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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 164. 



be assumed, has made " proper inquiries," why has 

 he not given your readers the benefit of it. The 

 common authorities say that Churchill died at 

 Boulogne; his friends, Wilkes and Cotes, who 

 were with him when he died — and Cotes, I think, 

 was one of his executors — have recorded the fact, 

 directly and incidentally, at least twenty times. 

 (See Wilkes' notes on Churchill.) Tooke, in the 

 Life of Churchill (vol. i. p. Iv.), says Churchill 

 expressed a wish to return to England, ^' which his 

 friends imprudently indulged ; but his removal 

 from a warm bed, preparatory to his undertaking 

 the voyage^ terminated his life." I could refer to 

 twenty cotemporary authorities ; but until B. G. 

 has given one for his doubt, I do not think it right 

 to encumber your pages with them. C. D. 



Imperfections in Books (Vol. vi., p. 457.). — 

 With regard to supplying imperfections by means 

 of MS. copies, a Mr. Harris, well known to the 

 London booksellers, and to many literary men 

 both in town and country, executes such copies 

 in a style that cannot be excelled. His address, 

 I believe, is known at the British Museum. 



J. M. 



Friday at Sea (Vol. v., p. 200.). — The follow- 

 ing is rather a singular confirmation of the super- 

 stition of sailors respecting this day. A cousin of 

 mine is officer in the Melbourne Royal Mail 

 steamer, of whose unfortunate disasters the public 

 are fully acquainted. He writes me from Lisbon, 

 saying : 



" I joined the ship on a Friday ; I procured my 

 register ticket on Friday ; I received my appointment 

 on Friday ; the ship left London on Friday ; and she 

 eventually sailed from Plymouth on Friday." 



It is singular also, that on leaving Plymouth he 

 should, mention his apprehensions at again starting 

 on this apparently ill-omened day, and that his 

 fears should be so soon realised. Frederic. 



Bishop Juxotis Account of vendible Books in 

 England (Yo\.\i., p. 515.). — Is your correspon- 

 dent correct in attributing this valuable little 

 catalogue to Bishop Juxon ? The book, to which 

 I presume he alludes, is that entered in the follow- 

 ing manner in Lowndes : 



" London, William. A Catalogue of the most 

 vendible Books in England, orderly and alphabetically 

 digested. With a Supplement : London, 1658-60, 4to." 



Accounts of this work may be found In Dr. 

 Dibdin's Bibliomania, edit. 1842, p. 301. ; and in 

 the same author's edition of More's Utopia, vol. 11. 

 p. 284. See also the Athenceum, vol. ii. p. 601., 

 where there Is an excellent analysis of its contents. 



Dr. Dibdin tells us (Utopia, vol. ii. p. 284.) that, 

 *' as the pages of this book are not numbered, it 

 will be necessary for the purchaser to see that it 

 lias an ' Epistle Dedicatory,' and an ' Epistle to 



the Reader,' which precede the ' Introduction.' " 

 Of the latter he says : " Such an excellent treatise 

 has never since accompanied any booksellers 

 catalogue." Edward F. Rimbault. 



" Thirty Days hath September," Sec (Vol. v., 

 p. 292.; Vol. vi., p. 448.). — The following lines on 

 the calendar, occurring In Liber Precum Publi- 

 carum, Sfc, London, 12mo. : Thomas VautroUerlus, 

 1574, may be new to some of your readers : 



" De quibus (Festa Immobilia) in genere hi versus, 

 quamuis inconditi, non tamen inutiles vulgo clrcum- 

 feruntur : 

 ' Sex sunt ad Purl, bis sex sunt vsque Philippi. 



Ad Jacobura totidem, nonem sunt ad Michaelem. 



Sex ad Martini, sex ad Natalia Christi, 



Adde dies octo, totus complebitur annus.' " 



Arthur Paget. 



Lease for Ninety-nine Years (Vol. vl, p. 509.). 

 — At one time leases were granted for 999 years, 

 because It was the popular idea that a lease for a 

 1000 years would be a freehold. It afterwards 

 became the custom to grant a lease for life, but to 

 save the fines, which became due in that case, 

 leases were granted for 99 years, as that was 

 thought a term which would exceed a man's life. 

 The adoption of 99 years was no doubt a memento 

 of the old style of 999. Russell Gole. 



American Loyalists (Vol. vi., p. 44.). — From 

 the work named by Mr. Westcott, from Burke's 

 Peerage and Landed Gentry, and from private 

 knowledge, I do not find so melancholy a result as 

 he would hold out to those who put their trust m 

 princes. Besides the many who became of emi- 

 nence In New Brunswick, there are several whose 

 families have prospered in the mother-country. 

 Mr. Sabine would have made his work more 

 perfect by referring to Burke : one name, Taylor 

 (Judge) of New Jersey, he has no notice of. ^ ^ 



It "would appear probable from Mr. Sabine s 

 work, that but lew who were gentlemen by edu- 

 cation, descent, and position, became Whigs, and 

 those reluctantly ; the many were probably such 

 as would now be called democrats, and not the 

 Whigs of 1852. The great age of many of the 

 loyalists is remarkable ; several lived to 100 and 

 over. ■^' ^* 



The Three Estates of the Realm (Vol. v., 

 p. 539.). — The following extract from the leader 

 of the Morning Chronicle of November 13, on the 

 proceedings in Convocation, will illustrate the 

 position I have before advanced in "N. &Q.,' 

 that Convocation Is " an Estate of the Realm." 



«' The same prelate (the Bishop of Exeter) observed 

 that the assembly of the clergy was twofold in its 

 character: first, as an Estate of the Realm, meeting the^ 

 other Estates in Parliament ; and, secondly, as a synod ot 

 all the clergy, obeying the archbishop's writ to meet m 

 consultation on church affairs." 



W. Frasek. 



