Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851

If Sir Henry Slingsby's Diary had never been published, it would indeed have been an excellent book for the Camden Society; but be kind enough to inform your correspondent P. B. that, besides some quotations printed in Seward's Anecdotes, and large extracts published at Edinburgh, in an octavo volume, in 1806, the whole Diary, with a great deal of illustrative matter relating to the Slingsby family, was published in one volume, 8vo., London, 1836, under the very competent editorship of the Rev. Daniel Parsons, of Oriel College, Oxford.

It appears from the preface to that publication, that the original MS. is not now known to be in existence. Mr. Parsons printed from a copy of the original, made by Sir Savile Slingsby, in 1714-5, which then remained at Scriven.

    Ettie.

Criston, Somerset (Vol. iii., p. 278.).—Perhaps Priston is the place inquired for. This is a village near Keynshem, where a Mr. Vaughan Jenkins has some property. Criston, as a place in Somerset, is unknown to

    J.

Bath, April 18.

Criston (Vol. iii., p. 278.).—There is a small village in Somersetshire called Christon, about five miles N.W. of Axbridge.

    C. I. R.

Tradesmen's Signs (Vol. iii., p. 224.).—In the delightful little volume on Chaucer, in Knight's shilling series, entitled Pictures of English Life, the author has the following on the Tabard, at p. 19.:—

"The sign and its supports were removed in 1776, when all such characteristic features of the streets of London in the olden time, disappeared in obedience to a parliamentary edict for their destruction."

It would appear, however, by the subsequent quotation from Brand's Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 359., that the edict above referred to was not carried into execution against all signs; or that, if so, it was soon repealed:—

"Lord Thurlow, in his speech for postponing the further reading of the Surgeons' Incorporation Bill, July 17th, 1797, stated 'that by a statute still in force, the barbers and surgeons were each to use a pole.'"

    R. W. E.

Cor. Chr. Coll., Cambridge.

Emendation of a Passage in Virgil (Vol. iii., p. 237.).—The emendation of Scriblerus is certainly objectionable, and by no means satisfactory, for these reasons:—1st. "Ac sunt in spatio" is by no means elegant Latin, which "addunt se in spatia" is; for the word "addunt" is constantly used in the same way elsewhere.

2nd. The word "spatium" is seldom used to signify a chariot course.

"Spatia," the plural, was the proper expression, and is only so deviated from in poetry in a single instance. (Juv. Sat. vi. 582.) It is used in the plural in Virg. Æn. v. 316. 325. 327.; Statius, Theb. vi. 594.; Horace, Epist. 1. xiv. 9.

Vide Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities, under art. Circus, p. 232.

Surely there is nothing unintelligible in the expression, "addunt se in spatia," which is the reading given in almost all the best editions.

    J. E. M.

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC

Archdeacon Cotton, whose endeavours to ascertain and record the succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies in Ireland are probably known to many of our readers (at least, by the Queries which have appeared in our Columns), has just completed his Fasti Ecclesiæ Hiberniæ, in 4 vols. 8vo. From the nature of the work, it is obvious that it could never have been undertaken with a view to profit. The printing, &c., has cost upwards of six hundred pounds, and the Archdeacon, naturally unwilling to lose the whole of this outlay, is circulating a prospectus offering copies at fifty shillings the set. Of these, there are but two hundred. The utility of a book which contains the names and preferments of every occupant of an Irish see, dignity, or prebend, from the earliest period to the present day, so far as existing materials permits, is so obvious, that it can scarcely be doubted that it must eventually find a place in all public and official libraries.

Catalogues Received.—J. Miller's (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue No. XXII. of Books Old and New; D. Nutt's (270. Strand) List of Valuable Books, Foreign Theology, Canon Law, Monastic History, Fathers of the Church, &c.; Nattali and Bond's (23. Bedford Street, Covent Garden) Catalogue of Ancient and Modern Books in all Languages; W. Heath's (29½. Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue No. III. for 1851, of Valuable Second-hand Books in all classes of Literature; T. D. Thomson's (13. Upper King Street, Russell Square) Catalogue Part XIV. of Second-hand Books English and Foreign; J. Tupling's (320. Strand) Catalogue of Books on Divinity, so classified as to form a guide to Students in their choice; J. Lilly's (7. Pall Mall) Catalogue No. III. of Valuable Books relating to English History, Antiquities, &c.; Olive Lasbury's (10. Park Street, Bristol) Catalogue No. XI. of Books now on Sale; J. Petheram's (94. High Holborn) Catalogue Part CXXII. of Books Old and New; W. S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) Catalogue No. LXVIII. of Cheap Second-hand Books.

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

History of Jenny Spinner, the Hertfordshire Girl, written by herself. London. 18 mo. J. Wheble, Warwick Square. 1800.

Anti-Jacobin Review. Vols. LI. and LII.

Britton's Architectural Antiquities. Vol. III., No. 7., giving an account of St. Nicholas' Chapel in King's Lynn, by Rev. Edw. Edwards, with Plate. 5s. will be given for this separate Number.

The Prophetic Messenger, edited by Rev. J. Baylee of Birkenhead, Nos. 3. and 15.

La Prison de Dartmoor, ou Récit Historique des Infortunes, &c., des Prisonniers Français en Angleterre, &c. Par L. Catel. 8vo. 2 Tomes. Paris, 1847.

Cureton, Pillar of the Creed of the Sunnites.

Pond's Catalogue of 1112 Stars reduced from Observations made at Greenwich from 1816 to 1833.

Taylor, a General Catalogue of the Principal fixed Stars, Madras, 1844.

Macdonald, Dissertatio de Necrose et Callo, 1795. Edinburgh.

Dieffenback, Travels in New Zealand. 4to. 1843.

Dianæ (Anton.) Resolutionum Moralium Summa. 4to.

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