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He died in or before June, 1682, when she renounced administration to his goods. To her and her two sisters above named the precedency of the daughters of a baron had been granted by royal warrant in 1665. She married secondly Matthew Harvey, of Twickenham, and was buried there 15 May, 1690, her said husband being buried with her 19 January, 1693/4. One of her three daughters and coheirs (by her first husband), Frances (with whom she herself v 's often con- fused), married firstly (when but thirteen) her cousin William Whitmore, of Balmes in Hackney, and secondly, 19 April, 1685, at Twickenham, Sir Kichard Myddleton, Bart., of Chirk Castle, co. Denbigh. G. E. C.

Has your correspondent referred to 1 st S. x. ; 3 rd S. iii., v., for some long articles on the Whitmore family ?

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

"LiNNEY" (9 th S. x. 228). In Holder's ' Alt-keltischer Sprachschatz,' s.v. linna, we find the meaning " blanket," " covering," assigned to this word ; and Williams in his Cornish dictionary cites the word len as Cornish. Of course this word may itself be a loan-word from Latin Icena. There are several Cornish words in common use in Devonshire ; such are pillum, tallack, butt. I fancy that the puzzling word in Petronius, 71, should be read bucciballum, and derived from Celtic bucca. H. A. STRONG.

University College, Liverpool.

Surely this word is a shortened pronuncia- tion of "lean-hay," meaning a shed, append- aut to a larger building, and having a separate entrance. The word " linney " occurs, under various spellings, in the records of St. Ives, Cornwall; and I beg leave to refer COMESTOR OXONIENSIS to my history of that borough and neighbourhood. He will there find the word in a document of the year 1707 (p. 297). JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

Perhaps from Welsh llin, flax, and cae, enclo- sure, hedge, field. For names compounded of hay, see Whitaker's ' Whalley Abbey,' ed. 1800, p. 175. R. S. CHARNOCK, Ph.D.

30, Millman Street, W.C.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Rariora. Being Notes of some of the Printet Books, Manuscripts, Historical Documents Medals, Engravings, Pottery, &c., collected (1858- 1900) by John Eliot Hodgkin, F.S.A? 3 vols (Sampson Low & Co.)

No pleasanter or more honourable occupation cat fall to a collector than that of giving a catalogm

raisonnd of his treasures, with, it may be, the circumstances attendant upon their acquisition. Works of this description constitute a class to themselves, though no bibliography of such has, so
 * ar as we are aware, been attempted. Doubt is

permissible, even, as to what works of Dibdin and others come into the category. Those which are privately printed have a knack of developing into rarities. One book which, as a priced catalogue, belongs to the domain of bibliography is the ' Biblio- theca Anglo - Poetica ' of Messrs. Longman. The catalogues of engraved portraits of the late James Anderson Rose, that by Mr. Whistler of Sir Henry Thompson's collection of blue-and- white Nankin porcelain, that by the Duchess of Wellington of the pictures and sculpture at Apsley House, and Mr. Edmund Gosse's catalogue of a portion of his library are among personal possessions which we prize and recall. On a more ambitious scale than most, if not all, of these is the ' Rariora ' of Mr. Eliot Hodgkin, which forms our latest acquisition. That Mr. Hodgkin was an earnest, indefatigable, and enlightened collector has long been known. Five years ago the Historical Manuscripts Commission issued a report upon his manuscript treasures (see 8 th S. xi. 419), which reach from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, and include many priceless documents.

Mr. Hodgkin cites witfrapproval the advice of an expert to the collector that he should restrain his ambitions within moderate and manageable limita- tions, but is far from attempting to profit by it. Among personal friends in the world of biblio- philes we would assign first place to the late Mr. Turner, who on the walls of a single room in the Albany exposed books worth a king's ransom. Mr. Hodgkin's province seems to include omnia vendi- bilia, and not one expert, but a jury of experts, is necessary to do justice to his possessions. It is pleasant to us to find the most important place assigned to books, which are, after all though there may be those who, through enthusiasm or love of paradox, will maintain otherwise the greatest of human treasures. How far Mr. Hodg- kin's experiences of purchase are general, and not particular, we cannot say. We are, however, in a position to bear testimony to the accuracy of many of his statements., " The most eccentric antiquarian bookseller," in pursuit of whom he went down to a Northern town, was known to us also, and a precious fraudulent rascal he was as ever patched up a Pynson with a Cawood and sold it for perfect to an unsuspecting tiro. After we had paid in hard cash, which was indispensable, over seventy pounds in the fifties a considerable sum for Lydgates and other early poets, he would only supply us with a candle, for the purpose of looking further through his stock, on our disbursing a halfpenny to cover its cost. We are, however, supposed to be dealing with Mr. Hodgkin's experiences, and not with our own. Among the books which he obtained from this (un)worthy was a ' Hypnerotomachia ' (Venice, 1499), one of the striking illustrations from which appears on p. xix of the first volume and others further on. A goodly list of incunabula is given, together with many profoundly interest- ing reproductions of title-pages, designs, wood- cuts, and other objects. The illustrated account of the author's bibliographical treasures, enough in itself to commend the work to the book- lover, is preceded by chapters on the dawn of typo- graphy, a dissertation on wooden types, a rdsumd