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NOTES AND Q.UERIES. 



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wore white surplices, while the senior had a cope : and 

 after his consecration he and the two diocesan bishops 

 endued themselves in the now customary dress of a 

 bishop, the arclibishop having about his neck a collar 

 of sables {Cardw, Doc. Ann., i. 243.). Before the Re- 

 formation, it was remarked as peculiar to the English 

 bishops, that they always wore their white rochets, 

 •except when hunting.' (Hodi/, 141.)" — The Two Con- 

 vocations, Note on, p. 1 1)5. 



W. Feasee. 

 Tor-Mohun. 



■^^ Inscriptions in Boohs (Vol. vii., pp. 127. 337.). — 

 The two accompanying ins(!riptions in books were 

 given to me the other day. The second is, I 

 believe, much in vogue at Rugby. 



" Si quis errantem 

 Videat libellum 

 Reddat, aut collo 

 Dabitur capistrum 

 Carnufex ejus 

 Tunicas habebit 

 Terra cadaver." 



" Small is the wren. 

 Black is the rook, 

 Great is the sinner 

 That steals this book." 



w. w. 



As your correspondent Balltolensis inquires 

 regarding inscrijitions in books, perhaps the fol- 

 lowing may add to his proposed collection, being 

 an old ditty much in use among schoolboys, &c. : 



" Hie liber est meus. 

 And that I will show ; 

 Si aliquis capit, 

 I'll give him a blow." 



N.N. 



Lines quoted by Charles Lamb (Vol. vii., p. 286.). 

 — The author of the lines quoted — 



" Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines ; 

 Curl me about, ye gadding vines," &c. — 



is Andrew Marvell. They are taken from his fine 

 poem on Nun-Appleton, Lord Fairfax's seat in 

 Yorkshire ; and will be found in vol. iii. p. 198. of 

 Mar veil's Works, edit. 1776, 4to. Jas. Crosslet. 



Parochial Libraries (Vol. vi., p. 432. ; Vol. vii., 

 pp. 193. 369.). — Upon visiting Cartmel in Lanca- 

 shire ten years ago, I found a library in the vestry, 

 and in my diary made the following entry : 



" There is a small library in the vestry, of a very mis- 

 cellaneous description, left by a former incumbent, two 

 hundred years ago, to the vicar for the time being, to 

 be kept in the vestry. There is a fine copy, in small 

 quarto, of Spenser's Faery Queene in the collection, of 

 the date 1560.^' 



How I ascertained the date of the gift, or whetlier 

 there were any other particulars worth recording, 

 I do not remember. Since taking " N. & Q." I 



have learnt the benefit, I might say the necessity, 

 of being more particular. Brick. 



To your list of parochial libraries may be added 

 one in Swaff"ham Church, Norfolk, bequeathed to 

 the parish by one of the Spelnian family. It con- 

 tains several hundred volumes, and among them 

 some of the Elzevir classics. About seven years 

 ago I visited Swafi'ham, and found this collection 

 of books in a most disgraceful state, covered with 

 dust and the dung of mice and bats, and many of 

 the books torn Irom their bindings. It would 

 afford me great pleasure to hear that more care 

 is taken of such a valuable collection of books. 

 There is also a smaller library, in somewhat better 

 preservation, in the vestry of St. Peter's, Mancroft 

 Church, in the city of Norwich. E. G. R. 



There are parochial libraries at JNIilden, Brent 

 Eleigh, and at All Saints, Sudbury, Suffcjlk. See 

 Rev. C. Badham's Hist, and Antiq. of All SaintSj 

 Sudbury, 8vo. London, 1852, pp. 105 — 109. 



W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 



Huefs Navigations of Solomon (Vol. vii., 

 p. 381.). — In reply to Edina's Query, Huet's 

 treatise De Navigationibus Sulomonis was published 

 in 1698, 12mo., at Amsterdam, and before his 

 work on the Commerce of the Ancients was printed. 

 Edina will find a short extract of its contents in 

 vol. ii. p. 479. of Dr. Aikin's Translation of Huefs 

 Autobiography, published in 1810 in two volumes 

 8vo. The subject is a curious and interesting 

 one ; but, from my perusal of the tract, I should 

 scarcely say that Huet has treated it very success- 

 fully, or that the book is at all worthy of his 

 learning or acuteness. Jas. Crosslet. 



Derby Municipal Seal (Vol. vii., p. 357.). — The 

 " buck in the park," on the town seal of Derby, is 

 probably a punning allusion to the name of that 

 place, anciently Deora-by or Beor-by, i. e. the 

 abode of the deer. C. W. G. 



Annueller (Vol. vii., pp. 358. 391.). — Bishop 

 Ergham founded St. Anne's College in Wells, for 

 the maintenance of Societas (xiv.) Presbyterorum 

 annuellarum Novae Aulas Wellensis. The annuel- 

 lar was a secular conduct, receiving a jrearly sti- 

 pend. These priests, probably, served his chantry 

 at Wells. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Reverend Richard Midgley, Vicar of Rochdale 

 (Vol. vii., p. 380.), — The collection of the lives 

 of pious persons to which Dr. Whitaker refers, as 

 containing a very interesting account of Midgley, 

 will undoubtedly be Samuel Clarke's Lives of 

 Thirty-two English Divines. The passage, which 

 will scarcely be new to your correspondent, is at 

 p. 68. of the life of " Master Richard Rothwell" 

 (Clarke's Lives, edit. 1677, fol.), and a very 

 pleasing passage It Is, and one that I might almost 



