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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»* S. IX. Mar. 17. 'GO. 



given Bunyan the idea of composing, if not the 

 groundwork of, the Pilgrims Progress. Mr. 

 Offor states not only that " there is no ground 

 for supposing that the persecuted Bunyan ever 

 saw this chevalier errant" but also that there is 

 no similarity whatsoever between this and the 

 Pilgrim's Progress, " except it be the foresight of 

 the heavenly paradise." With all due deference to 

 that gentleman's judgment, I would submit whe- 

 ther the division of the voyage into parts 1 and 2 

 does not assimilate it with Bunyan ? Also the 

 portion relative to the knight's getting into a bog, 

 from whence he is extricated by " God's grace," 

 resembles in no small degree Christian being 

 drawn out of the slough of Despond by " Help." 

 Christian had a companion in the Slough, one 

 " Pliable," so has the knight who is in the quag- 

 mire with " Folly." These apparent similarities 

 might, be considerably extended, but I think suf- 

 ficient has been exhibited as a specimen. A MS. 

 note in the edition of the work alluded to, pre- 

 served in the Grenville Library of the British 

 Museum, bears the following note upon the inside 

 of cover : " There can be no doubt that this is the 

 original of Bunyan's PUgrvnCs Progress." 



Ithuriel. 

 Labels for Books. — To one like yourself, who 

 have so much to do with books, and who therefore 

 must often experience the necessity which I de- 

 sire by this application to the public through your 

 columns to see supplied, I do not hesitate to appeal. 

 Every one has in his library books without 

 labels ; books with labels that are almost illegible; 

 books so handsomely bound that he would have 

 them temporarily covered (if he had labels) till 

 he had a glass-fronted bookcase to receive them. 



Everybody must have been struck with the 

 want of labels on books in second-hand book- 

 shops, and have observed the untidiness of circu- 

 lating libraries from the same cause, and from 

 want of labels. 



Again, more cultivated eyes will be well aware 

 that white labels — I mean printed hibels on white 

 piper (so often used by booksellers for books 

 published in boards) — utterly destroy the har- 

 mony of bookshelves by their spottiness. 



AU these difficulties would be got over, if the 

 public knew where to apply for labels either to 

 order or ready-printed on tinted paper, or let- 

 tered on russia or morocco leather, which they 

 could affix with paste. 



If the bookbinders have a Benefit Societ), and 

 wish to find employment for the daughters of 

 their deceased members, let them turn their at- 

 tention to this subject. No doubt a very large 

 trade in book-labels for the whole world might be 

 established. 



In the mean time, it would be a great con- 

 venience if publishers would print their labels on 

 tinted paper of better quality, or on vegetable 



parchment, and if such labels were kept in stock 

 for sale. Samuel Crompton. 



Taylor Club. — I have always thought that 

 all publishing societies that have hitherto existed 

 had, at their commencement, no defined end in 

 view. Do you not think, Mr. Editor, that a 

 Society formed for a specific purpose would meet 

 with hearty support f Allow me to suggest the 

 publishing of the " Works of Taylor the Water 

 Poet," under the name of the " Taylor Club." 



S. Wmson. 



Glasgow. 



©uem3. 



THE SCAKLETT FAMILY. 



I am desirous of some accurate information, if 

 possible, connected with the family history of the 

 Scarletts of Jamaica. 



In the fifteenth century the Scarletts had ma- 

 nors and landed property in the counties of Nor- 

 folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Shropshire. 



From which branch of those families, who all 

 bore the same arms as the present Lord Abinger, 

 was the family in Jamaica derived ? 



There was also a Sussex family of that name, 

 possessing landed property in that county in the 

 seventeenth century, and the same family had an 

 estate in Jamaica soon after its conquest (1655) 

 by Cromwell ; but it does not appear that Lord 

 Abinger's family was descended immediately from 

 them, for Capt. Francis Scarlett, an officer in the 

 army, who sat in the first assembly in the island 

 for the parish of St. Andrew, and his brother 

 Thomas of Eastbourne, died without any surviv- 

 ing male issue, and their estates in Jamaica went 

 to their niece: vide the will of Tiniothea, 1719, 

 Doctors' Commons. The arms of the Sussex 

 family resembled those of Norfolk and Essex, and 

 of the family now existing. 



The grandfather of the late Lord Abinger and 

 of his brother Sir William Anglin Scarlett, the 

 Chief Justice of Jamaica, divided, in a.d. 17G3, 

 numerous estates in that island among his children. 



From which of the English families did that 

 gentleman, who was called James, descend ? 



Did he or his father first settle in the island ? 



Morant's Essex mentions that Thomas Scar- 

 lett, of West Bergholt and Navland, sold a manor 

 in Essex in 1713. Was he the father of the James 

 Scarlett above mentioned ? 



There was an ancient Italian family in Tuscany 

 of that name (Scarlatti) in the thirteenth century, 

 exiled by the Guelphs for being Ghibellines. 

 Their arms are different, but the English Scarletts 

 all have a Tuscan column for a crest, supported 

 by lions' jambs. 



Froissart speaks, in his Chronicles, of a Sir 

 Lyon Scarlett who perished in a crusade in the 

 reign of Richard II, Was he an Englishman ? 



