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TENTH EDITION, fcap. 8vo, price Sixpence net. EMARKABLE ECLIPSES: a Sketch of the exceeds eleven hundred. The Publishers reserve the right most interesting Circumstances connected with the Observation The of increasing the price of the volume at any time. number printed is limited, and the type has been distributed. JOHN C. FRANCIS and J. EDWARD FRANCIS, of Solar and Lunar Eclipses, both in Ancient and Modern Times. W. T. LYNN, B.A. F.R.A.S. By "The booklet deserves to continue in popularity. It presents a mass of information in small compass."-Dundee Advertiser. London: SAMUEL BAGSTER & SONS, LIMITED, 15, Paternoster Row. items have been so obviously re-arranged in groups at the drafting of the account as to forbid inference. It cannot be concluded, from the absence of entries in any year, that no company visited Walden that year. The customary visit may have been paid, and the accustomed fee given by the Chamberlains, and therefore absent from the Treasurer's account. ANDREW CLARK. Great Leighs Rectory, Chelmsford. QUERIES: St. Nicolas's, Rouen-Donna Maria of Spain -Marchetti Collection of Drawings, 47-Saints' Satisfaction-Jackson and Law Families-Archdeacon Stedman"Seecatchie" "Camelario,"-North-Country 1547-8 (probably spring, 1548. Elizabeth, J'arish Registers'-"See how these Christians love one wife of Thomas, Baron Audley, was no doubt another""Vache à Colas"-Vachell-Ford Family-resident in the Abbey buildings).-Gyven to Byron and Crawley-Freemasonry-Pig Grass-Nuns as certeyn players sent by lady Awdeley to the Chaplains-St. Dunstan's-in-the-West-Engraving by Will, 49-Dutch Boy and Dyke-Flint Pebbles at Brighton-Lory towne, in reward, 16d. Family-Earl of Bristol's House-"Bec-en-Hent," 50. REPLIES:-Phrases in American Newspapers, 50-Statues in the British Isles, 51-Lynch Law-Lumley Family, 52Cawdor Dispatch-Names terrible to Children, 53-Abp. Blackburne" Brokenselde". Swedish Painters-Ships' Periodicals, 54-Ruby Wedding-R. 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The accounts preserved are those of the chief 66 the magistrate (at Saffron Walden termed Treasurer "), and contain chiefly certain balances (e.g., of the Chamberlains' accounts) and certain traditional expenditure (e.g., of borough hospitality to the Justices at the Sessions). Among the accidental items of Expenditure are found notices of payment to companies of players on tour. It will be of interest to take these notices from the north-west corner of Essex, and compare them with the notices already given (10 S. vii. 181, 342, 422; viii. 43) from Maldon in the east of the county. The accounts are from Michaelmas to Michaelmas, and in some cases it seems possible to distinguish an autumn tour from a spring tour. In other years the 1559-60 (probably spring, 1560. Lord Robert Dudley, Master of the Horse, was brother-in-law to the widowed heiress of Audley End).-Gyven to my lord Roberte his players, 3s. 4d. 1563-4.-Gyven to my lorde Rich his players and to other players, 5s. 10d. 1568-9 (probably spring, 1569).-Payd for a rewarde to the Queene's majestie her players, 38. 4d. 1569-70 (probably spring, 1570).-Given to my lord Ryche's players, 2s. 1570-71 (Elizabeth was at Audley End, 19 Aug., 1571). To the Quene's players and the Erle of Leycester's players, 68. 8d. To Sir Raphe Sadler's players, 3s. 6d. 1572-3 (probably autumn, 1572).-Gyven to the Quene's majestie her players,... 1573-4 (probably autumn, 1573).-Gyven to my lord of Sussex players [Lord Chamberlain], 58. 1578-7. To my Lord Chamberleyn's players, 2s. 6d. Charles, 1577-8 (probably spring, 1578. Baron Howard of Effingham, Lord Chamberlain. Elizabeth was at Audley End, 1578).— Paied to my lorde Howarde's players, 28. 6d. 1583-4 (probably autumn, 1583).-Geven to the Quene's majestie's players, 68. 2d. Queene's plaiers, 6s. 8d. 1587-8. To the earle of Essex players, 58. To my lord of Lycester's and my Lord Chamberlain's men, 38. 4d. To the Queene's players, 38. 4d. 1588-9.-Given to my lord Staffourd's players, 38. 4d. Gyven to the erle of Essex players, 28. 1590-91.-Given to the Queene's players, 38. 4d. Given to one of the Queene's men a quart of wine, 16d. 1591-2.-Paid to the Queene's players, 6s. 8d. 1592-3.-Paid to the lord Morlei's players, 38. 4d. |