NOTES AND QUERIES: 



A MEDIUM OP IKTER-CCMMUNICATION 



FOR 



LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. 



•• vnien found, make a note of." — Caftaik Cuttle. 



No. 162.] 



Saturday, December 4. 1852. 



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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — 



On Bibliographical Competition, by Bolton Corney 

 The Kev. C. Daubuz and his Commentary on the Re- 

 velations, by the Rev. Thomas Corser 

 The Vale of Normandy, by W. J. Heslcdon 

 Plagiarisms of Medallists, by John J. A. Boase - 

 Minor Notes: — Francis Gastrell. Bishop of Chester — 

 Coin of Claudius current — " No nice extreme a true 

 Italian knows," &c — The Stipends of Scotch Clergy 

 in 1750— Too many Attorneys — Wives of Kcclesias- 

 tics — Relics of Judge Jeftreys — Superstition on the 

 Death of great Men ..... 



Queries : — 



Henry Waldegrave -..--- 

 George Steevens ..-.-- 

 Legitimation by Grant of Land . . - - 



Minor Queries : — Heraldic Queries—" The Wealth of 

 this World "— Wake Family — "All beautiful and 

 kind" — Falahall — Lord Huntingdon — The Folger 

 Family — Maiulies, Manillas — Bibliography of Hamp- 

 shire — " Man cannot build" — Tenure by Drongage — 

 Martial Law — Coleridge's Additions to " Aids to Re- 

 flection " — Meaning of Lyde— CuUery Tenure — " Per 

 viam expedientiaa " — James Pai»et or Pagett— Colonel 



Sykes's Catalogue, &c Privileges of the Degree of 



B. C. L. — Inscription at Dewsbury — Pepys's Book- 

 plates ....--- 



Minor Queries Answered :— MonkWearmoiith Monas. 

 tery — Law against Blasphemy — Gahvay, "the City 

 of the Tribes" — Lack-a-daisy - . - - 



Replies : — 



Notes on the Raspberry Plants from Seed found in the 



Stomach of an Ancient Briton, by J. Mcintosh 

 " The Whole Duty of Man " . - . . 



Waller Family, by the Rev. Lambert B. Larking 

 Shakspeare a Calvinist . - - . . 



Irish Rhymes ...... 



The Sin-eater, by Alexander Leeper, &c. 

 Photographic Correspondence . . . - 



Replies to Minor Queries :_ Judge JeflVeys —Clapper 



— Twitten — Kyrle's Tankard at Balliol — Ancient 

 Watch — "In Noir.ine Domini" — Georgia Olfice — 

 Americanisms — Door-head Inscriptions — Eagle sup- 

 ;iorting Lecterns— Louis Napoleon — Medal He Queries 



— Portraits of Ladv Jane Grey — Jewish Lineaments 



— Gurnall — " The 'Good Old Cause " • 



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MiSCELlANEOUS : — 



Notes on Books, &c. 

 Books and Odd Volumes wanted - 

 Notices to Correspondents 

 Advertisements ... 



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 . 545 



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Vol. VL — No. 162. 



ON BIBLIOGRAPHICAL COMPETITION. 



When I transmitted for insertion, in the early 

 part of last year, some extracts on catalogues of 

 books, apprehensive of occupying too much space, 

 I scarcely did justice to the subject, and therefore 

 reproduce them with additions — the object much 

 as before. 



It appears from the revised statutes of the 

 British Museum, a copy of which I had the good 

 fortune to obtain from the library of the late Mr. 

 Konig, that the standing committee is required to 

 "receive any scheme or proposal for the better 

 ordering or managing the Museum, or any part 

 of it" 



Encouraged by such assurance, it was my wish 

 to submit to them a proposal that specimens of 

 an alphabetical catalogue of printed books should 

 be requested by public advertisement ; the com- 

 mittee undertaking to pay the expense of paper 

 and printing, and holding forth a suitable scale of 

 rewards, as is customary on similar occasions. 



There is no whetstone of wit that can be com- 

 pared with public competition — as was proved in 

 the memorable year 1851. Why not make the 

 experiment as to bibliography ? We could not 

 have a worse catalogue than that of Mr. Panizzi : 

 we should surely have some specimens far superior 

 to it ; and if no one specimen should merit adop- 

 tion in all its details, each might furnish its quota 

 of valuable hints. The cost of such an experiment 

 would be a mere trifle compared with that of the 

 classed catalogue, which was many years in pro- 

 gress, or that of the model catalogue, which makes 

 no progress ; and the very act would be accepted 

 by the literary public as a proof that the members 

 of the standing committee were sensible of the 

 responsibility which attaches to the honourable 

 office, and not quite so credulous as those of the 

 former open committee with regard to the quali- 

 fications of the keeper of the department of printed 

 books. 



In the event of this proposal being adopted, 

 it would be desirable to stipulate, with a view to 

 comparison, that all the specimens should be in 

 alphabetical order. It would also be desirable to 



