Feb. 7. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Old Books and New Titles. — Permit me to say 

 that it is in the power of your London corre- 

 spondents to do a real service to your country 

 readers, and at the same time serve the cause 

 of honest bibliopoly, by pointing out in the pages 

 of " N. & Q." current mstances of what I beg 

 leave to call the fraudulent advertisement of pub- 

 lished books under a new title, or one so altered as 

 to produce the impression of novelty in the mind 

 of a reader like myself. For example, being an 

 admirer of Sam Slick's works — and who is not ? — 

 I purchased, on its first ai)pearance, his English 

 in America ; and seeing lately advertised, as a new 

 work. Ride and Misrule of the English in America, 

 by the same autlior, I obtained it, and found it 

 the identical work before named, the title-page 

 alone being altered ! I mention another instance. 

 I perceive an advertisement of the Letters of Gray 

 the Poet, published from the original MSS. in two 

 volumes, by the Rev. J. MItford. Now, I should 

 like to know whether this is, as It Is called, really 

 a " new work," or merely a part, or at most a 

 revival, of Mitford's Letters, Sfc. of Gray, pub- 

 lished In 4 vols., 1836. J. H. 



Eugene Aram. — Until the year 1834, when con- 

 siderable reforms took place in the Court of Ex- 

 cliecpier with respect to sheriffs' accounts, a pro- 

 cess called "the Summons of the Pipe" issued Into 

 each county, charging the sherllFwith the levy of 

 divers old rents. In that of Yorkshire I noticed 

 the following entry, which I communicated to Mr. 

 Scatcherd. I am not aware that It has ever been 

 published. By Inserting It you will relieve me 

 irom the necessity of preserving my " note." 



" Of the same Sheriff for the issues of waste building 

 in Knaresbrough. in the said county, in tlie tenure of 

 Daniel Clarke, of the yearly value of iin£i and one 

 undivided moiety or fifth part of the whole, to be 

 divided into five equal parts of and in a certain farm 

 called Moat House farm, situate at Wickersley in the 

 said County, which consists \liere followed parti cidars], 

 in the occupation of Samuel Chipchase, of the yearly 

 value of xxi£/ of the lands and tenements of Daniel 

 Clarke, aforesaid, shoemaker, outlawed at the suit of 

 Philip Coates, gentleman, in a plea of trespass on the 

 case viii£j in' and vi^xxxviii^i v* arrears." 



" Philip Coates," says Mr. Scatcherd {Gleanings, 

 p. 26.), " attorney-at-law, a very respectable man, 

 married Clarke's wife's sister." It is singular that 

 a murdered man should be outlawed after death, 

 and that he should continue to haunt the Exche- 

 quer for near a century afterwards. It is a com- 

 plete confirmation of the statement that Clarke 

 was supposed to have absconded, and that no sus- 

 picion of foul play arose at the time of his disap- 

 pearance. W. G. 



Inscription at Hardwicke Hall. — The following 

 inscrii)tion, from a banquetlng-room In Hardwicke 

 Hall, Derbyshire, may be worthy of a place by 



the side of those quoted by Procurator (Vol. v., 

 p. 8.): 



" Sanguine, cornu, corde, oculo, pede, cervus et aure 

 Nobilis, at claro sanguine nobilior," 



H. T. 



Outvies. 



JUNIUS QUERIES. 



Junius Rumours. — Some months since there 

 was a story whispered in certain circles, or rather 

 two stories, which, when taken together, went to 

 show that this great mystery of modern times was 

 on the eve of solution. The first stated that the 

 Grenville Papers, about to be published by Murray, 

 would prove the Identity of Junius with the cor- 

 respondent of Woodfall under one of the signa- 

 tures Atticus or Bi'utus, whose letters had been 

 already, and, as It would thereby appear, very 

 properly, attributed to Junius himself. The second 

 rumour was to the effect that an eminent book- 

 seller, whose attention had been drawn to the 

 Junius question by the circumstance of his having 

 recently published an edition of the letters, &c., 

 on being called In to estimate the value of certain 

 historical papers for some legal purposes, was 

 startled by discovering. In the course of his ex- 

 amination of them, who this Atticus or Brutus 

 was — and, consequently, who Junius himself 

 was. On the announcement of an article on 

 Junius in the Quai'terhj Review, those who had 

 heard these stories expected to find In the article 

 in question the solution of what has been called 

 the " great political enigma of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury." As this hope has not been realised, may 

 I ask, through the medium of " N. & Q.," whether 

 there Is any foundation tor the rumours I have 

 referred to ; and, if so, how much of truth there 

 is in both or either of them. Such Information 

 will be acceptable to every one of your readers 

 who Is not satisfied with any of the tiiirty-ninb 

 theories on tlie subject which have been already 

 propounded, and who is therefore like myself still a 



Junius Querist. 



" To Commit" in the Sense used by Junius. — On 

 looking Into Walker's Dictionary, a short time 

 since, I found the following remai'k, which seems 

 to have escaped every inquirer Into the authorship 

 of the letters of Junius : — 



" To Commit. — This word was first used in Junius's 

 letters in a sense unknown to our former English 

 writers, namely, to expose, to venture, to hazard ; this 

 sense is borrowed from the French, and has been 

 generally adopted by subsequent writers." 



Can any of your readers produce an Instance of 

 the use of this word in the sense here applied to 

 it, prior to the appearance of Junius? Such a 

 parallel would carry more weight with It than the 

 countless examples of verbal singularities with 



