Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853

The Publications for the past year (1851-2) were:

52. PRIVY PURSE EXPENSES of CHARLES II. and JAMES II. Edited by J. Y. AKERMAN, Esq., Sec. S.A.

53. THE CHRONICLE OF THE GREY FRIARS OF LONDON. Edited from a MS. in the Cottonian Library by J. GOUGH NICHOLS, Esq., F.S.A.

54. PROMPTORIUM: An English and Latin Dictionary of Words in Use during the Fifteenth Century, compiled chiefly from the Promptorium Parvulorum. By ALBERT WAY, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. Vol. II. (M. to R.) (In the Press.)

Books for 1852-3

55. THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE CAMDEN MISCELLANY, containing, 1. Expenses of John of Brabant, 1292-3; 2. Household Accounts of Princess Elizabeth, 1551-2; 3. Requeste and Suite of a True-hearted Englishman, by W. Cholmeley, 1553; 4. Discovery of the Jesuits' College at Clerkenwell, 1627-8; 5. Trelawny Papers; 6. Autobiography of Dr. William Taswell.—Now ready for delivery to all Members not in arrear of their Subscription.

56. THE VERNEY PAPERS. A Selection from the Correspondence of the Verney Family during the reign of Charles I. to the year 1639. From the Originals in the possession of Sir Harry Verney, Bart. To be edited by JOHN BRUCE, ESQ., Trea. S.A. (Will be ready immediately.)

57. THE CORRESPONDENCE OF LADY BRILLIANA HARLEY, during the Civil Wars. To be edited by the REV. T. T. LEWIS, M.A. (Will be ready immediately.)

The following Works are at Press, and will be issued from time to time, as soon as ready:

ROLL of the HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES of RICHARD SWINFIELD, Bishop of Hereford, in the years 1289, 1290, with Illustrations from other and coeval Documents. To be edited by the REV. JOHN WEBB, M.A., F.S.A.

REGULÆ INCLUSARUM: THE ANCREN REWLE. A Treatise on the Rules and Duties of Monastic Life, in the Anglo-Saxon Dialect of the Thirteenth Century, addressed to a Society of Anchorites, being a translation from the Latin Work of Simon de Ghent, Bishop of Salisbury. To be edited from MSS. in the Cottonian Library, British Museum, with an Introduction, Glossarial Notes, &c., by the REV. JAMES MORTON, B.D., Prebendary of Lincoln.

THE DOMESDAY OF ST. PAUL'S: a Description of the Manors belonging to the Church of St. Paul's in London in the year 1222. By the VEN. ARCHDEACON HALE.

ROMANCE OF JEAN AND BLONDE OF OXFORD, by Philippe de Reims, an Anglo-Norman Poet of the latter end of the Twelfth Century. Edited, from the unique MS. in the Royal Library at Paris, by M. LE ROUX DE LINCY, Editor of the Roman de Brut.

Communications from Gentlemen desirous of becoming Members may be addressed to the Secretary, or to Messrs. Nichols.

WILLIAM J. THOMS, Secretary. 25. Parliament Street, WestminsterWORKS OF THE CAMDEN SOCIETY,AND ORDER OF THEIR PUBLICATION

1. Restoration of King Edward IV.

2. Kyng Johan, by Bishop Bale.

3. Deposition of Richard II.

4. Plumpton Correspondence.

5. Anecdotes and Traditions.

6. Political Songs.

7. Hayward's Annals of Elizabeth.

8. Ecclesiastical Documents.

9. Norden's Description of Essex.

10. Warkworth's Chronicle.

11. Kemp's Nine Daies Wonder.

12. The Egerton Papers.

13. Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda.

14. Irish Narratives, 1641 and 1690.

15. Rishanger's Chronicle.

16. Poems of Walter Mapes.

17. Travels of Nicander Nucius.

18. Three Metrical Romances.

19. Diary of Dr. John Dee.

20. Apology for the Lollards.

21. Rutland Papers.

22. Diary of Bishop Cartwright.

23. Letters of Eminent Literary Men.

24. Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler.

25. Promptorium Parvulorum: Tom. I.

26. Suppression of the Monasteries.

27. Leycester Correspondence.

28. French Chronicle of London.

29. Polydore Vergil.

30. The Thornton Romances.

31. Verney's Notes of the Long Parliament.

32. Autobiography of Sir John Bramston.

33. Correspondence of James Duke of Perth.

34. Liber de Antiquis Legibus.

35. The Chronicle of Calais.

36. Polydore Vergil's History, Vol. I.

37. Italian Relation of England.

38. Church of Middleham.

39. The Camden Miscellany, Vol. I.

40. Life of Ld. Grey of Wilton.

41. Diary of Walter Yonge, Esq.

42. Diary of Henry Machyn.

43. Visitation of Huntingdonshire.

44. Obituary of Rich. Smyth.

45. Twysden on the Government of England.

46. Letters of Elizabeth and James VI.

47. Chronicon Petroburgense.

48. Queen Jane and Queen Mary.

49. Bury Wills and Inventories.

50. Mapes de Nugis Curialium.

51. Pilgrimage of Sir R. Guylford.

MURRAY'S

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50. Albermarle Street, London, April 2nd, 1853THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLXXXIV., is NOW READYCONTENTS:

1. APSELY HOUSE.

2. SCROPE'S HISTORY OF CASTLE COMBE.

3. HUMAN HAIR.

4. THE OLD COUNTESS OF DESMOND.

5. HUNGARIAN CAMPAIGNS—KOSSUTH AND GÖRGEY.

6. BUCKINGHAM PAPERS.

7. SEARCH FOR FRANKLIN.

8. THE TWO SYSTEMS AT PENTONVILLE.

9. MAUREL ON THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

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Of Saturday, April 9, contains Articles on

Agricultural statistics

Barley, skinless

Bean, Wilmot's kidney

Books reviewed

Calendar, horticultural

–– agricultural

Cedar and Deodar

Celery, Cole's Crystal White

Cineraria, culture of

Conifers hurt by frost, by Mr. Cheetham

Deodar and Cedar

Drainage, land

Emigration, Hursthouse on

Fire at Windsor Castle

Fish spawn

Flax

Flowers, select florist, by Mr. Edwards

Fruits, names of

–– to preserve

Heating, by Mr. Lucas (with engravings)

Horses and oxen, comparative merits of, for agricultural purposes

Laudanum or opium

Osiers

Oxen and horses

Pig feeding

Plants, effect of the winter on, by Mr. Henderson

Plums, American, by Mr. Rivers

–—, Huling's superb, by Mr. Hogg

Potato tubers

Poultry Book, by Wingfield and Johnson, rev.

Preserving fruits

Rhododendron Dalhousiæ

Royal Botanic Garden, Kew

Societies, proceedings of the Horticultural, National Floricultural, Agricultural of England

Soil, robbers of, by Mr. Goodiff

Statistics, agricultural

Tecoma grandiflora

Tree, stem-roots of

Vines, stem-roots of

Windsor Castle, fire at

Winter, effects of

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1

No doubt the author of an ultra-Protestant poem, entitled Times Anatomie, made by Robert Prickett, a Souldier. Imprinted, 1606.

2

John Darke of Breedon, Esq. See Nash's Worcestershire, Supplement, p. 102.—Ed.