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[No. 96. 



tlie collar is also to be found. He died in 1433, 

 and was one of the executors named in the will of 

 King Henry IV. * 



10. The monument in Yutton Church, Somer- 

 setshire, representing a judge in his robes, is 

 traditionally ascribed to Sir Richard Newton, 

 who died Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 

 1449. This is, I believe, the first example of a 

 judge being represented with the collar of SS. 



11. The silver collars of the king's livery be- 

 queathed by the will of John Baret of Bury, may 

 be presumed, although he did not die till after the 

 accession of Edward IV., to be of the livery of 

 Henry VI. ; as he is not only represented on his 

 tomb, which he had erected during Henry's reign, 

 with the collar of SS. ; but the chantry, also built 

 by him, is profusely ornamented with the same 

 collar, enclosing his monogram J. B. He pro- 

 bably received the privilege of wearing it during 

 Henry's visit to St. Edmondsbury in 1433.f 



I shall be glad to see a continuation of this list 

 carried on through subsequent reigns, since it is 

 only by the multiplication of examples that we 

 shall be enabled to form a more correct conclu- 

 sion on the various questions connected with this 

 interesting subject. 



Will one of your correspondents kindly inform 

 me where it appears that Richard II. ever wore 

 the collar of SS. ? Edward Foss. 



PRINTING. 



This art cannot be assigned to any single year, 

 but must rather be referred to a decenniuin ; and 

 the one in which we now are (1851 — 1860), is 

 certainly the first decennium of the fifth century 

 of the existence of tiie art. If anything were 

 proposed in the way of celebration of this ajmi- 

 versary, probably the year 1855 would be chosen, 

 not only as the year which touches the middle of 

 the decennium, but as being very probably the 

 year in which the printing of the Bible was com- 

 pleted. We have then a year or two to consider 

 in what manner the spirit which anniversaries 

 usually call up shall be turned to account. The 

 following will probably be suggested. 



A feed. If we could call down Fust and Guten- 

 berg to witness that within twelve hours after 

 dessert and commonplaces are finished, an account 

 of the dinner, as long as three epistles of St. Paul, 

 would be about the world in something like a 

 hundred thousand copies, such a celebration would 

 have a strong point of interest about it. 



A monument in scidpture. That is to say, a lame 

 subscription, a committee, five-and-twenty abusive 

 paragraphs before the tiling is done, one more 

 when, ten years after, it is completed, and a short 



* Devon's Issue Roll, 334. 



■[• Bury Wills, Camden Soc. 15- 



-44. 233. 



notice in the handbooks of London in all time to 

 come. 



If these two modes are abandoned, many others 

 would be proposed. Mine wouUl be, a subscription 

 to defray the expense of publishing, on a large 

 scale, a book of fac-similes of early typography, 

 to be sold at a cheap rate, with such prefatory 

 matter as would form an accurate popular history 

 of printing from 1450 to 1550. The great in- 

 terest with which I saw plain working men looking 

 at the treasures now exhibited in glass cases at 

 the British Museum, made me think of this. 



Reference is frequently made upon the origin 

 of printing, to xhe. fascicithis temporum, or Cologne 

 Chronicle. In one place I find a citation in sup- 

 port of the Gutenberg Bible having been com- 

 menced in 1450 ; in another citation it is only 

 affirmed that printing was first done in that year. 

 The only edition I have the means of consulting at 

 this moment is that of Ratdolt, 1484. And here 

 I find nothing about printing except that, of the 

 year 1457 and thereabouts, it is said that 



" Artifices mira celeritate subtiliores solito fiunt. Et 

 impressores librorum multiplicant in terra." 



In the preface Ratdolt says that he had printed 

 the fasciculus three times already', of which Hain 

 mentions two. He says, moreover, that this fourth 

 (Venice) edition was cura et opera diligentiori. 

 Did Ratdolt, after inquiry, abandon the more 

 specific account above cited, and content himself 

 with the above sentence, as expressing all that 

 could be verified ; or, as I have sometimes sup- 

 posed, do different looks circulate under the title 

 oi fascicidus temporum? Be this as it may, Rat- 

 dolt expressly refers to the great impulse which 

 the mechanical arts in general received just about 

 the time when printing became common. Now 

 we may hope the same thing of the decennium on 

 which we are entering, the beginning of which is 

 made conspicuous by the great forcing-house of 

 art, which has not yet got the name it is to keep. 



M. 



FOLK LORE. 



Bihle divination in Suffolk. — In Suffolk it is a 

 practice on New Year's Eve to open a Bible at 

 midniglit, and the passage upon which they stick 

 a pin will be the luck (good or bad) that attends 

 them the following year. R. J. S. 



Mode of Discovering the Bodies of the Drowned. 

 — AVhat must we think of the following, transcribed 

 from the Gentlemaiis Mag., vol. xxxvii. p. 189.? 

 Can such things be ? 



"Wednesday, A^-ril 8, 1767. 



" An inquisition was taken at Neivbery, Berks, on 



the body of a child near two years old, who fell into 



the river Kennet, and was drowned. The jury brought 



in their verdict accidental death. Tlie body was dis- 



