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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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note, and liis removal to Manningtree, in Essex ; 

 but whether it gives any further particulars of 

 him I am unable to state, as I have not seen the 

 manuscript. J- Clarke. 



Sir Richard Steel (Vol. ii., p. 375.).— The death 

 and burial-phice of Sir Richard Steel is thus 

 noticed in Cibber's Lives of the Poets, vol. iv. 

 p. 120.: — 



" Some years before his death he grew paralytic, and 

 retired to his seat at Langunnor, near Caermartlicn, in 

 Wales, where be died, September 1st, 1T!29, and was 

 privately interred, according to his own desire, in the 

 church of Caermarlhen." 



J. V. R. W. 



Ale-draper (Vol. u., p. 310.). — A common de- 

 signation for an ale-liouse keeper in the sixteenth 

 century. Henry Chettle, in his very curious little 

 publication, Kind-Harts Drearne, 1592 (edited for 

 the Percy Society by your humble servant), has 

 the following passage : 



" I came up to London, and fall to be some tapster, 

 hostler, or chamberlaine in an inn. Well, I get meea 

 wife; with ber a Httle money; when we are manied, 

 seeke a bouse we must; no other occupation have I 

 but to be an ale-draper." (F. 37. of reprint.) 



Again, in the same tract, the author speaks of 

 " two milch maydens that had set up a shoppe of 

 ale-drapery.^' 



In tlie Discoverie of the Knights of the Paste, 

 1597, is another notice of the same occupation : 



" So that now bee batb left brokcry, and is become 

 a draper. A draper, quoth Freeman, what draper — 

 of woollin or linnen ? No, qd. he, an uie-druper, 

 wherein he hath more skil tlien in the other." 



Probably these instances of the use of the term 

 may be sufficient for your correspondent. 



Edward F. Rimbaclt. 



P.S. The above was written before J. S. AV.'s 

 note appeared (Vol. ii., p. 360.), which does not 

 carry the use of this term further back than 

 Bailey's Dictionary. 



George Herhert (Vol. ii., p. 100.) was buried 

 under the communion table atBemerton, but there 

 is no monument to his memory. The adornment 

 of his little church wovdd be one of the most 

 fitting ollerings to his memory. It is painful to 

 contrast the whitewash and unpainted deal of the 

 house of God with the rich furniture and hangings 

 of the adjoining rectory. In the garden of the 

 latter is preserved a medlar-tree, planted by " the 

 sweet singer of the temple." J. W. H. 



Notaries P«W/c (Vol. ii., p. 393.). — Why does 

 your correspondent Majji.eius think this ibrm of 

 expression "putting the cart belore the horse?" 

 Ptihlic notary (though that phrase is sometimes 

 erroneously used) is not so exact as " notary 

 public;" for a notary is not, as the first foim 

 would impl)', a public officer appointed by the 



puVjIic to perform public services, but an in- 

 dividual agent through whose ministry private 

 acts or instruments become puhlici juris. The 

 same form, and for analogous reasons, prevails in 

 several other legal and technical titles or phrases, as 

 Attorney-General, Solicitor-General, Accountant- 

 General, Receiver-General, Surveyor-General; 

 Advocate Fiscal ; Theatre Royal, Chapel Royal ; 

 Gazette Extraordinary ; and many other phrases 

 in which it is evident that the adjective has a 

 special and restricted meaning. C. 



Tobacconists (Vol. ii., p. 393.). — There was, in 

 the old house of commons, a room called the 

 smohing-room, where members tired of the de- 

 bate used to retire to smoke, and in later years to 

 drink tea or write letters. These, no doubt, were 

 meant by the Tobacconists, members within call, 

 though not actually within the house. C. 



Vineyards (Vol. ii., p. 392.). — In answer to 

 CiERicus, I beg to say that there is a piiece of land 

 called the Vineyards situated in the warm and 

 sheltered valley of Claverton, about two miles from 

 Bath : it formerly belonged to the Abbey of Bath. 



There is also in the suburb.^, on the north side 

 of the city of Bath, a street called the Vineyards ; 

 but I do not know that this ever belonged to the 

 Abbey. G. Faxkner. 



Devizes. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



Those who know Mr. Craik's happj- tact for seizing 

 on the more striking points of a character or an incident, 

 bis acquaintance with our national history and bio- 

 graphy, his love of research, and perseverance in fol- 

 lowing up a clue, were prepared to expect botli in- 

 struction and amusement from his liomaiicc of the 

 Peerage, l^or were they doomed lo disappointment. 

 Each succeeding volume has added to the interest of 

 the work ; and there can be little doubt, that tlie favour 

 with which the first three vohimes have been received 

 by the reading world, will be extended to the one now 

 published, and which concludes the first series, or main 

 division of Mr. Craik's projected work. 



Our space will permit us to do little more than 

 specify its principal contents ; but when we state that 

 in the present volume Mr. Craik treats of the (/real 

 Earl of Cork and the Boyles ; of the founders of the 

 Fermor, Bonverie, Osborne, and Bamfylde ftimilies ; 

 that he gives us with great completeness the history of 

 Anne Clifl'ord, the most remarkable wcinan of her 

 time ; that he furnishes pleasant gossipping pictures 

 of the rise of the families of Fox, Pbips, and Petty; 

 the history of the celebrated claim of the Trunkmakcr 

 to the honours of the Pcrcies, — of the story of the 

 heiress of the Percics who married Tcm I'liynn of 

 Longleat Hall ; and lastlv, that of Ann of Buccleugb, 



