2»4 S. VIIL July 30. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



99 



the " 3 score and 3 lb." of tin, which were added 

 by the founder, in recasting the Eltham bell, to 

 the original " 9 hundred and a half ? " 



The prices specified would accord with this 

 view : " 8d. the lb. " for the tin, an indigenous 

 production, and "25. 6d. the pound" for the tincal 

 imported from abroad. 



With the phrase " ten and tenglars," cf. Beau- 

 mont and Fletcher, as cited by Richardson : — 



" Here is such a tinkle tankl'mgs that we can no're be 

 quiet." „ 



Thomas Boys. 



John St. Lowe (2°* S. viii. 46.) — John St. Lowe 

 was of Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1654-5. 

 C. H. & Thompson Cooper. 

 Cambridge. 



The Pretender (2'^^ S. viii. 51.) — Your corre- 

 spondent C. D. E. will find the subject of the al- 

 leged substitution of a son . of Sir Theophilus 

 Oglethorpe as a son of James II. (the first Pre- 

 tender), entered into at considerable length in 

 Manning's Surrey, under the article of West- 

 BBOOK. Heney T. Riley. 



Inedited Letter (2'"» S. viii. 67.) — It is evident 

 from the date that this letter was not written by 

 Bishop Patrick, who died in 1707. Sunday was 

 the 18th of May in 1679 ; Tuesday in 1779. 



Joseph Rix. 



John Huit (2"* S. viii. 46.) — His fellow sufierer 



was Sir Henry, not Sir Charles Slingsby. Sir 



Henry Slingsby was admitted a fellow-commoner 



of Queen's College, Cambridge, 11 Jan. 1618-19. 



C. H. & Thompson Coopee. 



Cambridge. 



NOTES ON books, ETC. 



A History of the City of Dublin. By J. T. Gilbert, 

 Member of the Committee of Antiquities of Boyal Irish 

 Academy, and Hon. Sec. Irish Archceological and Celtic 

 Society. Vol. III. (M^Glashaa & Gill.) 



This third volume of a work which is doing for Dublin 

 what Pennant did for London, but doing it even more 

 fully and more admirably, exhibits the same character- 

 istics of patient research and useful illustration which 

 made Mr. Gilbert's preceding volumes so interesting and 

 valuable. Those who have seen these volumes, and 

 know how well Mr. Gilbert contrives to mi8gle pleasant 

 anecdote and historical information, will readily believe 

 that as, in his third volume, he has to treat, inter alia, of 

 the College of Physicians, College Green, the Statue of 

 William the Third, Chichester House, the Parliament 

 House, the Old Exchequer, the Royal Irish Academy, 

 Leinster House, &c., it will not be found deficient in 

 those points of excellence which have already won for the 

 author the reputation of a most successful local historian, 

 — and will, with us, rejoice to hear that the fourth 

 volume is already at press. When completed, Mr. Gil- 

 bert must give us an Index to the whole work worthy of 

 it and himself. 



A Handbook for Travellers in Devon and Cornwall, 

 Fourth Edition, Revised, with Maps. (Murraj'.) 



If Mr. Murray's charity in providing intending travel- 

 lers with useful and intelligent guides did not begin at 

 home ; now that it is extended to home it is found to be 

 so doubly blest that we have here before us the fourth edi- 

 tion of one of his home handbooks ; and if, as is possible, 

 the state of the Continent may tend.to keep many roving 

 Englishmen during the present season within our own 

 sea-girt island, who can doubt that this new edition of 

 an admirable Guide to the counties of Devon and Corn- 

 wall will find a ready welcome among them ? 



llie Memorials of the Hamlet of Knigktsbridge, with 

 Notices of its immediate Neighbourhood. By the late Henry 

 George Davis. Edited by Charles Davis. (J. Eussell 

 Smith.) 



Neither in town, nor out of town, the hamlet of Knights- 

 bridge exhibits to a certain extent the characteristics and 

 interesting features of both; and we can believe that the 

 collecting the materials for this pleasant little volume 

 may have gone far to soothe the painful life of its author — 

 a gentleman to whom the readers of " N. & Q." have 

 been indebted for many valuable pieces of information — 

 who died on the 30th Dec. 1857, not having completed 

 his 28th 3'ear. The book is one of interest, not only to 

 those who dwell within the district, but to manj' others, 

 from its curious and copious extracts from the Registers 

 of Knightsbridge Chapel. 



Things not generally Known, familiarly Ex-plained. A 

 Book for Old and Voting. Second Series. By John 

 Timbs, F.S.A. (Kent & Co.) 



We are afraid we have left Mr. Timbs's pleasant little 

 Handbook of Things not generally "Known too long un- 

 noticed : but the fault is not ours. He writes such 

 pleasant books that thej' are spirited away from our 

 reading desk before we ourselves can get a glance at 

 them. Tlie present volume, which is devoted to Old 

 English Planners, Ceremonies, and Customs, and to many 

 other pleasant things besides, is another evidence of Mr. 

 Timbs's extraordinary talent in appreciating what will 

 please a multitude of readers. Here is something to 

 gratify all tastes, from the learned antiquary to the mere 

 lover of pleasant gossip. 



A Dictionary of Modern Cant, Slang, and Vulgar 

 Words, used at the Present Day in the Streets of London, 

 Sfc., preceded by a History of Cant and Vulgar Language 

 from the Time of Henry VIIL, showing its Connexion with 

 the Gipsey Tongue; uxith Glossaries of Two Secret Lan- . 

 guages spoken by the Wandering Tribes of London, the 

 Costermongers and the Batterers. By a London Antiquary. 

 (Hotten.) 



The " London Antiquary " has certainly taken up a 

 verj'' curious and interesting branch of linguistic research. 

 He has given us in his reprint of the " First Canting Dic- 

 tionary," " the Bibliography of Cant and Slang," and 

 " the Vagabond's Map," some valuable materials ; but he 

 has still much to do to make his book bear a fair propor- 

 tion to its title-page. We should, judging from the st3'le 

 of the original information to.be found in its pages, pro- 

 nounce the author to be rather a man about town, than a 

 bookish pedant, — and to make a complete history of 

 Slang requires a combination of the two. 



Jahrbuch fur Romanische und Eriglische Literatur unter 

 besonderer Mitwirkung von F. Wolf. Herausgegeben von 

 Dr. Adolf Ebert. 1'' B* Heft ii. und iii. (Berlin, Dumm- 

 ler). 



We cannot better show how well this journal, lately 

 started at Berlin ibr the illustration of the Romance and 

 English Literatures and Languages, deserves the attention 



