2nd s, N" 4i., Oct. 11. '56.] 



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impossible to be cured, they order'd him to be shot upon 

 the place. 



"After the Race was ended, His Majesty [Charles II.] 

 •went to see a great match of Cock-fighting ; Her Majesty 

 went to take the air as far as the Coney-Warren, and 

 their Royal Highnesses went to take the air upon the 

 Heath. 



" After which, there was a great Bull-baiting in the 

 Town, whither a great number of Countrey-people re- 

 sorted, to play their Dogs, which gave great satisfaction 

 to all the Spectators. 



« About 3 of the clock in the afternoon there was a 

 Foot-Race between two Cripples, each having a wooden 

 Leg. They started fair, and hobbl'd a good pace, which 

 caused great admiration and laughter amongst the be- 

 holders ; but the tallest of the two won by two or three 

 yards." — The Loyal Protestant, No. 274, Tuesday, March 

 20, 168§. 



fX.. 



Warton's " History of English Poetry" — The 

 writer of an article in the Quarterly lleview 

 (xxiii. p. 153.) notices " a ludicrous mistake of 

 Warton's," Hist, of Eng. Poetry^ vol. i. p. 350. (in 

 edit. 1824, vol. ii. p. 185.) : 



" The story of Arthur," he says, " was also reduced into 

 modern Greek, M. Crusius relates that his friends, who 

 studied at Padua, sent him, in the year 1564, together 

 with Homer's Iliad, ' AtSaxal Regis Arthur!.' The words 

 in Crusius are ' AiSaxal Rarthuri.' The homilies of this 

 writer are well known to the modern Greeks." 



While we smile at the original lapsus of Warton, 

 we must regret that, after having been thus pointed 

 out in 1820, it should not have been corrected by 

 his editor in 1824. ' Y. B. N. J. 



Decline of Typography. — Mr. Rich, the late 

 bookseller and agent for the library of the Capitol, 

 Washington, U.S., told me that there exist books 

 printed in Spain about- the time of Charles V., in 

 a place of which now (another Old Sarum) but 

 a few huts remain standing. Lissa, Leszna, also, 

 in Poland, where books have been printed up to 

 1640 or thereabouts, is at present mostly inha- 

 bited by trading Jewish families. In Czechia, also, 

 during the middle ages printing offices existed in 

 places where none are now in existence. These 

 will be a few addenda to a history of typography, 

 if a good one is to be written. 



J. LoTSKT, Panslave. 



15. Gower Street. 



Loyalty in the Parish of St. Pancras. — 



" On Saturday last there was in Pankridge Churchyard 

 a great congregation met, and a parson with them that 

 did read the booke of common Prayer and all the parts 

 thereof (according to that rubrick) appointed for the day, 

 and praj-ed for the late Q. of England and her children 

 thus : That God would blesse the Queen, wife to the late 

 King of England, Charles the first, her dread Lord and So- 

 veraigne husband, and to restore the royall issue to their just 

 rights, or wordes to that purpose." 



Extracted from the small quarto newspapers, 

 Munday, June 18, to Munday, June 25, 1649. 



Cl. Hoppeb. 



Conflagration of Books, ^c. — Amongst the 

 most dire losses to Slavian (Czechian) history and 

 literature is the complete burning down of the 

 Landtafel (land-table) at Prague in 1541. It con- 

 tained the archives of the country relating to 

 state, religious, and all public aflfairs, at that 

 period of the country's history when liberty and 

 people were yet of some consequence, and when 

 Czechian language and literature had reached the 

 highest degree of perfection. Since the year 1488 

 one, and subsequently two, printing presses had 

 existed in Prague, many of which incunabula also 

 perished in the fire. J. Lotskt, Panslave. 



15. Gower Street. 



Initials and Finals. — Your correspondent, (2"** 

 S. ii. 277.) who seems desirous to accumulate all 

 English words terminating in " -il," suggests to me 

 the inquiry. If there be in the English language 

 any compilation of all ■^vords according to their 

 initial and final syllables ? The French have a 

 work of that description for their tongue, which I 

 have found extremely convenient, and besides has 

 many tables ; and a collection also of most, and 

 those the principal, difficulties of that language. 

 The title-page of the work very copiously details 

 all its contents, which I must abridge, and simply 

 give you enough to distinguish It : 



" Dictionnaire des Dictionnaires, par L. F. Darbois, 

 2i^me edition, Paris, Rue d'Enghien, No. 35. 1830. Royal 

 8vo., pp. 380." 



To exemplify how M. Darbois treats your cor- 

 respondent's Inquiry, at p. 158. he gives '■^finales" 

 " il" " son dur, que Ton pron. He" twenty-four 

 French words. And p. 159., " i7, son i, finales" 

 eighteen French -v^ords. *• 



Richmond, Surrey. 



" The Advoydyng of Capitaines." — The follow- 

 ing, I think, is not unworthy of being republished, 

 at the present time. In the pages of " N. & Q." 

 In the official copy, from which I have correctly 

 transcribed It, it is entitled, A Proclamacion for 

 the advoydyng of Capitaines out of the Citee of 

 London ; and is dated July 20, in the .fourth year 

 of the reign of King Edward VI. 



Henry Kensington. 



" The kynges most royall maiestie, by the aduise of 

 his priuie counsaill, straiglitly chargeth and commaundeth, 

 all maner Capitaines, Officers of bandes and Souldiours, 

 aswell Englishe as straungers, of what nacion soeuer thei 

 be, whiche are not presently entertayned, in his highnes 

 wages, and haue been paied for their seruice, by the 

 Threasurers thereunto appoynted, accordyng to their capi- 

 tulacions, vntill the dale of their cassyng and dismission : 

 that thei, and euery of theim, faile not to depart, and 

 auoyde from this Citee of London, the Suburbes, and the 

 members of the same, within three daies after this present 

 Proclamacion published, upon pain that if any of the 

 aforsaied Capitaines, Officers of bandes, or souldiours, be 

 found after that daie to remain, or lodge, within the saied 

 citie, Suburbes, or membres of the same, contrary to the 



