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“ Garcons et filles, venez toujours ; 
La lune fait clarté comme le jour ; 
Venez au bruit d’un joyeux éclat ; 
Venez de bon cceur, ou ne venez pas.” 
W. (1.) 
St. Antholin’s Parish Books.—In common with 
many of your antiquarian readers, I look forward 
with great pleasure to the selection from the en- 
tries in the St. Antholin’s Parish Books, which are 
kindly promised by their present guardian, and, I 
may add, intelligent expositor, “ W. C.” 
St. Antholin’s is, on several accounts, one of the 
most interesting of our London churches ; it was 
here, Strype tells us (Annals, I.i. p.199.), “ the 
new morning prayer,” 7. e., according to the new 
reformed service-book, first began in September, 
1559, the bell beginning to ring at five, when a 
psalm was sung after the Geneva fashion, all the 
congregation, men, women, and boys, singing to- 
gether. It is much to be regretted that these 
registers do not extend so far back as this year, 
as we might have found in them entries of interest 
to the Church historian; but as “ W.C.” tells us 
the volumes are kept regularly up to the year 
1708, I cannot but hope he may be able to pro- 
duce some notices of what Mr. P. Cunningham 
calls, “the Puritanical fervour” of this little 
parish. “ St. Antling’s bell,” and “ St. Antling’s 
preachers,” were proverbial for shrillness and pro- 
lixity, and the name is a familiar one to the stu- 
dents of our old dramatists. Let “ W.C.” bear 
in mind, that the chaplains of the Commissioners 
of the Church of Scotland, with Alexander Hen- 
derson at their head, preached here in 1640, com- 
manding crowded audiences, and that a passage 
was formed from the house where they lodged into 
a gallery of this church; and that the pulpit of St. 
Antholin’s seems, for many years, to have been 
the focus of schism, faction, and sedition, and he 
may be able to bring forward from these happily 
reserved registers much interesting and valuable 
information. D.S. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, &c. 
No one can have visited Edinburgh, and gazed 
upon 
“ The height 
Where the huge Castle holds its state,” 
without having felt a strong desire to learn the 
history of that venerable pile, and the stirring 
tales which its grey walls could tell. What so 
many must have wished done, has at length been 
accomplished by Mr. James Grant, the biographer 
of Kirkaldy of Grange, the gallant governor of 
that castle, who was so treacherously executed by 
the Regent Morton. His work, just published 
under the title of Memorials of the Castle of 
Edinburgh, contains its varied history, ably and 
pleasantly narrated, and intermixed with so much 
illustrative anecdote as to render it an indispens- 
able companion to all who may hereafter visit one 
of the most interesting, as well as most remarkable 
monuments of the metropolis of Scotland. 
The lovers of fine engravings and exquisite 
drawings will have a rare opportunity of enriching 
their portfolios in the course of the next and fol- 
lowing week, as Messrs. Leigh Sotheby and Co., 
of Wellington Street, commence on Monday a nine 
days’ sale of a magnificent collection of engravings, 
of the highest quality, of the ancient and modern 
Italian, German, Dutch, Flemish, French, and 
English schools, which comprises some superb 
drawings of the most celebrated masters of the 
different schools of Europe. 
We have received the following Catalogues : — 
Bernard Quaritch’s (16. Castle Street, Leicester 
Square) Catalogue of Oriental and Foreign Books, 
comprising most Languages and Dialects of the 
Globe; and John Miller’s (43. Chandos Street) 
Catalogue, Number Four for 1850, of Books, Old 
and New. 
WANTED TO PURCHASE. 
Odd Volumes. 
CrevieR — History oF THE RomMAN Emperors, 8vo. London, 
J. and P. Knapton, 1755, Vols. I. and II. 
Plate 2. to the 11th chapter of Vol. III. of StuartT’s ATHENS. 
JOURNALS OF THE House or Lorps, from 1660 to 1688. 
*,* Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, 
to be sent to Mr. Bell, Publisher of “NOTES AND 
QUERIES,” 186. Fleet Street. 
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
As we have been again compelled to omit many articles 
which we are anxious to insert, we shall next week give 
an enlarged Number of 24 pages, instead of 16, so as to 
clear off our arrears. 
Arnot’s Physics. A copy of this work has been re- 
ported to Mr, Bell; will our correspondent who wishes 
for it forward his name and address ? 
Public Records. 
MONUMENTA HISTORICA BRITANNICA. 
Just published, folio, 5 guineas half-bound (printed by Her 
Majesty’s command), 
ATERIALS for the HISTORY of 
BRITAIN, from the earliest period. Vol. I., extending 
to the Norman Conquest. “Sir Robert Inglis remarked, that 
this work had been pronounced, by one of our most competent 
collegiate authorities, to be the finest work published in Europe.” 
—Proceedings in Parliament, March 11. 1850. 
Henry Burrerwortn, Publisher to the Public Record De- 
partment, 7. Fleet Street. 
Of whom may be had, 8vo., 6d. sewed, 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of the 
RECORD PUBLICATIONS. 
SCRIPTURE RULE OF MARRIAGES. 
This day is published, in post 8vo., price Twopence ; 
ls. 6d. per dozen, or 10s. per hundred, 
ET US UPHOLD the SCRIPTURE RULE 
4 of MARRIAGES: an Earnest Address to Englishmen. 
By the Rev. Abner W. Brown, M.A. 
London: Sampson Low, 169. Fleet Street. 
