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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 235. 



fully described in other publications ; but as many 

 of the most valuable of the ancient public records 

 of Ireland have been, and are still, in a sadly ne- 

 glected state, it is not probable that the following 

 description of the manner in which certain of the 

 Irish chieftains in the time of Richard II. per- 

 formed their homage to Thomas Earl of Notting- 

 ham, his deputy, has been hitherto printed : 



" Gerraldus O'Bryn predictus zonam, glaudium et 

 capitium ipsius a se amovens, et genibus flexis ad 

 pedes dicti domini comitis procedit, ambas manus suas 

 palmis [adgremium] junctis erigens, et inter manus 

 dicti domini comitis erectas tenens, protulit hec verba in 

 lingua hibernicana," &c. — Inquisition deposited in the 

 Exchequer Record Office, Dublin ; James I. No. 84. 



James F. Ferguson. 

 Dublin. 



REMUNERATION OF AUTHORS. 



(Vol.viii., p. 81.) 



Some time ago I suggested, in the columns of 

 " N. & Q.," a collection which might prove in- 

 teresting, of the remuneration received by authors 

 for their works, sending my first instalment there- 

 of. A correspondent (W. R.) has since contri- 

 buted to the stock ; and I now beg to add a few 

 more cases which have lately occurred to me. In 

 the instances of plays, &c, I have confined myself 

 to the sums paid for the copyright ; any remune- 

 ration accruing to the author from the perform- 

 ance, a share of the profit, benefit, &c. &c. being 

 too diffuse to bring into a tabular form ; and, in 

 the case of works published while that servile 

 system was in vogue, I have not attempted to 

 record the amounts paid for dedications by the 

 inflated " patrons," nor even those raised by sub- 

 scription, except in one or two cases, where such 

 was (which was rarely the case) a genuine trans- 

 action : 



Alexander Andrews. 



OCCASIONAL FORMS OF PRAYER. 



(Vol. viii., p. 535.) 



The list of Occasional Forms of Prayer, recently 

 contributed to your pages by the Rev. Thomas 

 Lathbury, contained no less than forty-eight 

 items. All the forms which he enumerates, with 

 one exception, are earlier than the year 1700. 

 Using the same limitation of date, I send you 

 herewith a farther list of such occasional forms : 

 all these are to be found in the British Museum, 



and the press-marks by which they are designated 

 in the catalogue are here added. The present list 

 comprises fifty-one items, all of them, I think, dif- 

 ferent from those which have been already men- 

 tioned. Unless otherwise stated, the copies of the 

 forms here referred to are printed at London, and 

 they are for the most part in black-letter, with- 

 out pagination. 



A Psalme and Collect of Thankesgiving, not unmeet for 

 the present Time [i.e. after the defeat of the Spanish 

 Armada]. 1588. (3406. c.) 



