July 6. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



95 



occupied those at the western end. The existence 

 of a distinction of this kind in regard to the open 

 seats only, aflbrds strong proof, if proof were ne- 

 cessary, that it was the introduction of appro- 

 priated pews which led to the disuse of the long 

 established, and once general, custom of the men 

 occupying the south side of the nave, and the 

 women the north. B. H. B. 



Error in Win.ttanltni s Loyal Martyrology. — 

 Winstanley, in The Loynll Martyrology (London, 

 printed by Thomas Mabb, 1665), p. 67., says of 

 Master Gerard, the author of that elaborate herbal 

 which bears his name : — " This gallant gentleman, 

 renowned for arts and arms, was likewise at the 

 storming of that (Basing) House unfortunately 

 slain." According to Jolinson, who edited his 

 Herbal in 1633, Gerard was born at Xaniptwich, 

 in Cheshire, in the year 1545 ; and died about 

 1607. Basing House was stormed Oct. 1645 : had 

 Gerard served there, he woidd have been 100 

 years old. It ap])ears that Winstanley has con- 

 founded Gerard witli his editor Thomas Johnson 

 above mentioned, who was killed during the siege 

 of Basing House, anno 1644. (See Fuller's Wor- 

 thies, vol. iii. p. 422. edit. 1840. London.) 



E. K W. 



Preaching in Nave only. — Prayers and Preach- 

 ing distinct Services. — In Ely Cathedral the old 

 and proper custom of sermons being delivered in 

 the nave only is still maintained. And this ob- 

 servance has doubtless led to the continuance of 

 another, which is a sufficient answer to those who 

 object to the length of our service, as it shows that 

 formerly in practice, as still in principle, prayers 

 and preaching were distinct services. In the morn- 

 ing of Sunday there is no sermon in either of the 

 parish churches in Ely, but jirayers only ; and 

 those of the respective congregations who wish to 

 hear a sermon remove to the cathedral, where they 

 are joined by the ecclesiastics and others who 

 liave "been to choir." Consequently, any one may 

 " go to sermon" (I use the language of the place) 

 without having been to prayers, or to prayers in 

 one of the parish churches, or the choir, without 

 necessarily hearing the sermon. 



I think it would be very interesting, if your 

 widely scattered correspondents would from time 

 to time communicate in your colunms such in- 

 stances of any variation from the now usual mode 

 of celebrating divine service as may fall under 

 their /)er4'07ja/ observation. B. H. B. 



iHiSccILiiirouS. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, &C. 



It has bfcn frL'(|uently, more frequently, perhaps, 

 than justly, objected to tlie Sluikspeare Society, that 

 few of its jfulilicatioiis l)ear direetly upon the ilkistra- 

 tion of the works of tlie gre;it dramatist. Tliat the 



Council would gladly publish works more immediately 

 in connection with Sliak^peare and his writings, if the 

 materials for them could l)e found, is proved by the 

 fact of their having just published the Remarks of Karl 

 Simrnck on the Plots of Shakspeare's Plays, which that 

 gentleman, whose name is honoured by all lovers of 

 early German poetry and romance, appended to the 

 third volume of the Quellcn der Shakspeare, a collection 

 of Novels, Tales, &c., illustrative of Shakspeare, which 

 Simrock collected and translated in conjunction wiih 

 Eehtermeyer and Henschel, and which somewhat 

 resembles Mr. Collier's Shakspeare's Library. The 

 translation of these remarks, made for the Society, nas 

 placed in the hands of Mr. Hallin'ell, and forms, with 

 the notes and additions of that gentleman, a volume 

 containing much new and curious information upon a 

 very interesting point in Shakspearian literature. 



Messrs. Sotheby and Co., of Wellington Street, will 

 sell on Monday, July 8th, and six following days, a 

 very Choice Cabinet of Coins and Medals, the property 

 of a Nobleman; and on Monday, July 15th, and five 

 following days, an extensive Assemblage of Ilislorieai, 

 Theological, and ^Miscellaneous Books. 



Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, of 191. Piccadilly, 

 annoiuice a Sale of Splendid Engravings by British 

 and Foreign Artists on jMonday next. 



We have received the following Catalogues : — 

 William Nield's (46. Burlington Arcade) Catalogue 

 No. ". of Very Cheap Books; Edward Stibbs' (:'.;'.!. 

 Strand) Select Catalogue of a Collection of Books just 

 purchased from a celebrated literary character. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PUKCHASE. 



(In continuation of Lists informer Nos.) 

 Drayton's Polvoldion. (A perfect copy of any edition.) 



PULLEYN'S ElYMOLOGICAL Coilf E.NDIUM. 



Inglis's Ireland. 



Odd Volumes. 

 Vol. II. 



*,* Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, cnrria!;e free, 

 to lie sent to Mr. Bell, Publisher of " NOl'P.S .\ND 

 QUERIE.S," 180. Fleet Street. 



Jiattrc^ to Carrc^jjonifciit^. 



Volume the First, Complete with Inde.r, may note be 

 had, price 9s. 6d., bound in cloth. The Index, pub- 

 lished last week, is, ive trust, sufficiently full to satisfy 

 to the utmost the wishes of our Subscribers. IFe feel that, 

 if called upon at any time to establish the utility of Notes 

 AND Queries, we may confidently point to the Index as a 

 proof that the Literary Inquirer, be his particular branch 

 of Stii/iy what it may, will not search in vain in our 

 payes for i'alunble Notes and Illustrations of it. 



Answers to several correspondtnls in our next. 



nrr.it.i. No. 31. p. On., for " nolort" read " Dclort ; " and 

 for ** Tr\nr7njjn " r»'ad *' 'l^T'inrnum." No. .'i.'». p. 7'>-, in thi? article 

 on '* Carucat)! of Land," lor "acre " read "actas," and lor 

 " Btfjulia " read " l!(/julia. The ariieles " God save the Qui'en," 

 p. 71,, and " Hoyal and Distinguished hiternients," p.7it., should 

 nave been sub^crilied " P. K." instead of " J. 11. M." 



