Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850

MACKINTOSH (SIR JAMES) MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF. Edited by Robert James Mackintosh, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo.; fine port., calf, gilt, very neat. 16s. 1836.

MARKHAM'S (F.) BOOK OF HONOUR, or Five Decades of Epistles of Honour. Folio; half calf, very neat, and curious. 10s. 6d. 1625.

MILLE'S (T.) NOBILITAS POLITICA VEL CIVILIS PERSONAS SCILICET DISTINGUENDI ET AB ORIGINE INTER GENTES EX PRINCIPUM GRATIA NOBILITANDI FORMA. Folio, half calf, neat, fine plates by Hollar. 12s. 6d. 1608.

MORGAN'S (SYLVANUS) ARMILOGIA SIVE ARS CHROMOCRITICA—The Language of Arms by the Colours and Metals. Small 4to. Numerous plates of arms. Calf, neat. 10s. 6d. 1666.

NICOLAS' (SIR N. HARRIS) HISTORY OF THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT, AND OF THE EXPEDITION OF HENRY THE FIFTH INTO FRANCE, to which is added the Roll of the Men at Arms in the English Army. 8vo.; first edition, scarce; coloured Frontispiece of Banners borne at the Battle of Agincourt. 15s. 1827.

NICOLAS' (SIR N. HARRIS) TESTMENTA VETUSTA, being Illustrations from Wills of Ancient Manners, Customs, Dresses, &c., from the Reign of Henry the Second to the Accession of Queen Elizabeth. 2 vols. royal 8vo., front, &c. 15s. 1826.

NISBET'S ESSAY ON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN USE OF ARMORIES, showing their Origin, the Method of Composing them, with an Index explaining Terms of Blazon. Small 4to., calf, neat, plates. 10s. 6d. 1718.

NOTTINGHAM:—DICKINSON'S (W.) Antiquities, Historical, Architectural, Chorographical and Itinerary in Nottinghamshire and the adjacent Counties, containing the History of Southwell. 4to., half calf, gilt, map, 23 plates, and tables of pedigrees. 12s. 6d. 1801.

OCKLEY'S (SIMON) HISTORY OF THE SARACENS, illustrating the Religion, Rites, Customs, and Manner of Living of that Warlike People. 2 vols. royal 8vo., large and thick paper, old calf, gilt. 12s. 6d. 1718.

This copy appears to have belonged to the Author's family; a note states it to be "Mary Ockley's Book."

SHAKESPEARE ALBUM; a Series of One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations from the Plates to Boydell's Edition of Shakespeare, as published to the Edition edited by Valpy. Fcap. 8vo., cloth, gilt, 12s. 6d.; or elegantly bound in morocco, gilt edges, richly tooled back and sides. 16s. 1834.

But a very small number of copies were printed for sale in this form.

TAYLOR (WM., of Norwich), MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF, containing his correspondence of many Years with R. Southey, Esq. Edited by J. W. Roberts, Esq. 2 thick vols. 8vo., fine port. 10s. 6d. 1843.

Valuable material in aid of the literary history of the nineteenth century.

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WELLESLEY (RICHARD, MARQUIS OF), MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF, comprising numerous Letters and Documents now first published from Original MSS. By R. R. Pearce, Esq. 3 vols. 8vo., half calf, full gilt, new, and neat, fine portrait. 16s. 6d. 1845.

WHITE'S (GILBERT) NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE, with the Naturalist's Calendar, and Notes by Capt. Brown. 12mo. Very neatly bound, calf, extra marble edges, numerous Engravings. 4s. 6d. 1845.

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WILLIAM III., LETTERS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE REIGN OF, from 1696 to 1708, addressed to the Duke of Shrewsbury, by James Vernon, Esq., Secretary of State, now first published from the Originals, edited by G.P.R. James, Esq. 3 vols. 8vo. New half calf, full gilt, very handsome copy, fine portrait. 16s. 1841.

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1

Loricati, (in their coats of mail.)—Matthew of Westminster.

2

See the order at length in Rymer, ut sup.

3

Bellenden's translation.

4

The Earl of Hereford.

5

Wishcart, Bishop of Gloucester, before alluded to.

6

Xen. de Rep. Lac.

7

"Emi singula non pecuniâ sed compensatione mercium, jussit (Lycurgus)."—Justin. iii. 2.

8

Plut. in Lyc.

9

Plut. in Lyc. The word is [Greek: priasthai], the cook probably a slave and Helot. There seems some confusion between this story, and that of Dionysius tyrant of Syracuse, noticed in the beginning of the Inst. Lacon., and by Cicero in the Tusculan Questions, v. 34. The Syracusan table was celebrated.]

10

Plut. in Lyc.

11

Ath. Deip. iv. 13. l. 93.

12

Plut. in Lyc. "[Greek: En chersi daemiourgon kai mageiron.]"

13

"[Greek: Edei de opsopoious en Lakedaimoni einai kreos monou ho de para touto epizamenos exelauneto taes Spartaes]."—Æl. Var. Hist. xiv. 7.

14

"[Greek: Hoi Lakones hoxos men kai halas dontes to mageiro, ta loipa keleuoysin en to hiereio xaetein]."—Plut. de tuenda Sanitate.

15

Meursii Misc. Lacon. lib. i. cap. 8.