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Vol. IV.— No. 103.] Saturday, October 18. 1851. 



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CONTENTS. 



Notes : -^ 



Tlie Caxtnn Memorijil. by Bcriah Botfield 



Lnrtl Straffird and .Archbishop Ussiier - 



Poeticiil Coincidpnces. bv T. C. Smith - , " , 



Follv Lore : — Medical Use of Pigeons — iNIichaelraas 



Goose ; .St. Martin's Cock — Surrey Folk Lore 

 The Ca\ton Coffer, bv Bnlton Cnrnev - - , - 



Minor Notes : — " Thev that touch pitch --Pasquinade 



_ 'J'wo .\ttempts to show ilic Sound of " ough " tinal 



Queries : — 



Can Bishops vacate their Sees? . - - - 



Sanderson and Tavlor . - - - - 



jlinnr Queries : — " Vox vere .\n2l0rum " — '■ bacro. 

 Sr\ncta Regum ;\Injestas"— Translntor of Horrebow's 

 'Mcelaiid" — " Kings have their Conouests" — Dry- 

 den ; Ilhistrations bv T. Holt White— Pauper's 

 Badge. Meaning of— The Lrinding of William Prince 

 of Orange in Torbnv. painted by J. Nnrthcote, R.A — . 

 The Lowy of Tuiii)ri.!Ke— Bones of Birds — '-Mai- 

 Tina, a Tragedy " — Uinuccini Gii'Jery - - - 

 Minor Qi'Enirs .\nsvvered : ^ Meaning of Aneroid — 

 Fox's Cunning .--.-- 



Bepiies : — 



Archbishop of Spalatro, by Rev. J. Sanson!, &c. 

 Anagrams - - - - ",,"„." 



Discovering the Bodies of the Drowned, by Kev. A. 

 Gatty, &c. ------- 



Marriage of F.cclesiastics - - - - 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Robert Douglas — The 

 I.eman Baronetcy — Cachecnpe Bell - '• Dieu et nion 

 Droit" — Defoe's 1-Ionse at Stoke Xewington —Study 

 of Geometrv in Lanca-hire— Coke, how pronounced — 

 Qiust urne — Seneca's Jledea— The Eilitor of Jewel's 

 Works in Folio — Poetaster — Post P.ischa — Untea- 

 tnina and Siirp'ticos - Climate— Ancient Language of 

 Egypt — WcUvood's Memoirs . - - 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on B loks. Sales, Catalogues, &c. - 



Books and OJl Volumes wanted - 



Notices to Correspondents 



Advertiseroents .--.-. 



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THE CAXTON MEMORIAt. 



Few persons havin"; a common object in view, 

 and efiimlly de.'^ii'ous of its ;ittaiiiinent, fail in carry- 

 ing,' il into effect. Tlie object of " The Ca.N,ton 

 Memorial" is obviously to (in honour to the first 

 Kn;j;li.'>h printer ; and ii'u man's best monument be 

 hi-s own work?, it will be necessary to ascertain of 

 what they consist. It is well known that most of 

 the works printeil by Ca.xton were translated from 

 the Frencii, many doubtless by himself. Tlie Pre- 

 faces were evidently his own, and the continuation 



of the Pohjchronicon -was confessedly written by 

 himself. The most valuable contribution to " The 

 Caxton Coffer " would be a list of the works which 

 it is proposed to publish as those of Caxton, with, 

 some calculation of their probable e.xtent and cost 

 of production. The orifjinals being in many cases 

 of extreme rarity, it would be necessary to tran- 

 scriljc fairly each work, and to collate it with the 

 original in its progress tlu'ough the press. The 

 following enumeration of the Transhitions alone 

 will give some idea of the work to be undertaken : 



The Reciujel of the Historycs of Troije. (1471.) 



The Game and phnje of the Chesse. 1474. 



Thi/miige, or Mijrroui- of the World. (1461.) 



J'he History e of Reyiiart the foxe. 1481. 



Tlie laste siege and conqueste of Jherusaleiii. 1481. 



The Golden Legende. 1483. 



The Book called Cathoii. 1483. 



27(6 Book of the techynge of the Knyght of the 

 Toure. (1484.) 



The Fables of Esope, Avian, Alfonce, and Poge. 

 1484. 



The Boole of the ordre of Chyvalry or knyght- 

 hode. (1484-)' 



The Lyf of Prince Charles the Crete. 1485. 



The liyal Book, or Book for a kyng. 1485. 



Thystorye of the nolle knyght Parys. (1485.) 



The Doctrinal of Sapience. 1489. 



The Book offuyttee ofarmes and of Chyvalrye. 

 1489. 



A lityl treatise of the arte to knowe well to dye. 

 1490. 



The Boke nfEneydos compyled by Vyrgyle. 1490. 



The Cia-ial of Muystre Alain Charretier. n. d. 



The Lyf of the holy Vyrgyn Saynt Wenefryde. 

 n. d.; and, lastly, 



The Vitas Patnm, which was translated by 

 Caxton in I486, but printed by Wynkyn de Worde 

 in 1495. 



Such arc some of tlie materials for the " j\Iemo- 

 rial " suggested by Mr. Bolton Corney ; and if 

 the original subscribers to a Monument should 

 consent to sucli an appropriation of tlieir funds, it 

 will be necessary to apportion the number of copies 

 to be distributed to each subscriber, according to 

 the amount of the original contribution. It is to 

 be presumed that the work will be strictly limited 



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