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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Ljm g. No 68., Jan. 24.^67. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



"Ten Thousand Chinese Things " was the title, in the 

 original Chinese (with which we will not trouble our 

 readers at present) of an Exhibition which we all remember 

 to have been one of peculiar variety and interest. Paro- 

 dying this expressive designation, the Calendar of State 

 Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reigns of Edward VI., 

 3Iary, Elizabeth, 1547 — 1580, preserved in the State Paper 

 Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office ; Edited 

 by Robert Lemon, Esq., F. S.A., under the direction of the 

 blaster of the Rolls, and with the sanction of Her Majesty's 

 Secretary of State for the Home Department. Longman §• 

 Co., may be entitled "Ten Thousand Manuscripts relating 

 to English History now first made known." Under that 

 title we may at once perceive that even the Chinese Ex- 

 hibition could scarcely have exceeded this single volume 

 in its almost infinite variety. An Index which contains 

 about 9000 separate headings, and runs through 90 pages, 

 makes apparent the number — almost beyond number — 

 of places, persons, and subjects, to which the book relates. 

 Scarcely any English name of importance during the six- 

 teenth century but figures in it ; and there is no public 

 English transaction but is illustrated by it. In its pages, 

 as a result of the chronological arrangement, we trace the 

 current of events as in a narrative history ; and the in- 

 formation it contains respecting the internal condition of 

 England under the strong government of Elizabeth lays 

 open the actual state of our forefathers " to a degree," re- 

 marks the editor, " which has never yet been approached 

 in the historical materials of this or perhaps of any other 

 countr3%" In our small sheet we have not " room and 

 verge enough " to treat of such a comprehensive work. 

 To indicate even in the slightest degree the multitudinous 

 subjects of the manuscripts which it laj's open to the 

 world would require our whole number. It would be, 

 indeed, to write a new history of the period. Certainly, 

 no such history can be written hereafter, nor can any 

 historical inquiry be successfully carried on without con- 

 sulting, not merely the present volume, but also tiie ma- 

 nuscripts which it represents. Here are notices of many 

 letters of the three sovereigns to whose period the book 

 relates ; of the statesmen by whom those sovereigns were 

 surrounded, from Protector Somerset to Burghley and 

 Walsingham ; of the great churchmen from Cranmer to 

 Grindal ; of the great lawyers from Bacon to Bromley ; 

 of the great sailors from Clinton to Howard, Hawkins, 

 Frobisher, and Drake. There is scarcely a noble family 

 that will not here find traces of their ancestors; Xevilles, 

 Talbots, Sackvilles, Howards, Clintons, Brookes, Mon- 

 tagues, Dudleys, Pagets, Seymours, Cecils, Pouletts, De- 

 vereuxes, Fitzalans, Russells, Stanleys, shine forth on 

 every page. Of most of the peers of the time there are 

 letters. Nor can literature be thought to be unrepre- 

 sented in a volume which contains information respecting 

 the family of Shakspeare and his Warwickshire contem- 

 poraries, with letters of Sir Philip Sidney, Dr. Dee, Dr. 

 Thomas Wilson, Walter Haddon, Dean Nowell, and George 

 Puttenham. To our own contributors, often dealing with 

 minute facts, and to all inquirers of every kind — genea- 

 logical, biographical, or topographical — it is superfluous 

 to recommend such a book. It opens up a vast body of 

 information, much of it, if hitherto accessible at all, only 

 to be got at with difficulty, and at an expense of time 

 which was prohibitory'. The compilation of such a vo- 

 lume must have been a vast labour. We congratulate 

 the editor on the completion of this first portion of his 

 task, and shall look anxiously for the volumes which are 

 to follow. The energetic arrangements of the Master of 

 the Rolls give hope that it will not be long before what 



is here begun for the reign of Elizabeth, will be effected 

 for the periods of James I. and Charles I. If that 

 be really accomplished, the name of Romilly will be 

 connected with one of the most sensible and most im- 

 portant helps to historical literature that has ever ema- 

 nated from any person in authority In this country. 



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Poi-e's Letters. 2 Vols. Small Svo. Cooper. 1737. 

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Scott's Bible. Seeley, 1811, or subsequent editions. Vol. I. or Paits 2. 

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Cinquante Meditations «ur la Passion pe Notre Setoneur J. C. 

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Wanted by WiUiani lTutchison,35. Moore Street, Chelsea. 



fiatUti to (SLavtei^an^senti, 



Stonkhenge. If Rn. will again refer to Mr. Kemble's Note about 

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 name. Ala. Keuble says" the Trililha may have serveii aa r/aUowses," 

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OxoNiENsis icill ?ee the subject of the douhlefiff) fully discussed in " N. 

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G. Walters. The story of The Barmecides Fenat is in the Arabian 

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Nicknames of the TTnited States. Mr. St. John Crookes is de- 

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T. P. is re/erred for an cxplanntion of The Five Alls 'Jo our 1st S. 

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J. B. (Great George Street). We knoto of no such book: neither can 

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J. Robertson. The article on the Preservation of Papers from Damp 

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Anon. The line should be — 



" When Greeks Joined Greeks then was the tug of war," 

 it is from Mat. Lee's Alexander the G reat. 



H. T. BoBART. Only the tirms of liobart of Brunswick arc given in 

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