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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2n4 s. No 89., Sept. 12. '67. 



Manuscript Sermons (2"^ S. iii. 466. ; iv. 78.) 

 -.- 1 have a MS. Sermon-Book exactly the same 

 length, breadth, and thickness as that described 

 by your correspondent A. It belonged to the 

 clergyman who was Incumbent of Islington in 

 October, 1770, and June, 1777, and is written in 

 a round clerklike hand, but full of contractions ; 

 it was evidently " of no use to any person except 

 the owner." I bought it here in 1844, at a 

 second-hand book shop in High Street. M. A. 



Pembroke College, Oxford. 



The Devil and Church-Building (2"" S. iv. 144.) 

 — An exactly similar tradition is preserved at 

 Godshill in the Isle of Wight, respecting the 

 building of the church there; but whether the 

 agency employed in removing tbe materials 

 nightly was good or evil, I do not remember 

 hearing. T. North. 



Leicester. 



Prig (2"^ S. iv. 184.) — There is a distinct and 

 peculiar meaning of this word, used as a verb, in 

 Scotland, as exemplified in the following anecdote 

 lately given in a North Bi-itish provincial news- 

 paper : Two men went into a haberdasher's shop 

 in a certain large town north of the Tweed, some- 

 what of a superior kind, when one said to the 

 other, " We maun prig here, Sandy ! " " Cer- 

 tainly not," said the tradesman, who had his eyes 

 about him ; " or I shall soon call in a policeman." 

 Reference to the Imperial Lexicon of the English 

 Language, published by Messrs. Fuilarton of Edin- 

 burgh, will explain the drift of the above, where 

 "prig" (y. J.) is defined, "to haggle about the 

 price of a commodity," a custom frequently com- 

 plained of by London shopkeepers, and attributed 

 to many of their female customers. N. L. T. 



Burst (2»* S. iii. 486.; iv. 116.)— This word 

 occurs at least nine times in our authorised ver- 

 sion of the Bible, besides twice in the Apocrypha. 



J. Eastwood. 



''■Knowledge is Power" (2"^ S. ii. 352.)— It has 

 been repeatedly stated in "N. & Q." and elsewhere 

 that this phrase is not in Bacon's works. On the 

 first page of the Novum Organon, however, occur 

 these words : — " Knowledge and human power 

 are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause 

 frustrates the effect." (Aphorism HI.) J. P. 



Collections of Prints (2"'> S. iv. 170.) — I would 

 advise N. J. A., in the first instance, to arrange 

 his collection of prints in Schools, and then ^ to 

 place them chronologically according to the period 

 at which the masters (i.e. the painters) flourished. 

 If the prints are of a character to be worthy of 

 entering on any expense he should have guard 

 books made of a thick and firm paper, into which 

 they could be attached by pasting the corners, 

 one or more on each page. This should be done 



with considerable care, and by a person accus- 

 tomed to such labour. The better way is to lay 

 the volumes on their side on shelves which shift 

 easily out, and having a door closing over the 

 front, as is often seen in coin cabinets. C, (1.) 



Purchase ^2"^ S. iv. 125.) — The word conquest 

 is h term still of marked use in the law of Scot- 

 land ; and it is applied to such heritable (real) 

 rights as a deceased party has acquired by pur- 

 chase, donation, or even exchange, in contradis- 

 tinction to those to which he has succeeded as'' 

 heir to his ancestor. M. L. 



Lincoln's Inn. 



Our readers, and more especially our Kentish readers, 

 will no doubt be glad to hear that the county of Kent, a 

 county second to none in the variety and extent of its 

 objects of antiquarian interest, has at length imitated its 

 neighbours — Sussex and Surrey — in the formation of a 

 Society for the illustration and preservation of its more 

 remarkable monuments. This Kentish Archceological So- 

 ciety, although but in the course of formation, already 

 numbers amongst its members the Earls of Abergavenny, 

 Amherst, Camden, and Darnley, Viscount Falmouth, 

 The Hon. Ralph Nevile, Sir Joseph Hawley, the four 

 members for the county, besides several local antiquaries 

 distinguished alike for their zeal and intelligence. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Shakspeare's Poems. Aldine Kdition. 

 Thomson's Ditto. ditto. 



Cburchili.'s Ditto. ditto. 



Pal.iiontooraphicai. Society's Publications. 



• »* Letters, statin" particulars and lowest •once, carriage free, to be 



sent to Messks. Bf.i.1. & DAi-oy, Publishers ot " WOTKS AND 



QUERIES," 180. Fleet Street. 



Particulars of Price, &c., of the following Book to be sent direct to 



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are given for that purpose : 



HlSTOBICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE AcCODNT OP BbiTISH InDIA. By Hugll 



Murray and others. 2nd Edition. Simpkin & Marshall. 1833. Vol. I. 



Wanted by E. Brunt, Pottery Mechanics' Institution, Hanley, 



Staffordshire. 



fiatiui to €aricei\)aiitsmti, 



M. R. J. A. appears to have overlooked the articles on the Harp in the 

 Arms of Ireland, in our 1st S. xii. 3i8. 350. 



0. G. The Chapter of Kings, with a slight variation, appeared in 1st 

 S. xi. 450. 



Q(;.«»UR. For notices of the armorial bearings of the Hdby family of 

 Bisham Abbey, see Ist S. vols, vii., viii., Ix. 



S. C. On the appointment of Canon residentiary of York, see 1st S. xi. 

 11. 72. 



J. BiRj>. " Chevy Chase," by Henrxi Bold, is declined, as it is already 

 printed in his Latine Songs, pp. 80—101. We have left the MS. at our 

 publishers, 



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