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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1907.
CONTENTS.-No. 203.
\OTES : Genealogical Notes in Books, 381 Dr. Johnson's
- Ancestors, 382 Dotlsley's Collection of Poetry, 384
" Dust builds on dust," 385 De Morgan's Arithmetical Books Brougham on Gibbon " Rache "Pagination, 386 Lancashire the " sincke of Popery," 387.
.QUERIES : Wren and the Moon' Diary of the Times of George IV.' Anderson Family St. George's, Hanover Square Catherine Hampden Hoppner Mary Farrah George III. and Lady Sarah Lennox, 387 Authors Wanted Horace in Latin and English Verse Cornish Chough and Witches Duchesse d'Angouleme Eigh- teenth-Century London Queries Seaweed needing Rain Lodowicke Jackson, 388 Ormsby Family German Encyclopedia Seventeenth - Century Inventories Ministers' Levees Estates held by Peculiar Tenures Callard: Dolbeare, 389 "Canon" of Wine at Mess Arundel Castle Legend Lee alias Tyson Mediaeval Churchyards "Moucharaby," 390.
KEPLIES : Gamester's Superstition Assassination the Metier of Kings, 391 London Remains College Heraldique de France, 392 Palgrave's ' Golden Treasury,' 393 "Camelian" The Racial Problem of Europe Laws of Gravity and the Ancient Greeks Hogsflesh, 394 Schools during the Civil War " Peccavi " : "I have Sindh " " Sham Abraham," 395 "The Kingdom's Intelligencer' "Bacon" 'Into Thy Hands, O Lord' The Hampstead Omnibus, 396-Ebbin, a Christian Name Shakespeare's School, 397.
- NOTES ON BOOKS : 'The Oxford English Dictionary.'
Booksellers' Catalogues.
INotices to Correspondents.
GENEALOGICAL NOTES IN BOOKS.
TBIFLES are not to be despised in genea- logical research, and important information is frequently found in the most out-of-the- way places. Probably no form of genea- logical record is more genuine than those of which examples are given below, viz., notes in books. One can hardly fancy any one seriously sitting down and making such entries for the express purpose of bewilder- ing posterity ; and though even contem- porary records may be open to error, they are certainly more trustworthy than the pedigree founded on fiction. A collection of genealogical notes from books would be of considerable value. I submit the follow- ing in the hope that they may be of some use to your readers.
Burton. From the British Museum copy of Calvin's ' Commentaries on the Psalms,' 1571 :
" Peter Burton his book, January 25th, 1766.
" I went apprentice to Mr. William Guy on the
29th day of August, 1758, who was then master
ropemaker of Chatham Yard. I am now 21 years
3 months and 14 days old.
" My father Peter Burton was son of Thomas Burton of Halsted, 4 miles from Sevenoakes in the county of Kent.
" My mother Elizabeth Mezzony was daughter of David Mezzony, shoemaker at Bexley in Kent, who served his time in Hartford town in Hartfordshire.
" My mother's mother was Eliz. Peirce, daughter of Robert and Rebecca Peirce of Bersted in Kent.
" My father's mother was Mary Furzer, born in Chatham.
" Mr. William Guy my master died the 6th July, 1769, aged about 54 years."
Gosnold. From the Bagford collection of title-pages, Harl. 5991, 134 :
" The severall ages of my wives children whose portions are behinde unpaide, taken out of the church booke :
"paid. Susan Gosnold, baptized 2nd August, 1602.
" paid. Barthol. Gosiiold, baptized 16th Decem- ber, 1603.
" paid. Paul Gosnold, baptized 12 Dece'ber, 1605.
" paid. Martha Gosnold, 5 February, 1606."
Harrington. The following names in a contemporary handwriting are in the British Museum copy of G. Gascoigne's ' Posies,' 1575 : George Harrington, James Harrington, and John Harrington, on the title - page ; Francis Harrington on signa- ture, ^[ 4.
Johnson. From a fragment of a Bible, Harl. 5936, 160 :
" my sonn antonye Jhonsonn and harye Jhonsonn went from londonn the 17 of Jvne, being frydaye, and I and my wyf browght them to blakwall, and ar gonn wethe the erle of esex : god bethier good sped. 1597.
" my wif sekned the 28 of June, being thursdaye,* and departed the 7. daye of Jvlye, being thorsdaye,
d was bredf in allgat churche own satord
and
foll'ing, being the 9 of Julye, 1597."
jrdey
Palmer. From a leaf, in the Ames Col-
lection of title-pages of Tottell's edition of
the Statutes, 1559 (B.M. 473 h. 1. 211) :
" The ferme called harefotts end in Northchurch & Barkhamsted p'ish was my father T. Palm's in- heritaunce, which ferme one henry Watts and Johanne his wiff, mother to the said Thomas & my graundmother, did lett by lease beringe date the xv th of Marche in the xi th year of K. h. viij. to one John Grover."
The writer was probably the W. Palmer whose name is at the top of the leaf, and to whom the book belonged.
HENRY B. PLOMEB.
Probably meant for Tuesday,
t Buried.
