Jan. 31. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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for leave to prefix his name to the work, and it was 

 purposely so prefixed as to leave the reader in doubt 

 whetlier he or his father was the person designed." 



The American edition of the German Conversa- 

 tions-Lexicon, at vol. iii. p. 190. makes the same 

 statement, bnt without giving any authority. The 

 name of Robert Shiells, a Scotchman, is here given 

 as the author of the Lives of the Poets. P. T. 



Shakspere and the English Press (Vol. iv., 

 p. 344.). — The Second part of Henry the Sixt, 

 ascribed to Shakspere by Heminge and Condell, 

 is founded on a play entitled The first part of the 

 contention betwixt the two famous houses of Yorke 

 and Lancaster, which was first printed anony- 

 mously in 1594. It was reprinted anonymously 

 in 1600 ; and, as the work of Shakspere, about 

 1619. The amended play first appeared In the 

 folio of 1623. The passage in which Jack Cade 

 reproaches lord Say with having promoted educa- 

 tion, stands thus in the editions of 1594 and 1623 : 



" Thou hast most traitorously erected a grammer 

 schoole, to infect the youth of the realme, and against 

 the kings crowne and dignitie, thou hast built vp a 

 paper-mill."— 1594. (J. O. H.) 



" Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth 

 of the realm in erecting a grammar-school : and 

 whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but 

 the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be 

 used ; and, contrary to the king, his crown, and dig- 

 nity, thou hast built a paper-mill." — 1623. (J. P. C.) 



Fabian gives no information on the charges 

 made against lord Say ; nor do the subsequent 

 chroniclers. The received text contains two un- 

 doubted anachronisms — to what extent, it would 

 require a volume to decide. On comparing the 

 extracts, It appears that we must ascribe the 

 anachronism on paper-making to the earlier dra- 

 matist, and that on printing to William Shakspere 

 — who also borrowed the allusion to the sco7-e and 

 the tally from a former speech in the work of his 

 unknown precursor. 



Malone, when he edited The plays and poems of 

 William Shakspere, undertook to distinguish by 

 inverted commas the lines of this play which the 

 poet "retouched and greatly Improved," and by 

 asterisks, those which were " his own original pro- 

 duction." The design was commendable, but in 

 the execution of it he committed numerous over- 

 siofhts. Bolton Corney. 



is a very good one, as far as it goes, and has the advan- 

 tage over its predecessors of not only giving us the 

 name of the author of each passage quoted, but also its 

 precise place in his works. 



Shall we Register our Deeds 9 answered hy Sir Edward 

 Sugden. This clever pamphlet proposes an important 

 Query, and replies to it thus : " Let us therefore to 

 the question proposed. Shall we register our deeds? 

 answer with one voice, No ! " 



If the study of Natural History be one whicli may 

 with advantage be introduced into the family circle 

 (and who can doubt it?) we know no better medium 

 than the clever and well-conducted little weekly paper 

 which has just been commenced under the title of 

 Kidd's London Journal, of which the first five numbers 

 are before us. 



Mr. Tymms, the active and zealous Secretary of the 

 Bury and West Suffolk Archceologiad Instittde, and 

 Editor of the volume of Bury Wills, printed by the 

 Camden Society, is about to publish a Handbook of 

 Bury, on the plan of Cunningham's Handbook of Lon- 

 don, and would be glad to receive any notes upon the 

 subject : more especially with respect to its remarkable 

 inhabitants. 



We have to call the attention of our readers interested 

 in the history of our Constitution and Constitutional 

 Law to a preliminary Essay on the History of the 

 Law of Habeas Corpus recently published by Dr. Mar- 

 quardsen, under the title Ueher Haft und Biirgsc/iaft 

 bet den Angelsachsen. It is but a small pamphlet, but 

 will repay the time spent in its perusal. This mention 

 of the Anglo-Saxon polity reminds us, that the Second 

 Part of The Jubilee Edition of the Complete Works of 

 King Alfred has been issued, and, in addition to a con- 

 tinuation of the Harmony of the Chronicles, contains a 

 Sketch of the Anglo-Saxon Mint, and a Description of 

 all the Coins of King Alfred now remaining. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Book of Familiar Quotations ; being a Collection 

 of Popular Extracts and Aphorisms selected from the 

 Works of the best Authors, is a little volume of such 

 extracts from Shakspeare, Pope, and others of our 

 greatest poets as most frequently fall on the ear in con- 

 versation, or meet the eye in the columns of the press 

 and periodicals of the country. The present selection 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO rURCHASE. 



Fielding's Works. 14 Vols. 1808. Vol. XI. [Being 2nd oi 



Amelia]. 

 SiiADWELL. Vols. II. and IV. 1720. 

 Ahchbishop Leighton. Vol. IV. 1819. 

 Bakonetage. Vol. I. 1720. 



Ditto. Vols. I. and II. 1727. 



Chamberlayne's Pharonnida. (Keprint.) Vols. Land II. 1820. 

 Evans' Olii Ballads. Vol. III. 1781. 

 Holcroft's Lavater. Vol. I. 1789. 

 Encyclop.f.dia Britannica. Vol. I. Third edition, published 



in 1794, Edinburgh, for A. Bell. 

 Drechslerus de Larvis. Lipsiae, 1G74. 

 Gibbon's Decline and Fall. Vol. II. Dublin. Luko V.'hltc. 



1789. 

 Elsley ok thb Gospkl and Acts. London. 1833. Vol. I. 

 Spenser's Works. Pickering's ediiioa, 1839. Sra. 8vo. Vol.V. 

 Wharton's Anglia Sacra. Fol. Vol. II. 



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

 Lydgate's Boke OP Troye. 4to. 155.5. (Any fmgment.) 

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

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



edition, not the fac-simile.) 

 The Doctrine and Practice op the Church of Rome truly 



Represented, by Edw. Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester, edited 



by William Cunningham, Min. Edinburgh. 

 A Catechism truly Representing the Doctrines and Prac- 

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



John Williams, M.A. 

 Dodd's Certamen utriusque Ecclesij5 ; or a List of all the 



Eminent Writers, Catholics and Protestants, since the Refor- 



mation. 1724. 



