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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vni. S^T. K, 1907.
Raikes (Robert), printer, Water Lane, near the
Bridge, 1718-19. Printed The St. Ives Post Boy;
or, The Loyal Packet. D. at Gloucester 7 Sept.,
1757. Father of Robert Raikes, founder of Sun-
day schools.
Dicey (William), printer, near the Bridge, 1719-20. Printed The St. Ives Mercury. Raikes and Dicey founded The Northampton Mercury, 2 May, 1120, and The Gloucester Journal, 9 April, 1722.
Dicey (Cluer), printer, 1832. Younger brother of William Dicey.
Biggs (H.), 1768-72, Circulating Library.
Thomas (Miss), 1780, "sold by."
Bloom (T.), 1788-9.
Davis (W.), 1792.
Croft (Peter C. ), Sheep Market, 1792. Vestry Clerk 10 May, 1834.
Croft & Son, 1824.
Croft (Peter Benjamin), Crown Street, 1830.
Paul (W. F.), 1801, bookseller. D. 8 Nov., 1801 (Gent. Mag. 1801).
Pearson (W.), 1810-14, "sold by."
Townsend (Charles), Bridge Street, 1814-37.
Skelton (Mrs.), 1815, "sold by."
Hall (W.), 1815. "D. at St. Ives Mr. W. Hall, printer and stationer, 23. He had recently com- menced business, and his premature decease is attributed to too great anxiety and exertion." The New Monthly Magazine and Universal Re- gister, Jan. to June, 1815.
Gardner (R.), 1815.
Gardner (Susan), 1823-63, Victoria Printing Works, Crown Street, afterwards at the Pavement. This business was carried on by the widow, then by the daughter, until it was sold to Mr. James G. Hankin in 1863.
Underwood (J.), 1834-9. Was apprenticed to Hat- field, printer, of St. Neots, and leaving there he set up business at St. Ives. From St. Ives he went to Dover.
Paul, 1837, "sold by."
Chapman (Maria), Crown Street, 1849.
Chapman (M.), late Croft, 1851. Croft's daughter and successor.
Skeeles (George), Market Hill, 1850-54. Printed a newspaper edited by Mr. Blissett.
Parry (Frederick), Crown Street, 1853. Son-in-law of Croft, and successor to Maria Chapman.
Cox (Samuel Deadman), Crown Street and Bridge Street, 1857. Printed The St. Ives and Hun- tingdonshire Gazette and General Advertiser, Vol. I., No. 1, 5 Sept., 1857. Mr. Cox purchased the Ouse Navigation for 11,OCKW. from Mr. Fairy, the agent to Mr. Kirkham. Mr. Cox after- wards transferred his rights to a syndicate for 17 500/
Cox '(John), Crown Street, 1858.
Watts (E.), Crown Street, 1859. Successor to Cox. Mr. Watts is brother to Mr. Theodore Watts- Dunton.
Cooper (William Ainsworth), Bridge Street, 1863-5. Succeeded Mr. Cox as proprietor of the Gazette at the Bridge Street works. No. 274 is dated 10 Oct., 1863.
Jattray (James), Bridge Street, 1865-70. Succeeded Mr. Cooper. No. 391, Vol. VII. of the Gazette is dated 5 Aug., 1865. The Peterborough Times, which belonged to Mr. George Hammond Whalley, M.P., was also printed by Jaffray.
Lang (Rev. William), Crown Street, 1864-7. Suc- ceeded Mr. Watts.
Hankin (James Graham), the Pavement, 1863-89 1 .
Successor to Gardner. D. 21 Dec., 1889. and was
succeeded by his son Mr. Herbert Ingle Hankin
(James G. Hankin & Son, 1885), who was Mayor
of St. Ives 1898-1901, and J.P. 1906.
Foster (Edward William), Bullock Market, Crom- well Printing Works, 1869-85. D. 27 May, 1907, age 67. Founder of The Hunts County Guardian*
Stringer (H. Gilbert), the Broadway, 1885-6. Suc- cessor to Foster.
Jarman & Gregory, the Broadway, 1886-93 (Sydney Gardner Jarman and Alfred Thomas Gregory), proprietors of The Hunts County Guardian, successors to Stringer. Last copy printed at St. Ives No. 1245, 11 Nov., 1893. Sold to a Com- pany at Huntingdon, and called The Huntingdon Post, first number 18 Nov., 1893. Printed at 46, High Street, Huntingdon ; and now at Peter- borough.
HERBERT E. NORRIS.
Cirencester.
[For other lists of provincial booksellers and printers see 10 S. v. 141, 183, 242, 297, 351, 415, 481, 492; vi. 31, 443; vii. 26, 75.]
CHAUCERIANA,
' THE NONNE PREESTES TALE,' II. 367-71 = Whan that the month in which the world bigan, That high to March, whan God first maked man, Was complet, and y- passed whe also, Sin Marcn begin, thritty dayes and two, Bifel that Chauntecleer, &c. It is impossible to interpret the passage- satisfactorily if bigan, 370, is taken to be the same word as in 367, i.e., preterite of biginne(n), though the impossibility has not always been so frankly recognized as on& could wish it had been. Prof. Skeat lightly remarks :
"The day meant is certainly May 3rd The
date May 3 is playfully denoted by saying that March was complete, and also (since March began) thirty-two days had passed. The words ' since March began ' are parenthetical ; and we are, in fact, told that the whole of March, the whole of April, and two days of May were done with." One is tempted to remark that the play- fulness of the poet would seem in the present instance to have communicated itself to the most learned of his editors, for it must be obvious to any serious reader that no amount of parenthesizing will, if bigan= began, enable us to obtain any other date than April 2 for Chanticleer's misadventure. The truth is that "sin March bigan " = post Martium prceteritum= since the end of March. Bi- is the well-known stressless prefix, and -gan is the perfect participle of go(n) and=N.E. gone. ' N.E.D.' gives gan(e) as a form of the participle found from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. I do not know if any one can prove that Chaucer
