1806. 
Among the works which have been 
Jately printed under the Commiffion for 
the Public Records af the Kingdom, the 
ait is the firft volume of Calendarium 
Inquifitionum poft mortem; or, Efcheat 
Rolls, during’ the Reigns of Henry IIT., 
Edward I., and Edward ll. Of the na- 
ture of thefe Records, the following ac- 
count was given to the Commifhoners by 
Mr. Asrue, in his Return relating to the 
Records in the Tower. ** Thefe Records 
are preferved in bundles, chronolo rgically 
arranged: they were taken by virtue of 
writs, dire&ied to the efcheators of each 
county or ciftriét, to fummon a jury on 
oath, who were to enquire what lands any 
perfon died teized of, and by what rencrs 
or fervices the bad wereheld, and who 
was the next heir, and of what age the 
heir was; that the King might be informed 
of his right of efcheat or wardthip: they 
alfo fhew whether the tenant was attainted 
of treafon, or was an alien, in either ot 
which cafes they were feized into the 
King’s hands: they likewife thew the 
yuantity, quality, and value of the lands 
of which each tenant died feized, &c. and 
they are the belt evidences of the de- 
{cents of family and property.” | 
' Mr. Maurice announces a Poem, de- 
corated with engravings, On Richmond 
Hit; intended to illuftrate the principal 
objests viewed from that beautiful emi- 
nence. It will be printed a: the prefs of 
Bulmer and Co. fimilar to Grove Hill. 
~ Mr. Parkinson’s fecond volume of 
Organic Reniains of a former World, is 
in confidérable forwardnefs. He has fo- 
licited ‘the favour of fuch remarks and 
{pecimens as.may aid him in his inquiries 
re(pecting foilil corals, the encrinus, ftar- 
ftones, trochites, and entrochites. 
* Mr. CHARLES W1iLsON propofes to 
publifh, by fubfcription, his Recollec- 
tions ; confifliing of original biographical 
wotices, anecdotes, &c. &c. of diltinguifh- 
ed charaéters. Mr. W. obferves that, “in 
his intercourfe with the world, he has 
mixed with characters of almatt every 
clafs—men who have thed luftre on birth, 
and men who have difgraced it; enlight- 
éned minds and bookful blockheads ; real 
and affected patrons of letters. He has 
alfo alighted on manufcripts, &c. at once 
rare and ufeful. Thefe characters and 
thefe manufcripts will form the principal 
fubjects of his Recolle&tions”” 
The Sermons, with a Memoir of the 
Life, and an’ Account of the Writings, of 
the late Rev. Epwarp Evanson, are 
preparing for the Prefs, and will be foon 
ready for publication, in two volumes, 
Literary and Philofophical Intelligence. 
445 
A fecond volume, containing Cam. 
bridgefhire, Chefhire, and Corpwall, of 
Magna Britannia, by the Rev. Danrer 
Lysons, and SAMUEL Lysons, Efq. is 
announced for early publication, Alfo, 
Part the Second, containing twenty<four 
Views in Cambtidgefhire, Chefhire, and 
Cornwall, of Britannia Depictta. 
The Firftt Book of The Evenings of 
Southill, will be publifhed 79 the begin- 
ning of June. 
ance will be difcufled in this tract: 
but, what Mr. Saumon has chiefly 
In view is, to prove that by, through, of, 
from, for, at, with, or any prepojfition 
evhatever, ufed (in the ancient and me- 
dern languages) to introduce the agent, 
cause, motive, infirument, manner, means 
employed, or measure purfued, for caut- 
ing a thing to be, are each a redundant 
expreffion, which, appearing as a /fore- 
runner, equal to operator or co-operator, 
in meaning fimply announces, however, 
that the real operator or real co-operator 
is coming forth. By the peru(al of this 
Firtt Book, wherein other claffifications 
will be fuggelted, fiudents in languages 
cannot but be benefited; and etymoiogilts 
may feel an encovragement to purfue 
their inquiries, on feeing that frefh light 
may be thrown daily on fuch fut bjects. 
Mr. Royston is engaged in an ex- 
tenfive work on the Medical Literature of 
England: with the firk part of which he 
expects to go to the prefs in a few weeks, 
The objeét of this work is to give a de- 
feription and analytis of books publithed 
by Englifhmen, on the fcience of medi- 
cine; beginning with the earlieft printed 
works, and ending with the year 1200. 
It is intended to be given in the manner 
of a Bibliotheca, deferibing the form and 
peculiarities of every work, under the 
hize, princepes and optima edicts! &e. &e. 
To which an analyfis of the contents of 
each volume will be added; conitituting 
a concordance of faéts and opinions, ar- 
ranged in a manner that will afford a 
ready reference for the tiudent, the prac- 
titioner, and the man of {cieuce. 
Mr. THELWALL’s Courfe of Leétures 
on the Phyfiology of Elocution, and the 
Caufes, Prevention, and Cure of Impedi- 
ments of Speech, concluded on Fridays 
the 16th of May, at his houfe in Bec- 
ford-place, Bloomfbury {quare. 
fince commenced a ferics of Praétical Lec. 
tures on the Powers, Education, and Ma- 
nagement, of the Human Voice; embra-~ 
cing an ample confideration of the caufes 
of feeblencis, diffonance, monotony, and 
other defeéts ; and the habits ef atrention 
2 and 
“Many points of import- — 
He has 
