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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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contained, I have no doubt, much which the lover of ancient as well as of cheap literature would have prized. Not to seem quite ungrateful for some of his officious attentions, I lifted a volume without opening it, choosing it merely from its elegant binding and silk marks, which, having undergone the ordeal of the scales, became my property at the rate of 2d. On inspection, it turned out to be a handsome copy of Sermoni di S. Giovanni Climaco Abbate Nel Monte Sinai, SfC., printed " in Vinegia Appresso Pietro Marinelli, 1585;" and from this random specimen, it may be inferred, that there were many in the lot worth a better price. Next day the itinerant bookseller, with his large wheelbarrow, scales, and all, were not to be found ; and it is probable that he had betaken himself to a more propitious quarter for his sales. G-. N.

Hornchurch (1 st S. v. 106.) --The origin of the name is given in Anecdotes and Traditions, No. 176., Camden Society Publications :

" Horn Church in Essex hath its denomination from the horns of a hart, that happened to be killed by a king's dog near the church, as it was building; and the horns were put in the wall of the church. Mr. Estest, a Gentle- man Commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, went to school there, and said that the stumps of the horns were extant in his time." From Aubrey.

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

Book of Common Prayer (2 nd S. i. 454.) " Wherefore beseech we Him " is the authorised reading in the Absolution of the "Evening Prayer," as N. L. T. will find by reference to the " Sealed Book," and that in this case the Cambridge printer is right. It seems as if the alteration has been made in most of our Prayer Books from want of attention to this little variation between the Morn- ing and Evening Prayer; but surely it would be better to avoid even such trifling inaccuracies.

J. T.

Jacobites of 1745 (2 nd S. i. 354.) It may be

of service to your correspondent to know that

" A list of persons attainted and adjudged to be guilty of high treason in G. Britain since the 24th June, 1745, taken mostly from a list dated Exchequer-Chamber, Edin- burgh, Sept. 24, 1647, and spelled and designed as in it"

will be found in the Scots Magazine for the year 1747, vol. ix. p. 649. The editors of this maga- zine had endeavoured to render it as to the events of the Rebellion an exact and faithful register, and its pages therefore are always worth consulta- tion. G. X.

Mayor of London in 1335 (2 nJ S. i. 353. 483.) As a small black letter edition of Stowe's Chronicle in my possession, imperfect at beginning and end, but which was probably published in 1598, seems to have an independent reading, at variance from the editions consulted by your cor-

respondents (unless perchance it agree with ed. 1607, of which I have no copy at hand), you may perhaps think it worth while to insert the follow- ing extract :

" 1333.

Shrives. John Hainan, William Hansard.

Maior. Sir John Pultney, Draper.

1334. Edward Balioll, King of Scots, did homage to King Edward at New Castle upon Tync, and shortly after he received homage of the Duke of Britainc for his Earldome of Richmond.

Shrives. John Kingstone, Walter Turke. Maior. Reignold at Conduit, Vintner.

1335. Part of the Universitie of Oxford went to Stam- ford, because of a variance that full betweene the Xorthren and Southerne Sehollers. The sea bankes brake in through all England, but specially in Thames, so that all the cattail and beasts neare thereunto were drowned.

Shrives. Walter Morden, Richard Upton. Maior. Richard Wotton.

1336. King Edward made his eldest sonne Edward Earle of Chester^ and Duke of Cornwall. It was en- acted that no Tvooll should be convayed out of the Real me.

Shrives. John Clarke, William Curtis. Maior. Sir John Pultney, Draper."

It will be seen that, according to this account, Sir John Pultney was twice mayor, in 1333, and in 1336; whilst in 1337, and again in 1338, Stowo gives Henrie Darcie as mayor, not leaving room for Nicholas Wotton in the former year, where Heylin places him. J. SANSOM.

Parochial Libraries (2 nd S. i. 459.) Allow me to add to your list of parochial libraries that of Wotton Wawen, co. Warw. George Dunscomb, M.A. presented A. 1645, ob. 1652,

" A man of extraordinary worth in his time, good scholar, and an honest and pious man, whose memory is very sweet," and "who was long lamented and reverenced in the parish, gave some good books for the use of his parishioners, which were preserved in the vicarage house, 'till, at the request of the people, they were chained to a desk in the south aisle of the church, April llth, 1693." Harwood's Alumni Eton.

I do not know whether they are still chained, but they still exist, as I learn from the Rev. H. N. Goldney, of Wotton Wawen, who describes them to me as works " of the Puritan divines."

JAMES KNOWLES.

In the list given in the Note, I do not see " Worsborough, near Barnsley in Yorkshire," where there still exists, in the parish school, an old and curious collection of books presented by one Dr. Obadiah Walker, whose tombstone is in St. Pancras Churchyard. Mr. Hunter mentions this collection in his South Yorkshire, vol. ii. p. 298.

J. EASTWOOD.

Eckington.

Permit me to add to your list the library at Bromham Church, in the county of Bedford, situ- ated over the south porch, and containing many