) are clearly arti- culated throughout showing what can be done. R. B. Upton, 'THE WESTERN MISCELLANY,' 1775 AND 1776 (12 S. viii. 11). Goadby's publication circulated in several counties in the West of England (see Western Antiquary, iii. 50), and would seem to have borne different titles in different districts. 'The Ter centenary Hand-List of Newspapers ' refer: to it as The Weekly Miscellany, and mentions vols. i.-v., vii.-xix. (1773-83), and again as The Weekly Entertainer ; or Agreeable and Instructive Repository, &c., and mentions vol. iii., &c., 1784-1818, and N.S. 1823-25. W. S. B. H. finds it called The Western Miscellany, while other titles are Weekly Entertainer for Cornwall and Devon, or ili& Agreeable and Instructive Repository (1782- 1815), and Weekly Entertainer and West of England Miscellany (1816). Goadby himself died in 1778 (see G. C. Boase, ' Collectanea Cornubiensia,' col. 1429) and a memoir cf him appeared (so it is stated at 8 S. i. 393) in the issue of Jan. 3 r 1820. Goadby's wife (d. 1798) may have edited the paper as she seems to have been a person of some literary ability, if it be true that she wrote the life of Bampfylde- Moore Carew, King of the Beggars. Some think, however, that it was Goadby who was the author of the book (see Western Anti- quary, vol. vii. p. 86 ; see also ' The Gypsy Bibliography,' published by the Gypsy Lore Society in 1914, and at 2 S. iii. 4; iv. 330, 401, 522). M. ENGLISH VIEWS BY CANALETTO (12 S. vii. 448). A few years ago a most interesting collection of paintings of Old London by Canaletto, Scott, and Boydell were sold at Christie's, King Street, St. James's Square.. Many of these were purchased by the late Mr. 'Henry Andrade Harben, a good and enthusiastic London collector, son of the late Sir Henry Harben, first Mayor of Hampstead. Mr. Harben bequeathed a number of these to the London County Council, of which- bcdy he had been a member. Some of them were hung in various parts of the Council's offices at Spring Gardens and I think I recollect one of old Westminster Bridge being among them. I hope this information may be useful to MRS. HILDA F. FINBERG, and that it may be- worth investigating further. E. E. NEWTON. Hampstead, Upminster, Essex. CHARTULARIES (12 S. vii. 330, 414). Gross ( ' Sources and literature of English History from the earliest times to about 1485/ London, 2nd edn., 1915) gives a lot of infor- mation with regard to these, both published and unpublished. The manuscript index volumes in the Manuscript Room at the British Museum are specially arranged under this heading and are drawn up with ad- mirable clearness. I would recommend Dr. Howe to make friends with the autho- rities there. k j*. i The Beaulieu Chartulary is in the posses- sion of the Duke of Portland ; a MS. tran- script by Harbin (eighteenth century), collated with the original in 1831 by Sir