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[2nd s. NO 34., Aug. 23. '56. 



Arnold of Westminster (2°'' S. ii. 110.^ — Among 

 the names of churchwardens of St. Margaret's, 

 Westminster, occur those of — 



1644-7. Michael Arnold. 



1665-8. Michael Arnold. 



1675-6. Nehemiah Arnold. 



1693. Tanner Arnold. 



There are monuments of some of the family in 

 the church ; and the parish registers would no 

 doubt supply ample information. 



William Arnold died Aug. 23, 1734, aged 

 twenty-five. Arms : gules, a chevron, ermine, 

 between 3 pheons, or. 



Mary, wife of John Arnold, daughter of John 

 and Mary Harvey, died Sept. 29, 1701, aged 

 twenty-one. 1. As above. 2. Gules, on a bend 

 arg., 3 trefoils slipped, vert. : or a canton or, a 

 leopard's head of the first. 



Dr. Samuel Arnold, author of the Maid of the 

 Mill, died in Duke Street, Oct. 22, 1802. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



In the Report of Lord Stafford's trial, I find 

 Mr. Arnold a member of the House of Commons, 

 "standing up in his place" to testify to the good 

 character of Edward Tubberville, one of the Plot 

 witnesses. He seems, however, to have been a 

 country gentleman, and an active man against the 

 Papists. A. B. R. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Mr. Sims has just published a volume which promises 

 to be of considerable utility to all who are engaged in in- 

 vestigations of an antiquarian, historical, or genealogical 

 nature. Its ample title-page describes its object. It is 

 entitled A Manual for the Genealogist, Topographer, An- 

 tiquary, and Legal Professor, consisting of Descriptions of 

 Public Records, Parochial arid other Registers, Wills, 

 County and Family Histories, Heraldic Collections in Public 

 Libraries, ^c. The work is evidentl}' the result of much 

 well-directed labour, and is calculated to facilitate very 

 considerably the researches of all persons who may be 

 compelled by circumstances, or induced by a love of ge- 

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 examination of the early monuments of our national 

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 archaeological speculations, will find in Mr. Sims's newly 

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 his Handbook to the Library of the British Museum, we 

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 whose desire it must be to facilitate the use of the Museum 

 library, would avail themselves of the first opportunity of 

 marking their approval of Mr. Sims's attempt to promote 

 so important an object. We are sorry to find that we 

 may now repeat that expression of our hope. For we 

 understand — notwithstanding that fitness for promotion 

 which his published works show him to be in possession 

 of— Mr. Sims is still left in the very junior position in that 

 Institution which he has occupied for so many years. 

 Mr. Sims deserves better treatment at the hands of those 

 who are responsible for the administration of the British 

 Museum. 



Ferny Combes ; a Ramble after Ferns in the Glens and 

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