NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2»* S. IX. Jam-. 7. "6 : 



copy are his autographs; but I see nothing in 

 their character or ink which should lead one to 

 doubt that they may be. It occurred to me that 

 if there were two copies thus annotated or cor- 

 rected, there would probably be more ; and I 

 should be obliged to any readers of " 1ST. & Q." 

 who have access to the catalogues of large collec- 

 tions, if they would give me information; and also 

 if they would tell me what Lot 138. of the first 

 day's sale at the Libri sale sold for. 



Having this occasion to mention my copy, may 

 I be allowed to state, very briefly, one or two 

 particulars respecting it which are not entirely 

 without interest, and may perhaps elicit some 

 farther Notes and Queries ? 



(1 .) About the middle of the book, at the be- 

 ginning of the sheet N of the Greek text, on a 

 page most of which is blank, there is written 



" Domino Edouardo Wotono hunc libra dono 

 dedit Joannes Foxus. 1529. 



A more recent hand (probably a good way on in 

 the succeeding century) has written on the side of 

 this inscription — 



" lie made the booke of martyres ;" 

 and underneath the name of Fox has added "Mag- 

 dalenensis." 



(2.) On what was a blank page at the end of 

 the book, there is what I suppose to be an ela- 

 borate horoscope, of which I do not understand 

 much more than what follows : — 

 " Elnera nobilissimse 



filire Comitis Wygor 



nice prrcclarissimi 



genitura. An. D. 1527 



die Aprilis 28. hora fere 



vndecima ante meri- 



die." 

 (3.) The book having been rebound, and the 

 fly-leaf having parted from the board, some more 

 modern hand (but still of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury) has written on it a copy of political verses, 

 eighteen in number, which may perhaps be known 

 to those who are better acquainted with the poetry 

 of the period. They begin : — 



" Come imp roiall comt sway 

 Into black night we'l tunic bright day." 



I must not, however, trespass too much on your 

 columns, and will at present only add, that the 

 title-page of the volume is marked with the H.M. 

 familiar to book collectors. If this should meet 

 the eye of any such who has a priced catalogue of 

 Mr. Meen's books, I should be glad to know what 

 the Aratus sold for. S. R. Maitland. 



Gloucester. 



readers of " N. & Q." to look back at a list of 

 persons whose failures in trade seem to have given 

 alarm to the country ; and it may be presumed 

 from its date, the 17th of Elizabeth, to have bee:! 

 the moving cause of the revise taking place of the 

 bankruptcy law as it had existed from its first 

 institution in the 34th of Henry VIII. : — 



List of Bankrupts, as preserved in the Lansdoiune MS., 

 vol. xiii. art. 13. of the T/iirteenth Year of Queen Eliz- 

 abeth ; specifying the several Places throughout the A";. - 

 dom where the Bankrupt failed, and in most inst 

 the amount for which he became registered as a Bankrupt. 



" London. George Harnier, grocer, bankrupt for 18( 

 London. William Cowper, vyntner, for 200 marks. 

 A'ewe Sarum. John Cannon, chapman, for 300/. 

 London. John Blackmail, grocer, for 000/. 

 London. Wilfride Lawtie, scryviner, for 

 Somerset. Henry Grenefall, of Ilmynster, for 309/. 

 London. Richard Lethiers, dyer, for 1000 marks. 

 Norff. John Keyrk, tanner, for 300/. 

 Devon. Roger Androwe, for 120/. 

 London. Gefferey Goffe, draper, for G00/. 

 London. Peter Vegleman, for 2000/. 

 London. "William Longe, for 2000/. 

 1'orke. John Johnson, merchant, for 300/. 

 Norff. Richard Skarle, chapman, for GOO/. 

 Sowthwarke. Danne Weston, for 400/. 

 Brystoive. George Higgyas, merchant, for 1000/. 

 Carmarthen. William Lloyd, chapman, for II 

 Shrewsbury. Eoger Benyngton, draper, for •! 

 Civistat. Sar. George Snelgar, tanner, for . . . 

 London. Eobert Turner, for 800t 

 London. James Stocke, goldsmyth, for 300/. 

 London. Raffe Burton, clothier, for 105/. 

 London. Thomas Parker and William Parker, for 300/. 

 London. Richard Sharpe, mercer, for 1000/. 

 Cornewali. Nicholas Morcombe, merchant, for 100/. 

 London. Anthonv Tucke, for 2000/. 

 Hallyfax. Wylliam Cater, clothier, for 1000/. 

 Bark. Bryan Chamberlan, for G0007. 

 Devon. Pawle Yarde for 100/. 

 Yorkeshire. William Carter, clothier, for C00/. 

 London. Thomas Stayuton, mercer, for 3000/. 

 London. William Bodye, merchant, for 400/. 

 London. Charles Hobson, chaundeler, for 500/. 

 Coventry. Walter Pvper, alias Stone, clothier, for SCO/. 

 London. Fawke Salter, for 800/. 

 Shit. William Childe, for 400/. 

 Devon. John Tucker, merchant, for 400/. 

 Safforne Wallden. William Clarke, tanner, for 400/. 

 London. Ellys Hamer, mercer, for 500/. 

 Exeter. Anthony Halstaffe, merchant, for 400/." 



Hemjy Eixis. 



BANKRUPTS DURING THE REIGN OF 

 ELIZABETH. 



At a time when the law of bankruptcy is about 

 to be revised, it may not be uninteresting to the 



THE KING'S SCUTCHEON. 



I copy the following from a deposition in the 

 Domestic Papers of the State Paper Office, under 

 the date of 1620, June 17. The whole paper 

 contains an account of a squabble at an inn in 

 Norwich, in which William Paslew, one of the 

 messengers in ordinary of the King's chamber, 

 was seriously hurt. Paslew was staying at the 

 inn upon Council business, when, at about eleven 

 o'clock at night, the inmates were aroused by " a 

 great extraordinary knocking" at the gate. Pas- 

 few had just before accompanied some persons 



