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edition, corrected and enlarged. 8vo. London, 

 ]788. 



1. "A Caveat for Common Cursetors, vulgarly 

 called Vagabones ; set forth by Thomas Harman, 

 Esquier, for the Utilitie and Proffyt of hys Naturall 

 Countrye. Newly Augmented and Imprinted, Anno 

 Domini m.u.lxvii." 



2. " The Bellman of London, bringing to light the 

 most notorious villanies that are now practised in the 

 Kingdom. Profitable for gentlemen, lawyers, mer- 

 chants, citizens, farmers, masters of households, and all 

 sorts of servants, to marke and delightfuU for men to 

 reade. Lege, Perlege, Relege. 1608." 



3. " English Villanies, seven severall times prest to 

 death by the printers ; but (still reviving againe) are 

 now the eighth time (as the first) discovered by Ian- 



thorne and candle light. Et cet London, 



1638." 



4. " The Canting Academy; or Villanies discovered: 

 Wherein are shown the Mysterious and Villanous 

 Practices of that Wicked Crew, commonly known by 

 the Names of Hectors, Trapanners, Gilts, et cet., 

 with several new Catches and Songs ; also a Compleat 

 Canting Dictionary both of Old Words and such as 

 are now most in Use : a Book very useful and neces- 

 sary (to be known but not practised) for all People. 

 The Second Edition : London. N. B. — The dedica- 

 tion is signed R. Head." 



5. " Hell upon Earth ; or the most pleasant and 

 delectable History of Whittington's Colledge, other- 

 wise (vulgarly) called Newgate. Giving an Account 

 of the Humours of those Collegians who are strictly 

 examined at the Old Bailey, and take their Highest 

 Degrees near Hyde Park Corner. ..... London, 



1703." 



6. « The Scoundrel's Dictionary, 1754." 



Cranmobe. 



Modern Greek Names of Places (Vol. iv., pp.470. ; 

 Vol. v., p. 14.). — With the utmost deference to so 

 high im authority, on such a subject, as Sir 

 Emerson Tennent, I must deny that Cos, Athens, 

 or Constantinople have been called by the Greeks, 

 Stanco, Satines, or Stamboul. 



These corruptions have been made by Turks, 

 Venetians, and Englishmen ; and in speaking to 

 barbarians the Greek uses barbarous terms to make 

 himself intelligible; but in speaking to another 

 Greek, and in writing, Athens is Athens, Cos is Cos, 

 and Constantinople is if v6kic. 



Very few corruptions of names of places have 

 taken place amongst the Greeks ; while every 

 island, peak, and every headland in the JEgean 

 cries out against Venetian barbarism. 



Patraj is Patras in the mouths of Englishmen, 

 and Patrasso with Italians : the Greeks call it 

 Tlarpat, and generally write it Ua\atcu Tlarpat. 



Corcyra has lost her name, but has received a 

 correct G^eek name, Ol K6pv(f>oi — the peaks — 

 whether of the citadel or of Mount San Salvador. 

 This has become Corfu. Ithaca has lost her name, 

 and is now Theaki. 



A Greek does not know what place you mean. 



I should be obliged if any correspondent 

 can tell me whether Paxo is mentioned by any 

 classical author. It has a plural termination : 

 Ol no|ot fis TOvs Tla^ovs. L. H. J. T. 



Basherville the Printer (Vol. iv., pp. 40. 123. 

 2n.). — For several years past I have had by me 

 a little memorandum in the handwriting of a 

 friend. It states that Baskerville was once fore- 

 man to a stonemason, during which time he bad 

 cut some lines upon the tombstone of a poor idiot, 

 who was burled in Edgbaston churchyard. The 

 lines are these : 



" If th' Innocent are favourites of Heaven, 

 And little is required where little's given, 

 My great Creator has for me in store 

 Eternal Bliss ; what wise man would have more ? " 



A few days since (Jan. 26), being at Birming- 

 ham, I visited Edgbaston churchyard, and on 

 making inquiry for the above-mentioned tomb- 

 stone, was grieved to learn (from one who resem- 

 bled the sexton) that nothing had been heard of it 

 since the year 1816. It seems that, with many 

 other tombstones, it had been maliciously broken 

 and destroyed in the said year, and that though a 

 reward had been offered for the detection of the 

 criminals, they had never been discovered. Is all 

 this true ? or have I given the epitaph correctly ? 

 If not, it is more my misfortune than my fault, for 

 I am as accurate on the matter as I have the power 

 of being at present. B,t. 



Warmington. 



Story of Ginevra (Vol. v., p. 129.). — Your 

 correspondent i^° F. is informed that Harwell 

 Old Hall, formerly the residence of the Seymour, 

 and afterwards of the Dacre family, situate be- 

 tween Winchester and Bishops Waltham, is con- 

 nected by tradition with the story of Ginevra; 

 and the compiler of the Post Office Directory of 

 Hampshire (1848) states, that '•'the chest, said to 

 be the identical one, is now the property of the Rev. 

 J. Haygarih, Rector of Upham" a village in the 

 immediate locality, "anrf may be seen in liis en- 

 trance hall." H. Edwaeds. 



Gospal Oahs (Vol. il., p. 407. ; Vol. v., p. 157.). 

 — Buriensis complains that " the inquiry of 

 Stephen has not elicited one answer, nor one 

 additional note of other trees designated as Gospel 

 Oaks." I conjecture that the cause of this silence 

 is, that the oaks so called have long since perished. 

 In this neighbourhood there are two iron-works 

 situated near the boundary of the parishes of 

 Tipton and Wednesbury, which are called re- 

 spectively Gospel Oak Works and Wednesbury 

 Oak Works. The tradition respecting the name 

 of Gospel Oak is, that it was so called in conse- 

 quence of it having been the practice in ancient 

 times to read under a tree which grew there, a 



