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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 237. 



1579. The figures rest on a tomb of masonry, 

 and fill the recess of a window, with iron railing 

 to protect them. They are painted black, so that 

 the nature of the wood is not apparent. 



Alice Shaa was" the only daughter and heiress 

 of her father, and the eldest son of this William 

 and Alice was Sir John Poley, Knt. (See Morant's 

 Essex, vol. i. pp. 151. 217. &c.) S. A. 



Melford. 



Abbott Families (Vol. ix., pp. 105. &c.).— Mr. 

 Adams having very satisfactorily afforded the re- 

 quired information concerning Samuel Abbott, I 

 shall still feel very greatly obliged if any other 

 gentleman can throw any light upon the Arch- 

 bishop's descendants, especially Sir Maurice's sons 

 and their issue. I have in my possession an old 

 will of an ancestress, sealed with the crest of 

 Bartholomew Barnes, of London, merchant, whose 

 daughter was second wife and mother to Sir 

 Maurice's children, viz., Bartholomew, George, 

 Edward, and Maurice. Did any of them leave a 

 son called James, born about 1690 or 1700? 



I. T. Abbott. 



Darlington. 



iHt'SttlTaticouj?. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Every reader of the Archceologia knows so well the 

 great value of the papers contained in it (too few in 

 number) by the Rev. John Webb, that he will be 

 sure that any work edited by that gentleman will 

 be edited with diligence, intelligence, and learning. 

 Such is the Roll of the Household Expenses of Richard 

 de Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford, during part of the 

 Years 1289 and 1290, which he has just edited for the 

 Camden Society, in a manner every way worthy of his 

 reputation, which is that of one of the best antiquaries 

 of the day. The present volume contains only the 

 Roll, its endorsement, and an appendix of contempo- 

 rary and explanatory documents, the whole being 

 richly annotated by the editor. Another volume will 

 contain his introduction, glossary, &c. On its com- 

 pletion we shall again call attention to a work which 

 is so creditable both to Mr. Webb and to the Camden 

 Society. 



The third volume of the cheap and handsome library 

 edition of The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, edited by 

 Peter Cunningham, F. S. A., which forms a portion 

 of Murray's British Classics, contains I. The Bee; 

 11. Essays ; III. Unacknowledged Essays ; and IV. His 

 Prefaces, Introductions, fyc. 



Our photographic friends will be glad to hear that a 

 new edition of Professor Hunt's Manual of Photography 

 has just been issued, in which the author, besides in- 

 cluding all the most recent improvements, the process 

 of photographic etching, &c, has taken the oppor- 

 tunity of making such alterations in the arrangements 

 of the several divisions of the subject, as have enabled 

 him to place the various phenomena in a clearer view. 



While on the subject of scientific publications, we may 

 notice the very able volume just issued by Professor 

 Beale, The Microscope, and its Application to Clinical 

 Medicine. Though addressed more particularly to 

 medical practitioners, it contains so much valuable in- 

 struction with respect to the management of the mi- 

 croscope generally, as to render it a valuable guide to 

 all who are engaged in microscopic investigations. 



Dr. Latham will lecture on Thursday next at the 

 Beaumont Institution, Mile End Road, On the various 

 Families of Mankind in the Russian and Turkish Empires. 

 The Lecture is for the benefit of the Colet Schools of 

 the very poor district of St. Thomas, Stepney. 



Books Received. — The Statistical Companion for 

 1854, by T. C. Banfield, Esq., is a most valuable com- 

 pendium of a mass of statistical evidence gathered from 

 Parliamentary Blue Books, and other authentic sources, 

 thus supplying in one small volume the results of 

 many very large ones. — Addison's Works, by Bishop 

 Hard. Vol. III. of this cheap and neatly-printed 

 edition (which forms a part of Bonn's Series of British 

 Classics) contains Addison's Papers from The Spectator. 

 — Lives of the Queens of England, by Agnes Strickland, 

 Vol. V., contains the Biographies of Anne of Denmark, 

 Henrietta Maria, and Catherine of Braganza.— Poetical 

 Works of John Bryden, edited by Robert Bell, Vol. III. 

 This is the concluding volume of Dryden in Mr. Bell's 

 Annotated Edition of the English Poets. — Cyclopaedia 

 Bibliographica, Part XX. The first division of this 

 most useful library companion is fast drawing to a 

 close, the present Part extending from Vance (William 

 Ford) to Wilcocks( Thomas). — The Retrospective Re- 

 view, No. VII., contains some amusing articles on 

 Ancient Paris, Davies the Epigrammatist, the Turks 

 in the Seventeenth Century, Astrology, &c. 



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