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[2nd s. No 55., Jan, 17. '57. 



Erneley Fedigree {2°^ S. ii. 508.) — Memor in- 

 quires whether any pedigree of the ancient family 

 of the Erneleys, first of Sussex, subsequently of 

 Wilts, is in e.xistence ? I imagine there is. The 

 Erneley family is now represented by W. M. 

 Kyrle, Esq., of Homme House, Herefordshire ; 

 and in the pedigree of his family, which was drawn 

 up by the heraldic authorities, I have seen a 

 goodly number of his Erneley ancestors. 



H. C. K. 



Songs (2"'' S. iii. 11.) — The song, "Who fears 

 to speak of '98 ? " will be found in The Spirit of 

 the Nation, parti, p. 48., 12mo., Dublin, Duffy, 

 1843. In the Inde.'c of Authors, it is ascribed to 

 S , T. C. D. R. A. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC* 



All who remember the two valuable little Volumes of 

 Criminal Trials contributed by Mr. Jardine to the Li- 

 irary of Entertaining Knowhdye, must still iiave in their 

 rec 'llection the very curious and carefully prepared in- 

 troduction prefixed by that gentleman to his account of 

 the trial of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators. In 

 the years which have elapsed since that introduction was 

 written, fresh materials for arriving at the truth, and for 

 illustrating the historj- of that most atrocious design, have 

 come to light ; and we have now before us A Narrative of 

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 that gentleman gives us the resiuts of all his subsequent 

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 of it bears marks of that same conscientious striving after 

 the truth, and the same painstaking endeavours to sift 

 the evidence, which distinguished Mr. Jardine's former 

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 is not only the best book upon the subject which has j-^et 

 appeared, but that there is no probability of its ever being 

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Mrs. Alfred Gatty's kindly and able pen has been 

 again busied for the amusement and instruction of youth- 

 ful readers. Proverbs Illustrated, which is the title of 

 her new and admirable little volume, contains three 

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 and Tlie Drummer, all of great interest ; and all well cal- 

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SirF. Head has just turned out from the coop in which 

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We have occasion to repeat the praises which we have 

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Such imperfect ideas exist in the minds of many per- 



sons as to the nature of the early United or Moravian 

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