BOOKS ON SPECIAL SUBJECTS.*

VII. BOOKS SUPPRESSED AND CONDEMNED.

Copies taken from the Records of the Court of King's Bench, or Office Books of the Secretaries of State, of Warrants issued by Secretaries of State for seizing Authors, Printers, and Publishers of Libels from the Restoration, and of Commitments by Secretaries, &c. 4to., London, 1763.

rum.

Catalogus Librorum a Commissione Aulica Prohibito.
Small 8vo., Vindobonæ, 1765.
Peignot (G.).-Dictionnaire Critique, Littéraire, et
Bibliographique des Livres condamnés au feu, sup-
primés, et censurés, &c. 2 vols. 8vo., Paris, 1806.

Gibbings, Richard.-An Exact Reprint of the Roman Index Expurgatorius, the only Vatican Index of this kind ever Printed. With a Preface. 8vo., Dublin, 1837.

Mendham (Rev. J.).-An Index of Prohibited Books by command of the present Pope Gregory XVI. in 1835. 12mo. 1840.

Catalogue des Écrits, Gravures, et Dessins condamnés depuis 1514 jusqu'au 1er Janvier, 1850, suivi de la Liste des Individus condamnés pour Délits de Presse. Small 8vo., Paris, 1850.

Hart (W. H.).-Index Expurgatorius Anglicanus; or, Descriptive Catalogue of the principal Books printed or published in England which have been suppressed. 8vo. (Parts i. to v., to be continued), 1872-8.

VIII. STUARTS AND PSEUDO-STUARTS.

The Stuart Papers, printed from the Originals in the Possession of Her Majesty the Queen. Vol. I. Corre spondence: Atterbury's Letters to Chevalier de St. George. 8vo., 1847.

The Descendants of the Stuarts: an Unchronicled Page in England's History. By William Townend. 8vo., 1858. Second Edition, with Additions, 8vo., 1858.

Ewald (A. C.).-Life and Times of Prince Charles Stuart, Count of Albany, commonly called the Young Pretender. 2 vols. 8vo., 1875.

Lord Mahon.-The Decline of the last Stuarts: Extracts from the Despatches of British Envoys to the Secretary of State (edited for the Roxburghe Club). 4to., London, 1843.

The Bridal of Caölchairn, and other Poems. By John Hay Allen, Esq. 8vo., London, 1822.

Vestiarium Scoticum, from the Manuscript formerly in the Library of the Scots College at Douay, with an Introduction and Notes. By John Sobieski Stuart. Folio, Edinburgh, 1842.

Tales of the Century; or, Sketches of the Romance of History between the Years 1746 and 1846. By John Sobieski and Charles Edward Stuart. Post 8vo., Edinburgh, 1847.

Lays of the Deer Forest, with Sketches of Olden and Modern Deer-Hunting: Traits of Natural History in the Forest: Traditions of the Clans: Miscellaneous Notes. By John Sobieski and Charles Edward Stuart. 2 vols. post 8vo., Edinburgh and London, 1848.

The Quarterly Review, No. clxi., June, 1847 (vol.lxxxi. pp. 57 to 85), containing an elaborate article, not only on the Vestiarium (as to which the reviewer agrees with Sir Walter Scott in believing "this pretended manuscript of the sixteenth century to be an absolute fabrication, and of no authority whatever") but also a very minute exposure of the attempts of Messrs. John Hay Allen and Charles Stuart Allen, who eventually assumed

*[No. I. Fairy Mythology, No. II. Caricatures, 5th S. vi. 81; No. III. The Year, 5th S. vii. 182; No. IV. German Popular Mythology, No. V. Courts of Love, No. VI. History of Fiction, 5th S. vii. 362

Cartari (Carlo).—La Rosa d'Oro Pontificia. 4to., Rome, 1681.

Baldassarri (P. Antonio).—La Rosa d'Oro che si benedice nella Quarta Domenica di Quaresima dal Sommo Pontefice. 12mo., Venice, MDCCIX.

Young (Sir Charles), Garter.-Ornaments and Gifts consecrated by the Roman Pontiffs: the Golden Rose, the Cap and Swords presented to Sovereigns of England BIB. CUR. and Scotland. Large Svo., 1860 (privately printed).

LONDON PUEBLISHERS, 1623-1834.
(Continued from p. 404.)

Cadell, Thomas, Strand.-Born in Wine Street, Bristol, Oct. 27, 1742, and served his apprenticeship with Andrew Millar, whom he succeeded in 1767. Died at his house in Bloomsbury Place, 1802, in his sixtieth year. Curwen's Booksellers; Gent. Mag., Dec., 1802, p. 1173.

Cademan, William, Pope's Head, in the New Exchange (1682).

Calvert, Giles, Black Spread Eagle, west end of St. Paul's (1647).

Caslon, Thomas, 4, Ludgate Street, opposite Stationers' Hall.-Was the second son of William Caslon, letterfounder, and was Master of the Stationers' Company in 1782. Died March 29, 1783.

Chiswell, Richard, Rose and Crown, St. Paul's Churchyard.-Born in the parish of St. Botolph, Jan. 4, 1639. Died May 3, 1711, aged seventy-two, and was buried in the south aisle of St. Botolph's Church.

Churchill, Awnsham and John, Black Swan, Paternoster Row (1705).

Clarke, J. and W. T., Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn (1824).

Clarke, W., New Bond Street (1827).

Clements, Henry, Half Moon, St. Paul's Churchyard. -Succeeded Thomas Bennet at the Half Moon in 1706, and died Aug. 23, 1719.

Cripps, Henry and Lodovick Lloyd, Pope's Head Alley, near Lumber Street (1653).

Crofts, William, 59, Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn (1828).
Crooke, John, Duck Lane (1668).

Crooke, William, The Green Dragon, without Temple Bar (1686).-The business was afterwards carried on, in 1695, by Eliza Crooke.

Crouch, Samuel, corner of Pope's Head Alley, against the Royal Exchange (1706).

Davies, Thomas, Russell Street, Covent Garden.-Born 1710. Died May 5, 1785, aged seventy-five. Gent. Mag., May, 1785, p. 404; Allibone's Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors.

Davis, Lockyer, Holborn, opposite Gray's Inn.-Born in 1728, succeeded to the business of his uncle, Charles Davis, and died April 23, 1791, aged seventy-three. Nichols's Lit. Anecd., vol. vi. p. 436.

Debrett, John, Piccadilly, opposite Burlington House (1792).-Successor to John Almon, and founder of Debrett's Peerage. Died Nov. 15, 1822.

Deighton, J., 325, Holborn, opposite Gray's Inn (1793).
Dickinson, W., 24, Old Bond Street (1791).

Dilly, Edward and Charles, Poultry.-Edward was born at Southhill, Bedford, July 25, 1732; died May 11, 1779, aged forty-seven. Charles was born at Southhill, May 22, 1739. After the death of his brother, in 1779, he carried on the business, and died at Ramsgate, May 4,

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The names G-ge and any other contemporary. S-te must, from the metre, be respectively names of one and two syllables. Among Pope's friends we find the names Gage and Southcotte, fulfilling

the exact requirements.

The verses allude to an edition of an author's works bound in red, and in the library at Mapledurham is preserved The Works of Alexander Pope in morocco, inscribed in Pope's hand, "Teresa Maria Blount, given by the Author," and at the end of the volume is an inscription :"Sent to the Widow Blount by her affectionate (see Carruthers's sister Maria Teresa Blount Life of Pope, second edition, 1857, p. 427). I have not seen this copy, but possibly some reader of "N. & Q." can inform us whether the morocco

be red or not.

The volume in which this poem appeared contains a poem by James Moore, and Pope's name in the list of subscribers for four copies on appears royal paper. If the verses are Pope's, they might have been given either by him or Moore to the editor of The Grove, and the original have been retained by Theresa when she sent to the widow Blount the volume which they had in the first instance accompanied. I should be glad to have the opinion of Pope scholars on the point now WILL. T. BROOKE. raised for the first time.

157, Richmond Road, Hackney, E.

THE DOG ROSE.-Though the old monkish lines on the "Five Brethren of the Rose" must be familiar to many of your readers, I looked in vain through the index volumes of "N. & Q." for any mention of the subject in your pages, when it was brought to my memory some time ago; perhaps you may now think it worth referring to. There is an allusion to it in Sir T. Browne's Garden of Cyrus (ed. 1686, p. 37).

"is more admired than the five

"Nothing," he says, Brethren of the Rose, and the strange disposure of the Appendices or Beards, in the calicular leaves thereof, which in despair of resolution is tolerably salved from this contrivance, best ordered and suited for the free closure of them before explication. For those two, which are smooth, and of no Beard, are contrived to lie undermost, as without prominent parts, and fit to be smoothly covered; the other two, which are beset with Beards on either side, stand outward and uncovered, but the fifth or half-bearded leaf is covered on the bare side, but on the open side stands free, and bearded like the other."

The lines as usually given are as follows :

"Quinque sumus fratres, sub eodem tempore nati: Sunt duo barbati, duo sunt sine barbâ creati, Unus barbatus, sed barbâ dimidiatus,"being, I presume, meant for rude rhyming hexameters, without much particularity as to quantities. I have met with no less than four versions of them. The first is quoted as a note to Sir T. Browne, though it does not appear in my edition :

A

"One summer's day in sultry weather
Five brethren were born together:
Two had beards, and two had none,
And th' other had but half a one."

second appeared in the periodical Evening
Hours, vol. i. p. 208 :-

"Five brothers, all equal in age:
Two bearded, and equally wise;
Two beardless, and equally sage;
One bearded, though one-half in size."
A third came to me from a learned Cambridge
professor :-

"Five brethren of one birth are we,
All in a little family;

Two have beards, and two have none,
And only half a beard has one."

A fourth, and, I am bound to say, I think the
best, was reported to me from the lips of a horti-
cultural groom by a dear friend, now a prelate in

a far distant land :

"Of us five brothers, at the same time born,
Two from our birthdays ever beards have worn;
On other two none ever have appeared,
While the fifth brother wears but half a beard."
C. W. BINGHAM.

"TO BEAT INTO THE HEAD."-In Matthew's, found the following note to the first epistle of 1537, and other editions of Tyndal's Bible may be Peter, iii. 7 :

"He dwelleth wyth his wyfe according to knowledge, that taketh her as a necessarye healper and not as a bonde slave. And yf she be not obedient, and healpfull heade, that thereby she maye be compelled to learne her unto him endevoureth to beate the feare of God into her dutie, and to do it."

None but such as are glad to indulge in sneers at the Bible, or who secretly hate the religious people, could ever imagine that a man is taught to opinions of the grand men who first gave it to the take a thick stick and hammer "the fear of God into his wife's head" with it; but there are some writers of books who profess to believe this, and make very merry over it. Probably the following passage from the Paraphrase of Erasmus may be sufficient to convince them of what reasonable men never doubted-that this "beating into the head" is only a figure of speech :

"Therefore when John preaching the kingdom of God to be at hand, had alredy gathered together many disciples, did dayly baptise many and was had in greate auctoritie emong all men (but in very dede men had an ill opinion of Jesu) the sayd John doeth openly beat into the heades of the multitude, and eftsones reherseth that thyng, whiche diuers tymes before he had witnessed of hym: And according to Esaies prophecie which did tel before hande that he should in wildernes saye with a loude voice, make redy the waye of the lorde."Erasmus, 1548, John, f. 6, verso.

The expression occurs many times in exactly R. R. the same sense in the Paraphrase of Erasmus.

Boston, Lincolnshire.

PALM SACK.-The wine intended under this co. Lincoln, Gent., eldest son of John Stubbs, pardesignation has been long discussed. The follow-son of Stipney Parva in the said county of Lincoln, ing, from the London Commercial Record, May certain messuages in Macclesfield late in the occu13, 1881, may interest some readers of " N. & Q.":pation of Edward Stubbs deceased, grandfather of "Wine, wit, and women are the three things that the said John Stubbs, the son, for the term of ninety make life gay. It is perhaps, however, a pity that there years, a former lease of the said premises made are no three things that might also make it wise. The unto John Andrew, deceased, being surrendered. old Romans had a triad that ran thusIt is thus shown that this branch of the Stubbs family, which had settled in Lincolnshire, came from Macclesfield, in the neighbourhood of which J. P. E. town the name is very common.

"BASKET."-Is it not true that "basket" is one of the oldest words in our language? It appears to have been in use here among the Britons during the Roman occupation, and to have been adopted into the Latin tongue. Thus Martial writes :

"Barbara de pictis veni bascauda Britannis: Sed me jam mavult dicere Roma suam." I doubt whether any other English word can be proved more ancient. E. WALFORD, M.A. Hampstead, N.W.

'Balnea, vina, Venus corrumpunt corpora nostra, Sed vitam faciunt, balnea, vina, Venus.' Which is to say that baths, wine, and women corrupt our mortal bodies, though life would really not be life without them. In all ages a high importance has attached to wine. We even owe the Volpone of Ben Jonson to it, for he says, 'I wrote most of it after a present of ten dozen of Palm sack from my very good Lord T-; that play I am positive will last to posterity, and be acted, when I and envy are friends, with applause.' Well, Volpone is not acted now either with or without applause, but philologues are still discussing what may be the meaning of Palm sack. There has been a great deal of disputation as to the meaning of Sherry sack. Brückman, who discourses earnestly on many drinks, suggests that it is a Spanish wine, so called because it is carried in large skins or sacks' quod in utribus seu saccis in Hispaniâ circumvehatur.' But the wine skins are almost exploded in Spain, yet the Secco is as much in demand as of yore. Had we ever had a wine merchant for a commentator upon our old plays instead of your Ritson, Steevens, Reed, and Johnson, he would have got at the truth at once perhaps, for is there not truth in wine in vino veritas,' and the wine merchant should in this give the commentators theme, at the request of my brother, the bishop, in sack, if 'cuique sua arte credendum' be true,-that a man should know his own trade best. There are three main divisions for all the white wine produce of Xeres, and the most refined of these is of very pale and dry character (Secco). This wine is of the Amontillado type, and from time immemorial has been technically styled, as it is still, Palma: hence the dry Palma or Palm sack of our friend the 'craggy' Ben."

C. A. WARD.

"A DOVERCOURT BEETLE."-In his lately published Glossary of Essex, p. 59, Dr. Charnock mentions the proverb, "A Dover Court: all speakers and no hearers," and incidentally quotes Dr. Mavor's explanation of Tusser's "Douercourt beetle," as "one that makes a great noise." But it was clearly shown by the editors of the English Dialect Society's edition of Tusser (note to ch. xvii. st. ix. at p. 248) that the expression simply means a beetle made of the elms of Dovercourt, of which Harrison says:

"Of all the elms that euer I saw, those in the south side of Douer Court in Essex, neere Harwich, are the most notable, for they growe...in crooked maner, that they are almost apt for nothing else but nauie timber, great ordinance, and beetels."-Description of England, ed. Furnivall, pt. i. p. 341.

XIT.

THE STUBBS FAMILY, CO. LINCOLN, IN 1612.The following note of an old lease among the records of the Grammar School of Macclesfield, Cheshire, may some day be of use. By indenture made June 22, 10 James [1612], the governors of the school lease to John Stubbs, of North Coates,

THE ARMS OF COLONIAL AND MISSIONARY BISHOPRICS (see ante, pp. 241, 286).—It may interest some of your readers to know the history of the heraldic device of one of our colonial seesthat for the see of Ballaarat. It was designed by

1875. The blazon is: Ermine, a fer-de-moulin
sable; on a chief azure a celestial crown or. The
intended meaning is that purity of life (expressed.
by ermine field), together with honest labour in the
Church of Christ (expressed by the millrind, which
represents work, while its figure is similar to that
of the Greek X), leads to heaven (azure) and its
reward (crown celestial). The design was approved
and adopted.
R. THORNTON.

St. John's Vicarage, Notting Hill, W.

CHINESE LIBRARIES.-Having reason to believe that, apart from the national collection in the British Museum and the extensive libraries possessed by the Royal Asiatic Society, University College, and the India Office, there are to be found, either in the possession of colleges or in the hands of private individuals, many accumulations of Chinese works no record of which exists, I shall esteem it a great favour if the holders or others who know of these will communicate with me.

22, Albemarle Street.

HENRY F. HOLT,
Sec. Royal Asiatic Society.

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MANZONI'S "PROMESSI SPOSI."-What is the cause of the very great diversity of text in the