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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 50. 



in Yorksliire, the custom of ringing the curfew 

 existed in the year 1824. It may have been dis- 

 continued since that year, but I do not know that 

 it has. 



It is also the custom at Blackburn, in Lanca- 

 shire ; and it was, if" it is not now, at Bakewell in 

 Derbyshire. H. J. 



Bromyard, HerefordsMre . — The curfew is still 

 rung at Bromyard, Uerefordshire, at nine p. m., 

 from the 5th of November, until Christmas Day; 

 and the bell is afterwards tolled the number of the 

 day of the month. Why it is merely confined to 

 •within the above days, I could never ascertain. 



G. F. C. 



Walthnm-on-the-Wolds. — The curfew is still 

 ■rung at Walthani-on-the-Wolds, Leicestershire, 

 at five A.M., eight p.m. in summer, and at six 

 A.M., seven p.m. in winter; the bell also tolling 

 the day of the month. K. J. S. 



Oxfordshire. — I see that Naboc's inquiry about 

 the curfew is answered at p. 175. by a reference 

 to the Journal of the British ArcJiceological Asso- 

 ciation. The list there is probably complete : but 

 lest it should omit any, I may as well mention, 

 from my own knowledge, AVoodstock, Oxon, 

 where it rings from eight to half-past eight in the 

 evening, from October to March ; Bampton and 

 Witney, Oxon, and Stow, in Gloucester ; at some 

 of which places it is also rung at four in the 

 morning. C. 



Chertsey, Surrey. — In the town of Chertsey in 

 Surrey, the curfew is regularly tolled for a certain 

 time at eight every evening, but only through the 

 winter months. There is also a curious, if not an 

 uiKonunon, custom kept up with regard to it. 

 After the conclusion of the curfew, and a pause of 

 half a minute, the day of the month is tolled out: 

 one stroke for the 1st, two for the 2nd, and so on. 



H. C. De St. Croix. 



Penrith. — Tlic citrfew bell continues to be rung 

 at Pem-ilh, in Cumberland, at eight o'clock in the 

 evening, and is the signal for closing shops, &c. 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne. — The curfew is still rung 

 by all the churches of Newcastle-upon-Tyne at 

 eight in the evening ; and its original use may be 

 said to be preserved to a considerable extent, for 

 the greater bulk of the shops make it a signal lor 

 closing. G. BoucHiEE Richardson. 



Morpeth. — The curfew bell is still rung at eight 

 P.M. at Morpeth in Northumberland. E. H. A. 



Exeter. — The cui'few is rung in Exeter Cathe- 

 dral at eight p.m. 



The present practice is to toll the bell thirty 

 strokes, and after a short interval to toll eight 

 more ; the latter, I presume, denoting the hour. 



G. T. 



Winchester. — Curfew is still rung at Winchester. 

 An Old Commoner Prefect. 



Over., near Winsford, Cheshire. — The custom 

 of ringing the curfew is still kept up at Over, near 

 AViiisford, Cheshire ; and the parish chirrch, St. 

 Chads, is nightly visited for that purpose at eight 

 o'clock. This bell is the signal amongst the 

 farmers in the neighbourhood for "looking up" 

 their cattle in the winter evenings ; and was, be- 

 fore the establishment of a public clock in the 

 tower of the AVeaver Church at Winsford, con- 

 sidered the standard time by which to regulate 

 tlieir movements. A Reader. 



[We are Indebted to the courtesy of the Editor 

 of the Liverpool Albioti for this Reply, which was ori- 

 ginally communicated to that paper.] 



The Curfew, of which some inijuiries have ap- 

 peared in the " Notes and Queriks," is generally 

 rung in the north of England. But then it is also 

 connnon in the south of Scotland. I have heard 

 it in Kelso, and other towns in Roxbm-ghshire. 

 The latter circumstance would appear to prove 

 that it cannot have originated with the Norman 

 conqueror, to whom it is attributed. W. 



ENGELMANN S BIBIilOTHECA SCRIPTORDM CLASSI- 

 CORUM. 



(Vol. n., p. 296.) 



The shortest reply to Mr. De Morgan's com- 

 plaint against a foreign bookseller would be, that 

 Engelniann himself printed for any of the pur- 

 chasers of a large number of his Catalogues the 

 titles to which Mr. De Morgan objects so much. 



Will you allow me to add one or two remarks 

 occasioned by ]\Ir. De Morgan's strictures ? 



1. Engelniann is not, strictly speaking, a book- 

 seller, and his catalogues are not booksellers' 

 catalogues in the sense in which that term is gene- 

 rally received here. He is a publisher and com- 

 piler (and an admirable one) of general classified 

 catalogues for the use of the trade and of students, 

 without any reference to his stock, or, in many 

 instances, to the possibility of easily acquiring 

 copies of the books enumerated : and although he 

 might execute an order from his cat-alogues, getting 

 orders is not the end for which he publishes them. 



2. Some foreign houses in London, as well as in 

 other coinitries, bought a large number of his 

 Catalogues, not as a hook but as a catalogue, to be 

 supplied to their customers at the bare cost, or, 

 where it appears advisable, to be delivered gratis 

 to purchasers of a certain amount. 



3. It appears to me pardonable if, under these 

 circumstances, a notice is inserted on the title, 

 that orders may be directed to the house which 

 has purchased a number, and supplies them without 

 any immediate profit; and I may add that I do 



