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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. v. JAN. 27, 1900.

Customs Accounts of Edward V. and Richard III. Ib., xviii. 241. PP. 1,898 o.

Kirton-in-Lindsey. Extracts from Church- wardens' Accounts, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Ib., xix. 18. PP. 1,898 o.

Delaval Papers. A few entries of wages accounts,

early eighteenth century. Ib., xx. 181. PP. 1,898 o.

Kyre Park, Worcestershire. Extracts from

wages accounts, 1588-1618. Ib., xxi. 202 ; and xxii.

24, 50. PP. 1,898 o.

Wilts Archceological Magazine.

Devizes. Extracts from Churchwardens' Ac- counts of St. Mary's, Devizes, sixteenth, seven- teenth, and eighteenth centuries. W^lts Archceo- logical Magazine, ii. 308. Ac. 5,740.

Wiltshire Provision for the Queen's Household, 1553-1588. Ib., xiv. 237. Ac. 5,740.

Wulfhall and the Seymours. Article by Canon Jackson, containing extracts from accounts chiefly sixteenth century. Ib., xv. 140. Ac. 5,740.

Lady Arabella's Progress. Account of travelling expenses, early seventeenth century. Ib., xix. 217.

Some Account of the Parish of Monkton Farleigh : contains a few extracts from accounts of various kinds. Ib., xx. 60, 185.

Bristol and Gloucester Archceological Society.

Leigh. Extracts from Constables' Accounts, eighteenth century. Bristol and Gloucester Archaeo- logical Society, vii. 319. Ac. 5,650-4.

Ruardyn. Extracts from Churchwardens Ac- counts, seventeenth century. 76., viii. 143.

Buckland. Inventory of farm stock and imple- ments, early sixteenth century. Ib., ix. 118.

Bristol. Extracts from Churchwardens Ac- counts of the Parish of St. Ewens, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Ib., xv. 139, 254. Ac. 5,650-4. Books and Tracts.

Manchester. Constables' Accounts from 1612 to 1647, and from 1743 to 1776. Edited by J. P. Ear- waker. 3 vols. 010,358 1. 30.

St. Mary Bourne, Hants. Extracts from Parish Accounts in J. Stevens's history of this parish, p. 237. 10,3521.21.

Bassingbourne Churchwardens' Book. Rev. B. Hale Wortham. Mentioned in Walford's Anti- quary, i. 143 ; not in B.M. Catalogue.

Commonwealth Accounts, 1640-42. ' Somers Tracts,' iv. 382. 2,072 e.

Dublin. Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, 1337-1346. Ed. James Mills. Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Ac. 5,785-2.

Oxford. An Undergraduate's Account Book, 1682-8. Oxford Historical Society's 'Collectanea,' vol. i. part 5.

Oxford. Bookseller's Day-book, 1520. Oxford Historical Society's ' Collectanea,' i. 73. Ac. 8,126/5.

Chronicon Preciosum ; or, an Account of English Money, the Price of Corn and other Commodities for the last 600 Years. W. Fleetwood, 1707. 1,103 a.

Windsor. An Account of the true Market-price of Wheat and Malt at Windsor for 100 Years (1646 to 1745). W. Fleetwood. 816 m. 12, 64. Sundry Periodicals.

Ottery St. Mary's. Short extracts from Parish Accounts, eighteenth century. The Western Antiquary, i. 105. PP. 1,925 eg.

Morebath. Warden's Account Book, 1520-1600. The Western Antiquary, x. 122, J49, J80 ; xi. 21, &c. ; and xii, 71, PP. 1,925 eg.

St. Mabyn, Cornwall. Extracts from Parish Accounts, 1620 and onwards. London Society, xliv. 641. PP. 6,004 gp.

Morton, Derbyshire. A few extracts from Parish Accounts, 1592-1642. The Reliquary, xxv. 17. PP. 1,925 e..

Edinburgh. A few extracts from old account books, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Leisure Hour, 1883, pp. 204, 693. PP. 6,004 1.

Oxford. Account Book of R. Freke, 1619-1637. English Historical Review, vii. 88. 2,093 e.

Chester Cathedral. A few extracts from Trea- surers' Accounts, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Chester Archaeological Society's Jour- nal, iii. 179. Ac. 5,627.

Solihull, Warwickshire. Extracts from Church- wardens' Accounts, chiefly seventeenth century. Solihull Parish Magazine, July, 1882, and follow- ing numbers ; sixteenth - century extracts, May, 1892, and following numbers.

B. L. HUTCHINS.

EARLY HISTOEY OF THE STEAM ENGINE.- The materials for the history of the steam engine in the early years of the eighteenth century are so scanty that the smallest addi- tion is of value. I therefore ask permission to record the following advertisement which appears in No. 945 of the Post Man, 19 to 21 March, 1702 :

"Captain Savery's Engines which raise Water by the force of Fire in any reasonable quantities and to any height, being now brought to perfection, and ready for publick use. These are to give notice to all Proprietors of Mines and Collieries which are incumbred with Water, that they may be furnished with Engines to drain the same, at his Workhouse in Salisbury Court, London, against the Old Play- house, where it may be seen working on Wednesdays and Saturdays in every week from 3 to 6 in the after- noon, where they may be satisfied of the performance thereof, with less expence than any other force of Horse or Hands, and less subject to repair."

The year 1702, I may point out, is the year in which Savery published his ' Miner's Friend,' which is, in fact, the specification, as we now call it, of the patent which was granted to him in 1698.

The next advertisement is taken from the Daily Courant of 24 July, 1721 :

" Whereas an Engine to raise Water by Fire, commonly called Savery's Engine requires double the Quantity of Fuel that it ought to do, and besides is liable to burst or break in the using : This is to certify the public that a Remedy is found for both these Faults, and a Scheme f or the'same has been laid before Persons of Eminence as well as Skill, who have so far approved it as to sign a Certificate that they are of opinion it will fully answer the Author's Design for the Public good: Yet the said Certificate being produced before the Patentees of this Engine, they have wholly slighted the same, and demand that the whole Scheme be laid open without Re- serve before Mathematicians (or rather Workmen) of their own, and of far inferior Note to those who liad judged of it before, and that the Author rely wholly upon the Event, and upon their Generosity