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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
(20d S. No 25., June 21. ’56. 
and the fact cannot fail to be of interest in the 
history of monastic literature. Leland, in his 
Collectanea (vol.iv. pp. 7. 120.), quotes the titles 
of many works, “Ex quodam registro sive indice 
Bibliothece Cantuar.,” but he does not notice any 
of the volumes I have pointed out. In addition, 
however, of the proof already given, that the 
Catalogue in Trinity College, Dublin, really refers 
to St. Augustine's library at Canterbury, may be 
mentioned that, in the Old Royal Collection, Bri- 
tish Museum, and in Corpus College, Cambridge, 
many of the manuscripts from this library are yet 
existing ; and among the latter will be found 
(No. 50.) the very volume noticed above, con- 
taining Wace’s Brut, with the romances of Amis 
anil Amelion and Guy de Warewyh, §c. Not only 
do the contents identify it to be the same, but at 
the end is written, “Liber de librario Sancti 
Augustini Cantuar.” F. Mappen. 
British Museum, May 6. 
COMMON-PIACE Booxs. (1* S. xii. 366. 478. ; 
274 §. i, 303.): A GENERAL LITERARY INDEX. 
Your correspondent, F. C. H., when he explains 
an improvement upon Locke’s method for a com- 
mon-place book, assigns thirty-five years ago as 
the date of its first appearance. I beg to observe 
that the plan of a common-place book here re- 
ferred to was published in the third volume of the 
Asiatic Researches, 1792, the author of which— 
John Herbert Harington— prefixes the follow- 
ing useful remarks : 
“If a small margin be left in each folio of the book, 
and the indicative word or head be written on it, it will 
be conspicuous, although several heads should be included 
in the same folio; but until it become necessary from 
there being no more remaining folios wholly blank, it is 
advisable to appropriate a separate folio to each head, as 
by this means the several subjects entered are kept more 
distinct, and any additions may be made to the same head 
without the trouble of reference to other folios; for which 
purpose it is also advantageous to place the folio numbers 
on the left pages only, leaving the right hand pages for 
a continuation of the subjects entered on the left or for 
remarks thereon, until it become necessary to appropriate 
them to new heads in order to fill the book.” 
The revival of this plan (perhaps what was in- 
tended by your correspondent) appeared in a 
volume published by Taylor and Walton, entitled 
The Literary Diary ; or Complete Common-Place- 
Book, with an explanation and an alphabet of two 
lettérs on a leaf. More recently Todd’s Index 
Rerum has been published, intended as a manual 
to aid the student and the professional man in pre- 
paring himself for usefulness, with an Introduc- 
tion illustrating its utility and method of use. 
Mr. Todd proposes that the common-place book, 
tle very name of which is associated with drudgery 
and wearisomeness, should be superseded by the 
ee by which any passage may readily be re- 
called. 
What an invaluable common-place book would 
by degrees be formed if the bibliographical cor- 
respondents of “ N. & Q.” would carry into exe- 
cution the design noticed by the editor in 1** S. x. 
356., of a few gentlemen in the metropolis who 
had issued a “ Preliminary Prospectus of a Society 
for the compilation of a General Literary Index.” 
Hitherto little or nothing has been effected con- 
tinuously and- cumulatively in this spirit of 
friendly coalition and united laborious investiga- 
tion. Let the establishment of peace, then, be the 
propitious period whence will date the proceedings 
of British sgavans who are emulous to follow the 
example of the Parisian literati, and are ready to 
work as voluntary conscripts in this pioneering 
expedition for the common benefit. Should the 
accompanying inceptive specimen of a supple- 
ment to Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica be approved, 
I shall from time to time stimulate others more 
competent for these laborious investigations, by a 
continuation of the results of my own very limited 
observation. Meanwhile, in the hope of eliciting 
contributions, I subjoin a few subjects out of the 
specimen which was inserted in the “ Preliminary 
Prospectus of a Society for the Compilation of a 
General Literary Index.” ‘“ Fortasse semel insti- 
tute inter nos scribendi vices aliquid utilitatis ex 
7o kowoy essent allaturee. In this journal a collec- 
tion of historical facts may be enlivened by a bou- 
quet of graceful expressions, and the more complex 
departments of knowledge improved by the ‘poetry 
of Science.’ I shall only add, that an accumula- 
tion of this description will be easily transferred, 
when sufficient materials shall have been collected 
to form a book, if they be kept separate in the 
same manner as the “ Illustrations of Macaulay,” 
or the still longer series, ‘‘ Photographie Corre- 
spondence.” BierioTHECAR. CHETHAM. 
Allegiance, and Oath of Allegiance, that legal 
tie by which Subjects are bound to their Sove- 
reign. [The following are not found in Watt, 
s. v. Allegiance. ] 
“ XTV. Controversial Letters between a Gentleman of 
the Church of England and another of the Church of 
Rome. By Peter Walsh. Lond., 1674.7 ~ 
“Four Letters, on several subjects, to Persons of 
Quality. By P. W. S8vo. Lond., 1686.” 
The fourth letter is an answer to Bp. Barlow's 
book, intituled, Popery, or the Principles and Posi- 
tions approved of by the Church of Rome are very 
dangerous to all, &e. Walsh says Dodd “ was a 
great stickler for the oath of allegiance: but at 
the same time a zealous champion for the Catholic 
faith.” He wrote other works on the Jesuits’ 
Loyalty, &c. 
“The Great Loyalty of the Papists to Charles I. 4to. 
1673.” 
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