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To vandyke. To ornament by forming indentations. J. HOLDEN MAcMicHAEL. Wimbledon Park Road.

GOOD FRIDAY AND PARSLEY. A good Church woman, who is also fond of her garden, when pointing out to a friend her fine crop of parsley a year or two ago, ex plained that it was so plentiful because sown on Good Friday. This was at Singleton, near Chichester. J. R-

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EASTER (continued from 9 th S. iii. 244).

April, 1645. " The custome of the parish of Tuitnam (being that on Easter day two great cakes should be broken in the church, and given to the young people) was ordered to be forborn, and instead thereof bread to be given to the poor." Whitelocke's ' Memorials,' 1682, p. 135 a ; see fur- ther Brand's 'Popular Antiquities,' ed. Ellis (Bohn), 1849, i. 165-6.

Bisse, Rev. E., of Portbury. Resolved Cheerful- ness in Dangers. A Specimen of Meditations during Easter Week, whilst in the Messenger's hands. 8vo, pp. 30, 1721.

Wilson, Henry, Mathematician at Tower Hill. The Regulation of Easter, or the Cause of the Errors and Differences contracted in the Calculation of it, discovered and duly considered. (A pam- phlet.) 1735.

Macclesfield, George, Earl of. On the Solar and Lunar Years, the Golden Number, the Epact, and on finding the time of Easter, in a Letter to Martin Folkes. 4to, 1751. (See 7 th S. iii. 286.)

Rumsey, Rev. L. H. The True Date of the Crucifixion and Resurrection. 1882.

Rumsey, Rev. L. H. To Find Easter. (A pamphlet, printed for private circulation.) 1900.

Easter Sepulchres. See 'Visitations of Churches belonging to St. Paul's Cathedral,' Camden Soc., 1895.

W. C. B.

" LE ROY LE VEULT." On Friday morning, March 29th, the House of Commons was sum- moned to the House of Peers to receive the announcement of the royal assent to the Con- solidated Fund (No. 1) Act, 1901. This is the first Act of Edward VII., and for the first time for sixty-three years the phrase "Le Roy le veult " was used in place of " La Reyne le veult." The words recited by the clerk of the House of Lords were, " Le Roy remercie ses bons sujets, accepte leur benevolence, et ainsi le veult." N. S. S.

' THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS ': FIRST EDITION. The following extract, taken from the Times of 22 March, cannot fail to be of general and permanent interest :

"A perfect copy of the first edition of the 'Pilgrim's Progress' is to be sold at Messrs. Sotheby's on 9 May next. The history of this example is interesting. It was at one time in the possession of the Fleetwood family, and was given

to Ann Palmer, the great-grandmother of the late owner, Mr. John Nash. Ann Palmer's name is written across the title-page, and on the death of her husband, William Nash, of Upton Court, Slough, in 1808, it was given to his only child, William Nash, of Langley. It afterwards passed into the possession of the late Rev. Z. Nash, vicar of Christchurch, Hants, and he shortly before his death gave it to the late owner. Until within quite recent years the Holford copy of the first edition (dated, like the second, 1678) was regarded as complete and unique, and in 1875 a facsimile of it was published by Mr. Elliot Stock. But that copy has not the frontispiece, in which the author was depicted as asleep. It is quite possible that the frontispiece did not appear in all the copies of the first issue, and its disappearance in the four or five other known copies, all, or nearly all, imperfect in the text, may possibly be attributed to the devastating zeal of such men as Bagford or Granger. The plate in the Nash copy, which was examined in 1886 by the British Museum authori- ties (and reported upon in Notes and Queries, 8 May, 1886), is not part and parcel of the first sheet of sixteen pages, but the paper used for the engraving of the title-page is precisely similar in make and appearance, and there can be no doubt that it forms an integral portion of the volume. This plate differs in one remarkable particular from the frontispiece in the later editions, inasmuch as the words ' City of Vanity ' appear in it, in place of ' City of Destruction.' As to the provenance of Mr. Holford s copy nothing seems to be known. It was valued by Lowndes in 1873 (see ' Biblio- grapher's Manual,' p. 312) at 50/. a price which, it is scarcely necessary to say, bears very little relation to that which it would now realize. There is no record of a copy having been sold at public auction in this country. The late Mr. W. E. Buckley's copy of the third edition sold for 19/. 5s. in 1893, a very fine copy of the fifth edition realized 22/. at Sotheby's in 1898, and one of the only two known copies of the sixth edition realized 24/. in 1894. The appearance, therefore, of the unique copy of the first edition of this remarkable little volume is an event of no little consequence in the book-collecting world. 1 '

In regard to the engraving which forms the frontispiece in the late Mr. Nash's copy, it is well to remind the reader that upon the examination of this copy at the British Museum in 1886 Mr. Graves discovered, under the word " Destruction," which marks the city from which the Pilgrim flies in the plate of the Museum copy of the third edition, traces of the word "Vanity" by which, in Mr. Nash's copy, the city is shown. This discovery led Mr. Graves to suppose that the volume referred to by the Times was an "advance copy," and that the artist's blunder in thus naming the city was in all probability discovered by Bunyan himself, who caused the two editions issued in 1678 to appear minus the plate, which was worked up anew for the third edition issued in the following year. (See 7 th S. i. 376.)

RICHARD EDGCUMBE.