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RONTISPIECE. — This is a reproduction in colours 

 of Sir George Sitwell's oil painting, and represents 

 a view of Derby at the close of the seventeenth 

 century. The date is very closely defined by the 

 costumes in the foreground, the lady evidently wearing the 

 fontange. This was a coiffure supported upon a wire and 

 ribbon framework, which assumed so tower-like an extravagance, 

 that at last Louis XIV., in 1699, protested against it, and it 

 was doomed. In England it was continued rather later, and 

 Planche tells us that " one Brussels head" cost ^40, whereby 

 it would seem not to have been indigenous. 



The Derby Municipal Records. — The Corporation of 

 Derby is to be congratulated on having printed and issued a 

 Calendar of Ancient Records. It has been printed at Derby, 

 and covers seventy-six pages. The work has been done by 

 the well-known expert, Mr. Jeayes, and is therefore thoroughly 

 reliable. 



Discovery of Bronze Antiquities in the Seventeenth 

 Century. — -Dr. Brushfield forwards the following extract from 

 MS. Ashmole, 1136, fol. 169, which seems to have escaped the 

 notice of previous Derbyshire litterateurs : — " Memorandum That 

 the brasen Axe head, vemished ouer w th a black vernish, was 

 given me at Ashborne in the Peake a° 1662 by M r George 

 Hopkinson ; and was found in Harpe Edge, betweene Bonsall 



6 Cromford in Wrickeworth Wapentake in Com. Derb : An 

 1644 or 1645. And w th it were also found a sword of Brass, & 



7 or 8 other like Axe heades & 3 Speare-heades of the same 

 Mettall. About the yeare 1658 was found at Harehill in 



