2» d s. IX. May 26. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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whose family the Ploughland estate continued 

 down to the beginning of the present century. 

 The last representative of the female line was the 

 Rev. William Dade, rector of Barmston, in Hol- 

 derness, an eminent antiquary, who died in 1790. 



G. R. Park. 



Edgar Family (2 nd S. ix. 334. 373.)— Will 

 C. W. kindly inform me what relationship the 

 late Admiral Tait, Abercrombie Place, Edinburgh, 

 bore to Maria Bethia Edgar, who married, 1st, 

 Capt. Campbell, R.N., and 2nd, Dr. Tait?— for 

 this Admiral Tait was undoubtedly first cousin to 

 Alexander Edgar of Auchengrammont, and the 

 coincidence of names is singular, and tends to 

 prove I am correct in my supposition that on the 

 Edgars of Auchengrammont devolved the repre- 

 sentation of the Wedderlie family. J. H. 



Quotation Wanted : " Can he who games 

 have feeling," etc. (2 ud S. ix. 25.) — The lines 

 are from Sheridan Knowles's comedy of Old 

 Maids, Act III. Sc. 2. F. L. 



The Livery Collar of Scotland (2 nd S. ix. 

 341.) — In the will of Alexander de Sutherland of 

 Dumbethe, made in 1456 at lioslin, the castle of 

 his son-in-law William, Earl of Caithness and 

 Orkney, is this bequest: — 



" Item, I gif and leive my sylar colar to Sir Gilbert tlie 

 Have, and he to say for my soul ten Psalters." — Preface 

 to The Bonhe of the Orderof Knyghthood, printed for the 

 Abbotsford Club, 1847, p. xxviii. 



Of what nature is this "silver collar" likely to 

 have been ? Can it have been one of the livery 

 collars of Scotland for which I before inquired? 



J. G. Nichols. 



Chalk Drawing (2 nd S. ix. 123. 206) —The 

 Dutch quotation is from p. 12. of Rau's trans- 

 lation of the Philohtetes, Amsterdam, 1855, and 

 the agreement of the pages makes it highly pro- 

 bable that the drawing was intended to illustrate 

 that work. F. 



iHtsicrltancDug. 



NOTES ON BOOKS. 



A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London, 

 instituted in the Year 1824 : with an Alphabetical List of 

 Authors Annexed. Printed for the use of the Members 

 of the Corporation of the City of London. 1859. 8vo. 



The first library at Guildhall was founded by the exe- 

 cutors of Richard Whittington and William Bury in the 

 early part of the fourteenth century, and no doubt con- 

 tained many valuable works. To this library John Car- 

 penter, Town Clerk, A.D. 1441, gave several works: — "I will 

 and bequeath that those books be placed by my execu- 

 tors, and chained in that library, under such form that 

 tin; visitors and students thereot may be the sooner ad- 

 monished to pray for my soul." Stow, with artless sim- 

 plicity, has recorded the fate of this collection. He says, 

 " The books were, in the reign of Kdward VI. sent for by 

 Edward Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, with promise 

 to be restored shortly. Men laded from thence three 

 carries [carts] with them ; but they were never re- 



turned ! " On the 2nd of June, 1824, the Corporation 

 established the present library, and voted 500/. as an 

 outfit, and 200/. per annum for the purchase of books. 

 In 1828, was published A Catalogue of the books, — a copy 

 of which now before us contains the book-plate of that 

 distinguished genealogist, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas. 

 Since this Catalogue was printed numerous and valuable 

 additions have been made to the library in topography 

 and county histories as well as in antiquities and bio- 

 graphy, and it is enriched with a choice collection of 950 

 original Royal proclamations, published by King Charles 

 1., the Parliament, the Protector, Charles II., James II., 

 and William III. Mr. Philip Salamons munificently 

 presented to it about 400 volumes of Hebrew and Rab- 

 binical literature. The library at present contains upwards 

 of 25,000 volumes. The Catalogue recently published is 

 classified on the plan of that of 1828 ; but contains in 

 addition a valuable Index of names, compiled by its ex- 

 cellent sub-librarian, Mr. William Henry Overall; and is 

 altogether highly creditable to the Library Committee. 



An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms, §*c, 

 forming an Extensive Ordinary of British Armorials upon 

 an entirely New Plan. By John W. Papworth, F.R.S., 

 B.A. Part IV. {Published by the Author, 14a. Great 

 Marlborough Street.") 



We are glad to find, as we do by the publication of this 

 Fourth Part of Mr. Papworth's most useful work,* that it 

 is getting better known, and that his List of Subscribers 

 is increasing. Our columns show week after week how 

 great is the desire to know the names of the families to 

 whom arms found upon plate, seals, brasses, monuments, 

 painted glass, &c. are to be attributed. When Mr. Pap- 

 worth's work is completed, the task of identifying these 

 will in most cases be a comparatively easy one. It should 

 be in the hands of all students of genealogy and family 

 history, and we trust that with the publication of every 

 additional part the Author will procure additional Sub- 

 scribers. 



Art Impressions of Dresden, Berlin, and Antwerp, with 

 Selections from the Galleries. By William Noy Wilkins, 

 Author of Letters on Connoisseurship, §"c. (Bentley. ) 



Mr. Williams holds that the want among Art students 

 at the present day is not Art knowledge, but the knowledge 

 and appreciation of Nature; and he contends that Art is 

 more written about than understood, — a fact which few 

 will attempt to gainsay. The present volume contains 

 the impressions made upon him when visiting the Art 

 Collections of Dresden, Berlin, and Antwerp, unaided by 

 friends, guide books, catalogues, or critical notices, and the 

 result is a loving recognition of the merits of the best 

 works therein, which all about to visit those treasuries of 

 pictorial beauty will find a pleasant and instructive com- 

 panion. 



A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words, 

 §r., preceded by a IJistoty of Cant and Vulgar Language; 

 with Glossaries of Two Secret Languages, spoken by the 

 Wandering Tribes of London, §-c. By a London Anti- 

 quary. Second Edition, revised, with Two Thousand Ad- 

 ditional Words. (Hotten.) 



The present edition is distinguished from its predeces- 

 sor (which was entirely sold within a very few weeks 

 after its publication) by being entirely rewritten, and 

 by an addition of some two thousand words to the Glos- 

 sary. The subject is a curious and interesting one, ever, 

 in other than a philological point of view; and we have 

 in this little book an opportunity of investigating the 

 nature of cant and slang without being offended by the 

 grossness and indecency generally inseparable from the 

 subject — all objectionable words being carefully ex- 

 cluded from the present collection. 



