Jan. 17. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



69 



£ s. d. 



Monson, Sir John, of South Carleton 2642 O 



Moore, Alexander, of Grantham - 350 



Manson, Sir John, Jun., of North 



Thorpe - - - - 133 O 



Thorold, Joseph, of Boston, Gent. - 96 O 



"Whichcoat, Edward, of Bishop's Nor- 

 ton, Esq., with 50/. per annum 



settled - - - - 513 0." 



There are also a few discrepancies in the 

 amounts of the compositions, but none of any im- 

 portance. 



Roger Adams, the publisher of the edition of 

 the Catalogue printed at Chester in 1733, says, in 

 the preliminary address to his subscribers, that — • 



" The Catalogue was printed five years before the 

 miserable scene of oppression (by sequestration) closed. 

 To supply the defects of it, I apply'd many ways, first 

 to Goldsmith's Hall, where I was told the latter seques- 

 trations were generally imposed ; but the haste my 

 friend was in, and some discouragements he met with, 

 rendered this application unsuccessful." 



The error which W. H. L. suspects in Oldfield's 

 list, may probably be corrected by application at 

 Goldsmith's Hall. P. T. 



I was aware of the work, A Catalogue, Sj-c, 

 ■which contains also the error alluded to at p. 406. 

 Will H. F. be so obliging- as to say from what 

 materials that work was compiled, and how the 

 whole business of the compositions was managed ? 

 Some part of it was carried on at Goldsmith's 

 Hall. Evelyn probably alludes to the composi- 

 tions at p. 311. of vol. i. of his Diary, edition of 

 1850. AV. H. L. 



i^tJaCClLtncottS. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



When we consider how many indications arc still 

 discoverable, by those who know how to look for them, 

 of the influence which the incursions of the Danes 

 and Northmen into Britaia have exercised upon our 

 language, customs, and social and political condition ; 

 and that even tlie most cursory glance at the map of 

 these islands will show in so many local names indis- 

 putable evidence of Danish occupation — evidence which 

 is amply confirmed by many of our archaisms or pro- 

 vincialisms, our popular customs and observances, — 

 ■when these things are considered, it is obvious that a 

 work which should give us the result of these incur- 

 sions, if written by a competent hand, must prove of 

 great and general interest. Just such a book has been 

 issued by Mr. Murray, under the title of An. Account of 

 the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and 

 Ireland, by J. J. A. Worsaae. All who had the plea- 

 .sure of making Mr. Worsaae's acquaintance when he 

 visited this country in 184S-47, were aware that he 

 possessed two qualifications essentially necessary for 

 the proper execution of the task which he had under- 

 taken. For his archaeological acquirements were made 

 patent (even to those who were unable to study his 



various antiquarian publications in Danish and Ger- 

 man) by the English version of his Frinueval Anti- 

 quities of Denmark ; while his thorough mastery over 

 our language was such as to enable him to pursue his 

 researches into the period of our country's history 

 which he proposed to illustrate, without the slightest 

 let or hindrance. With a theme, then, wiiich may be 

 considered as novel as it is interesting (for it is the 

 first attempt to view the subject from the Danish side), 

 and with such abilities to do it justice, it is no won- 

 der that Mr. Worsaae has produced a work which will, 

 we are sure, be found to possess the double merit of not 

 only gratifying the antiquary, but also of interesting, 

 instructing, and amusing the general reader. 



To form a complete Encyclopaedia of Classical Anti- 

 quity, it was necessary that to the Dictionaries of Greek 

 and Roman Antiquities, and of Greek and Roman Bio- 

 graphy and Mythology, sliould be added a Dictionary 

 of Greek and Roman Geography. That want is in the 

 course of being supplied. The first Quarterly Part of 

 such a Dictionary, called, for the sake of uniformity, 

 "of Greek and Roman Geography," but including even 

 Scriptural names, and so being in reality a Dictionary 

 of Ancient Geography, edited by Dr. Smith, written by 

 the principal contributors to the former works, and 

 illustrated by numerous woodcuts, has just been issued. 

 It equals its predecessors in its claims to the support 

 of all students and lovers of classical learning; and 

 we know no higher praise. 



We learn from The Athenceum that Mr. George 

 Stephens, the translator of Tegner's beautiful epic 

 Frithiof's Saga, and whose intimate acquaintance with 

 the early literature of Sweden has been shown by 

 the collection of legends of that country which he has 

 edited in conjunction with Hylten-Cavallius, and by 

 the various works superintended by him for the Svenska 

 Fornskrift - Sahkapet, a sort of Stockholm Camden 

 Society, has removed to Copenhagen in consequence of 

 his having been appointed Professor of the English 

 Language and Literature in the University there. 

 The subject of his first course of lectures — to be de- 

 livered in the present month — is, Chaucer's Canter- 

 bury Tales. After this we shall be quite prepared to 

 hear of a Danish translation of this masterpiece of the 

 Father of English Poetry, as a companion to the re- 

 cently published Swedish translation of Shakspeare. 



Books Received. — The Rhymed Chronicle of Edward 

 Manlove concerning the Liberties and Customs of the Lead 

 Mines within the Wapentake of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, 

 &c., edited by Thomas Tapping, Esq. This little 

 tract (which with its valuable Glossary, List of Cases, 

 &c., occupies but forty pages) is an extremely curious 

 book ; and the manner in which it has been edited re- 

 flects great credit upon Mr. Tapping. — Neander's 

 General History of the Christian Religion and Church, 

 vol. vi., forms the new volume of Bohn's Standard 

 Library. The same indefatigable publisher has issued, 

 as the new volume of his Classical Library, The Odes 

 of Pindar, literally translated into English Prose, by 

 Dawson W. Turner, M.A, ; and, as if this was not 

 sufficient, he has added the Metrical Version by the late 

 Abraham Moore — a translation which he pronounces, 

 and with great justice, to be distinguished for " poetry, 

 scholarship, and taste." 



