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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 119. 



Churchill the Poet (Vol. v., p. 74.).— If Churchill 

 was, as C. R. states, " already imprudently mar- 

 ried," how could he be elij^ible to a scholarship in 

 Trinity ? I believe, in Churchill's days, a West- 

 minster scholar was entitled, as of course, to a 

 Fellowship in Trinity. Married men, as under- 

 graduates, are, I suspect, of recent date in the 

 universities, even as Fellow Commoners or Pen- 

 sioners. J- H- L. 



Hieroglyphics of Vagrants and Criminals (Vol.v., 

 p. 79.). — Consult Mayhew's London Labour and 

 London Poor for an elucidation of these signs. 



Cranmoee. 



Paring the Nails (Vol. iii., p. 462.). — The fol- 

 lowing Rabbinical quotation on the subject of 

 paring the nails, is certainly curious as bearing on 

 the superstitions connected with the nails : 



" Ungues comburit sanctus ; Justus sepellt eos ; 

 impius vero spargit in publicum, ut maleficae iis abu- 

 tantur." — Nidda, 17. 1. 



W. Feaser. 



iHticenaneouS. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Murray's Official Handbook of Church and State, 

 containing the Names, Duties, and Powers of the priri' 

 cipal Civil, Military, Judicial, and Ecclesiastical Autho- 

 rities of the United Kingdom and Colonies ,- with Lists of 

 the Members of the Legislature, Peers, Baronets, §-0., is, 

 as to its objects, sufficiently described by its ample 

 title-page. An examination of its pages will show the 

 oreat amount of information illustrative of the rise, 

 nature, and peculiar duties of the numerous branches 

 of the executive government of this vast empire, which 

 the editor justly claiins the credit of having sought 

 for from various sources, and now for the first time 

 gathered together. It must soon, therefore, find its 

 way on to the desks of all men in office — not indeed as 

 superseding the old Red Books and Official Calendars 

 but as an indispensable companion to them. 



When speaking of the translation of Hue's Travels 

 in Tartar}/, Thibet, and China, which we noticed some 

 few weeks since, we gave our readers the best possible 

 evidence of the value of the work. That Messrs. 

 Longman have done wisely in including a condensed 

 translation of these interesting Recollections of a Journey 

 through Tartary, Thibet, and China, from the practised 

 pen of Mrs. Percy Sinnett, in their Traveller's Library, 

 we cannot therefore doubt ; and we shall be much 

 surprised if the book does not prove to be one of the 

 most popular in the admirable series of which it forms 

 the 14th and 15th Parts. 



By way of answering the inquiry of a correspondent, 

 and for the purpose of forwarding the very admirable 

 and important objects of The Chronological Institute, we 

 have procured a copy of the prospectus which has been 

 circulated by its projectors, and have inserted it in full 

 in our advertising columns. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTSD TO rURCHASE. 



Fielding's Works. 14 Vols. 1808. Vol. XT. [Being 2nd of 



Amelia]. 

 Shadwell. Vols. 11. and IV. 1720. 

 Archbishop Leightom. Vol. IV. 1819. 

 Baronetage. Vol. I. 1720. 



Ditto. Vols. I. and II. 1727. 



Chamberlayne's Pharonnida. (Reprint.) Vols. I. and II. 1820. 

 Holcroft's Lavater. Vol. I. 1789. 

 Encvclop.edia Britannica. Vol. I. Third edition, published 



in 1794, Edinburgh, for A. Bell. 

 Drechslerus de Larvis. Lipsiae, 1G74. 

 Gibbon's Decline anb Fall. Vol. II. Dublin. Luko White. 



1789. 

 Elsley on the Gospel and Acts. London. 1833. Vol. I. 

 Spenser's Works. Pickering's edition, 1839. Sm. 8vo. Vol.V. 

 Wharton's Angua Sacra. Fol. Vol. 11. 



Aristophanes, Bekker. (5 Vols, edit.) Vol.11. London, 1829. 

 Lydoate's Boke op Troye. 4to. 155.'j. (Any fragment.) 

 Coleridge's Table Talk. Vol. I. Murray. 18.35. 

 The Barbers (a poem), by W. Hutton. 8vo. 1793. (Original 



edition, not the fac-simile.) 

 The Doctrine and Practice op the Church of Rome truly 



Represented, by Edw, Stillingtleet, Bishop of Worcester, edited 



by William Cunningham, Min. Edinburgh. 

 A Catechism truly Representing the IDoctrives and Prac- 

 tices OF the Church of Rome, with an Answer to them, by 



John Williams, M.A. 

 Dodd's Certamen utriusque Ecclesle ; or a List of all the 



Eminent Writers, Catholics and Protestants, since the Refor- 

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 The Sale Catalogue of J. T. Brockett's Library of British and 



Foreign History, &c. 1823. 

 Dodd's Apology for the Church History of England. 1742. 



I2mo. 

 Specimens for Amendments for Dodd's Church History, 



1741. 12mo. 

 Journal op the Geological Society of Dublin. Vol. I. Part I. 



(Several Copies are wanting, and it is believed that many are 



lying in London or Dublin.) 

 Ch. Thillon (de Halle) Noovelle Collection des Apo- 



CRYPHE3. Leipsic, 1832. 

 Theobald's Shakspeark Restored, etc. 4to. 172G. 

 A Sermon preached at Fulham in 1810 by the Rev. John Owen 



of Paglesham, on the death of Mrs. Prowse, Wicken Park, 



Northamptonshire (Hatchard). 

 FussLEiN, Joh. CoNinn, Beytrage zur Erlauterung deb 



Kirchen-Reformations-geschichte des Schweitzbrlandes^ 



5 Vols. Zurich, 1741. 

 Verus Christianus, or Directions for Private Devotions, 



&c., with Appendix, by David Stokes. Oxford, 1668. 

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~S. K. (North Wilts). Lord Stair not the executioner of 

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