2nd s. No 110., Feb. G.'oS.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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machani dat' Judicibus super declaratione habcnda de 

 ilia extravagante Joliannina. Vas electionis, &c. At 

 Oxford are the following pieces in the college libraries : 

 Propositio contra Mendicantes : St. Marj' Magdalene, 

 xxxviii. 54. Opus super P. Lombardi Sententia : Oriel, 

 XV. 1. Summa contra Armenos: New College, xc. 126. 

 Eesponsio de Armenorum haeresi: Lincoln, xviii. 218. 

 Serinones de tempore et de Sanctis, et alia opuscula : New 

 College, xc. 2. Sermo habitus Avinoniaj, 1357 : Corpus 

 Christi, clxxxii. 53. Errores ex libris ejus: New Col- 

 lege, ccxc. 58. Ex defensione curatorem : King's Coll., 

 ccclxxx. 34. De paupertate Christi : Merton, cxiii. 143. 

 See Coxe's Catalogus Cod. MSS. Oxon.'} 



Lighting of Towns with Gas. — At a recent 

 meeting in the town of Longford, which is now 

 lighted with gas, Mr. AVilliam Daniel, of Dublin, 

 is reported to have mentioned the following cir- 

 cumstances of interest : 



" In 1802 Golden Lane, in London, was lighted as an 

 experiment, that being the first street lighted with gas in 

 the world. Gas was introduced into Dublin in 1818, but 

 the city was not generally lighted until 1825. In the 

 -year 1825 his late father undertook the first and largest 

 contract given in Ireland, viz. the erection of all the lamp 

 posts, brackets, lanterns, and gas pipes for the city of 

 Dublin. In the same year, Edinburgh and several large 

 towns in England were lighted with gas ; the Continent 

 followed immediately after, and now it had spread all 

 over the world. In London alone the gas piping was not 

 less than two thousand miles, and in the United King- 

 dom the capital expended in the formation of gas com- 

 panies amounted to 26,000,000/,, the average dividend 

 paid on that capital being 6| per cent. In some instances 

 gas companies paid as much as 15 per cent." 



These particulars deserve, I think, a corner in 

 "N. & Q.," and may be the means^^of drawing forth 

 some useful information. Abhba. 



[It was in 1807 that Alderman Wood attempted to 

 light with gas the Golden Lane brewery, and a part of 

 Beech Street and Whitecross Street. Mr. Murdoch of 

 Soho, near Birmingham, we believe, has the merit of 

 being the person who first applied gas to the usual pur- 

 poses of artificial lighting. Even as early as 1792 it was 

 used in his house and offices at Redruth in Cornwall. 

 But the illumination of his Soho works at the Peace 

 which took place in the spring of 1802, was the first 

 splendid public exhibition. In 1803, Mr. Winsor pub- 

 licly exhibited his plan of illumination by coal-gas at the 

 Lj'ceum theatre in London. Afterwards Mr. Winsor re- 

 moved his exhibition to Pall Mall, where, early in 1807, 

 he lighted up a part of one side of the street, which was 

 the first instance of ibis kind of light being applied to 

 such a purpose in London. See Matthews's Historical 

 Sketch of Gas- Lighting, 1827.] 



White Family. — Dr. John White, of Eccles in 

 Lancashire, and afterwards of Saxham in Suffolk, 

 author of The Way of the True Church. He had 

 a brother Francis, Dean of Carlisle, author of 

 Tlie Way of the True Church Defended, 1624. 

 Any information as to the family history of the 

 above will be thankfully received by 



A. Holt White. 



[Both John and Francis White were born at St. Neot's 

 in Huntingdonshire, of which place their father, Peter 

 White, was vicar. Fuller (^Worthies, co. Hunts.) gives 



St. Neot's as their birth-place, on the authority of their 

 nephew, Mr. White, a druggist, of Lombard Street ; but 

 the Admission-Book of Caius College, Cambridge, says of 

 Eaton. In the very imperfect and inaccurate pedigree of 

 White, in Thoresby's Leeds, p. 257., edit. 1715, Francis is 

 made the son of Hugh White, Esq. Hugh White was 

 probabl}' the uncle instead of the father. In 1622, Francis 

 White was promoted to the Deanery of Carlisle, and in 

 1625 was appointed Senior Dean of Sion College. In 

 1626, soon after the publication of his learned controversy 

 with Fisher the Jesuit, he was advanced to the Bishopric 

 of Carlisle; translated to Norwich in 1628; to Ely in 

 1631. He died in Feb. 1637-8. John White, his brother, 

 was vicar of Eccles in Lancashire, and chaplain in ordi- 

 nary to King James I. He died in 1615 in great poverty, 

 leaving seven children, John, Christiana, Fleetwood, Ed- 

 ward, Richard, Francis, and Peter. A portrait of John 

 White is prefixed to his IVorkes, folio, 1624, with the 

 following inscription : " Effigies doctissimi viri domini 

 lohanis White, S. Theol. Profess. ; " his arms, with the 

 motto " Si non hodie quando." Besides Fuller, consult 

 Wood's Athena (Bliss), iii. 238.; but especially Gorham's 

 Hist, and Antiquities of Eynesbury and St. Neo€s, vol. i. 

 pp. 216—226.] 



Catalogues of Private Libraries. — Has there 

 been any good form of a Catalogue for a private 

 library published? such as would answer for a 

 collection of about eleven hundred volumes or so ; 

 in fact, a small but gradually increasing library. 



M. R. I. A. 



[About two or three years since Letts of Cornhill pub- 

 lished such a Catalogue as our correspondent requires. It 

 is printed in large and small octavo, and was noticed in 

 "N. & Q." at the time of its publication.] 



Old Plays. — Can you inform me whether the 

 list of plays appended to the old play of Tom 

 Tyler and his Wife, 1661, and professing to be 

 "a true, perfect, and e^ct catalogue of all the 

 Comedies, &c. that were ever yet printed and pub- 

 lished," may be regarded as correct, as far as the 

 authorship of the various pieces are concerned ? 

 and whether the fact of certain plays therein being 

 noted as by William Shakspeare carries any weight 

 with it ? G. H. K. 



[This is merely an augmented list to the one prefixed 

 to GofFe's tragi-comedy of The Careless Shepherdess by 

 the booksellers ■\Vho published that piece in 1656. Tom, 

 Tyler and his Wife is ascribed to William Wager ; and 

 the list of plays at the end to Francis Kirkman, the book- 

 seller. Its inaccuracies have no doubt been corrected in 

 Stephen Jones's edition of Baker's Siographia Dramatica, 

 2 vols. 1812.] 



'■'■ Milliner." — The occupation of a milliner, I 

 believe, is the making of bonnets. What is the 

 derivation of the word ? I have been told that 

 Milan, in Italy, once supplied the fashionables of 

 Europe with their bonnets ; and hence the word 

 milliner. Is this correct ? C. K. 



[Dr. Johnson believes it to be 3Iilaner, an inhabitant 

 of Milan; others, Maliniere, from Malines, as the French 

 call Mechlin ; or millenarius, because he deals in a thou- 

 sand articles. " It is, perhaps," says Richardson, " mig- 

 tlcner, from mistlen or mestlin, a medley or mixture. One 

 who deals in a mixed variety of articleis."] 



