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distinguishes the letters of the Great Duke. It is a volume which future historians will refer to. The Duke's views of the war fever in France, and the comparative indifference to it which was manifested in this country, are very remarkable. We could pick out some half dozen passages on this point which it were well to bring under the special notice of the French people. They would certainly help to give them more correct ideas of the real feelings of perfidious Albion.

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If it be true that ladies are among the greatest bookbuyers of the present day, Miss Holt may well look for numerous purchasers of these agreeable and painstaking Biographies from among her literary sisterhood. royal dames whose lives are here narrated are no less than ten in number, namely, Ela and Alicia, Countesses of Salisbury, Joan of Kent, Constance of Navarre, Jean Beaufort, Jeanne de Valois, and the Archduchess Juana de Navarra, Marguerite of Hapsburg, Charlotte, Princess of Condé, and Marie Sobieski, the wife of the Pretender. Their stories are told very gracefully by Miss Holt, who gives her authorities for her statements; and has added to the value of the book by a capital Index.

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Mr. Bentley is a bold, but we suspect not the less a wise man, in thus publishing before the interest excited by Lord Dundonald's Autobiography has by any means subsided, a cheap edition of the story of this gallant naval hero. So that Lord Dundonald's Autobiography may at a small cost be in the hands of every "old salt" in the service.

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OLDYS' ACCOUNT OF LONDON LIBRARIES. This interesting contribution to our Literary History, which has so long escaped the researches of the curious, has been discovered in the Hunterian Museum at Glasgow, and by the kind permission of the Senate, will be printed in "N. & Q.' The first portion will appear next Saturday.

C. D. may be assured that Extenta means Survey and nothing else. In the Calendar of the Inquisitiones, which our correspondent evidently has before him, Clifton Manor extent, means "Clifton Manor, a Survey." When the word Extent is not added to the name of the manor in the Calendar, it significs that the Inquisition names the manor, and that is all. C. D. LAMONT. Drummond's Sonnet prefixed to Gordon's Penardo and Laissa, 1615, is printed in the Poems of William Drummond, pub lished by the Maitland Club, 1832, p. 290. Very little is known of Patrik Gordon: see Dempster, Hist. Eccles. Gent. Scotor., p. 320.; Pinkerton's Humble Apologie for Learning and Learned Men, p. 25., ed. 1653.; and Irving's Lives of Scotish Poets, i. 269., ed. 1804. See "N. & Q.," 1st S. vii. 161.

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[The following interesting notices of the London Libraries at the commencement of the last century must be considered as the joint-production of John Bagford and William Oldys names dear to every literary antiquary. At the death of William Oldys on the 15th of April, 1761, his printed books and manuscripts were purchased by Thomas Davies the bookseller, in whose Catalogue of April 12, 1762, this manuscript is entered as No. 3613, and entitled, "Of London Libraries: with Anecdotes of Collectors of Books, Remarks on Booksellers, and on the first Publishers of Catalogues," 4to. That a work bearing so alluring a title from the pen of William Oldys should awaken the curiosity of bibliographers is what might be expected. Mr. Bolton Corney informs us, that " Mr. Heber, whose copy of [Davies's] Catalogue of 1762 lies before me, has marked this article with N.B. N.B. It evidently set him on the qui vive." (Curiosities of Literature Illustrated, second edition, p. 169.) Mr. John Fry, too, in a note to this article copied from Davies's Catalogue, in his Bibliographical Memoranda, 4to. 1816, p. 37., adds, "This must be a curious article; Query. In whose possession is it?"

The manuscript now before us, however, does not fully correspond in contents with those set forth in the title-page advertised by Davies, as the last two topics are unnoticed; so that we may have only a portion of a larger work left incomplete by our assiduous antiquary. Nevertheless, in

the account of the London Libraries now presented to our readers, Oldys has thrown open, not merely "to students and curious persons," as the charter of the British Museum has it, but to the public at large, the inexhaustible treasures contained within them, and as such his work will be acceptable to every student engaged in biographical and historical researches.

The history of this literary relic is soon told. It was commenced by the ingenious John Bagford, whose first rough and incomplete draft is among his Collectanea in the Harl. MS. 5900, fol. 44., and was printed in The Monthly Miscellany, or Memoirs for the Curious, ii. 167., 4to., 1708. Bagford died at Islington on May 15, 1716, aged sixtyfive. Oldys availed himself of the fugitive collections of this industrious bookseller, or rather book-broker, and from his extensive acquaintance with the literary treasures of the metropolis, was better qualified to carry out the object proposed by his more humble precursor. Dr. William Hunter became the fortunate possessor of Oldys's manuscript, as it was discovered in his Museum, now belonging to the University of Glasgow. We are indebted to the kindness of His Grace the Duke of Argyle for securing us the opportunity of giving it publicity; as also to the Rev. Principal Barclay for his assistance, and to the Curator of the Museum, Dr. Rogers: the latter gentleman having been at considerable pains to procure us a Transcript of the MS., and then adding to his kindness by collating it with the original.]

The learned and ingenious men of all countries are apt to inquire wherever they go after the repositories of learning and ingenuity; and not only content themselves with what they moot of it among the living, but must be satisfied also with what testimonies thereof has been left by the dead.

Yet foreign nations have the art of representing more considerably their treasures of this kind than we have, and indeed they appear so to the eye, though, setting aside the greater pomp and parade of their books, England may produce as many that are learnedly and solidly written, perhaps as that magazine of arts may, Rome itself.

London and Westminster are well stored not only with printed books, but manuscript records, and other muniments of great antiquity, besides statues, models, paintings, and all other curiosities both in Art and Nature, though we are not so ostentatious, as I said, of them,-have not the talent of magnifying them so much as some of our neighbours have.

In the White Tower are vast number of records relating to Monasteries, &c., several letters of Kings, Princes, Dukes, &c., from several parts of the world, as Tartary, Barbary, Spain, France, Italy, &c., to our Kings in England, also restored very conveniently to order and method. The building itself was a chapel of the palace, and is a very uncommon sort of structure, and by the late Queen's liberality rendered both useful and ornamental.

CHAPTER HOUSE, WESTMINSTER. - In the Exchequer at Westminster, the Records were lately in the custody of the Lord Treasurer. There are the two most ancient books in this kingdom, made in William the Conqueror's time, called the Doomsday Books; the one in quarto containing the Description or Survey of Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk; the other, in folio, being the same for all the shires in England, from Cornwall to the River Tyne, well worth the notice. There are also many other ancient and rare Records, as Powell in his Repertory 3, Prynne, Cotton, and above all, the seventeen volumes of Rymer's Fœdera, sufficiently evidence.1

The Parliament Rolls are in an old stone tower in the Old Palace Yard, Westminster, and the Papers of State, from the beginning of Henry VIII. to this time, are kept in the fine built gate

for depositing all the Records in this Tower, and a sufficient number of clerks to clean, sort, digest, &c., the same, under the inspection of William Petyt, Esq.

2 A very carefully-executed lithographic facsimile of so much of Domesday Book as relates to the county of Kent is in the course of preparation by Mr. Netherclift. It will be accompanied by a translation and illustrative notes by the Rev. L. B. Larking, from whose vast knowledge of all that relates to the History of Kent, much valuable light will assuredly be thrown upon the nature of this invaluable national record. That portion which relates to Cornwall has lately been copied and printed by photozincography by Colonel Sir Henry James, R.E., by order of Her Majesty's Government; and may be procured of any bookseller for a few shillings.

5 "Repository of Records remaining in the Four Treasuries on the Receipt side at Westminster, the two Remembrancers of the Exchequer; with a Brief Introductory Index of the Records in the Chancery and Tower; in which is contained whatsoever may give satisfaction to the searcher for tenure or title in anything." By Robert Powell. London, 1634, 4to. Rymer's Fadera, edited by George Holmes, makes 20 vols. fol. 17271735.

4 The Chapter House is situated on the south-east side of Westminster Abbey, immediately adjoining the entrance to Poets' Corner. It contained muniments of the most valuable, but miscellaneous nature. In 1807, the Record Commission ordered an Inventory to be made of them. Three copies only were taken of it; one of them, with coloured drawings of the building, is at the British Museum, Addit. MS. 8977. Sir Harris Nicolas made an abstract of the Alphabetical Index, which he printed in the Gent. Mag. for Feb. 1830, p. 118. See also Thomas's Hand-Book of the Records, pp. 287-297. The documents have recently been transferred to the Rolls Office, Chancery Lane.

as you go through to the Cockpit, and is called the Paper Office. It was built by Henry VIII., and is one of the most curious pieces of workmanship in Europe for flint work, and it is reported that Hans Holbein was the architect.5 Dr. Forbes is now collecting all the State Papers here relating to the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in order to publish them in several volumes in folic.

COTTONIAN LIBRARY.-Sir Robert Cotton's Library of Manuscripts, founded by himself, the fruits of forty years' inquiry, expense, interest, and assistance, bequeathed through Act of Parliament for the public benefit. They are gathered into about 1000 great volumes, and reposited in fourteen wainscot presses under the distinction of the twelve Cæsars, and of Cleopatra and Faustina. They are now in Lord Ashburnham's house by the Abbey at Westminster, and ten rings of MSS. in same room with them, as his library of printed books are in the next, whereof Dr. Bentley is keeper at the salary of 2001. per an., and Mr. Casley under-keeper. This Cottonian library

5 For views of Holbein's gate, Whitehall, see Vetusta Monumenta; Londina Illustrata; Smith's Westminster; and Dodsley's London. When Strype drew up his additions to Stow, the uppermost room, in Holbein's gateway, was used as the State Paper Office. (Book vi. p. 5.)

A Full View of the Public Transactions in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. By Patrick Forbes, M.D. Lond. 1740-1., fol. 2 vols. A series of letters and other papers of state, written by Queen Elizabeth and her principal ministers, and by the foreign princes and ministers with whom she had negociations, illustrated with facsimile autographs. Are these the earliest facsimiles published in England? See Ayscough's Catalogue, p. 99., for a list of Dr. Forbes's papers in the British Museum.

7 The Cottonian library was deposited in Ashburnham House in 1730. On the 23rd Oct. 1731, a fire broke out and consumed a portion of the collection. The MSS. of the Royal and Cottonian libraries at this time were in the same room above the one where the fire commenced. At the first alarm, Mr. Casley took care to remove the famous Alexandrian MS. in the Royal Collection, and now in the British Museum, Royal MS. 1 D. v.-viii. 4to. From "A Report of the Committee appointed to View the Cottonian Library," Lond. 1732, fol., it appears that "the number of manuscript volumes contained in the library before the fire was 958; of which are lost, burnt, or entirely spoiled, 114; and damaged 98: so that the said library, at present, consists of 746 entire volumes, and 68 defective ones." Mr. Sims, in his Hand-Book to the Library of the British Museum, states, that "since 1842 one hundred volumes written upon vellum, and ninety-seven upon paper, have been restored under the directions of Sir Frederic Madden."

8 Dr. Richard Bentley, the celebrated critic and classic of Phalaris celebrity, succeeded Mr. Justel as Keeper of the Royal Library at St. James's on Dec. 23, 1693. Ob. July 14, 1742. In Addit. MS. 4696. (Brit. Mus.) is a Schedule of all the MSS., parchments, written records, and other memorials, and of the coins, medals, and other rarities contained in the Cottonian library, made by Dr. Richard Bentley the 10th of May, 1718.

9 Mr. David Casley drew up "A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the King's Library; an Appendix to the Catalogue of the Cottonian Library, together with an Ac

has been, and not improperly, called the English Vatican, though the Pope's conclave made some endeavours, after the foundation, 163110, to incorporate it with that of Rome. It is the grand repository to which our Antiquaries and Historians have had access, to their great improvement and elucidation, and the facility of this access has greatly advanced the credit and use of it. "Omnis ab illo

Et Camdene tua, et Seldeni gloria crevit." I ["Camden to him, to him doth Selden, owe

Their glory: what they got from him did grow."] It consists of ancient MSS. in Divinity, History, and especially relating to English History, ecclesiastical and civil: "in so much, that the fountains have been fain to fetch water from the stream," says Fuller; "and the secretaries of state and clerks of the council glad from hence to borrow back again many originals which, being lost by casualty or negligence of officers, had been neglected to be recovered to their proper repositories when some danger of fire or necessity of repairs, &c., I have heard, had removed them for protection to this known preserver of such instructive curiosities, with many ancient Saxon Charters, coins, &c.2

In the drawers are many choice Roman antiquities not mentioned in Dr. Smith's Catalogue: as a brass image, fibulas, lamps, rings, seals, weapons, and other great rarities, taken notice of by very few who have seen that place. There are many old reliques which belonged to the Monasteries here in England before the Dissolution. Amongst others, the claw of a griffin with a silver hoop, on the great end of it a Saxon inscription; but I take it rather to be the horn of some animal. There is an old painted altar that belonged to the Monastery of Great Saint Bartholomew, London; some pictures of the Kings of England (also of Camden, Spelman, Attwood, Ben Jonson, &c.) on board, the oldest I have seen. There is a large book with several excellent designs for the Encount of Books burnt or damaged by a late fire," &c. Lond. 1734, 4to.

10 Sir Robert Cotton commenced his splendid collection in 1588; was knighted 1603; created a baronet 1611; and died in May, 1631, his death being hastened by the loss of his library, which had been twice taken possession of by government.

1 Weever's Funeral Monuments, Preface.

2 Vide Nicolson's Preface to Part III. of his Historical Libraries; Letters of Journey through England [by Paul Hentzner, ed. 1757, p. 30.]; Fuller's Worthies; Life of Sir Robert Cotton [by Dr. Thomas Smith?]; and The Present State of the Cotton Library [fol. 1732.].-Oldys.

3 Dr. Thomas Smith, Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, compiled a Catalogue of this library, entitled "Catalogus Librorum MSS. Bibliothecæ Cottonianæ, etc. Scriptore Thoma Smitho, Eccles. Anglicana Presbytero." Oxon. 1696, fol. It is valuable as affording a clue to the identification of the burnt manuscripts. The Catalogue at present in use was prepared by Joseph Planta, Esq., fol. 1802.

trance of Henry VIII. I shall leave the description of these most excellent MSS., as to their antiquity, illuminations, curious writing, purport, &c., to a more able performer. Had the late Mr. Humphrey Wanley had encouragement, he could have exhibited this library to the world with as much advantages as Lambecius has done the Emperor's at Vienna.6 The ancient Genesis there deserves a particular description. It is in all probability one of the rarest manuscripts in the world, and as old as any it is in Greek capitals with figures, and well worthy the regard of the most curious. The place where those jewels were reposited, before the last removal, is the remaining part of the palace of St. Edward, the King; and one of the oldest structures of those times.8

WESTMINSTER ABBEY LIBRARY. - In the great cloister of the abbey is a well-furnished library, considering the time when it was erected by Dr. Williams, Dean of Westminster and Bishop of Lincoln; who was a great promoter of learning. He purchased the books of the heirs of one Baker of Highgate, and founded it for public use every day in Term, from nine to twelve in the forenoon, and from two till four in the afternoon. The MSS. are kept in the inner part, but by an accident many of them were burnt. There I saw that pompous and rare book of the Rules and Ceremonies of the Coronation of our Kings of England. There is a MS. Catalogue of the books in the library. In the room called the Museum,

4 "Designs for interviews in the time of Henry VIII." - Bagford's MS.

5 In the year 1701, Humphrey Wanley, Matthew Hutton, and John Anstis, three eminent antiquaries, were appointed to examine carefully into the state of the Cottonian Library. Their report, dated June 22, 1703, is extant in manuscript, prefixed to a copy of Dr. Thomas Smith's Catalogue of the Cott. MSS. in the King's library at the British Museum, which also contains Wanley's MS. Catalogue of the Charters in the Cottonian collection.

Peter Lambecius, a learned bibliographer, was born in 1628, and died in 1680. His great Catalogue of the imperial library was published in 8 vols. fol. from 1665 to 1679, under the title of Commentariorum de augustissima Bibliotheca Cæsarea Vindobonensi, libri octo.

7 The invaluable MS. of the Greek Genesis (Cotton. MS. Otho, B. vi.), written upon vellum in the fourth century, with miniatures, was supposed to have been irrecoverably damaged by the fire at Ashburnham House; but has since been restored. under the directions of Sir Frederic Madden.

8 This last sentence was written by Bagford, but slightly altered, and that incorrectly, by Oldys. Cotton House, near the west end of Westminster Hall (the place alluded to) was sold to the Crown in the reign of Queen Anne for 4500l., by Sir John Cotton, the great-grandson of the founder of the library. In 1712, the library was removed to Essex House in the Strand, and again in 1730, to Ashburnham House; the following year to the old Dormitory of Westminster School; and eventually transferred in 1753 to the British Museum.

9 This was not the first library that belonged to this Abbey, as is evident from an order of Council in the reign

OLD ROYAL LIBRARY. - St. James's Library was founded by King Henry VIII., is well furnished with choice books collected by John Leland, and others at the Dissolution of the Abbeys. There is a great quantity of books that were first printed, both on vellum and paper, in all languages. The Catalogue of the MSS. is printed in the General Catalogue of Manuscripts in England. This library was founded for the use of the Princes of the Blood, as Prince Edward; and our Kings besides, had several studios and libraries at several places; as Whitehall, Hampton Court, Nonsuch, Windsor, Oatlands, Greenwich, &c. ; but this at St. James's was the chief, and hath been used and highly esteemed by the learned in all times. The keeping of it hath from time to time, in the several reigns, been by Leland, Delayne, Traherne3, Ascham, Patrick Young (Patricius Junius), and now in the keeping of Dr. Bentley. It would redound much to our reputation that foreigners were better acquainted with it.

(To be continued.)

MISS BENGER ON SHAKSPEARE.

I do not know whether the following lines have ever been printed, or whether they will be considered worthy of preservation in "N. & Q."

They were written impromptu, in my presence, of Edward VI. for "purging the library of Westminster of all missals, legends, and other superstitious volumes, and delivering their garniture to Sir Anthony Aucher." (Collier's Eccles. Hist. ii. 307., fol.) Dean Williams converted a waste room, situate in the east side of the cloisters, into a library; which he enriched with the valuable works from the collection of Sir Richard Baker, author of The Chronicles of the Kings of England, which cost him 5001. A Catalogue of this library is in Harl. MS. 694. There is also a MS. Catalogue, compiled in 1798 by Dr. Dakin, the precentor, arranged alphabetically. See Botfield's Cathedral Libraries of England, pp. 430-464.; and an interesting paper on this library by W. H. Hart, Esq., F.S.A., read at the meeting of the London and Middlesex Archæological Society, Oct. 25, 1860, and printed in the Gent. Mag. for March, 1861, p. 239. It is scarcely necessary to remind our readers of the admirable description of this library given by Washington Irving in his

Sketch Book.

I was permitted to copy them at the same time from the Album of a mutual friend, at whose request they were composed.

"A Lament; on the Paucity of Information respecting the Life and Character of Shakspeare.

"Lives there, redeemed from dull oblivion's waste
One cherished line that SHAKSPEARE's hand has traced?
Vain search! tho' glory crowns the poet's bust,
His story sleeps with his unconscious dust.
Born, wedded, buried, such the common lot,
And such was his,-what more? almost a blot!
Even on his laurelled head with doubt we gaze,
And Fancy best his lineaments pourtrays.
Thus, like an Indian Deity, enshrined
In mystery is his image, whilst the mind
To us bequeathed, belongs to all mankind. ̧
Yet here he lived, his manly high career
Of strange vicissitude, was measured here.
Not his the envied privilege to hail
The Eternal City! or in Tempe's vale
Breathe inspiration with luxurious sighs,
And dream of Heaven beneath unclouded skies.
His sphere was bounded, and we almost trace
His daily haunts, where he was wont to chase
Unwelcome cares, or visions fair recall.

His breath still lingers on the cloistral wall,
With gloom, congenial to his spirit, fraught.
And thou, oh Thames! his lonely sighs hast caught,
When one, the rhyming Charon of his day,
Who tugged the oar, yet conned a merry lay,
Full oft, unconscious of the freight he bore,
Transferred the Musing Bard from shore to shore.
Too careless Taylor*! hadst thou well divined
The marvellous man to thy frail skiff consigned,
Thou should'st have craved one tributary line,
To blend his glorious destiny with thine.
Nor vain the prayer,-who generous homage pays
To Genius, wins the second meed of praise."

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W. J. S.

THE ABBOT OF WESTMINSTER'S HOUSE, CALLED CHEYNYGATES,' ""THE ELMES," THE "CALBEGE," THE 66 BLACKSTOLE," THE "FRATER MISERICORDE," THE "OXEHALL," ETC. AT WESTMINSTER AB

BEY.

The following extract from King Henry VIII.'s charter of endowment of his newly-created see of Westminster, gives some interesting particulars of the abbot's house and adjoining buildings, which seem to me worth a Note, as illustrative of the history and topography of Westminster, and the monastic buildings belonging to the abbey.

By Letters Patent, dated 20th January, 32 Henry VIII. (part 7.), the king granted to Thomas, Bishop of Westminster, and his successors for ever, with lands, tenements, and advowsons in Essex, Berks, Yorkshire, Bucks, Gloucestershire, Herts, Hunts, Lincolnshire, and Northampton

*The Water Poet and ferryman, who may be supposed to have often carried Shakspeare across the Thames from Westminster to the Globe Theatre on the Bankside.