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[2«d s. No 110., Feb. 6. '58. 



formed corporation, or rather town commissioners, 

 of the borough of New Eoss, co. Wexford, decreed 

 the destruction of two of the ancient gateways of 

 that town, which were accordingly demolished. 

 After the " Three Bullet" gate was entirely re- 

 moved, the sapient commissioners fixed to the wall 

 of an adjoining building a board, thereon an in- 

 scription, commencing thus : " This is the West 

 wall of the Three Bullet Gate of New Ross which 

 teas taken down by order of the Town Commis- 

 sioners on," &c. Unfortunately, when I read this, 

 though startled by the novelty of looking at a 

 wall which was not there, I did not take a copy of 

 the whole. I believe it still remains, but defaced. 



Y. S. M. 



Iron Chair ly Ruker (2"i S. v. 32.)— The mag- 

 nificent iron chair made by Thomas Ruker in 

 1574, and presented by the City of Augsburg to 

 the Emperor Rudolph II., is now at Longford 

 Castle, Wilts. 



After being long in the possession of a Swedish 

 nobleman, it was brought, in the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, to England, by Gustavus Brander, who sold 

 it to the father of the present Lord Radnor. 



A description of this fine work of art will be 

 found in the 3rd vol. of Dr. Waagen's Art and 

 Artists. J. E. N. 



Surname " Deadman" (2°« S. iv. 178.) — The 

 explanation of Totman is not unlikely. On look- 

 ing over Old field and Dysons' History and Antiqui- 

 ties of Tottenham High Cross, 1790, I find the 

 name in the ancient records cited spelt thus : 

 Toteham, Totynham, Totenham, Totnam, Totin- 

 bame, Thotehenham, and Tottenham : and I know 

 the name is frequently pronounced, and even 

 written, precisely as Bbamble has spelt it, i. e. 

 Totman. Y. S. M. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



It is a long time since there was given to the world 

 two more handsome volumes — two volumes more in- 

 structive to the antiquary, or more valuable to historical 

 Students, than the two which have just been issued under 

 the title of Memoirs chiefly illustrative of the History and 

 Antiquities of Northumberland, communicated to the Annual 

 Meeting of the Archaiological Institute of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, held at Newcastle-on-Tyne in August, 1852. 

 The Miscellaneous Articles which form the first volume 

 consist of Papers on the Advantages derived from Archaa- 

 ological Investigation; on the State of Newcastle and 

 Gateshead during the Saxon Period ; on the Trade of 

 Newcastle previous to Henry III. ; Durham before the 

 Conquest ; on the Limes Khajticus and Limes Transrhe- 

 nanus of the Koman Empire ; the Excavations at Bre- 

 menium; the Archicology of the Coal Trade; Durham 

 Cathedral ; and Brinkburn Priory, — the whole properly 

 illustrated by the necessary Maps, &c. The second volume 

 is exclusively from the pen of that sound Antiquary the 

 Jlev, C. H. HartsUome, and ia devoted to the Feudal and 



Military Antiquities of Northumberland and the Scottish 

 Borders, illustrated by the Baronial Histories of Alnwick, 

 Prudhoe, and Wark, — the whole being the result of per- 

 sonal surveys, with an extensive search amongst such 

 unprinted sources of information as were most likely to 

 cast light upon the subject. The liberality of the Duke 

 of Northumberland has, we believe, greatly contributed 

 to enable the Archaeological Institute to produce these 

 handsome and most creditable volumes. 



While on the subject of Local History, we must call 

 attention to the Analysis of the Domesday Book of the 

 County of Norfolk, by the Rev. George Mumford, Vicar 

 of East Winch, which is a most praiseworthy endeavour 

 to supply, as far as Norfolk is concerned, what Mr. Hunter 

 well describes as a great desideratum, namely, not a trans- 

 lation of the Domesday Book, whiclr would be scarcely 

 more intelligible than the original, but an epitome or 

 analysis of the contents of this great national work. The 

 author has done this for Norfolk with great care and at- 

 tention, and we shall hope to see ere long the Domesday 

 Eecord of other Counties analysed, illustrated, and ex- 

 plained in the same useful manner. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PCKCHASB. 



Sib Bogeh Aschah's Enolisb Works a.no Life. By Dr. Johnson. 



8vo. White. 

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Eclectic Bevikw. December, 1850. 



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Imperfect Prymerin English. Grafton. 1M5. Neither beginning nor 

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We have to apologise to many correspondents for the omission of in- 

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 ruthers paper on Milton, Sev. Mr. Boys, Difficulties of Chaucer, Eiri- 

 onnach on the Origin of the Word Superstition, Bev. L. B. Larking, 

 Letter from Fnlgentius on the State of Religion in England ; the Raw- 

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«! The Law or Libel. We shall probably give next week the first of 

 several articles on the important pamphlets published in 1764, advocating 

 the doctrine, eventually declared by Act of Parliament, " that in questions 

 of libel, juries are judges of law as wellas of fact," with some specula- 

 tion as to the authorship. 



T. B.,L. W., A. C. M. are thanked, buthave been anticipated. 



G. K. (Brighton) is thanked. He teill see that he has been anticipated. 



B. SoANEs. If our correspmident refers to our past volume, pp. 1. 21. 

 i\.he will see that Wilkes was nut the author of the work in question. 

 The article now sent would therefore only mislead, 



3. D. All right. 



T. N. B. The entry in the Congleton records clearly refers to" the burn- 

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M. E. Berry. W. B., the translator of Orteliiis's Theatre of the 

 Whole Vf orld. is no doubt William Blaeu, the publisher of Geographical 

 Maps ami Charts, 



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