■2"^S. VIII. Aug. G. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



105 



be an account of "The Usuall manner of the Lord 

 High Chancello" his goeinge to Westm' the first 

 (lay of everye Terme, whither on Horse or in 

 Coach, and how Attended." I presume, from ex- 

 ternal and internal evidences, that the document 

 is genuine, and the writer an authority on the 

 subject. I send you some extracts from the 

 paper, on the chance that there is no printed ac- 

 count of the ceremony which^it describes. It 

 commences thus : — 



" His LordPP the first day of every Terme, about eight 

 of the Clocke ia the morning, is Attended att his owne 

 house by the Lord Cheife Justice, the M'' of the Rolles, 

 the Cheife Justice of the Comon Please and the Cheife 

 Baron of the Excheq'", together w*i> all the Judges, the 

 Attorney and SoUicitor Generall, w^^ the rest of the 

 Kinge and Queene's Councill and the Sarjeants at law, 

 and w"! all the Officers belongeinge to the High Court 

 of Chancerye, where they are treated vr^^ Biskett Wafers, 

 round Cakes, and Mackeroenes, and w*'' brewed and 

 burnt wyne served after this manner." 



The following extract will suffice to show what 

 manner this was : — 



" Thirdly, The brewed Wyne in a faire great Cupp 

 conteyninge a Galloon, brought in by the Usher of the 

 Great Chamber and p'sented to the Lord ChancellC, 

 whoe drinkes to the M"^ of the Rolles and Lord Cheife 

 Justice of the Common Please, and soe goes about to the 

 Judges and the rest of the Officers in[that roome." 



" Which Cerimonye Ended his LordPP sets forward for 

 Westm'" Hall in manner followeinge. If his LordPP goes 

 in a Coach, then the M"^ of the Rolles sitts in the Coach 

 by him, and the two Lord Cheife. Justices sitts at the 

 other End of the Coach, the Sarjt at Armes sitts alone in 

 one Boot, and the Seale Bearer alone in the other Boote. 

 The Lord Cheife Baron and the rest of the Judges, King's 

 Councills, and Sarj«» at Law, and Officers of the Chancery 

 followe in their Coaches, everyone in their order and de- 

 gree, to Westm"^ Hall doore, where his LordPP takes 

 Leave of the Lord Cheife Justice and the rest, and soe 

 passing by the Court of Common Please, there finds the 

 Sarj'* at Lawe placed before the Barr of that Court, 

 p'senting themselves to his LordPP according to theire 

 Seniority, his LordPP shakeing them by the hand as hee 

 passes alonge, w<=^ Ceremonye Ended his LordPP goes up 

 to the Chancery Court. But if his LordPP rides on horse- 

 backe Foure footmen goes by his LordPP, two of one side 

 of his LordPP' Horse and two of the other — hee rides 

 foremost alone w*'' a small wand in his hand, and his 

 Gent" of his horse walkes by his Stirrup — next his 

 LordPP rides the Lord Cheife Justice and the M' of the 

 Rolls, &c. &c. But before his LordPP there first walkes 

 the Sarj' at Armes, and the Seale Bearer, and first Gent. 

 Usher; before them his LordPP' Secretary and all the 

 rest of his retinewe in order, all bare. Next before them 

 walke the Officers of the Chancerj'e in their Orders and 

 degree, all coverd. Before all goe the Tipstaves of the 

 Court and the Constables, whoe cleare the way for his 

 LordPP passage through the Streetes to Westm"" Hall 

 doore, where his LordPP allyghtinge delivers his Wand to 

 his Gent" of the Horse, soe takes leave of the Lords 

 Cheife Justice as before, and receives the Sarj" at Law at 

 the Common Pleas Barr, and soe goes to the Chancerye." 



Is any, and what, part of this ancient ceremony 

 still observed ? H. 



SOLUTION OF A BIBIilOGBAPHICAL PUZZLE. 



" The First Catalogue of the most Vendible Books in 

 England, Orderly and Alphabetically digested, the like 

 Work never j'et performed bj' any. Varietas Deleetat. 

 London, 1658. 4to." 



Among the many difficulties which doubt has 

 originated, as regards old books and their real 

 authors, few have puzzled the English bibliogra- 

 pher more in affixing the " pal mam qui meruit 

 ferat" than the volume named above, which Dib- 

 dln, in the Bibliomania (edit. 1811, pp. 397-8.), 

 strongly recommends in the following terms : — 



" Whenever you can meet with the small volume, 

 purchase it, Lisardo, if it be only for the sake of reading 

 the spirited introduction to it. The Author was a Man, 

 whoever he may chance to be, of no mean intellectual 

 powers." 



See also his edition of More's Utopia (vol. ii. 

 pp. 260 — 264) ; The Athenceum, edited by Dr. J. 

 Aikin (1807, vol. ii. pp. 601-4.), and other notices 

 of this volume. 



Darling, in his recent Cyclopcedia Bibliogra- 

 phica (art. London, Wm.), therein supposing the 

 editor to have been a bookseller in Yorkshire, 

 says " the authorship has often been attributed to 

 Archbishop Juxon : the signature (William Lon- 

 don), at the end of the Dedication, having been 

 taken for his official signature, who was then (1658) 

 Bishop of London." In looking recently over some 

 old books, I came across a small but well-known 

 school-book (Hoole's), Ph'aseologia Anglo- Latina 

 in usum ScholcB Bristoliensis, 12mo. This volume 

 bears the imprint of " London, printed by E. Coles 

 for William London, bookseller, Newcastle, 1655. 

 It is in this direction, therefore, that information 

 must be sought relative to one of the first English 

 essay writers " on the use of books," and " upon 

 the value and benefits of learning and knowledge." 

 I trust that as the fingerpost Is now set up, that 

 the spirit of research among your friends will be 

 aroused to this " new northern worthy," and they 

 will shortly present you some interesting details 

 as to his circumstances, &c., though none is to be 

 found in the Rev. John Brand's History of Neic- 

 castle-upon-Tyne. N. T. 



[See «N. & Q." 1" S. vi. 515. 592. ; vii. 390.] 



M. SULLACOMBE, AND THE STREETS OE LONDON. 



The attention of Londoners is so forcibly and 

 painfully directed just now to the sanitary condi- 

 tion of the metropolis, that I have read with a 

 personal feeling of interest a curious MS. me- 

 morial or letter (which has recently come into my 

 possession), written by a Hollander to some un- 

 known English correspondent during the reign of 

 Charles II., on the subject of cleansing the streets 

 of London and Westminster. I submit some ex- 

 tracts from the letter, for the edification of your 



