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at something that happen'd at the Races last year. 

 Daring these Races, lay at the Boar in Woodstock, where 

 upon this Occasion Plays were acted by ^i'^ Butcher & 

 Company. 



" Sept. 18. Went to the Races at Bicester (12 miles 

 from Oxford). This is but a small Town, sealed plea- 

 santly enough, with a fair Spatious Church; a good 

 Market on Friday. This Place is also call'd Burcester, 

 perhaps, as much as to saj', Birini Castrum, implying it 

 to be a Frontier Garrison of y« West Sxaons ag: the 

 Mercians, rais'd out of the Ruins of Alchester, by y" ad- 

 vice & aid of Birinus, Bp. of Dorchester. This is a Town 

 of very antient Name, & Camden remarks y* Gilbert 

 Bassett, & Egeline de Courtney his wife, in y« reign of 

 Henry II., built here a Monastery in honour of S' Ed- 

 burg, & y» y Barons Le Strange of Kno(5king were Lords 

 lately of this Place. D'' Gibson says y' y« Monastery 

 just nam'd was dedicated to S' Mary & S' Edburg ; y« 

 memory of y« Latter I find is now preserved in a Well 

 call'd S. Edburg's Well, as also in a Green Foot Path 

 leading to It, call'd Tadbury Walk, corrupted for the 



Edbury Way Walk First Day. L^ Tracey's 



Mare Wliymsey run against M"^ Proby's Blach Chymney 

 Sweeper, & won the Plate, of considerable Value. This 

 day's Sport was fine. 19th. Mr Hawe's Horse won the 

 Galloway Plate. 20»h. A Mare of Co' Montague's won 

 by Accident ; for J°o Yate's beautiful fleet Mare, who run 

 against her (& v/'^ have had it all to nothing, bar Acci- 

 dents), met with one, her leg breaking as she was on full 

 Stretch. 21". Squirrell, a. Horse of Sir Ed. Obrian's, run 

 ag: Staghunter, a Horse of Lord Vise* Hillisborough, & a 

 Horse of M"" Glynne's, & won the £15 given by the D. of 

 Wharton, who at night gave a Ball & a very handsome 

 Entertainment in the Long Room here. Butcher's Com- 

 pany acted Plays here during the Races. N.B. The Top 

 Company here were Philip Wharton, D. of Wharton, 

 Trevor Hill, L^ Vise' Hillisborough of the Kingdom of 

 Ireland, S'' Rob* Walter, S-^'Thos. Wheat, & S' Edward 

 Obrian, Bar"», Earl of Litchfield, M' Cook of Norfolk, M' 

 Tufton, Lady Litchfield, Viscountess Hillisborough, M' 

 Cook's Lady, M' Tufton's Lady, Lady Tyrrell, & her 



Daughters, Lady Bab Lee, &c I lay at the Swan, 



where was Martha of the Cocao-Tree in London. Re- 

 turn'd to Oxford y^^^ My Cook, a Londoner, & very Inge- 

 nious Gentleman. 



" 24. Treated Pembroke College in the Common Room. 

 " Oct. 1. Took up my Caution Money (£10) from the 

 Bursur, & lodg'd it w*'' D'' Panting, the Master, for the use 

 of Pembroke College. 



" Ditto. I left the University, and set out in Haine's 

 Coach for London, where arrived at Night, & went into 

 Bartlett's Buildings."* 



I have made the foregoing extracts from the 

 Diary of Sir Erasmus Philipps, by the kind per- 

 mission of the owner of the MSS., the Eev. J. II. 

 A. Philipps of Picton Castle. 



John Pavin Phuxips. 

 : Haverfordwest. 



HILL FORMATION AT IDLE. 

 It is reported that a perceptible upheaving 

 of the earth's crust has taken place within the 

 past thirty years in a field situated at a short 

 distance from the point where the Leeds and 

 Liverpool canal is crossed by the Midland Com- 

 pany's Railway at Idle, near Bradford, and that 



* The town residence of Sir John Phillips. 



the hill thus formed is gradually attaining a 

 greater elevation. Various speculations have 

 been indulged in as to the cause of this change 

 in the earth's surface, the favourite theory in 

 the neighbourhood being, I am informed, that 

 it is attributable to the upward pressure of 

 water in the bowels of the earth. It is averred 

 that although now a considerable mound exists - 

 there, the spot in question was, within the re- 

 collection of persons still living, perfectly level. 

 It may serve some useful purpose to place this 

 statement on record in " N. & Q.," with a view to 

 the fact of any farther development of this protu- 

 berance on the earth's surface being noted and 

 made public. It is not impossible that such an 

 effect may be the result of internal volcanic action 

 taking place at a great depth, although I believe, 

 from the geological formation of the district, it is 

 not very probable. It would also be very satis- 

 factory if some of your local readers would mi- 

 nutely investigate the antecedent circumstanceg 

 attending this phenomenon, and ascertain accu- 

 rately the height of the ancient level, and of the 

 elevation at the present time, in order that com- 

 parisons may be hereafter made, for the purpose 

 of determining whether any future development 

 take place or not. Particulars of any similar 

 changes in the earth's surface that may have been 

 observed elsewhere might throw some light on 

 this, supposing the alleged alteration to have 

 actually occurred. T. Lampbat. 



FRENCH TESTAMENT OF 1662. 

 Perceiving a correspondence between Dr^ Cot- 

 ton and others in some of the late numbers of 

 " N. & Q." relative to a French translation of the 

 New Testament In which the Mass and Purgatory 

 are found, I beg to say that I have just picked 

 up a very curious edition, 12mo., entitled : — 



" Le Nouueau Testament, &c. De la Traduction des 

 Docteurs de Louuain. Reueue et CorrigeS si exactement 

 qu'elle est au vray une Traduction Nouuelle, &c. &c. &c. 

 A Paris, m.dc.lxii." 



There is a very neat vignette on the title-page, 

 containing heads of the Saviour and Virgin ; the 

 leaf following contains the approbation ; the first 

 dated 1646, has the following: "par M. F. V." 

 (perhaps intended for M. Francis Veron.) There 

 is a new pagination, and a second title to the ^ 

 Epistles, which are by another printer, and dated 

 M.DC.Lxi., followed by " Abrege des Voyages et 

 de la Vie de Sainct Paul," and at the end are two 

 tables, the first, " des Epistres et Evangiles, &c.," 

 the second, " Table des Choses Principales, &c." 

 Acts xiii. 2. reads " Disans La Messe," capital 

 letters. I am aware the celebrated Bordeaux 

 edition reads, " offroient a Seigneur de la Sacri- 

 fice de la Messe." 



1 Cor. iii, 15. — "II sera sauue quat a lui, ainsi 



