NOTES AND QUERIES. 
corrupt Latin word salu, I have nothing better to 
offer than the forlorn conjecture that, in monkish 
Latin, “ salt#” may have been contractedly writ- 
ten for saltuatim. ! 
Dr. Leo, in his Angelsdchsiche Sprachproben, 
has reprinted the Colloguy, but without the Latin, 
and, among many other capricious deviations from 
Mr. Thorpe’s text, in the answer of the shoewright 
has printed hygefata! but does not notice the 
word in his Glossary. Herr Leo has entirely 
omitted the word sprote. S. W. Sincer. 
Jan. 14. 1850. 
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LOGOGRAPHIC PRINTING. 
[ Naso has, in compliance with our request, furnished 
us with a facsimile of the heading of his early number 
of The Times, which is as follows : =“ Tne (here an 
engraving of the King’s Arms) Times, or Dairy Uni- 
versai. Reoister, Printrep LococraruicatLy, Wep- 
nespay, Marcu 12. 1788,” and informs us that it was 
printed « By R. Nutkins, at the Logographie Press, 
Printing-House Square, near Apothecaries’ Hall, 
Blackfriars,” and the height to which the Mr. Walter 
of that day had brought his invention, by the same 
energy by which bis successor has raised Tne Tres 
to its present position, is shown by the following note 
from a kind and most able correspondent. ] 
A much more remarkable specimen of Logo- 
graphi¢ Printing than the number of the Times 
newspaper mentioned by Naso, No. 9., p. 136., is 
an edition of Anderson’s History of Commerce, 
with a continuation, in 4 vols. 4to., printed by 
that method, in 1787—1789, “at the Logographic 
Press, by J. Walter, Printing-House Square, 
Blackfriars.” The work, which makes in all not 
much short of 4000 pages, is very well printed in 
all respects ; and the following interesting note on 
the subject of Logographic Printing is attached to 
the preface heading the Continuation, or fourth 
volume. 
« Mr, Walter cannot here omit suggesting to the 
Public a few obsetvations on his improved mode of 
printing tocoéraruicatty. In all projects for the 
general benefit, the individual who conceives that the 
trade in which he is engaged diminishes in its emolu- 
ments from any improvement which another may pro- 
duce in it, is too much disposed to become its enemy ; 
and, perhaps, the interest of individuals never exerted 
itself with more inveteracy than has been experienced 
by Mr. Walter from many concerned in the trade into 
which he had entered. ? 
“ The invention which he brought forward, promised 
to be of essential service to the public, by expediting 
the process and lessening the expense of printing. Dr. 
Franklin sanctioned it with his approbation, and Sir 
Joseph Banks encouraged him with the most decided 
and animated opinion of the great advantages which 
would arise to literature from the Lococrarnic Press. 
Nevertheless Mr. Walter was left to struggle with the 
interest of some, and the prejudice of others, and, 
though he was honoured by the protection of several 
persons of high rank, it happened in his predicament, 
as it generally happens in predicaments of a similar 
nature, that his foes were more active than his friends, 
and he still continued to struggle with every difficulty 
that could arise from a very determined opposition 
to, and the most illiberal misrepresentations of, the 
Lococraruic ImprovEMENT. 
«“ Mr. Walter has, however, at length triumphed over 
the falseliood and malignity of his opponents; Loco- 
cGraruHic Printine, after having produced such a work 
as this, which he now presents to the public, with 
many excellent publications that he has already printed, 
can no longer be considered as an idle speculation : on 
the contrary, it is proved to be a practical improve- 
ment, that promises, under a due encouragement, to 
produce a great national benefit. To advance it to 
the perfection of which it is capable, Mr. Walter en- 
gages to employ his utmost exertions, and he takes the 
liberty of expressing his confidence, that he shall not 
be disappointed in the enjoyment of that public favour 
which now promises to reward his labours.” 
Old Brompton, Jan. 3. 1850. GC. 
[We may mention another work printed in this 
manner —an edition of Robinson Crusoe, in 3 vols. 8vo. 
1790 —* printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by 
J. Walter, No. 169. Piccadilly, opposite Old Bond Street.” | 
MEMORIALS OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH’S 
LAST DAYs.* 
At arecent meeting of the Royal Irish Academy 
in Dublin, Dr. Anster exhibited a manuscript 
volume of 157 pages, which he declared to be the 
identical “ album filled with songs, recipes, prayers, 
and charms” found in the Duke of Monmouth’s 
pocket when he was seized. It was purchased at 
a book-stall in Paris in 1827 by an Irish divinity 
student, was given by him to a priest in the county 
of Kerry, and, on the priest’s death, became the 
property of the present possessor. Respecting its 
identity and history, from its removal from the 
rebel duke’s pocket down to its production at the 
Royal Irish Academy, Dr. Anster showed that 
after Monmouth was beheaded —which he was on 
Tower Hill, by the too-celebrated John Ketch, on 
the 15th July, 1685 —the articles found on his 
person were given to the king. At James’s depo- 
sition, three years afterwards, all his manuscripts, 
including those that had belonged to Monmouth, 
were carried into France, where they remained 
till the Revolution in that country a century after- 
* We are indebted to the last number of Chambers’ 
Edinburgh Journal for this interesting supplement to 
the various particulars respecting the capture of the 
Duke of Monmouth which have already appeared in 
our columns. It there forms the conclusion of an arti- 
cle on the last days of this unfortunate nobleman, 
founded on the communications which have been made 
to the  Nores anp Queries,” and kindly adduced to 
show the utility of our paper. 
