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readers of 'N. & Q.' It is taken from th 1 History of London,' by William Maitland F.R.S., an interesting folio volume dedi cated to King George II., 1739 :

"According to a manuscript in the Royal Librarj at Westminster, the London quota of troops were raised and armed in several wards of the cit~ according to the following proportions : "Farringdon Ward Within, 807 men.

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I will not give the full particulars of the various arms from the remaining wards suffice it to say that they were all constituted more or less as they were in the Farringdon Ward in various proportions :

"Farringdon Ward Without, 1,264 men; Cheat Ward, 358 ; Bassingshaw, 177 ; Aldgate, 347 ; Cord- wayner, 301 ; Bread Street, 386 ; Billingsgate, 365 ; Coleman's Street, 229 ; Dowgate, 384 ; Aldersgate, 232 ; Broad Street, 373 ; Lime Street, 99 ; Cornhill, 191 ; Bridge Ward Within, 383 ; Castle Baynard, 551 ; Queenhithe, 404 ; Tower Street, 444 : Wai- brook, 290 ; Vintry, 364 ; Portsoken, 243 ; Candle- wick, 215; Cripplegate, 925; Bishopsgate, 326; Langbourn, 349.''

The above account is a manifest refutation of Stow, who tells us that the Privy Council at this time only demanded of the city a supply of 5,000 men.

Tne citizens being willing to exert them- selves on these extraordinary occasions, on the 3rd of April in the same year the Common Council passed a resolution to grant the queen a supply of sixteen of the largest ships on the river Thames, and four pinnaces or light frigates, pursuant to which they took the said ships into their service, fitted them out with the greatest expedition, and plenti- fully supplied them with necessaries for war, and during their time of being in the service of the public defrayed the charge, as well as of that of the 10,000 men above mentioned. WILLIAM PAYNE.

Woodleigh, Southsea.

ILLUSTRATIONS OP THE WAVERLEY NOVELS. The interesting article on the * Early Issues of the Waverley Novels,' which appears at p. 181 of the current volume of 'N. & Q.,' induces me to mention several volumes of pictorial illustrations in my small collection. First, allow me to say that I quite endorse the opinion of your correspondent concerning the illustrations in the " Favourite Edition " of the novels, which have never been either equalled ot- surpassedthe author's meaning

has been so well apprehended and realized in them.

In 1832 a series of ' Landscape Illustra- tions,' with portraits of the female characters, was issued. These were very good, as they were the work of first-rate artists and engravers. I possess the work in unbound wrappers, and am disinclined to place it in the hands of the binder lest it should suffer. It was, how- ever, intended to form three volumes, and a supplemental volume in illustration of the poetry was projected, and was, I believe, published.

About 1838 Fisher, Son & Co. (London and Paris) issued a serial in shilling parts of illustrations to the Waverley novels. This consisted of six engravings to each novel by first - rate artists. Two in each volume were by George Cruikshank, who succeeded in finding some exercise for his caricaturing pencil in each. There are several editions of this work. Many of the illustrations have been inserted in the novels, and the impres- sions have got fainter and fainter. Some of these appeared in Fisher's 'Drawing-Room Scrapbook.'

I have the following twelve volumes of illustrations published by the Scottish Fine- Art Union, folio, of which some are exceed- ingly good, as the landscapes by Sam Bough : 'Waverley,' 'Guy Mannering,' 'Antiquary' 'Rob Roy,' 'pld Mortality,' 'Heart of Mid- lothian,' ' Bride of Lammermoor,' * Legend of Montrose,' 'The Pirate,' ' Redgauntlet,' ' St. Ronan's Well,' and ' Fair Maid of Perth.'

As to the illustrations in some of the modern editions, they are poor to a degree, especially the frontispieces and vignettes in 4-v,^ "Centenary Edition," issued in 1871,

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which may be instanced as a special case in point.

I once saw a volume of the plates before .etters of the illustrations prefixed to the 'Favourite Edition," small 4to., on tinted paper, which must be of great rarity and value. It was the only copy I ever saw, and, is might have been expected, the plates were Beautifully distinct and clear.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

" GLENGARRY." In Dr. Murray's big ' Dic- ionary ' the word " glengarry," as the name )f a cap, is not noted earlier than 1858, which leerns strange, as that was the familiar name, n Fifeshire at least, of such cap before that late. A. BLACKWOOD.

"PILLILLEW." This is a word which I have lever heard outside Mid -Derby shire. It is used in connexion with "fallings-out," neigh-