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No. 11.] SATURDAY, JANUARY i2. 1850, ees ee 
ee CONTENTS. ae The volume commences at Lady-day, 1648, with 
Sir E. Dering’s Household Book, by E. Rimbault . 161 | the oifts of his grandmother Cramond, and his 
Brn Deuce Geis mcaeMurtindgitl os : > 163 | uncles Dr. Harvey and Eliab Harvey. Nov. 8. 1648, 
Plagiarisms, or Parallel Passages - = = - j¢3 | isa memorandum of receipts of “ the full remainder 
Boke han FiysEear Bei Walde i ; i aa 3 of the three thousand pounds he was to pay me on 
Opinions on English Historians, No, Il.—Lord Clarendon 165 
MISCELLANIES : — 
Books by the Yard — Thistle of Scotland — Miry-land 
Town — Richard Greene of Lichfield — Lobster on 
Medal of Pretender— Marescautia—Macaulay’s Young 
Levite — Travelling in England — Warning to Watch- 
men — #lfric’s Colloguy — Humble Pie — By Hook or 
by Crook — Origin of Grog — Barnacles — Vondel’s 
Lucifer — Dr. Faustus — To Fettle, &c. - - 166 
Queries: — 
Catacombs and Bone-houses, by Rey. A. Gatty - - 71 
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Ancient Alms-Basins - - - - 
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Junius ?— Ballad of Dick and the Devil — Erasmus’ 
Paraphrase — Iland Chest — Court of Wards — Ancient 
Tiles— Pilgrimage of Kings—Anthony Bek—Welsh 
Custom—Fall of Rain—Metal for Telescopes—Colonel 
Blood’s House — Lucas’s MS. — Theophania — MS. 
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SIR EDWARD DERINGS* HOUSEHOLD BOOK, A.D. 
1648-52, 
About ten years since, I remember seeing, in 
the hands of a London bookseller, a curious MS. 
purporting to be the “ Household Book of Receipts 
and Expences of Sir Edward Dering, Bart., of 
Surrenden Dering, Kent, from Lady-Day, 1648, to 
April, 1652.” It was a thin folio, in the original 
binding, entirely in the hand-writing of the distin- 
guished baronet. 
Sir Edward was the only son of Sir Edward 
Dering, the first baronet, by his second wife, 
Anne, daughter of Sir John Ashburnham, of 
Ashburnham, Sussex, Knt. He succeeded to the 
baronetey upon the death of his father, in 1644, 
and married Mary, daughter of Daniel Harvey, 
Esq., of Combe, Surrey, who was brother of the 
famous Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circula- 
tion of the blood. 
* The successor of the Sir Edward Dering, from 
whose Household Book the Rev. Lambert B. Larking 
communicated the interesting entries in No. 9. p. 130. 
EES ee ee ns 
SECOND EDITION. ll 
my marriage.” The receipts close March 25, 
1652, with “ a note of what money I have received 
for rent, wood, &c.; in effect, what I have to live 
upon, for four years, 1413. 8s.” The expenses 
begin at the same period; and among the earliest 
is, “ given my wife, in gold, 1007.” Under the 
date Aug. 4. 1648, we read, “Item: paid Mr, Ed- 
ward Gibbes, to the use, and by the appointment 
of my sister Dorothy, it being her portion, 1200/.” 
Dorothy was probably Sir Edward’s only sister, 
by the same mother, Sir Edward, the first baronet’s 
second wife. Her sun of life soon set; for Feb, 
21. 1650, a whole page is occupied with items of 
mourning “at the death of my deare and only 
sister, the Lady Darell.” p 
Independently of the frequent notices of re- 
latives, almost serving as a family history, there 
are entries of high interest to the general historian 
and the antiquary. The costs of every article of 
use and virtu are set down in full, and a few 
of the items (which I find in my Common-place 
Book) will serve as a specimen of the general 
contents : — 
It. for seeing two plaies with my 
“1648. July 31, 
wife, &¢c., coach hire, &e., 11. 6s. 
— Sept. 2. It. paid the upholsterer for a 
counterpayne to the yellow per- 
petuana bed - + 3l. 10s, 
SSE DG Ze Paid Mr. Winne, for a tippet of 
sables for my wife - 14. 
— Nov, 23, For a copy of Marg. Dering’s 
office - . 9s. 
— Dee. 23. It. paid Mr. Le Neve, in part for 
my wife’s picture - Sl. 
— Mar. 8. It. a velvet saddle furniture for 
my wife, 131. It. black sattin, 
for a gown for her, 7. It. two 
diamond rings . 131. 
“1649. Aprill6. It. given seeing Roehampton- 
House - - 6s, 
— April 2s. It. paid Mr. Le Neve, the remain- 
der due for my wife’s picture, 
