2"* S. VIII. Oct. 15. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1859. 



No. 198. — CONTENTS. 



NOTES : — Book-Markers, by I^^jfessor De Morgan, 301 — Bishop Bedell, 



by Kcv. J. E. B. Mayor, 76 Heralds' Visitations, 303 — Jack or 



Newbury, 301 — Romance of the Sangraal, lb. 



Minor Notfs: — Nell Gwynn's Sister — Great Bells at Westminster 

 Palace — Old St. Paul's a PaYrng Quarry — Shadows — Bryden's Re- 

 cantation, 306. 



QUERIES : — Jacobite Manuscripts, by John Pavin Phillips, 307. 



Minor Qokriks: — Sir John Hart- "Sunt Monachi nequam" — The 

 First Marquis of Antrim — The Mysterious Cheque- bearer — Mr. 

 Willett, Purchaser of Orleans Pictures — Queenborough Castle, Isle 

 ofSheppey — The Mowbray Family— Texts — Fuller's Funeral Ser- 

 mon—Archbishop Laud — Seven Dates Vacant — Symbolical mean- 

 ing of a Cloven Foot — Dutch Tragedy, &c., 308. 



Minor Qcebies ■wiTa Answers: — Sir John Bankes in 1676 Mrs. B. 



Hoole, afterwards Hoiiand — E. H. Keating's Dramas — Seal Inscrip- 

 tion — Anna Liffey — The Termination " -sex," 311. 



REPLIES: —Lady Culros's Dreame, 311 — Boydell's Shakspeare Gal- 

 lery, 313 — Forged Assignats, by E. C. Robson, 314 — Author of the 

 Epistle to the Hebrews, by T. J. Buckton, 315. 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Eulenspiegel — Charles Bailly, Secretary 

 to Mary Queen of Scots — The Suffragan Bishop of Ipswich — Scotch 

 Genealogies : Jerningham Family — Carriage-boot — Cibber's Apolo- 

 gy — Chatterton Manuscripts — " The Royal Slave" — "Horn et 

 Rimcnhild I "Childe Home" — Faber v. Smith— John Baynes — 

 Etymology of the word Battens — Rustic Superstition, &c., 316. 



Notes on Books, &c. 



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BOOK-MARKERS. 



By a hookmarker I do not mean the baby paper- 

 knife which is sold in the shops to keep the place 

 in the intervals of actual perusal, but the little 

 rectangular slip of paper which is inserted be- 

 tween two leaves for more permanent use in re- 

 ference. Every person who requires them should 

 keep a stock by him, ready to hand. It is a great 

 mistake to suppose that markers will present 

 themselves pro re nata : the reader who does not 

 provide them beforehand will find that on many 

 occasions it is a harder job to lay hold of a dis- 

 posable bit of paper than he reckoned on. What 

 says the old proverb? — For want of a nail the 

 shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was 

 lost; for want of a horse the rider was overtaken 

 by the enemy — and cut down. And in like man- 

 ner, for want of a mark the place was lost ; for 

 want of the place the fact was lost ; for want of 

 the fact the author was overtaken by the reviewer 

 — and cut up. Therefore let no man who writes 

 think lightly of bookmarkers. 



A bookmarker will remain in a book for many 

 years. I have bought books with markers in 

 them which contained the dates of the letters 

 which were torn up to make them : 1 7 . . not very 

 uncommon, 16 . . not quite unknown. Those 

 who do not make notes will find it sound practice 

 to let their markers remain in their books : only 

 a small percentage will be lost under the treat- 

 ment which books usually receive. And an easy 

 adaptation will prevent the loss even of this per- 

 centage. 



The greatest danger of losing marks is when the 



book is open for use, and the leaves are turned. 

 Let the marker be made thus. The rectangular 

 slip is doubled into two, one half over the other : 

 and this process is repeated on one of the halves. 

 One half of the whole slip then forms the marker : 

 the other half forms a pair of legs which bestride 

 the top of the leaf. There will then be no ten- 

 dency to fall down when the book is laid open on 

 a reading desk. 



Some enterprising stationer should prepare 

 markers made in this way, at twopence or three- 

 pence a hundred, if not less. The whole sheet 

 should be turned twice in the manner directed 

 above, and many sheets, each so turned, subjected 

 to strong pressure in a bookbinder's press. This 

 is very essential, as any tendency of the legs to 

 open will give trouble. The markers should then 

 be cut to size by a bookbinder's tool ; so many 

 markers of course being cut off at once as there 

 are sheets in the lot which has been pressed. 



When the paper used is thin, the leaf in which 

 the marker is placed is more difficult to find : when 

 the paper is thick, the marker is more apt to drop 

 out. In the plan I propose, thin paper may be 

 used : for there are three folds at the place, two 

 on the page to be marked, and one on the page 

 before or after. And it is one advantage of the 

 folded markers that it can be settled by them 

 which page is referred to : the common plan only 

 indicates one of two pages. This is not a matter 

 of perfect indifference when the page is that of 

 Bayle or of the Biographia Britannica. 



There is one case in which a much better 

 marker than the one above can be contrived ; that 

 is, when the mark is to be made in a set of unbound 

 sheets, say the numbers of " N. & Q.," inserted 

 into one of the common portfolios. Let the rect- 

 angular slip be doubled sideways so as to present 

 a marker and what we may call a handle, joined at 

 a bevelled crease. The handle should then be in- 

 serted between the leaves at the back, the marker 

 acting as usual. It is next to impossible to keep 

 the common marker in its place among loose 

 leaves. This second kind of marker will be better 

 than the common one even for bound books ; the 

 handle being made short and thrown well into the 

 back of the leaf. 



Many persons make their markers by doubling 

 a slip of paper so as to halve the breadth : this is 

 the worst plan possible. A. Db Morgan. 



BISHOP BEDELL. 



(2°<* S. \n., passim.') 



The following notes are contained in a copy of 

 Burnet's Life of Bedell (Lond. 1692), now in the 

 British Museum (Class Mark 489. a. 15). 



On the fly leaf : — 



"Tho. Birch Febr. 22. 1752. Some of the MS. Be- 



