Feb. 3. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



95 



Tallies (Vol. x., p. 485.; Vol. xi., p. 18.).— 

 Tallies are universally used in the hop-gardens in 

 the neighbourhood of Canterbury, between the 

 overseer of the garden and the hop-pickers, to 

 mark the number of baskets filled. E. F. 



Hangman s Wages (Vol. xL, p. 13.). — I know 

 not how hangmen are remunerated now for their 

 disgusting work ; but six or seven and twenty 

 years ago there were always two persons employed 

 in London to perform all executions, hangings, 

 whippings, pillories, &c., and each of them had a 

 salary of 50Z. a year. I can assure you that when 

 a vacancy occurred, there were many candidates 

 for the office. E. F. 



Charm for a Wart (Vol. xi., p. 7.)- — Twenty- 

 five years ago there resided at the little village of 

 Ferry Hincksey, near Oxford, in a cottage adjoin- 

 ing the church, an old woman who had a great 

 reputation for charming warts. Being at that 

 time a lad, and much troubled with these ex- 

 crescences, one of which was as large as a four- 

 penny piece, I was recommended to pay the old 

 lady a visit. With fear and trembling I entered 

 her little hut, and after being interrogated as to 

 the number of warts upon my person, a small stick 

 was produced, upon which certain notches were 

 cut, a cross having been first slightly imprinted on 

 the larger wart ; the old lady then retired into 

 her garden to bury the stick, and I was dismissed. 

 From that day my troublesome and unsightly 

 adherents began to crumble away, and I have never 

 been troubled since. Silence as to the transaction 

 Is strictly enjoined, nor must any remuneration be 

 offered until the warts have quite disappeared. 



Z. z. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Camden Society has just issued another valuable 

 contribution to our materials for the History of England. 

 It is entitled Grants from the Crown during the Reign of 

 Edward the Fifth, from the Original Docket Book, JUS. 

 Harl. 433., with an historical Introduction, by John Gough 

 Nichols, F.S. A. The manuscript, of which the documents 

 here printed form a part, has long been known as a record 

 of great value, and as such has been quoted by several of 

 our most painstaking historical writers. Of the import- 

 ance which Humphrey Wanley attached to it, no better 

 proof can be given than the fact, that his account of its 

 contents occupies no less than sixty pages of the folio 

 Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. Short as was the reign 

 and Dr. Lingard, the leading events of it are still involved 

 in an obscurity, to the removal of which this volume will 

 of Edward V., and despite the labours of Sharon Turner 

 greatly contribute : and few, we think, will rise from its 

 perusal without a feeling that it is one, the publication of 

 which reflects credit alike on the Camden Society, and 

 the accomplished antiquary by whom it has been so 

 carefully edited. 



We have before had occasion to make favourable 

 mention of the Journal of the Architectural, ArchcBological, 



and Historic Society for the County, City, and Neighbour- 

 hood of Chester; and the Third Part (January to De- 

 cember, 1852), which has just been issued, deserves the 

 same treatment. Like its predecessors, it is properly con- 

 fined to subjects of local interest, and is profusely, rather 

 than elegantly, illustrated. 



The mention of this local Society recalls our attention to 

 a small contribution to local biography, the publication 

 of which calls for a few lines of record in our columns. 

 We allude to a series of Profiles of Warnngton Worthies, 

 collected and arranged by James Kendrich, M. D. 

 Among these Warrington Worthies it may be remem- 

 bered are the Aikins, Barbaulds, Dr. Priestley, &c. 



We learn that the library of the late learned and re- 

 spected President of Magdalen College, Oxford, Dr Routb, 

 is to be transferred from Oxford, where books abound, to 

 Durham. By a deed of gift, made two years ago, it is 

 conveyed to the Warden, Masters, and Scholars of the 

 University of Durham. The library is said to contain 

 nearly 20,000 volumes. 



The world-renowned collection of the late Mr. Bernal 

 is to be sold by Messrs. Christie & Manson at his late 

 residence, in Eaton Square, early in March. The Cata- 

 logue, which is illustrated with woodcuts of the most 

 valuable and interesting articles, has just been issued; 

 and when the assemblage of matchless objects, which the 

 liberalitj- and good taste of the late proprietor had enabled 

 him to bring together, are dispersed abroad, the Catalogue 

 will find its place on the shelf of every lover of early art, 

 not only as a memorial of the collector, but as a guide to 

 his own studies in the same department. We advise our 

 readers not to lose the opportunity of seeing, before it is 

 broken up, a collection which has, we believe, scarcely its 

 equal in Europe ; and our friends who are collectors, to 

 remember that such another sale cannot occur again for 

 years. 



While on the subject of Sales, we maj' direct attention 

 to the very curious — indeed Messrs. Southgate & Barrett 

 are perhaps justified in calling it unique — collection of 

 prints and cuttings, entitled " Notes and Illustrations," 

 treating on every subject interesting to the antiquary, 

 the historian, and the topographer, and comprised in one 

 hundred and thirty quarto volumes, which they are 

 about to sell by auction. Those only who have endea- 

 voured to make collections upon any particular subject, 

 can form an estimate of the value of matei-ials such as 

 these. 



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