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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"* S. IX. Apeil 21. '60. 



' Lover of tlie Truth ' is quite correct in stating that Shaw 

 was born at Wollaton, anil was educated at Trowell 

 Moor School, by Mr. Newton. He was afterwards an ap- 

 prentice to Mr. Win. Wyld, of Old Radford, joiner and 

 cabinet maker, and from there he enlisted into the Life 

 Guards. His father and family removed from Wollaton 

 to a farm at Cossall, formerly occupied by a Mr. Haslam ; 

 and I remember Shaw several times, on leave of absence 

 from his regiment, being at his father's (William Shaw), 

 at Cossall, where he used to give lessons, as a pugilist, to 

 several young gentlemen and others in the neighbour- 

 hood, &c. He had a brother, Wm. Shaw (now dead), 

 ■who lived at Stapleford, and three or four sisters. John 

 was the youngest of the family. I think the most suit- 

 able place for the proposed monument would be (if ap- 

 proved by Lord Middleton) in the square opposite to the 

 Admiral Rodney, in the centre of the village, and but a 

 few yards from the place of his birth. What officer of a 

 cavalry regiment, when taking his men and horses an 

 airing, would not like to wheel his troop round the monu- 

 ment of a brave man ? " Yours, &c. 



" A Schoolfellow or Shaw." 

 F. S. Creswell. 

 Radford, Nottingham. 



eatter(e£. 



THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. 



At the commencement of the reigns of James 

 II., William and Mary, and Queen Anne, it was 

 a common practice to insert in Prayer-Books 

 sheets or leaves containing the names of the so- 

 vereign and royal family. In the first year of 

 each reign a new edition of the Book of Common 

 Prayer lor churches was always publisheil ; and 

 as the sheets and catch-words corresponded with 

 the later editions of the previous reign, the sheets 

 or leaves were easily procured. Sometimes the 

 alterations were made with a pen by the parochial 

 clergyman ; at other times sheets or leaves were 

 inserted. Frequently, however, the insertions 

 were only partial, and thus books arc often found 

 with the name of one sovereign in one part, and 

 the name of the preceding sovereign in another. 



I give an illustration from a book now before 

 me, a folio, of the date 1686, the last edition but 

 one of the reign of James II. In the Morning 

 and Evening Prayer, the Communion Office, the 

 Litany and Ordinal, sheets or leaves are inserted 

 with the names of William and Mary, and Anne, 

 Princess of Denmark. In short, the necessary 

 changes are made in most of the places ; yet in a 

 few they are not made. The services for Nov. 5, 

 Jan. 30, and May 29 remain unchanged. The 

 title, which specifies four state services, remains : 

 yet the Accession Service is removed. My copy 

 was evidently carefully prepared after the acces- 

 sion of William and Mary, for it has their ciphers 

 with the royal crown stamped on the back and on 

 the sides. The volume is in red morocco, and 

 must have been used in one of the royal chapels. 



I have seen various books more or less altered 

 by insertions. My remarks will serve to explain 



the irregularities so often found in books of the 

 reigns of Charles II., James II., and William III. 

 The practice, indeed, was continued after the ac- 

 cession of George I. 



I shall be obliged to any of your readers who 

 may refer me to a copy of an edition of the Book 

 of Common Prayer, 12mo., black letter, 1615. In 

 this edition there is a most extraordinary suppres- 

 sion of rubrics. Not even in the small books of 

 the reign of Queen Elizabeth have I found so 

 many omissions. All the rubrics at the com- 

 mencement and close of the Communion Office, 

 almost nil in the Office for Baptism, with many in 

 the rest of the Occasional Offices and in the Daily 

 Service, are altogether suppressed. 



To prevent trouble, I may mention that I do 

 not wish for information about any thin edition of 

 that or any other year, in which the Epistles and 

 Gospels arc suppressed. Such small thin editions 

 are of no authority whatever. They were got up 

 by printers, and were intended to be bound with 

 Bibles. 



A few years ago a correspondent mentioned a 

 copy of the Book of Common Prayer, fob, 1625. 

 Should this Note meet his eye, I should be 

 obliged if he would communicate with me by 

 letter. Thomas Lathburt. 



Bristol. 



Leete Family, co. Cambridge. — A genealo- 

 gist would feel obliged for any information re- 

 specting the families of Leete of Guilden, Morden, 

 Kingston, and Eversden, in the county of Cam- 

 bridge. A Genealogist. 



John Ury. — John Ury, hung at New York in 

 1741 as a supposed principal in a supposed negro 

 plot, claimed to be son of a secretary of the South 

 Sea Company, and to have been a nonjuring 

 clergyman, whose chapel in London was seized 

 by government. He arrived in America in Feb. 

 1739. Can any of your readers throw any light 

 on the history of this victim of fanaticism ? 



J. G. 8. 



Berwickshire Sandy. — Seeing that you have 

 correspondents upon the Border, may I ask who 

 Berwickshire Sandy was ? 



This individual published at Edinburgh in 180] , 

 Poems mostly in the Scottish Dialect, with his por- 

 trait affixed ; and although his name and fame 

 may not have travelled far, yet B. S. was, doubt- 

 less, at the period a well-known character in his 

 native district. J. O. 



Whipping for the Ladies. — In what miscel- 

 lany of the period and character of The Rambler, 

 The Tatlcr, The Guardian, &c. is a paper entitled 

 " Whipping for the Ladies ? " 



The above-named works have been searched 

 without success. A Constant Reader, 



