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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No, 13. 
or by Crooke. Query, Is this the origin of the 
phrase ? 
If I cannot give my authority, perhaps “J.R.F.” 
may be able to give his, for deriving it from ‘“ Fo- 
rest Customs 2” H. T. E. 
El Buscapié.— A very full and able disquisition 
on the subject of Mr. Sincer’s query (No. 11., 
p- 171.), respecting El Buscapié, will be found in 
the appendix to a work which is just published, 
viz. Ticknor’s History of Spanish Literature, vol. 
ili. Appendix D. 371. e¢ seg. That writer, whose 
opinion is entitled to credit as that of a consum- 
mate student of Spanish letters, and who gives 
good reasons for his conclusions in this instance, 
pronounces against the authenticity of the poor 
little pamphlet recently put forth as belonging to 
Cervantes. 
Those who take an interest in Spanish literature 
will find this book of Ticknor’s a most valuable 
contribution to their knowledge of its whole com- 
pass, and worth “ making a note of.” 
Richard of Cirencester, Sc. — Bishop Barlow.— 
Your correspondent “S.A. A.” (No. 6., p. 93.), 
who is desirous of further information respecting 
Richard of Cirencester, will, I am sure, peruse 
with much interest and gratification a dissertation 
on that writer by K. Wex, which first appeared in 
the Rheinisches Museum fiir Philologie for 1846, 
and was shortly after translated and inserted in 
the Gentleman's Magazine, with valuable notes by 
the translator. — Respecting the writers of notes 
on the margin of books, few notes of the kind, L 
apprehend, deserve better to be collected and 
published than those by the very learned Bishop 
Barlow, Provost of Queen’s College from the year 
1657 to 1677, and who left the chief part of his 
library to that society. The rest of his books, 
being such as were not in the Bodleian, he be- 
queathed to that library, of which he was for 
some years the librarian. The Biographia Britan- 
nica represents him to have been “an universal 
lover and favourer of learned men, of what coun- 
try or denomination soever.” J. M. 
Oxford. 
Rev. J. Edwards on Metal for Telescopes. — 
“TJ.” informs the correspondent who inquired 
(No. 11. p. 174.) respecting this valuable paper, 
that it was printed in the Nautical Almanac for 
1787, E.B. Price adds, “ A Treatise on Optical 
Instruments, published about twenty years ago by 
the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know- 
ledge, contains much useful and general informa- 
tion upon this subject; and it is stated in that 
work that Mr. Edwards's treatise, which is now 
very scarce, is republishing in the Technological 
Repository ;” while “G. B.S.” furnishes the in- 
formation that the treatise in question may be 
procured from Mr. Murray, of Albemarle Street. 
Ordination Pledges.—In reply to the inquiry of 
“Crericus” (No. 10., p.156.) for manuals contain- 
ing a complete list of Ordination Pledges, may be 
mentioned Johnson’s Clergyman’s Vade Mecum, 
2 vols. 12mo., and Williams’s Laws relating to the 
Clergy, being a Practical G'uide to the Clerical 
Profession on the Legal and Canonical Discharge 
of their various Duties, 8vo. The author of this 
useful work, which appears not to have been seen 
by Lowndes, says, in his advertisement, “The 
works which are already extant on Ecclesiastical 
Law, being either too diffuse or too concise for 
ready reference and practical use, the compiler of 
this volume has endeavoured to remedy this defect 
by the publication of the following compendium.” 
T. J. 
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 
The Percy Society have just issued A New and 
Mery Enterlude called the Triall of Treasure, 
from the edition printed at London by Thomas 
Purfoote, 1567, edited by Mr. Halliwell. The 
other works issued by the Society since May last 
(when the year’s subscription became due) have 
been A Poem (satirical) of the Times of Edward IT, 
edited by the Rev. C. Hardwick, from a MS. at 
St. Peter’s College, Cambridge, of which a less 
perfect copy from an Edinburgh MS. was printed 
by Mr. Wright, in the volume of Political Songs, 
edited by him for the Camden Society; Notices 
of Fugitive Tracts and Chap-Books, printed at 
Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Churchyard, Sc. by 
Mr. Halliwell; he Man in the Moone, or The 
English Fortune Teller, edited by the same gen- 
tleman, from the unique copy printed in 1609, 
now in the Bodleian; and lastly, The Ieligious 
Poems of William de Shoreham, Vicar of Chart- 
Sutton in Kent, in the Reign of Edward II., edited 
by Mr. Wright, from a contemporary manuscript. 
It is doubtful whether Mr. Shaw’s skill as an 
artist, fidelity as a copyist, or taste in the selection 
of his subjects, entitle him to the higher praise. 
We leave to those who are familiar with his 
Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, and 
other admirable productions, the settlement of 
this point. He has just published the first number 
of a new work, Zhe Decorative Arts of the Middle 
Ages, the object of which is to exhibit the pecu- 
liar features and general characteristics of deco- 
rative art, from the Byzantine or early Christian 
period to the decline of that termed the Renaissance. 
This beautiful work — for beautiful it is — is ex- 
tremely well timed, as it appears at a moment 
when our manufacturers who desire to display 
their skill at the great exhibition of 1851, must be 
most anxious to see “the principles by which our 
ancestors controlled their genius in producing 
articles of taste and beauty, from the precious 
metals, from enamels, from glass, from embroidery, 
