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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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since in his grave) ; and we ought not only to be 

 grateful to the illustrious inventors of the art, 

 but prevent these base uses being made of it. 



In short, apart from the uncertainty of recog- 

 nition, which I have not in the least caricatured, 

 if Giles Scroggins, housebreaker and coiner, and 

 all the swell mob, are to be photographed, it will 

 bring the art into disgrace, and people's friends 

 will inquire delicately where it was done, when 

 they show their lively effigies. It may also mis- 

 lead by a sharp rogue's adroitness ; and I question 

 very much its legality. Weld Taylob. 



Photography applied to Catalogues of Boohs. — 

 May not photography be usefully applied to the 

 making of catalogues of large libraries ? It would 

 fieem no difficult matter to obtain any number of 

 ' photographs, of any required size, of the title-page 

 of any book. Suppose the plan adopted, that five 

 photographs of each were taken ; they may be 

 arranged in five catalogues, as follows: — Era, 

 subject, country, author, title. These being 

 arranged alphabetically, would form five cata- 

 logues of a library probably sufficient to meet the 

 wants of all. Any number of additional divisions 

 may be added. By adopting a fixed breadth — say 

 three inches — for the photographs, to be pasted in 

 ■double columns in folio, interchanges may take 

 place of those unerring slips, and thus librarians 

 aid each other. I throw out this crude idea, in 

 the hope that photojjraphers and librarians may 

 ■combine to carry it out. Albeht Blor, LL.D. 

 Dublin. 



Application of Photography to the Microscope. 

 — May I request the re-insertion of the photo- 

 graphic Query of E. J. F. in Vol. vi., p. 612,, as I 

 cannot find that it has received an answer, viz., 

 What extra apparatus is required to a first-rate 

 microscope in order to obtain photographic micro- 

 scopic pictures ? J. 



Discovery at Nuneham Regis (Vol. vi., p. 558.). 

 —May the decapitated body, found in juxta-posi- 

 tion with other members of the Chichester family, 

 not be that of Sir John Chichester the Younger, 

 mentioned in Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 

 under the head " Chichester, Sir Arthur, of Ra- 

 leigh, CO. Devon," as being that fourth son of Sir 

 John Chichester, Knt., M.P. for the co. Devon, 

 ■who was Governor of Carrickfergus, and lost his 

 life " by decapitation," after falling into the hands 

 of James Macsorley Macdonnel, Earl of Antrim ? 



The removal of the body from Ireland to the 

 resting-place of other members of the family would 

 not be a very impx'obable event, and quite con- 

 sistent with the natural affection of relatives, under 

 such mournful circumstances. J. H. T. 



Eulenspiegel, or Howleglas (Vol. vii., pp. 357. 

 416.). — Permit me to acquaint your correspondent 

 that among the many singular and curious books 

 which formed the library of that talented antiquary 

 the late Charles Kirkpatrick Sharp, and which were 

 sold here by auction some time ago, there was a 

 small 12mo. volume containing i^rez/c/t translations, 

 with rude woodcuts, of — 



1. " La Vie joyeuse et recreative de Tiel-Ullespiegle, 

 de ses Faits merveilleux et Fortunes qu'il a cues; lequel 

 par aucune Ruse ne se laissa pas troinper. A Troyes, 

 chez Garnier, 1838." 



2. " Histoire de Richard Sans Peur, Due de Nor- 

 mandie, Fils de Robert le Diable, &c. A Troyes, chez 

 Oudot, 1745." 



T. G. S. 



Edinburgh. 



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

 pp.193. 369.438.).— 



"In the year 1635, upon the request of the Rev. 

 Anthony Tuckney, Vicar of Boston, it was ordained 

 by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Laud), then on his 

 metropolitical visitation at Boston, 'that the roome 

 over the porch of the saide churche shall be repaired 

 and decently fitted up to make a librarye, to the end 

 that, in case any well and charitably disposed person 

 shall hereafter bestow any books to the use of the 

 parish, they may be there safely preserved and kept.' " 



This library at present contains several hundred 

 volumes of ancient (patristic, scholastic, and post- 

 Reformation) divinity. 



I hope to be able ere long to make a correct 

 catalogue of the books at present remaining, and 

 at the same time make an attempt to restore them 

 to that decent " keeping" in which the great and 

 good archbishop desired they might remain. 



Query : In making preparations for the catalogue, 

 I have been informed by a gentleman that he re- 

 members two or more cart loads of books from this 

 library being sold by the churchwardens, and, as 

 he believes, by the then archdeacon's orders, at 

 waste paper price; that the bulk of them was 

 purchased by a bookseller then resident in Boston, 

 and re-sold by him to a clergyman in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Spilsby. 



1. What was the date of the sale ? 



2. The name of the Venerable Archdeacon who 

 perpetrated this robbery ? 



3. Whether there are any legal means for re- 

 covering the missing works ? 



My extracts are from Thompson's History of 

 Boston, a correspondent of yours, a new edition of 

 whose laborious work is about to appear. 



Thomas Collis. 



Boston. 



Painter— Derrick (Vol. vii., pp. 178. 391.). —I 

 cannot agree with J. S. C. that painter is a cor- 

 ruption of punter, from the Saxon puni, a boat. 



