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BOOKS SHIPPED TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD AT LOWEST RATES. All Books in Circulation and on Sale may be obtained at And (by order) from all Booksellers in connexion with the Library. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1893. tween subject and subject, so far as cognizance was taken of it by the Crown or by a court of law. CONTENT 8.-N° 71. Take first the records of the Court of Chancery. NOTES :-Our Public Records. 341-The Pope's Golden Rose, 343-Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots, 344-Glendoveer -"Like a bolt from the blue"-The Garden of the Hes. perides, 345–Cogers' Hall-Stephen Gosson-Charles Rossi - Step-girl"-Shakspearian Relics_“We are seven" the supervisor of royal grants, and, indeed, of all Rents in 1699--Chester, 346—" Practical Politics,” 347. business transacted under the Great Seal, of which QUERIES :-“ Fargood"-Works of King Alfred-Epiphany he was the keeper. From the reign of Richard I. Offering—The Confederation of Kilkenny'—Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers'-Heraldic Castle-Foreigners' | the Chancery has been a court of justice, and its Descriptions of England-Duel-Enfield and EdmontonKennedy - Lord Robert Douglas, 347 - Copper Seal It is obvious, therefore, bow very large is the mass Captain Rush-One Pound Scots-S. Storace-Hablot "Every mickle makes a muckle"-St. Martin's-in-theFields Library School --Maize, 348-Hilcock-R. Newland | Let me enumerate and describe some of the im-Handie-Authors Wanted, 349. portant classes of Chancery records, dealing with REPLIES :-Abbey Churches, 349-St. Victor-Octagonal | those not of a legal nature srst. Fonts. 351-Quadruple Births-Anecdote of Queen Vitoria ! There is the record of royal grants, be those -Trollope's Novels-George Eliot, 352-Rhymed Deeds _"Eating Poor Jack "_Titus Oates, 353 - Folk-lore" Ventre-saint-gris," 354-Cause of Death-Lady of the Bedchamber, 355-Walter Long-Celtic "Whether or no"-Goethe's Faust,' 356-George Isham-The Poets Laureate-Feast of the Windy Sheet-Palfrey and Post Rolls are the smallest series of the three, and Tennyson's Crossing the Bar'-"God save the Queen," extend from the first year of King John to 357_English Sapphics-George Robins-Lines by Tennyson-Charles Steward-E. Hoppus–Tolny or Udny, 358 the eighth of Henry VIII. On them are enManila-Authors Wanted, 359. rolled original grants and confirmations of those NOTES ON BOOKS :-Wheatley's The Diary of Samuel previously made, so that we may here look for Pepys'-Cass's East Barnet.' accurate copies of donative charters of a much Notices to Correspondents. earlier date than the commencement of the series, and, indeed, of grants not made by the Crown at all, but inter partes. The whole of the Charter Notes, Rolls down to the close of John's unfortunate reign are printed in full with a good index nomiOUR PUBLIC RECORDS. num and locorum, a copy of which is placed in the In this and the following short papers on the Record Office Search Room, so there is no need to contents of the great repository of our pational refer to the rolls themselves. Of those from archives — which stands near the headquarters Henry III. to Edward IV. there is a printed of 'N. & Q.-I do not propose to waste words calendar, but a very poor and incomplete onein enlarging upon the wonders of the public records numerous charters on the rolls are not even noticed and their preservation; the recent visit of the -the indexes to which are badly compiled. The Prince of Wales to the Public Record Office | rolls for Richard III., Henry VII., and afforded to the press an excellent opportunity Henry VIII. are calendared in contemporary of doing this, which it did not neglect. I aim writing in MS., the calendar being incorporated rather at making the readers of 'N. & Q.' ac. with that to the Patent Rolls, kept in the Legal quainted with what they may reasonably bope to Search Room. find if they pay a visit to the Record Office The next great class of Chancery enrolments is what points in antiquarian research they may the Patent Rolle. Here we have the same kind of bope to elucidate. The writer wishes to be per- entries as are on the Charter Rolls, and also a fectly frank, and not to be a sucker of other great many others besides. We have not only men's brains without due acknowledgment, and charters and grants, but the promulgation of public therefore desires to say that, though he has instruments of every description; entries as to our brought his own experience to bear in compiling diplomatic relations with other powers, to the dishis work, he has used -as every sensible man charge of the judicial affairs of the kingdom, the would use — the valuable 'Handbook' to the enrolment of letters of safe conduct, credence, or records issued some years back by Mr. Scargill- protection, the appointments of ambassadors, Bird, F.S.A., the best book on the subject ever licences for the election of bishops and other compiled. ecclesiastical dignitaries, restitutions of temLet me say at the outset that within this vast poralities, presentations to ecclesiastical benefices, building are kept the whole of the public docu- creations of nobility, liveries of lands, proclamaments of the kingdom, and, roughly speaking, every tions, and what not; the later rolls do not conrecord, from the time of King John onwards, of the taip so much as the earlier ones, but for all pracdealings between sovereign and subject, and be tical purposes the foregoing may be taken as a |