Dec. 29. 1849.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
143 
At the foot of an earlier print of this relic, the 
inscription is given thus —FERARE Gop — and 
till the appearance of Mr. Scott’s version, I had 
considered the former word as an accidental error 
of the engraver, instead of rEaRE; which would 
present a moral motto, suiting the sopRiI EsSTOTE 
round the lid. —As Mr. Nichols, in his recent 
interesting work on Pilgrimages to Walsingham 
and Canterbury, noticing the misnomer of the 
cup (p. 229, n.), indicates its date to be of “the 
early part of the sixteenth century,” perhaps some 
one of your well-informed readers could state if 
any artist-goldsmith of that era, and of that name, 
be known. ALIcul. 
Sir Henry Herbert's Office- Book. —I should be 
lad to know if any of your readers can tell me 
the “ whereabouts” of Sir Henry Herbert's Office- 
Book, a MS. frequently referred to by Malone, 
Chalmers, and Collier. Sir Henry Herbert was 
Master of the Revels to King James the First, and 
the two succeeding kings, and the said MS. con- 
tains an account of almost every piece exhibited 
at any of the theatres from August, 1623, to the 
commencement of the rebellion in 1641. Malone, 
in his Historical Account of the English Stage 
(edit. Boswell, iii. 57.), says, in a note — 
“ For the use of this very curious and valuable 
manuscript I am indebted to Francis Ingram, of 
Ribbisford, near Bewdley, in Worcestershire, Esq., 
Deputy Remembrancer in the Court of Exchequer. 
It has lately been found in the same old chest which 
contained the manuscript Memoirs of Lord Herbert of 
Cherbury, from which Mr. Walpole, about twenty years 
ago, printed the life of that nobleman, who was elder 
brother to Sir Henry Herbert.” 
In another place, Malone adds : — 
“ This valuable manuscript, having lain for a con- 
siderable time in a damp place, is unfortunately 
damaged, and in a very mouldering condition: how- 
ever, no material part of it appears to have perished.” 
Such being the case, it becomes more than ever 
desirable that this interesting volume should be 
sought after, and the whole of its contents put on 
record before its total decay. Surely, if its de- 
positary is known, and accessible, it is well worth 
the attention of the Shakspeare Society, or some 
other learned body instituted for the preservation 
of documents of this nature. 
A biographical account of the various persons 
that have held the appointment of “ Master of the 
Revels,” with such particulars of the stage as 
would necessarily fall in, would form a valuable 
Prolegomena to the publication of Sir Henry’s 
Office-Book. We have, it is true, much informa- 
tion upon this subject, but in a very scattered 
form. ; 
Ihave now before me a list of the “ Masters of 
the Revells,” with the dates of their patents, 
which I beg to transcribe. It is of more than 
ordinary value, being in the handwriting of Sir 
Henry Herbert himself, and copied at the back of 
the worthy knight’s “ Petition to Charles the 
Second against the Grant to Killesrew and Dave- 
nant to form Two Companies of Players.” 
* Masters of y€ Revells. 
* Sir Richard Guilford - 
Sir Thomas Cawerden - 
Sir Thomas Beneger_ - 
Sir John Fortescue - 
Edmund Tilney, Esq. - 
Sir George Buck - - 
Sir John Astley - - 
Benjamin Johnson - 
Sir Henry Herbert, and 
Simon Thelwall, Esq. 
not on record. 
[1544] 36 Henry VIII. 
not on record. 
not on record. 
July 24 [1578] 21 Eliz. 
June 23 [1603] 1 Jae. 
[1612] 10 Jae. I. 
[1617] 15 Jac. I. 
i Aug. 21 [1629] 5 Car. I.” 
Epwarp F. Rimpavtr. 
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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 
WANTED TO PURCHASE. 
(In continuation of Lists in former Nos.) 
. Dr. Brook Taytor’s Perspective. Ist. edit. 1715. 
+ Dr. Austin’s CriiicaL EXAMINATION OF THE First S1x Books 
oF Evuciip. (Date not known.) 
. Dr. ABRAHAM ROBERTSON ON RATIO AND Proportion. Ox- 
ford, 1804. 
. Lawson’s DISSERTATION ON TRE ANALYSIS OF THE ANTIENTS, 
Edited by Fryer, and printed in Bristol 1809.— [The par- 
ticular copy wanted is interleaved with thick paper and MS. 
alterations by the Editor. It was surreptitiously obtained 
from its owner: but the books of the person who had it are 
dispersed. ] 
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