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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
(2nd §, Noo6., June 28. °56. 
contained, I have no doubt, much which the lover 
of ancient as well as of cheap literature would 
have prized. Not to seem quite ungrateful for 
some of his oflficious attentions, I lifted a volume 
without opening it, choosing it merely from its 
elegant binding and silk marks, which, having 
undergone the ordeal of the scales, be¢ame my 
property at the rate of 2d. Qn inspection, it 
turned out to be a handsome copy of Sermoni di 
S. Giovanni Climaco Abbate Nel Monte Sinai, &c., 
printed “in Vinegia Appresso Pietro Marinelli, 
1585 ;” and from this random specimen, it may 
be inferred, that there were many in the lot worth 
a better price. Next day the itinerant bookseller, 
with his large wheelbarrow, scales, and all, were 
not to be found; and it is probable that he had 
betaken himself to a more propitious quarter for 
his sales. 
” 
Hornchurch (1* S. v. 166.) — The origin of the 
name is given in Anecdotes and Traditions, No. 
176., Camden Society Publications : 
“ Horn Church in Essex hath its denomination from 
the horns of a hart, that happened to be killed by a king’s 
dog near the church, as it was building; and the horns 
were putin the wall of the church. Mr. Estest, a Gentle- 
man Commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, went to school 
there, and said that the stumps of the horns were extant 
in his time.” — From Aubrey. 
Mackenzie Watcort, M.A. 
Book of Common Prayer (2) 8, i. 454.) — 
“ Wherefore beseech we Him” is the authorised 
reading in the Absolution of the “Evening Prayer,” 
as N. L. T. will find by reference to the “ Sealed 
Book,” and that in this case the Cambridge printer 
is right. It seems as if the alteration has been 
made in most of our Prayer Books from want of 
attention to this little variation between the Morn- 
ing and Evening Prayer; but surely it would be 
better to avoid even such trifling inaccuracies. 
Snel. 
Jacobites of 1745 (2°° S. i. 354.) —It may be 
of service to your correspondent to know that — 
“ A list of persons attainted and adjudged to be guilty 
of high treason in G. Britain since the 24th June, 1745, 
taken mostly from a list dated Exehequer- Chamber, Edin- 
burgh, Sept. 24, 1647, and spelled and designed as in it ”— 
will be found in the Scots Magazine for the year 
1747, vol. ix. p. 649. The editors of this maga- 
zine had endeavoured to render it as to the events 
of the Rebellion an exact and faithful register, 
and its pages therefore are always worth consulta- 
tion. G.N. 
Mayor of London in 1335 (2"4 S. i. 353. 483.) 
—As a small black letter edition of Stowe’s 
Chronicle in my possession, imperfect at beginning 
and end, but which was probably published in 
1598, seems to have an independent reading, at 
variance from the editions consulted by your cor- 
* 
respondents (unless perchance it agree with ed. 
1607, of which I have no copy at hand), you may 
perhaps think it worth while to insert the follow- 
ing extract : 
1333. 
Shrives. John Haman, William Hansard. 
Maior. Sir John Pultney, Draper. 
1334. Edward Balioll, King of Scots, did homage to 
King Edward at New Castle upon Tyne, and shortly 
after he received homage of the Duke of Britaine for 
his Earldome of Richmond. 
Shrives. John Kingstone, Walter Turke. 
Maior. Reignold at Conduit, Vintner. 
1535. Part of the Universitie of Oxford went to Stam- 
ford, because of a variance that fell betweene the 
Northren and Southerne Schollers. The sea bankes 
brake in through all England, but specially in Thames, 
so that all the cattell and beasts neare thereunto were 
drowned. 
Shrives. Walter Morden, Richard Upton. 
Maior. Richard Wotton. 
1336. King Edward made his eldest sonne Edward 
Earle of Chester, and Duke of Cornwall. It was en- 
acted that no wooll should be convayed out of the 
Realme. 
Shrives. John Clarke, William Curtis. 
Maior. Sir John Pultney, Draper.” 
It will be seen that, according to this account, 
Sir John Pultney was twice mayor, in 1333, and 
in 1336; whilst in 1337, and again in 1338, Stowe 
gives Henrie Darcie as mayor, not leaving room 
for Nicholas Wotton in the former year, where 
Heylin places him. J. SANSOM. 
Parochial Libraries (2° S. i. 459.) — Allow me 
to add to your list of parochial libraries that of 
Wotton Wawen, co. Warw. George Dunscomb, 
M.A. presented A°. 1645, ob. 1652, — 
“A man of extraordinary worth in his time, good 
scholar, and an honest and pious man, whose memory is 
very sweet,” and “ who was long lamented and reverenced 
in the parish, gave some good books for the use of his 
parishioners, which were preserved in the vicarage house, 
till, at the request of the people, they were chained to a 
desk in the south aisle of the church, April 11th, 1693.”— 
Harwood’s Alumni Eton. 
I do not know whether they are still chained, 
but they still exist, as I learn from the Rev. H. N. 
Goldney, of Wotton Wawen, who describes them 
to me as works “ of the Puritan divines.” 
James Know tes. 
In the list given in the Note, I do not see 
“ Worsborough, near Barnsley in Yorkshire,” 
where there still exists, in the parish school, an old 
and curious collection of books presented by one 
Dr. Obadiah Walker, whose tombstone is in St. 
Pancras Churchyard. Mr. Hunter mentions this 
collection in his South Yorkshire, vol. ii. p. 298. 
. ; J. Eastwoop. 
Eckington. 
Permit me to add to your list the library at 
Bromham Church, in the county of Bedford, situ- 
ated over the south porch, and containing many 
