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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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St. Martin's Lane.— The first building leases of 
St. Martin’s Lane and the adjacent courts acci- 
dentally came under my notice lately. They are 
dated in 1635 and 1636, and were granted by the 
then Earl of Bedford. ARUN. 
CHARLES DEERING, M.D. 
“ Author of the Catalogue of Plants in the neigh- 
bourhood of Nottingham. ‘Catalogus Stirpium, 
&c., or a Catalogue of Plants naturally growing 
and commonly cultivated in divers parts of Eng- 
land, and especially about Nottingham,’ 8vo. 
Nottingh. 1738. 
“ He was in the suite of the English ambassador 
to Russia, returned and practised physic in London, 
married unfortunately, buried his wife, and then 
went to Nottingham, where he lived several years. 
During his abode there he wrote a small Treatise 
on the Small Pocks, this Catalogue of Plants, and 
the History of Nottingham, the materials for which 
John Plumptre, Esq. of Nottingham, was so obli- 
ging as to assist him with. He also was paid 40/. 
by a London bookseller for adding 20,000 words 
to an English dictionary. He was master of seven 
languages, and in 1746 he was favoured with a 
commission in the Nottinghamshire Foot, raised at 
that time. Soon after died, and was buried in St. 
Peter’s Churchyard. 
“William Ayscough, father of the printer of 
this Catalogus Stirpium (G. Ayscough), in 1710, 
first introduced the art of printing at Notting- 
ham. 
“ Mr. White was the same year the first printer 
at Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; and Mr. Dicey at Nor- 
thampton.” — JZS. Note in the Copy of the Cat. 
Stirpium, in the Library of the British Museum. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC. 
Our advertising columns already show some of 
the good results of the Exhibition of the Works of 
Ancient and Medieval Art. Mr. Williams an- 
nounced last week his Historic Reliques, to be 
etched by himself. Mr. Cundall has issued pro- 
posals for Choice Examples of Art Workmanship ; 
and, lastly, we hear that an J//lustrated Catalogue of 
the Exhibition, prepared by Mr. Franks, the zealous 
Honorary Secretary of the Committee, and so ar- 
ranged as to form a History of Art, may be ex- 
ected. We mention these for the purpose of 
inviting our friends to contribute to the several 
editors such information as they may think likely 
to increase the value of their respective works. 
The second edition of our able correspondent, 
Mr. Peter Cunningham's, Handbook of London, is 
on the eve of publication. 
There are few of our readers but will be glad 
to learn from the announcement in a previous 
column, that the edition of the Wickliffite Versions 
of the Scriptures, upon which Sir Frederick Mad- 
den and his fellow labourers have been engaged 
for a period of twenty years, is just completed. 
It forms, we believe, three quarto volumes. 
Messrs. Puttick and Simpson lately disposed of 
a most select and interesting collection of auto- 
graph letters. We unfortunately did not receive 
the catalogue in time to notice it, which we the 
more regret, because, like all their catalogues of 
autographs, it was drawn up with amateur-like 
intelligence and care ; so as to make it worth pre- 
serving as a valuable record of materials for our 
history and biography. 
We have received the following Catalogues of 
Books :— No. XXYV. of Thomas Cole’s (15. Great 
Turnstile) ; No. 2. for 1850, of William Heath’s 
(294. Lincoln’s Inn Fields) ; and No. 15. of Ber- 
nard Quarritch’s (16. Castle Street, Leicester 
Square) Catalogue of Oriental and Foreign 
Books. 
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 
WANTED TO PURCHASE, 
(In continuation of Lists in former Nos.) 
Mittes, Rey. Isaac, or HiGucteer —Account of the Life and 
Conversation of, with a Sermon, 8vo., 1721. 
Mykur Hazem, py Marcus, London, 1846. 
POEMS BY A BORNNATURAL, 1849. 
Odd Volumes. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE PHILOLOGICAL Society, Vol. I. 
RIcHARDSON’s CORRESPONDENCE, Vol. I. of the Six- Volume Ed. 
Topp’s Jounson’s DicTIONARY, 4to., 1819. Part X. (containing 
Title, Preface, &c.) 
ParTiInGTon’s British CycLopzpiA—That portion of Natural 
History which follows Vot. I, 
*,* Letters stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, 
to be sent to Mr. Bett, Publisher of “ NOTES AND 
QUERIES,”’ 186. Fleet Street. 
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Burning for Treason.— Can the Correspondent who 
furnished us with a curious Note upon this subject favour 
us with a copy of it, the original having been accidentally 
mislaid ? 
We are again compelled, from want of space, to omit 
many curious and interesting articles; and, after this 
statement, must beg our hind friends at Leeds, Brompton, 
&c., who complain of delay in the insertion of their com~ 
munications, to do us the favour to refer to the notice on 
this very subject which appeared in our early numbers. 
Nores ann Quenirs may be procured by the Trade at 
noon on Friday; so that our country Subscribers ought to 
experience no difficulty in receiving it regularly, Many 
of the country Booksellers are probably not yet aware of 
this arrangement, which enables them to receive Copies in 
their Saturday parcels. Part V, is now ready. 
