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property of the Club for the sum of 22/-. It is a post 8vo volume 
of hand-made paper, bound in brown leather, and contains 188 
leaves. Of the catalogue portion the greater part is devoted to the 
Books in the Library of Corney House, Chiswick, and the rest to 
some of those in Park Street, Westminster. Taking the first- 
named, we are at once struck with the number of County Histories 
it contains, and works on general and archeological topography. 
Next the large assemblage of Continental Works claims attention, 
many being of ancient date. One of the oldest Historico eccle- 
siastical works in manuscript goes back to 1254: it purports to 
be an account of a junior brotherhood existing in the time of 
Pope Innocent IV: one MS. without title is of 1300, and among 
the early printed books are ‘“‘The Cordyale Caxton” 1479. 
“The Dictes and sayings of the Philosophers” 1477—1491 and 
“ Life of St. Katherine and St. Elizabeth’’ 1486. I may name 
among the works issued in the 16th century, ‘‘ Scala Perfec- 
tionis’* (Wynkyn de Worde), Hore B.M.YV. in usum Sarum”’ 
1502, ‘‘Mareus Aurelius” 1557. Of publications during the 
Cromwellian period, there is a great lack. 
In Bookcase C 7, chiefly occupied by Topographical Books, 
there is a pleasing mingling of works of opposite characters; 
Boccaccio is a companion of Palafox’s Devout Exercises; a 
valuable MS. of Wycliffe’s, written on vellum, rests not far 
from the work of a charlatan astrologer. Over the Little 
Parlour Library in Park Street, Westminster, we must not linger : 
the list of topographical works and tracts arranged alphabetically 
_ under the heads of their respective counties brings us to what 
was known as the “Street Parlour Library.” The house in 
Park Street formed the town house of the family during John 
Towneley’s lifetime and that of his son Peregrine, but in Charles 
Towneley’s time it was given up, and the establishment removed 
to the fashionable quarter Charles Street, Berkeley Square. 
But the most interesting feature about the MS. to local 
- enquirers will be the fragments of the diary it contains, recording 
_ Mr. John Towneley's journey from London to Towneley. He 
_ set out on July 6th, 1807, and seems to have arranged his arrival 
_ so as to be in time for the all-important local event, Burnley Fair ; 
_ thus for July 8th we read “‘ Left Halifax between 7 and 8 o’clock, 
morn. and arrived at Towneley between 10 and11. Overtook 
John Barnes near Dr. Whitaker's at the Holme. The weather 
fine. The Hay crop very abundant, and half got in.”. On the 
_ following day Mr. Hargreaves of Ormerod House calls at Towneley 
_ and Mr. Lovat is mentioned as forming one of the evening dinner 
_ party. Then comes “ 10th July, Towneley—Weather the same: 
3 Burnley Fair; viewed the improvements at the Hall Inn, and the 
_ new buildings—called on Mr. Greenwood, rode a Black galloway 
* bought of Ed. Lee of Hapton, took a ride through the Horse 
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