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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 91. 



commission for the British Museum, for the sum of 

 12/. 10s. 



Tlie AthentEum of Saturday last publishes some in- 

 quiries from Mr. Payne Collier comiected with the 

 manuscript play by Anthony Mundy, which forms the 

 subject of Sill F. Maddex's interesting coniniunicution 

 in our present number. ]Mr. Collier is about to edit 

 the drama in question for tlie Shakspeare Society ; and 

 the object of his paper, which well deserves the at- 

 tention of our readers, is to obtain information respect- 

 ing two wizards or magicians who figure in it, the one 

 named John a Kent, and the other John a Cumber, who 

 must formerly have been popular heroes, and been re- 

 corded in ballads and cliapbooks which have now en- 

 tirely disappeared. We call attention to these inquiries 

 with the view of giving additional publicity to them, 

 and in the hope of procuring from i\Ir. Collier some 

 Notes respecting these old world heroes, of one of whom, 

 John a Kent, some particulars are to be found, we be- 

 lieve, in Co.Ke's Monmoutlishire. 



The obituary of the past week coi:tains the name of 

 one of the most distinguished historical writers of the 

 present day, the Rev. Dr. Lingard. An able and 

 zealous champion of the Church of which he was so 

 eminent a member, his tolerant s])irit and independent 

 principles show that of Dr. Lingard may be said, what 

 was applied with admirable propriety to liis co-reli- 

 gionist, the late learned librarian at Stowe, by Sir 

 James Macintosh, that he was 



" True to his faith, but not the slave of Rome." 



Tlie sale of M. Donnadieu's valuable collection of 

 Autographs will commence on Tuesday next, and 

 occupy five days. The Catalogue, which has been pre- 

 pared by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson with their 

 usual care, is itself a very interesting document. Our 

 limits will not of course admit of our specifying a tithe 

 of the curious and valuable articles which are now to 

 be brouglit to the hammer: but as specimens of the 

 richness of the collection, we will point out a few 

 which are of importance, as illustrative of English 

 history. Lot 16.5, for instance, is Charles I.'s Mar- 

 riage Contract with the Infanta of Spain, a document 

 of the highest value, but which has not, we 

 believe, as yet been printed either accurately or en- 

 tirely. Lot 184 is a most interesting letter from 

 Charles If. to his Sister the Duchiss of Orleans, written 

 from Canterbury the day after he landed at Dover; 

 while Lot 661 is a most pathetic Letter from the Duke 

 of Monmouth to the Earl of liochester, entreating his 

 intercession with James, and written five days before 

 his execution. Lot 254 is The Original Warrant to 

 the Lord Mayor of London, directing him to proclaim 

 Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of 

 England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Dominions thereto 

 belonging; and Lot 500, a f'l'arrant of the Privy Council 

 of Lady June Gray, is a document of the highest im- 

 portance, as proving (what has been doubted) that the 

 Council of Lady Jane Grey did actually perform 

 official acts as a Council. These of course are among 

 the gems of the collection ; but in the whole thousand 

 lots there is not one but is of interest. 



Cat.xi.oguks Received. — J. Sage's (4. Newman's 

 Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields) INliscellaneous List for 



July, 1851, of Valuable and Interesting Books; T. 

 Kerslake's (3. Park Street, Bristol) Catalogue of 

 Books lately bought. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTEn TO PURCHASE. 



Live of Dr. Aunold. 2 Vols. 8vo. 



Hailwav Magazine or Journal, 1S44 and 1?45. 



Knight s Symbolical Langu .ge, 1818. 



Willis's .■iucmriicTuiiE op tiik Middle .Ages. 



Clahkson's History of Richmond, '2nd Kdition. 4to. 



BuiTisii FoETs. Whatinglia-n's Edition, boards or quires, with- 

 out tlie Plates. 



BiBELii EccLusiA Ante-Diluviana, &c. Argent. 4to. IfifiS. 



Ty.ndale's" Parable of the wicked Mammon." Any Edition 

 prior to 1550. 



The Daphms and Chloe o? Longcs. Courier's French Trans- 

 lation. 



Bell's .System of Surgery. Vol. I. 



The Chirukgical Works of Pekcival Potts. Vol. I. 



Bryant, Dissukt. on the War of Troy. 4to. 



Obsirv. on Le Chevalier's Plain of Troy. 4to. 



Mobett's ViNuic. of Homer. 4to. 



Br VDGES. Res LiiEUARi.E. BiDL. AND Critical. 3 Vols. 8vo. 



Byres, Etrurian .ANTiQi^rnEs, by Hou'.ird. Folio. 



Cr tical Observ.itions on Books ; Ancient and Modern. 5 Vols. 

 8io. 



DoMESDAY^ Book. 4 Vols. Folio. 



Drummond, History of Noble British Families. 



Corona mistica Beate Virginis .Marie Gluriose. Impressa 

 Antewerpie per G. Leeii. 14U'2. 



Passionael EFTE Dat Eevent der Heiligen. Folio. Basil. 1522. 



Broemel, M. C. H., FestTanzen deb Ersten Christen. Jeaa. 

 8vo. 1705. 



Allan Cunningham's Traditionary Tales op the Peasantry. 

 2 \'oU. 12mo. Two copies wanted. 



Stewart's I'HiLosnpHY' of the Human Mind. 4to. Vol. I. 



Arthur Young s Travels in Italy. 



The Demon, &c., by James Hinton. London : J. Mason. 



Wandelini, IV ExercitationesinPeriodum Antk-Diluvianum 

 HisTORi.K .SACRiE Vet. Test. H ilniae. 4to. 1C52. 



Steihani Thesauiu's. Valpy. P.irts I. 11. X. XI. and XXIX. 



The Sicorfd I'ol. of CuAMcEiis' Cyclopaedia of English Lite- 

 rature. 



Aikin's Select Works of the British Poets. 10 Vols. 24nio. 

 Published liy Longmans and Co. 1821. Vols. 1. V. and VIU. 

 wanted. 



Maukham's History of France. Vol. II. li)30. 



Markiiam's History of England. Vol. II. 1S30. Sixth Edition. 



James's Naval History. (G Vols. 8vo.) 1822-4. Vol. VI. 



Hume's History of England. (8 Vols. 1818.) Vol. IV. 



Russell's Europe, from the Peace of Utrecht. 4to. 1824. 

 Vol. II. 



Watt's Bidliotheca Britannica, Part V. 4to. 



SriiUTT's Manners and Ccsto.ms. Vol.11. 4to. 



Old Baylev Sessions Papers, 1744 to 1774, or any portion 

 lliereot". 4lo. 



Colden's History of the Five Indian Nations op Canada. 

 \'oI. I. 12mo. Loud. 1755. 



Hearne (T.) Leland's Itinerary. Vols. I. II. III. and VII. 



D'Arblay's Diary-. Vol. III. 



Chevalier Kamsay, Fssai de Politique, oil Ton traite de la 

 Necessite. de I'Origiiie, des Droits, des Bornes et des ililierentes 

 Formes de la .Sonverainete, selon les Pnncipes de I'Anteiir de 

 Telemaqiie. 2 Vols. I'imo. La Haye, without date, but 

 printed in 1710. 



The same. Second Edition, under the title " Essai Philosophique 

 sur le Gouvernenniit Civil, selon les Principes de Fcnelon," 

 12ITI0. Londres, 1 721. 



Sir Thos. Elyot, the Governour. 1st Edit. 1531. 



liASTWicK iDr. Jos.) Supplementum, &c., 1U35. 



Engraved Portraits of Bishop Butler. 



MARLBiROUGH DISPATCHES. Volumes IV. and V. 



Art Journal, IRS'J to 1844 inclusive. Also 1819. 



BuLWER's Novels. I'inio. Published at Gs. per Vol. Pilgrims 

 of tlie Kliiue, .Alice, and Zanoni. 



Dr. .Adams' Sermon on the ubligatiivn of Virtue. Any edi- 

 tion. 



•»* Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, 

 to be S'nt to Mr. Bell, Publisher of "NOTEa AND 

 QUERIES," 13G. Fleet Street. 



