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additional catalogue far more correct and accurate; 

 wherein if he may receive encouragement accordingly, he 

 shall not in any thing be better satisfied than that his 

 poor endeavours shall have answered those ends for which 

 they were intended." 



After a sliort advertisement, requesting notice 

 as to omissions, the catalogue commences. It is 

 in alphabetical order, and records about one thou- 

 sand seven hundred and ninety names or firms. 

 Of this number thirty-seven persons are desig- 

 nated as baronets or knights, and ten as aldermen. 



No distinction is made between merchants and 

 tradesmen, nor is any information given on the 

 particular nature of the transactions of the parties. 

 There are some Italian names ; some Spanish 

 names ; and above forty Flemish names, as Van 

 Cittert, Van Milder, Vandeput, etc. 



There is a separate catalogue of " all the gold- 

 smiths who keep running cashes." It comprises 

 forty -four names or firms; of which number 

 twenty-seven were located in Lombard-street, six 

 in Fleet-street, four in the Strand, four in Cheap- 

 side, two near the Exchange, and one in Covent- 

 garden. The signs of the goldsmiths, or bankers, 

 are given ; as the Szin, the Slar, the Angel, the 

 Mermaid, the Golden Lion, the Black Horse, the 

 Three Cocks, the Gi'asshopper, the Rose, the 

 Marigold, etc. Bolton Cokney. 



FOLK LORE. 



Baconian Folk Lore. — 



" There are certain wells in Dalmatia and the country of 

 Cyrene, into which if you cast stones, there will presently 

 arise tempests." 



" The sound of bells will disperse lightning and thun- 

 ders ; in winds it has not been observed." 



" Pliny relates that the vehemence of a whirlwind may 

 be allayed bv the sprinkling of vinegar in the encounter 

 of it." 



" It is reported of Mount Athos, and likewise of Olym- 

 pus, that in such a height no wind had blown for a year 

 past. On the top of the Peak of Tenerift'e, and on the 

 Andes, there is nothing but a quiet and still air." 



" It hath been anciently received that a bath made of 

 the blood of infants, will cure the leprosy and heal the 

 flesh already petritied." 



" They use the blood of kitlins warm to cure the di- 

 sease called St. Anthony's fire, and to restore the flesh 

 and skin." 



" An arm, or other member, that will not leave bleed- 

 ing, is, with good success, put into the belly of some 

 creature newly ripped up, for it worketh potently to 

 stanch the blood." 



" It is much used in extreme and desperate diseases, to 

 cut in two young pigeons j'et living, and apply them to 

 the soles of tlie feet, wherebj- foUoweth a wonderful ease." 



" There hath gone a report almost undoubted, of cer- 

 tain men that had great noses, who have cut off the 

 bunches or hillocks, and then making a wide gash in 

 their arms, having held their noses in the place for a cer- 

 tain time, and so brought forth fair and comely noses." 



" There is a certain tradition of a man, who, being 

 under the executioner's hand for high treason, after his 

 heart was plucked out and in the executioner's hand, 



was heard to utter three or four words of prayer." — 

 Bacon, Instaur., 3rd Pt. 



" They have a tradition in magic, that if a chameleon 

 be burnt upon the top of a house, it will raise a tempest." 

 — lb., Sylva, 360. 



" There is an old tradition that boughs of oak put into 

 the earth will put forth wild vines." — lb. 522. 



" It hath been reported that ivy hath grown out of a 

 stag's horn." — lb. 550. 



" In some mines in Germany, there grew in the bottom 

 vegetables, which the work folks use to saj' have magical 

 virtue, and will not suffer men to gather them." — lb. 571. 



" It was observed in the great plague, that there were 

 seen in divers ditches and low grounds about London many 

 toads that had tails, two or three inches long at least." — 

 Jb. 691. 



" In furnaces of copper and brass, where chalcites is 

 often cast in to mend tire working, there riseth suddenly 

 a fly, which sometimes is seen moving and dieth pre- 

 sently as soon as it is out of the furnace." — lb. 696. 



" It is an usual observation, that if the body of one 

 murdered be brought before the murderer, the wounds 

 will bleed afresh. Some do affirm that the dead hath 

 opened the eyes." — lb. 958. 



" The heart of an ape, worn near the heart, comforteth 

 tlie heart and increaseth audacity." — lb. 978. 



" Mummy hath great force in stanching of blood. The 

 moss which groweth upon the skull of a dead man un- 

 buried will stanch blood presently." — lb. 980. 



" There be many reports in historj', that upon the 

 death of persons of near blood, men have had an inward 

 feeling of it." — lb. 986. 



" Lard or green elder stick will charm away warts." — 

 lb. 997, 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



N^ew Year Superstition. — I met with the follow- 

 ing bit of folk lore in a Worcestershire parish. If 

 the carol- singer v/ho first comes to your door on 

 the New Year's morning is admitted at the front 

 door, conducted all through the house, and let 

 out at the back door, you will have good luck all 

 through the year. This was done on last New 

 Year's Day at a farm-house ; the inmates rising 

 before it was light, in order to admit the lucky 

 first carol comer. CuTHnERT Bedb. 



Mistletoe Superstition. — A Worcestershire far- 

 mer was accustomed to take down his bough of 

 mistletoe, and give it to the cow that calved first 

 after New Year's Day. This was supposed to 

 ensure good luck to the whole dairy. Cows, it 

 may be remarked, as well as sheep, will devour 

 mistletoe with avidity. Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 



A Spring Saying. — "It ain't Spring," said an 

 old cottager to me, " until you can plant your foot 

 upon twelve daisies." Cuthbekt Bedb. 



Spring Flowers' Folk Lore. — If you take 

 violets or primroses into a farm-house, be sure 

 that you take no less than a handful of their 

 blossoms ; for less than this will bring certain de- 

 struction to the farmer's broods of young ducks 

 and chickens. 



I was told this in a country parish in Worces- 

 tershire. Cuthbert Bede. 



