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on the subject of Topography, we have to call attention 

 to a very graphic and well-written guide-book to a dis- 

 trict of great interest, although but little known. Buchan, 

 by the Eev. John B. Pratt, M. A. (with its excellent il- 

 lustrations) will be found a most useful companion to 

 such of our countrymen as choose during the coming 

 summer to renounce the passport system, and content 

 themselves with home journeys, and who may select this 

 out-of-the-way district for their pleasure trip. 

 • We have this week to announce the death of one long 

 and favourably known for his attachment to literary and 

 antiquarian pursuits — Lord Braybrooke — the Editor of 

 Pepys's Diary, and President of the Camden Society, who 

 died on Saturday last in the 75th year of his age. The 

 reader who turns to our earlier volumes will see how fre- 

 quent and varied were Lord Braybrooke's communica- 

 tions to " N. & Q." — indeed, they were only interrupted 

 by the failure of his health, sorely tried by the loss of 

 two sons in the Crimea, and by the death of Lady Bray- 

 brooke — and will readily appreciate the deep regret with 

 which we record the death of this kind-hearted and ac- 

 complished nobleman. 



Mr. John Timbs, the author of the Year Book of Facts, 

 and many other instructive works, has retired from his 

 shave in the editorship of the Illustrated London News. 

 Those who know Mr. Timbs can best judge of what advan- 

 tage his general knowledge and appreciation of the popu- 

 lar taste must have been to that journal during the fifteen 

 or twenty years of his connexion with it. 



Autographs. — Messrs. Puttick & Simpson, on 

 March 8 and 9, 1858, sold an extremely valuable collec- 

 tion of Autographs and Historical Documents. A receipt 

 of Koger Ascham's, found in a fishmonger's shop, sold 

 for 4/. Autograph letters by Kitty Clive, U. 10s. Sir 

 Francis Drake, 2/. 3s. The Duke of Marlborough, 4:1. 4s. 

 Jean Francois Marmontel, 2Z. Fred, von Schiller, 21. 

 St. Vincent de Paul, IIZ. 2s. Gd Yoltaire,4Z. 16s. General 

 Wolfe, 31. 7s. Cardinal Wolsey, 6/. Gs. Thomas Gains- 

 borough, 21. 12s. Topham Beauclerk to Garrick, 4/. 4s. 

 Kev. Charles Churchill, poet and satirist, 10/. 10s. Dr. 

 Johnson to Garrick, 6/. 7s. Gd. Garrick to Lord Bute, 

 21. 5s. Rev. John Home, author of Douglas, 3/. 8s., &c. 



The extensive and valuable library of John Matiiew 

 GuTCH, Esq., who for so many years was Proprietor and 

 Editor of Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, is now being 

 sold by Messrs. Sotheby & Wilkinson. It commenced 

 on Tuesday, March 16, and closes on Thursday, March 26. 

 In the first day's sale, there was a most extraordinary 

 Collection of very rare and curious Ballads, mounted in 

 3 vols, roj'al folio, 30/. 10s. A Portfolio of old Shakspe- 

 rian Ballads, Garlands, &c., mounted on blotting-paper, 

 6Z. 6s. An extensive Collection of MSS. and printed Books 

 relating to Bristol, llZ. Dame Juliana Berner's Book of 

 St. Alban's, black letter, 1810, 6/. 15s. Brydges's Ceii- 

 sura Literaria, 10 vols, in 5, half calf, 1815, 4/. 17s. The 

 naost remarkable lots in the second day's sale were those 

 entitled Chattertoni ANA. Lot 435 consisted of an exten- 

 sive assemblage of Works, Tracts, Papers, Prints, Draw- 

 ings, &c., issued during the celebrated Controversy 

 whether Rowley really existed and wrote the Poems 

 published under his name, or whether Chatterton forged 

 them ; with various interesting Autograph Letters, in- 

 cluding those of Mary Chatterton, the poet's sister, 

 Robert Southey, G. Dyer, J. Cottle, J. Haslewood, &c. ; 

 numerous Cuttings from Reviews, Newspapers, and Mag- 

 azines ; a transcript of Chatterton's Poems, Kew Gardens, 

 in the handwriting of Isaac Reed ; a broadside printed 

 on cotton, containing a full-length portrait of " the dis- 

 tressed Poet," with verses ; a printed list of the Contents 

 by the late Joseph Haslewood. All -bound in 16 vols. 

 8vo. and 1 vol. 4to., calf extra, 13/. 15s, Cibber's Lives 



of the Poets, 5 vols. 1753, interleaved with numerous MS. 

 additions, apparently in Cibber's autograph, 21. 10s. S. T. 

 Coleridge's Common-Place Book in his own handwriting, 

 with autograph MSS. of some of hispoems, 6/. 15s. 

 Bishop Coverdale's Christen Rule of the whole Worlde ; 

 Christen State of Matrymonye, wherin husbandes and 

 wyfes may lerne to kepe house together wyth love; 

 Christen Exhortation unto customable Swearers, with the 

 maner of sayinge grace, &c. 3 vols., black letter, 1543, 

 5Z. 5s. Coverdale on The Olde Fayth, black letter, 1547, 

 81. Is. R. Brathwaite. A valuable Collection of 50 

 autograph Letters, being the entire Correspondence ad- 

 dressed to Joseph Haslewood, by eminent literary men, 

 on the authorship of Drunken Barnaby's Itinerary, em- 

 bracing the communications of F. Douce, G. Allan, Sir 

 E. Brydges, Sir C. Sharp, 0. Gilchrist, Dr. Bliss, Sir F. 

 Freeling, Rev. Dr. Scott (Nelson's Chaplain), &c., with . 

 Official Extract Will, Transcripts of Poems, and six auto- 

 graph letters after the publication, 3/. 16s. Dugdale's 

 Monasticon, by Caley, Ellis, and Bandinel, 8 vols. 1817-30, 

 half-mssia, 20/. 15s. On the third day another remark- 

 able lot of Chattertoniana, consisting of MSS. and 

 printed Works, was sold for 4/. 10s. Among other docu- 

 ments was Chatterton's Will, written on a piece of vellum, 

 and Mr. Dix's MS. of the Inquest, printed in "N. & Q.," 

 1«* S. vii. 139., but which has since been proved a forgery. 

 A Garland of Roses gathered from the Poems of the late 

 Rev. John Eagles, by his old friend J. M. Gutch, 1867, 

 sold for 4/. 6s. 



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Westminster Proloouks and Epiloooes. The Query on this subject 

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Enivri. Wood, in his Athenis Oxonienses, bu Bliss, iil. 1276, has given 

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Abhda. Burnet's Life of Bishop Bedell was translated into French 

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