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 192 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. iv. sept. 2, * in his house in New Place, and the bard's residence in that dwelling-house was con- temporary with the labours of the author of the passage. According to Batty's 'Copper Coinage of Great Britain,' halfpennies coined from that metal had then only recently (temp. Elizabeth) been introduced as currency. "And thence to Hackney. There light [alightj and play at shuffle-board [italics mine], eat creams and good cherries, and so with good refreshment home.' —Pepys's ' Diary,' 11 June, 1664. This was some fifty years after the allusion was written which I have essayed to illus- trate- Gnomon. Temple. Like your correspondent, I purchased some time since a folio volume—not, however, only because it bore on the title-page the name of William Jaggard, but because my curiosity, the result of many references, was roused in regard to this particular work. Its interest, which is of a general character, exceeds that of ' The Historie of Balak,' by the same pub- lisher, described at length by A. S. Its title is :— " The | Treasurie | Of Auncient | And Moderne | Times I Containing the Learned Collections, Iudi- cious Rea- | dings, and Memorable Observations : Not onely Divine, | Morrall and Phylosophicall, But also Poeticall, Martiall, | Political! Historicall Astrologicall, &c. | Translated out of that Worthy Spanish Gentleman Pedro Mexio | And M. Fran- cesco Sansouino, that Famous Italian. As also, of those Honoura- I ble Frenchmen, Anthonie Du Verdier, Lord of Vaupriuez: Loys Guyon, | Sieur de la Nauche Counsellor unto the King: Clan- | dius Gruget Parisian, &c. | London | Printed bv W. laggard 1613." The epistle dedicatory from the author, who describes himself as "Your Namelesse Well-wilier desirous to be knowne to none but your Selfe," is addressed "To The Right Worshipfull Learned and most Iudicious Gentleman Sir Thomas Brudenell Baronet." In the range of my small library, about five to six thousand volumes, chiefly consisting of English literature and belles-lettres, there are few books to equal in interest this extra- ordinary compilation of ancient and modern superstition and occult learning. The folio is divided into nine books and has 965 pages. _, F. E. Man ley. Stoke Newington. . D. S. P. F. C. (9* S. iv. 109).-The follow- ing extract is taken from the 'Memoir of George Chapman' in Pearson's reprint of his 'Comedies and Tragedies,' London, 1873 : "'At length,' says Wood, 'this most eminent and reverend poet, having lived seventy - seven [? seventy-three] years in this vain and transi- tory world, made his last exit in the parish of S. Giles's in the Fields near London, on the twelfth day of May, in sixteen hundred and thirty-four, and was buried in the yard on the south side of the church of S. Giles. Soon after was a monument erected over his grave, built after the way of the old Romans by the care and charge of his most beloved friend Inigo Jones, before men- tioned : whereon is this engraven, Georgius Chap; mannus, poeta Homericus, Philosophus verus etsi Christianus poeta plusquam Celebris, &c.'" John Parton, vestry clerk, wrote a' History of the Parish of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields,' London, 1822, wherein may be found a copy of Inigo Jones's inscription. The volume is in the Corporation Library, Guildhall, E.C. See also ' N. & Q.,' 1" S. ii. 272; 3rd S. iii. 118 ; 7th S. xi. 365. The first three letters at the end of the inscription stand for " Decessit sine prole" (died without issue). The last two I cannot explain. Eveeaed Home Coleman. 71, Brecknock Road. D. S. P. F. C.=" De sua pecunia faciendum curavit" (Cappelli, ' Dizionario di Abbre- viature Latine ed Italiane,' 1899, p. 406). This book is certainly the most artistically executed, and is probably the best of the existing guides to its subject, and will be of service (with its 13,000 reproductions) to all students of mediaeval MSS. Robt. J. Whitwell. C.C.C., Oxford. Nathanael, Loed Ceewe, Bishop of Durham (9th S. iv. 85).—It is not often that one catches your old and valued contributor Me. Pickford tripping; but in the following sentence he has unwittingly stumbled :— "Bamborough Castle was purchased by him [Crewe] from the Crown, to which it had been forfeited by John Forster, who had commanded the insurgents in 1715." Now the name of the rebel "general" was Thomas, not John, and the estates were never forfeited by him, for the simple reason that at the time of the outbreak they were not his to forfeit. This question of forfeiture was investigated thirty years ago by the late Wm. Dickson, of Alnwick, F.S.A., Clerk of the Peace for the County of Northumberland, editor of the 'Pipe Rolls of Edward the First,' &c. In a paper contributed by him to the sixth volume (1872) of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, entitled 'Notes to correct Errors as to the Manors of Bamburgh and Blanchland,' the results of his investigations are epitomized in the following paragraphs, based upon the records of the Court of Chancery :— " After the death of Wm. Forster, Esq., without issue, in April, 1700, and of Ferdinando Forster in