Jan. 20. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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on its title-page there is " Nouvelle edition, eor- 

 rigee et augmentee, a Amsterdam, 1783." In 

 the Avertissement des Editeurs it is called an 

 edition in four volumes, and another edition of 

 Le Sieur Samuel Fauche pere is spoken of as a 

 defective copy of the first edition in two volumes 

 which appeared in June, 1781, and "which, ap- 

 pearing at a distance of a hundred leagues from 

 the author, is itself very imperfect." Anon. 



[This work is by Louis-Sebastien Mercier, according to 

 "Barbier, Dictionnaire des Ouvrages. See also Querard, La 

 France Litt(raire, s. ».] 



Long S. — Is it known what adventurous printer, 

 and at what date, first disused the long s} In a 

 cursory examination of several books, the latest 

 which I find printed with the long s is The Di- 

 versions of Purley, printed by J. Johnson, 1805. 

 Probably some of your correspondents remember 

 noticing the innovation, which seems to have taken 

 place soon after 1800. Eden Warwick. 



[Mr. J. Bell, bookseller in the Strand, who printed and 

 published an edition of Shakspeare, The British Theatre, 

 and The Poets, about 1795, first set the example, which 

 soon became general, of discarding the long f. As the 

 Elzevir type is now coming into fashion, the long f, and 

 its combinations, will remind us of olden times. ] 



Tioo Surnames joined by Alias. — One is con- 

 tinually meeting this, as " Simon Sudbury, alias 

 Tibold, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1381." Per- 

 haps some of your readers would obligingly assign 

 the reason of it ? Alias. 



Temple. 



[Godwin, in his Catalogue of the Bishops of England, 

 p. 101., thus explains it: " This Simon was the sonne of 

 a gentleman named Nigellus Tibold, so that his itrue 

 name was Simon Tibold. But he was borne at Sudburj', 

 a town of Suffolk, in the parish of S. George, and of that 

 towne tooke his name, according to the manner of many 

 cleargymen in those dales." See a notice of this prelate 

 in « N. & Q.,» Vol. v., p. 194.] 



Sir Thomas Tresham. — In what work can I 

 find a detailed account of Sir Thomas Tresham, 

 father of the Gunpowder Plot conspirator ? 



E. P. H. 



[Some few notices of Sir Thomas Tresham may be 



f leaned from Bridges' Northamptonshire, vol. ii. pp. 324. 

 74., &c. ; Fuller's Worthies, art. Northamptonshire; 

 Leland's Itinerary, vol. vi. p. 38. ; Beauties of England 

 and Wales, vol. xi. p. 169. ; and Gent. Maq. for August, 

 1808, p. 680.] 



Colophon. — Unde derivatur ? J. M. 



[Colophon is derived from a city of that name in Ionia, 

 north-west of Ephesus, and one of the places that con- 

 tended for the birth of Homer. The Colophonians were 

 excellent horsemen, and generally turned the scale on 

 the side on which they fought ; hence the proverb, 

 "KoKo<\>oiva. kninQivai," — "to add a Colophonian" — put 

 the finishing hand to an affair ; hence also, in the early 

 periods of printing, the last thing printed at the end of 

 the book was called the colophon. The same phrase was 



used by the Romans, as well as by Erasmus, whose words 

 are Colophonem addidi — "I have put the finishing touch 

 to it." Consult Lemprifere's Classical Diet, by Anthon and 

 Barker, and Thomas's Hiit. ofJ*riHting in America, vol. u 



p. 14.] 



Nottingham Riots. — Will you inform me where 

 I can meet with a good account of the Nottingham 

 Riots, which took place some time about the pass- 

 ing of the Reform JBill ? W. E. HowLEiyr. 



Kirton in Lindsey. 



[A long account of the riots at Nottingham on the 

 memorable days of Oct. 9th, 10th, andlltb, 1831, when 

 the castle and Mr. Lowe's silk mill were demolished, will 

 be found in the Nottingham Journal of Oct. 15, 1831, and 

 in the Nottingham Review of Oct. 14, 1831, which was 

 most probably copied into the London papers.] 



ISit^liti, 



TDEAN BILL. 



(Vol. vii., p. 286. ; Vol. x., p. 530.) 



I shall be very much obliged to A. R. M,, 

 M. L. B., or to any other correspondent of " N. & 

 Q.," to furnish me with particulars of the ancestgr 

 of this worthy reformer. 



As a clue, I will recite all that I have been able, 

 with limited resources, to collect. William Bill, 

 D.D., was appointed Master of St. John's College, 

 Cambridge, in 1546. He was invited to Trinity 

 College, and became the second master on that 

 foundation in 1551. Queen Mary ejected him in 

 1553, and he was restored by Queen Elizabeth dn 

 1558. In the following year Dr. Bill was ap- 

 pointed, with several other learned divines, Arch- 

 bishop Parker being at their head, to take a re- 

 view of the two liturgies of King Edward VI., and 

 to frame from them a Book of Common Prayer 

 for the use of the Church of England. On the 

 21st of May, 1560, Queen Elizabeth refounded the 

 establishment at Westminster Abbey as a col- 

 legiate church, to be governed by a dean and 

 chapter, and appointed Dr. Bill to be the first 

 dean. He died 15th June, 1561, in possession of 

 the Deanery, the Mastership of Trinity College, 

 and, I believe, the Provostship of Eton. Burke, 

 in his Armory, says that Dr. Bill's niece, the heir 

 of his elder brother Thomas Bill, of Ashwell, co. 

 Hertford, married James Haydock of Greywell, 

 CO. Southampton. In his Extinct Baronetage, 

 under the family Samwell he says that Francis 

 Samwell, Esq., of Cotsford, co. Oxford, who re- 

 moved first to the town of Northampton, and 

 afterwards settled at Rothersthorpe in that shire, 

 was auditor to Henry VIII., and married Mary, 

 sister to the Rev. William Bill, D.D., of Ashwell, 

 CO. Hertford, almoner to Queen Elizabeth, by 

 whom he had issue Sir William Samwell, auditor 

 to Queen Elizabeth, knighted by James I., and 

 ancestor of the baronets of that family. 



