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 9* S. Vll. MARCH 30, 1901.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH SO, 1901.

CONTENTS. No. 170.

NOTES : The First Norwich Printer, 241 Executions at Tyburn and Elsewhere, 242 Genealogical Research in America, 244 Sandwich Men "Qui vive?" 245 -Pope's Epitaphs in Use Whitman's " Hexameters "Queen's College, Oxford Mock Bullfight on Christmas Eve B*rbar* and Barberini, 246.

QUERIES: "Juggins" "Non terra sed aquis" Dr. Forbes Watson "Tout lasse tout casse tout, passe" Stouehenge Old Feudal Rights, &c. St. Christopher and Laughter Breckenridge, 247 Green of Wyk^n ' Child's Own Book 'Disguise of Man as Woman Author of Quotation Wanted Crowned Heads Comic Dialogue- SermonFielding and Brillat-Savarin, 248 Morsay, or Count Marsay " Colpeara " Earl of Hyndford's Daughters Nursery Rime John Jones the Regicide, 249.

REPLIES: -Thackeray Bishop of Mons Maran us -Daisy Names Confidential War Dispatches "Ance mariole " Four-and-Five," 250 Margaret of Bavaria -Margaret of Bourbon Lines on the Skin "Mad as a hatter" Verses on the Irish Famine Cradle Commissions D'Auvergne Familv, 251 Woore. in Salop -" Wise" Brawling Early Steam Navigation, 252 Leghorn National Nicknames -Blackheads Berners Family, 253 Achill Island -Whifflers and Whiffling-" Bull and Last," 2S4 Shakespeare the " Knavish" Worcestershire Folk- lore "Bandy-legged," 255 -Henry VII. Whitgift's Hospital. Croynon, 256 London Evening Paper " Paulie " Doubtful Passages in Chaucer, 257 " The spotted negro boy "" Put a spoke in the wheel" Gun Reports Seneca and Galen "Rouen" and "Succeda- neum," 258

NOTES ON BOOKS : Besant's East London ' Colyr- Fergusson's ' Marriage Registers of St. Dunstan's. Step- ney ' Gomperz's ' Greek Thinkers ' ' Byegones relating to Wales and the Border Counties' 'Coutts & Co.' ' Transactions of the United Empire Loyalists' Association.'

ANTHONY DE SOLEMNE, THE FIRST

PRINTER AT NORWICH (1565-80). COTTON, in his ' Typographical Gazetteer ' (i. 1831), mentions two works printed at Norwich by Ant. de Solemne, and now pre- served in the library of Trinity College, Dublin, to which they were bequeathed by Archbishop Usher. These are (1) " De CL. Psalmen Davids uut den Franchoyschen Dichte in Nederlandtschen ouerghesett door

Petrum Dathenum Tot Noorwitz ghe-

print by Anthonium de Solemne. Anno MDLXVIII." ; (2) " Eenen Calendier Historiael

eeuwelick geduerende MDLXX." My old

friend C. J. Stewart, of King William Street, Strand, lent me many years ago a copy of these two (bound together), from which I copied the full titles : what became of it after- wards I know not, but it was believed to be the only one then known to exist, excepting the one at Dublin. I have, however, a strong impression that it passed into the hands oi Sir William Tite : and, if so, it was bought by the late Mr. B. Quaritch (for 96/.) at the sale of Sir W. Tite's library in 1874. Hence, if I am not mistaken, there are only two, or il Mr. Stewart's copy was not that which Sir William had, there are to this day only three

copies known to exist; and the present abiding

place of only one of the three (or two) is

known. The Dublin volume has, moreover,

bound with it a third work, of which no other

copy has yet been heard of, viz., "Het Nieuwe

Testament, in Nederduytsche na der Griek-

cher waerhey t ouergesett. met de Annotation

August. Marlorati Gearuct int Jaer 1568."

)f this last Cotton remarks that although it ms neither the name of the printer nor place )f printing, "there cannot be the slightest loubt that this, as well as the other two, is 'he product of Anthony Solemne's press."

We learn further from the first volume of assesses another work, " Het tweede boeck van de sermoenen des wel vermaerden Pre- dicants B. Cornelis Adriaenssen van Dor-
 * he * Gazetteer ' that the library of T.C.D.

h'echt nueerstmael in Druck uutgegeven,

buy ten Noirdwitz, 1578." The printer's name does not appear, and the expression "buy ten Noirdwitz" may seem rather doubtful; still, as Cotton justly says, "from the similarity Doth of type and general appearance I have no hesitation in adjudging it to the press of Antony Solempne." This volume appears bo be unique ; at all events, I have never yet heard of a copy in any library, public or private, nor found mention of it in any bibliographical work, English or foreign.

A "broadside," also unique, in the Bod- leian Library, sums up the account of Solemne and the early Norwich press in Cotton's first volume. The title is "Certayne yersis written by Thomas Brooke, Gentleman, in the tyme of his imprysonment the daye before his deathe, who suffered at Norwich the 30 of August, 1570, imprynted at Norwich by Anthony de Solempne, 1570"; but when his second volume appeared, in 1866, we find that Cotton had heard from Mr. Boone (of Bond Street) of two more books, viz., ' A Confession of Faith by the Ministers of the Church of Jesus Christ in Switzerland and in France,' Nordwitz, by Antonius Solemne, 1568, and " A History of the Wars, Troubles, and Uproars in the Netherlands, &c. Ge- druckt tot Noortwitz (1580), na de copie van Basel, anno 1579." The titles of these two, it will be observed, are given in English, doubt- less as they were sent to Cotton by Mr. Boone ; but they are evidently both Dutch books, although I know nothing of the first, nor what has now become of it ; but the second can be no other than the * Henricipetri Cronyc' which is now in the Bodleian, another copy having been bought by the British Museum in December, 1871, and a third appearing in Messrs. Ellis <fe Elvey's catalogue of 1897.