JN r OTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 223. 



indeed, it was in it that his fine English ballads 

 first appeared. 



Peregrine Conrtenay was the late Winthrop 

 Mackworth Praed, who was, I believe, its editor. 



Henry Nelson Coleridge and John Moultire 

 were also contributors, but under what signatures 

 they wrote I cannot tell. 



Knight's Quarterly Magazine never extended 

 beyond three volumes, and it is now a rather 

 scarce book. Any light you can throw upon this 

 subject will have an interest for most people, and 

 will be duly appreciated by E. H. 



Leeds. 



THE STATIONERS COMPANY AND ALMANACK. 



Having recently hid occasion to consult the 

 Lansdown MSS., No. 905., a volume containing 

 documents formerly belonging to Mr. Umfreville, 

 I observed the following : 



■ Ordinances, constitutions, rules, and articles made 

 by the Court of Star Chamber relating to Printers and 

 Printing, Jan. 23, anno 28 Eliz." 



Appended to these ordinances, &c. is a statement 

 from which I have made the following extracts : 

 " Viii° Januarii, 1583. 



" Bookes yeilded into the hands and disposition of 

 the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Mysterie 

 of the Stationers of London for the releife of y° poore 

 of y e saide companie according to the discretion of the 

 Master, Wardens, and Assistants, or the more parte of 

 them. 



" Mr. Barker, her Ma"= 3 printer, hath yeilded unto 

 the saide disposition and purpose these bookes follow- 

 ing : viz. 



" The first and second volume of Ilomelies. 



" The whole statutes at large, w th y e parable as they 

 are now extant. 



" The Paraphrasis of Erasmus upon y° Epistles and 

 Gospells appoynted to be readd in Churches. 



" Articles of Religion agreed upon 1562 for y e 

 Ministers. 



" The Several Injunctions and Articles to be en- 

 quired of through y e whole Real me. 



" The Profitt and Benefite of the two most vendible 

 volumes of the New Testament in English, commonlie 

 called Mr. Cheekes' translation : that is, in the volume 

 called Octavo, w th Annotacions as they be now : and 

 in the volume called Decimo Sexto of the same trans- 

 lation w th out notes, in the Brevier English letter only. 



" Provided that Mr. Barker himselfe print the sayde 

 Testaments at. the lowest value by the direction of the 

 Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers for 

 the tyme being. Provided alwaye that Mr. Barker 

 do reteyn some small number of these for diverse ser- 

 vices in her Ma" 08 Courtes or ... . [MS. illegible] 

 and lastlye that nothing that he yeildeth unto by 

 meanes aforesaide be preiudiciail to her I\Ia tics higlie 

 prerogative, or to any that shall succeed in the office 

 of her Ma tle " printer." 



The other printers named are, Mr. Totell, Mr. 

 Watkins, Mr. John Daye, Mr. Ncwberye, and 

 Ilenrie Denham. 



I wish to raise a Query upon the following : 



" Mr. Watkins, now Wardein, hath yeilded to the 

 disposeion and purpose aforesaide this that followeth : 

 viz. 



" The Broad Almanack ; that is to say, the same to 

 be printed on one syde of a shecte, to be sett on walls 

 as usuallie it hath ben?." 



Query 1. Is this Broad Almanack the original 

 of the present Stationers' Almanack ? 



2. When was this Broad Almanack first issued ? 



3. When were sheet almanacks, printed on one 

 side of a sheet, first published ? B. H. C. 



P. S. — The books enumerated in this MS., 

 under the other printers' names, are some of them 

 very curious, and others almost unknown at the 

 present time. 



Elinor (Queried. 



John Bunyan. — The following advertisement is 

 copied from the Merciwius Rejbrmatus of June 1 1 , 

 1690, vol. ii. No. 27. : 



" Mr. John Bunyan, Author of the Pile/rim's Pro- 

 gress, and many other excellent Books, that have found 

 great Acceptance, hath left behind him Ten Manu- 

 scripts prepared by himself for the Press before his 

 Death : His Widow is desired to print them (with 

 some other of his Works, which have been already 

 printed, but are at present not to be had), which will 

 make together a Book of 10s. in sheets, in Fol. All 

 persons who desire so great and good a Work should 

 be performed with speed, are desired to send in 5s. for 

 their first Payment to Dorman Newman, at the King's 

 Arms in the Poultrey, London : Who is empower'd to 

 give Receipts for the same." 



Can any of your readers say whether such a 

 publication as that which is here proposed ever 

 took place : that is, a publication of " ten manu- 

 scripts," of which none had been previously 

 printed ? S. K. Maitland. 



Gloucester. 



Tragedy by Mary Leapor. — In the second 

 volume of Poems by Mary Leapor, 8vo., 1751, 

 there is an unfinished tragedy, begun by the 

 authoress a short time before her death. Can 

 you give me the name of this drama (if it has 

 any), and names of the dramatis persona: ? A. Z. 



Repairing old Pinnts, — N. J. A. will feel 

 thankful to any one who will give him directions 

 for the cleaning and repairing of old prints, or 

 refer him to any book where he can obtain such 

 information. He wishes especially to learn how 

 to detach them from old and worn-out mountings. 



N. J. A. 



