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flier's text, in which, if he had the last or second leaf of 

 the Table, he ■would find this inscription : ' Imprinted at 

 London in Povvles Churcheyarde, by Jhon Cawoode, 

 Prynter to the Qiienes Maiestie Anno MDLXI. Cum 

 Priuilegio Regife Maiestatis.' Tiie title-page also bears 

 the date 15G1. Mr. F., in the first word of Gen. xxxi. 

 and xxxii., has mistaken a capital JJ (U) for a W, and 

 his quotation from Xumeri xxi. should be xxii. He will 

 also find that Gen. xi. and xiiii., and many other chapters, 

 begin with Gothic capitals. The width of the page at 

 the head line is five inches. In a perfect state this book 

 is extremely rare. My copy is remarkably perfect ; tiiat 

 in the Museum wants the title. Of the autograph I am 

 no judge, but it is doubtful whether the Queen would in- 

 scribe her name on the last leaf of the Apocrypha. It is 

 a very different signature to what I have on the last leaf 

 of Tyndale's Obedience — ' Elizabeth, daughter Angli 

 Franc' As the British Museum has a copy equally per- 

 fect it would only encumber its shelves, unles^s the au- 

 tograph could be identified. The Prayer-Book of 1559 

 might be a most desirable acquisition. It is very rare 

 and interesting. It is not uncommon to find royal names 

 handsomely inscribed on blank pages and margins of 

 books by scriveners, in practising to write them hand- 

 somely in the commencement of deeds with elaborate 

 flourishes. George Offor."3 



:^tnor ©unrieS. 



Shakspeares Will. — As ayac-s2TO?7e is forbidden 

 by the regulations of the office, could not the 

 matter be compromised by photograms of the 

 will in its present state ? It is said to be " very 

 much the worse for wear," and surely it might be 

 photographed without the slightest risk. As late 

 administrations have done much for literature, a 

 few words from you, Mr. Editor, might influence 

 " the powers that be " to let Shakspeare's scho- 

 lars have a copy of their master's will, Este. 



Walluiges and Leads. — The meaning of these 

 words, which are found upon documents con- 

 nected with the salt works in Cheshire, does not 

 appear to have descended to the present inhabi- 

 tants. 



In "A Just Note of the number of the salt house 

 in Northwych, anno xxxv. Eliz.," this passage oc- 

 curs : — 



" There is and hath been time out of mind within the 

 Town of Northwych fyvescore and twelve, four hades and 

 one odd leade and no more, but four leades of wallinges 

 called the riming wickhouse ; so the total sum is fyve- 

 score and thirteen four leades and one odd leade, which 

 stand in towne rowe," &c. 



Also in a survey of the wallinges in Northwych, 

 anno 1606:— 



"Peter Venables, Esq. and Julius Winnington, gen., 

 have one Bay of building called the Lead Smithy wherein 

 the occupiers of walling do usually cast tlieir leads ; the 

 Lords of the lead smithy do from time to time, when need 

 shall require, mainteine the house in good reparacOn, and 

 provide a good and sufficient pan to melt the occupiers' 

 lead in, and in lieu thereof have the lead dishes and profBts 

 thereof; the leadcaster hath a halfpenny every lead he 

 casteth ; the mould is continually mainteined by the 

 Towne. They pay yearly in chief rent ij'." 



Halliwell's Archaic Dictionary gives the word 

 " lead-ivalling, the brine of twenty-four hours' 

 boilingr for one house. 



" Wallers, women who rake the salt out of the 

 leads at the salt-works. Also walle, to boil." 



Would the word wallinges here bear the inter- 

 pretation of boiling-houses, and the leads, leaden 

 pans for evaporating the brine, instead of iron 

 ones, as in use at the present day ? AVhat is the 

 meaning of riming. Ci. Hopper. 



A Geological Inquiry. — I am anxious to know 

 whether it be a demonstrable fact, that any human 

 remains have been found prior to the supposed 

 first appearance of Adam, that is, about 6000 

 years ago ? I see it " taken for granted " that 

 men have lived on our globe fifty-seven thousand 

 years. This is a puzzler to me, who am only a 

 humble inquirer in a much-loved science. In one 

 of your contemporaries {The Critic, of June 19, 

 p. 314.) I read as follows : 



" Some recent geological discoveries by Lyell, Agassiz, 

 and other eminent men, in the valley of the Mississippi, 

 have demonstrated that for 57,000 years, at least, human 



beings have been dwelling there Discoveries of 



this kind, carrying us so far back, make it impossible to 

 say when the belief of immortality first arose." 



The above remarks appear in a lengthened re- 

 view of Lessing's book on The Education of the 

 Human Race. The object of my inquiry is to 

 learn whether these things are so, or not. If the 

 former, where I can read of them ; for it is de- 

 lightful to get as complete a view of the past ages 

 as possible. Natural science and the Word of 

 God, we know, never contradict one another. 

 Theology is one thing, truth and religion are an- 

 other. Being of one sweet accord, these last court 

 inquiry, and shine the brighter the more fre- 

 quently they are examined. For truth only needs 

 to be for once spoke out, 

 " And there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, 

 As makes men's memories her joyous slaves. 

 And cling around the soul, as the sky clings 

 Round the mute earth, for ever beautiful." 



W. K. 



Mrs. Boulstred. — What is known of this lady ? 

 Dr. Donne has written two Elegies on her {Poems, 

 edit. 1654, pp. 254. 259.). She is also, under the 

 name of " The Court Pucelle," the subject of an 

 epigram by Ben Jonson ( Works, by Gifibrd, viii. 

 437.) ; and is alluded to in the following passages 

 in Ben Jonson s Conversations with William Drum- 

 mond, published by the Shakspeare Society : — 



" He read a satyre of a lady come from the Bath ; 

 Verses on the Pucelle of the Court, Mistress Boulstred, 

 whose epitaph Done made." — P. 7. 



Again, at p. 38., we learn that Jonson's verses 

 had been stolen out of his pocket, which brought 

 him into trouble : — 



" That piece of the Pucelle of the Court was stolen out 

 of his pocket by a gentleman who drank him drousie, and 



