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3 Rue des Canonniers, Lille.

PIERRE TURPIN.

UNANNOTATED MARRIAGES AT WESTMINSTER (12 S. vi. 65, 129).-11. Joseph Damsell and Joanna Kidder, 1690. On April 20, 1702, being then described as Joseph Damsell, of the parish of Lambeth, Surrey, gent., living near Cupid's Bridge, aged 56 years," he gave evidence in the Chancery suit Squibb v. Nisbett and Buxton. He stated that he lived with William Malthus, late of Bedford Street, Middlesex, merchant, at the time of the death of the said Malthus (Nov. 20, 1700) and for over ten years before that date, &c. (Public Record Office, Town Depositions, Bundle 1,238).

12. Robert Silke and Mary Dowse, 1692. In 1700 Robert Silke, Mary his wife, and John Silke of London, pewterer, were three of the dependants to a Bill of Complaint in Chancery filed against them by Sarah Gregory, wife of Charles Gregory of London, merchant, concerning the personal estate of her late father, John Steventon (Public Record Office, C.5, 210/24).

14. Thomas Crow and Elizabeth Gill, 1896-7. Eight children of Thomas Crow were baptized at Colyton, Devon: Thomas, 1697; Elizabeth, 1699; Betty, 1701; Sackfeild, 1702-3; Grace, 1704-5; Susannah, 1707; William, 1709; and Sarah, 1710-11 (Publications of the Devon and Cornwall Record Society).

His widowed mother, Elizabeth Keylway, survived him and lived at Week, Wilts, with her son, Daniel Keylway, gent. William had three other brothers: Turner Keylway, an upholsterer in St. Paul's, Covent Garden; Charles Keylway, a hatter in the Strand; and Robert Keylway, a surgeon in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Robert left a widow, Susannah. There was also a sister Mary, who married James Ashe of Mashfield, Wilts, Esq. (Public Record Office, C.11, 484/18). BERNAU & BERNAU.

20 Charleville Road, W.14,

ST. LEONARD'S PRIORY, HANTS (12 S. vi. 90).-Very few Hampshire books seem to mention this place. The Hampshire Field Club visited St. Leonards-the remains of the great barn of the Abbey (Beaulieu Grange, one of the largest in England, and the remains of St. Leonard's Chapel-on Aug. 20, 1890, and an account of these might be found in the local press. There is only a brief notice of the excursion in The Papers and Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club, vol. ii., p. 11. Murray's Handbook for the County, 1858, refers to St. Leonards, the ivy-covered ruins of a barn 226 ft. long, the great "spicarium "of the monastery, and fragments of a small decorated chapel.

It may be worth mentioning that the seal of a Hospital of St. Leonard was exhibited. before the Society of Antiquaries on Jan. 19, 1882-place not identified and a description given in the Proceedings, vol. ix., New Series, p. 37. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

UNCOLLECTED KIPLING ITEMS: 'WITH NUMBER THREE': 'SURGICAL AND MEDICAL' (12 S. vi. 38; 11 S. ix. 309). These were published in The Daily Mail, not in The Daily Express. The dates were: 'With Number Three,' April 21, 23, 24, 25, 1900; Surgical and Medical,' May 1, 2, 1900.

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In the lists of Kipling's contributions to The Friend (Bloemfontein), given by MR. YOUNG at 11 S. viii. 441, 464, it is not noted that A Song of the White Men' was reprinted in a London paper. My cutting has no heading, but it was probably in The Daily Mail between May 2 and June 12, 1900. He also makes no mention of Kipling's 16. William Keylway and Patience Aubery, heading to the article on G. W. Steevens by 1712-3. She was the daughter of Samuel Lionel James, which was printed in The and the sister of Edmund Auberry. There| Friend of Mar. 24, 1900, and is reproduced were two children of this marriage, Elizabeth in 'War's Brighter Side.' I do not find it and Patience Keylway. In 1725-6 they were in 'Songs from Books,' 'The Years Between orphans and living in Red Lyon Street. (Bombay edition, vols. xxiv., xxv.), nor in Their father, William Keylway, was an Collected Verse' (Hodder & Stoughton.

Notes on Books.

The notes are excellent. Prof. Weekley is especially to be congratulated on the mass of references he has, so to say. nailed down; by the aid of these the student will appreciate the true quality of the astonishing tour de force presented' Paul-Louis Courier: A Selection from the Works to him in Courier's style. If we mention one or two Edited by Ernest Weekley. (Manchester Uni-minute slips it is merely that they may be rectified versity Press, 58. net.)

THIS selection forms one of the French series of Modern Language Texts which is being issued by the Manchester University Press under the general editorship of Prof. Kastner. Prof. Weekley tells us in his Preface that he chose a preparation of Courier's work as his contribution to the enterprise because of his long familiarity with it-the 'Lettres écrites de France et d'Italie' having been for some thirty years his favourite livre de chevet. His in troduction and notes certainly have that sureness of touch which betokens thorough and well-established Knowledge, while in the matter of the appreciation of his author, not in Courier's case a very easy matter, he shows himself a discriminating guide.

He has done well, we think, to omit the Lettre à M. Renouard-though giving us the Avertissement.' The story of the pûté is, at bottom, a tedious as well as a discreditable affair, in fact, we believe that only a highly cultivated taste for style, combined with the tolerance of triviality characteristic of middle age, can make the famous letter endurable to any one. These qualities are not to be looked for in the readers for whom the Text is designed, though once acquired they open up surprising avenues of keen enjoyment. If, however, one were asked to demonstrate the defects which prevent Courier, in spite of his wit, his skill, his brilliancy, and no small measure of shrewd judgment, from being a great writer, it is from the Lettre à M. Renouard' that one could most easily do it. It is not merely that he is spiteful and, therefore, except taken in snatches, depressing; nor yet that he is a palmary example of the "Geist der stets verneint,' the whole activity of his mind tending towards the negative, towards destruction; nor yet, again, that he is often palpably insincere and so artificial as never to lose consciousness of himself and his methods: it is more than anything else the fact that there is in his work no central reference, and, therefore, no sense of proportion. He must be enjoyed in isolation: he has the merits and demerits of the "precious.'

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His immense direct debt to Mme. de Sévigné should perhaps be emphasized more than it commonly is, or has been here. Thus-to give an instance or two-the celebrated "Nous venons de faire un empereur" begins with a favourite joke of hers which the taste of the present day would not. indeed, well permit an editor to elucidate; but it might be pointed out that the method of the narration is hers, shorn of some amplitude. Again, Prof. Weekley notices that "marquer is often used by Courier in an unusual sense, as: "Que te marquerai-je encore? But this is a most frequent

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in a subsequent edition. At p. 209 the monkish "facere officium suum " is rendered "to do one's duty;" in the context it rather means "discharge one's office," "do one's job." At p. 213-by an obvious misprint-deσTórns ó vóuos has been translated "the law the master" instead of the" the law is master."

The book includes a virtually exhaustive bibliography and an index, but it lacks a table of contents-the list so-called comprising the whole of the selections under the one word "Text."

DEVONSHIRE HOUSE REFERENCE LIBRARY. Lecture on Quaker Printing and the Library's Treasures.

IN three years' time what is certainly the most complete denominational library in this country, if not in the world, will be celebrating its 250th anniversary, as it was by a minute of the "fifteenth of seventh month, 1673," that the Society of Friends recorded their determination to see that "two of a sort of all books written by Friends be collected and kept together. . . . and one of every sort written against truth." The library thus begun is still in existence and is being steadily added to, though to-day only one copy of these Quaker and opposition books is kept on its shelves. Its elaborate series of indexes to persons, places, and subjects contain quite a quarter of a million references.

Something of the history of the Devonshire House Reference Library was given by the retiring President of the Friends' Historical Society, Miss Anna L. Littleboy, at their annual meeting at Devonshire House, Bishopsgate, on Thursday, April 22. After quoting the minute referred to, the provisions of which were to be attended to by William Penn and George Whitehead, she said that the first library committee also acted as censors of Friends' publications, and did not scruple even to hold up some of the writings of George Fox. The writing of one book by a Welsh Quaker baffled the Committee, who, after trying to read twelve pages, ordered it to be sent back to the author "to be better composed and made shorter." In 1681 Abraham Bunnifield was advised that his 'Word of Advice to All Sleeping Virgins' should be condensed into a sheet

or two.

In early days Friends were very active in getting a display of their literature in ordinary booksellers' shops-a plan which is being followed out again today-and there are records of Quaker books being distributed by means of Mercury women, specially to those shops where anti-Friend books were on sale. In 1697 there was an entry regarding a set of Quaker books in High Dutch for presentation to the Czar of Muscovy (Peter the Great), who used to visit Friends' Meetings when living at Deptford. They were, however, found to be too finely bound, and were ordered to be rebound "in Turkey leather" before William Penn and the rest of the deputation. gave them to the Czar.

Something of the literary activity of Friends at

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2,678 publications, many of which went through several editions, issued between the years 1650 to 1708. Later in the eighteenth century there is the record of a great number of publications in foreign languages, French, German, Danish, Dutch,Spanish, and Greek.

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Much care was given by the Printing Committee who issued explicit directions to the printers regarding ink, paper and the number of words per For the best part of a century it appears a great part of Quaker printing was carried out by Andrew Sowle and his suceessors, though there seem to have been qualms at times about the prices charged, as once or twice recommendations regarding the advisability of a Friend printing Quaker books is qualified by the sentence provided they be as well done and as reasonably "as by a "firm of the world." Sowle was succeeded by his daughter with the quaint name, reminiscent of Puritan times, of Tace (Be Silent) Sowle, who was praised by the bookseller Dunton as "A good compositor." Sowle himself was many times prosecuted for issuing books unlicensed by authority, but like present-day Friends during the war refused to be bound by a State Censorship.

The nucleus of the present Devonshire House Library was housed for many years at the Friends Recording Clerk's Office in White Hart Court, "Gracechurch Street, and in 1721 money was granted for the provision of bags for the removal of books in case of fire. No such misfortune overtook them, however, and they were eventually removed to the Devonshire House premises which date from the -end of that century.

Obituary.

CHARLES WILLIAM SUTTON.

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which took place at Manchester on April 24. He
WE regret to record the death of Mr. C. W. Sutton
twice married, leaving issue five sons.
was born in that city on April 14, 1848, and was
He entered
Chief Librarian since 1879, succeeding Dr. Andrea
the Libraries Department in 1865, and has been
Crestadoro. He was connected officially with most
of the Literary and Antiquarian Associations of
the City, and will be greatly missed by book-lovers
and the public generally, to whom he was ever
ready with help from his well-stocked memory,
and Literary Club,' for a long number of years,
He edited the publications of the Chetham Society,'
and contributed many articles to 'D.N.B. He
and hon. M.A. of Victoria University, the degree
was a vice-president of the Library Association,
being conferred on him in 1902 His list of
'Lancashire Authors,' published in 1876, is a store-
house from which much valuable information is
constantly obtained, and the careful painstaking
way in which he compiled his various publications
for the press, makes them authoritative and
extremely useful. He had been a contributor to
N. & Q. for more than fifty years.

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The great work of cataloguing Friends' Books was done by Edward Marsh and Joseph Smith, the THE AUTHOR'S HAIRLESS PAPER-PAD 'latter at one time " a watchmaker and dealer in umbrellas." The famous Joseph Smith catalogue appeared in two volumes in 1857 which were described by Dr. Garnett of the British Museum as models of painstaking and valuable research. They dealt with no fewer than 16.000 publications and 2.000 authors. Joseph Smith was paid at the rate of 1s. an hour, but it was pointed out that he worked when he pleased and in a fitful manner. He continued his labours up till 1892. A tribute was given to the work of Isaac Sharp who for many years continued the joint office of Recording Clerk and Librarian.

The latter, however, was made a separate post with the appointment to it of Norman Penney in 1901, a post which he still occupies.

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The library, which is accessible to all who are interested, contains, besides a practically complete set of Quaker and anti-Quaker literature (much of the latter in the form of satirical verse and drama), many historical treasures of interest to many outside Friends. There is, of course, the original Fox's Journal' in two volumes, Yearly Meeting ninutes from 1672 to the present day, 44 volumes of 'The Sufferings of Friends from 1750 to 1856,' the Swarthmoor Hall Account Book (which is shortly being published by the Cambridge University Press) kept by Sarah Fell, Fox's stepdaughter, and many Penn documents. There are also a charter of release of 800 Friends with other Nonconformists including John Bunyan; the chair used by saintly John Woolman just before his death at York; hundreds of prints and cuttings, and an exhibition of Quaker costumes.

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