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No. 9. | 
CONTENTS 
Page 
Our Progress” - - - - - - - 129 
Nores : — 
Sir E. Dering’s Household Book, by Rev. Lainbert B. 
Larking - - 130 
Berkeley’s Theory of Vision, by Rev. J. iL. Toda - 131 
Bishop Barnaby — - - i 
Mathematical Archeology - - - ~ 132 
Song in Style of Suckling, &e.  - - - - 133 
Gothic Architecture - - - - 134 
Dr. Burney’s Musical Works, by E. F. Rimbault - 135 
Ancient Alms’ Basins, by Dr. Bell - 135 
Minor Notes: — Prince Madoc — St. Barnabas — Regis- 
ter of Cromwell's Baptism — The Times — Rowl: and 
Monoux — Wassail Song—Portrait of Charles I. — 
Autograph Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester 
and Henry Duke of Buckingham - 136 
Notes in answer to Queries :— Lord Erskine’s monk 
— Scarborough Warning — Gray’s oa pe the 
Lacedemonian Black Broth - - 138 
QUERIES : — 
The Last of the Villains, by E. Smirke - - - 139 
The Dore of Holy Scripture - - - - 139 
Turner’s MS. History of Westminster - - - 140 
Talisman of Charlemagne = - - - 140 
Dick Shore, Isle of Dogs, &c. - 41 
Minor Queries: — The Strand Maypole — To Fettle— 
Greek Verse — Dr. Dee’s Petition — Vondel’s Lucifer 
—Discurs Modest — Ptolemy of Alexandria— Van- 
brugh’s London Improvements — Becket’s Grace- 
Cup — Sir Henry Herbert’s Office- Bock = - 142} 
MisceLLangous :— | 
_ Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 143 | 
Notices to Smite - - - - ~ 1143 |} 
Advertisements = - . - - - 144) 
OUR PROGRESS. 
We have this week been called upon to take a 
step which neither our best friends nor our own 
hopes could have anticipated. Having failed in 
our endeavours to supply by other means the 
_ inereasing demand for complete sets of our “ Norrs_ 
| AND Queries,” we have been compelled to reprint 
the first four numbers. 
It is with no slight feelings of pride and satis- 
faction that we record the fact of a large impression 
of a work like the present not having been suffi- 
cient to meet the demand,—a work devoted not 
to the witcheries of poetry or to the charms of | 
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SECOND EDITION. 
| the inquiry of Truth, which is the love-making or 
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romance, but to. the illustration of matters of 
graver import, such as obscure points of national | 
history, doubtful questions of literature and biblio- 
graphy, the discussion of questionable etymo- 
logies, and the elucidation of old world customs 
and observances. 
What Mr. Kemble lately said so well with re- 
ference to archeology, our experience justifies us | 
in applying to other literary inquiries : — 
‘** On every side there is. evidence of a generous and 
earnest co-operation among those who have devoted 
themselves to special pursuits; and not only does this 
tend of itself to widen the general basis, but it supplies 
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the individual thinker with an ever widening foundation 
for his own special study.” 
And whence arises this “ earnest co-operation ?” 
Is it too much to hope that it springs from an in- | 
creased reverence for the Truth, from an intenser | 
eraving after a knowledge of it—whether such | 
Truth regards an event on which a throne de- | 
pended, or the etymology of some household word 
now familiar only to 
“.Hard-handed men who work in Athens here?” 
We feel that the kind and earnest men who 
honour our “ Nores AND Queries” with their 
correspondence, hold with Bacon, that 
“ Truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that | 
wooing of it—the knowledge of Truth, which is the 
presence of it—and the belief of Truth, which is the 
enjoying of it—is the sovereign good of human 
nature.” 
We believe that it is under the impulse of such 
feelings that they have flocked to our columns — 
that that sentiment has found its echo in the 
breast of the public, and hence the success which | 
has attended our humble efforts. The cause is so | 
great, that we may well be pardoned if we boast 
that we have had both hand and heart in it. 
