town and of the nunnery differed at various periods; and it was clear that she was not even acquainted with the localities. With reference to my Russian friend, it is right to add that he was a great worshipper of the Czar. It may be remembered that a glowing account was at the time given of the pluck with which Pio Nono rated the Emperor (then on his travels), for this barbarity; and that the Emperor was unable to defend himself. This, also, my Russian friend denied; adding, that the Emperor assured His Holiness that nothing of the sort had occurred. YAR.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

Students of English History are again indebted to the Camden Society for a volume of great interest; and the Members of that Society are again indebted to their zealous Director, Mr. Bruce, for the learning and care with which he has edited the Liber Famelicus of Sir James Whitelocke, a Judge of the Court of King's Bench in the Reigns of James I. and Charles I., now First published from the Original Manuscripts. Mr. Bruce's introductory sketch furnishes us with a history of the Whitelockes, and at the same time points out the value and use of this curious Diary. The writer, we need scarcely say, was the father of the well-known Bulstrode Whitelocke, who, as Mr. Bruce well observes, "excelled his father in all the principal points of his career. As a lawyer he was more eminent, as a statesman far more distinguished, and as an author his works are among the most useful materials for the history of his period." This is certainly true; yet, although Bulstrode Whitelocke's Historical Memorials and Journal of his Swedish Embassy are works of a far higher character than the Liber Famelicus, the latter is one calculated to throw light, not only on the history of the Whitelockes and their associates, but on the social condition of the time in which the writer flourished. While for the "learned in the law," who may be desirous of investigating how lawyers lived in those days, the work has a special and peculiar interest in its anecdotes of legal functionaries, and its quaint notices of legal

customs.

Messrs. Bell & Daldy have just issued a new edition of the poetical works of Henry Vaughan, the Silurist. Silex Scintillans, &c., Sacred Poems and Pious Ejaculations by Henry Vaughan, would at all times be welcome to the lovers of religious poetry for the beauty, originality, and piety for which the muse of Vaughan is distinguished but the present edition will be doubly welcome, not only for the correctness with which the text has been prepared, but also for the appropriate manner in which it has been printed by Mr. Whittingham. We may add that the well-written Memoir of Vaughan by the late Rev. H. F. Lyte, prefixed to the edition of 1847, has been reproduced in the volume before us.

As " N. & Q." was, we believe, the first Journal to call attention to Mr. W. Alford Lloyd as a diligent naturalist and a purveyor of specimens for those who desired to follow that interesting branch of study-nature in aquaria -and that, long before the pursuit was so much in vogue as it is at this moment, we have especial pleasure in recording the success which has attended his endeavours to popularise this study, as shown by his recently published List with Descriptions, Illustrations, and Prices of what• ver relates to Aquaria. When we add that this List oc

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Messrs. Puttick & Simpson announce for sale, next season, the late Mr. Dawson Turner's remaining library and highly-interesting collection of MSS. and autographs. The collection is remarkably rich. Of the letters classed as autographs there are more than thirty thousand; while entire volumes are filled with letters of Queen Elizabeth, the Medici family, Napoleon Bonaparte, General Wolfe, the Duke of Marlborough, Tasso, Voltaire, Sir Isaac Newton, Galvani, Archbishop Sharpe, James Hervey, Thomas Gray, and others. The manuscript library also includes extensive series of correspondence of Anna Maria Schurmann, C. Huygens, Domenico Manni, Ralph Thoresby, Dr. Macro, Dr. Covel, Sir H. Spelman, Strype, Dr. R. Richardson, George Chalmers, William Upcott, and Dr. Dibdin; but we are glad to hear does not include Mr. Turner's own Correspondence. library contains many most important books and manuscripts for the history of the Fine Arts: amongst these are the Vertue MSS., formerly at Strawberry Hill. Nor must the Glastonbury Register and Cartulary be overlooked.

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Notes.

ROBIN HOOD'S WELL.

The following extract from a manuscript in the Lansdowne Collection in the British Museum, of a tour made through a great part of England in the year 1634, is another proof of the many I have selected in my edition of the Robin Hood Ballads of the popularity of the celebrated English yeoman, the hero of Sherwood Forest. The whole of the tour is very amusing, full of antiquarian anecdotes, customs, and manners. The travellers, whoever they might have been, were not only good topographers, but sociable and enjoyable companions; their peregrinations, which extended through twenty-six counties, remind the reader very much of Brathwayte's Journal of Drunken Barnaby, if it were rendered into his doggrel rhyme :

"Went through Sherwood Forest, and passing by Worksop, Welbeck, Retford, Southwell (where there is a fayre minster), Scroby Park, and Nottingham to Doncaster. Took up our lodging at the 3 Cranes, where we found a grave and gentile Hoste, no lesse you can imagine him to be, having so lately entertayned and lodg'd his Majestie in his said progresse, for in that way his Majestie's Gests lay; and it fell out so fortunate for us to march some 100 miles from Newark to Newcastle."

"The next morning we mounted, and passed over the river that comes from Sheffield, for to dine at Pomfret. In the mid-way, to season our that morning's-purchas'd travelling plate, being thirsty, we tasted a Cup at Robin Hood's Well; and there, according to the usuall and ancient custome of travellers, were in his rocky chaire of ceremony dignify'd with the order of knighthood, and sworne to obey his lawes. After our oath, we had no time to stay to heare our charge, butt discharg'd our due Fealtie Fee, 4d. a peece, to the Lady of the Mountaine, on we spur'd wth our new dignitie to Pomfret."

The travellers seem to have been remarkably well received and welcomed wherever they sojourned, whether as friends or strangers. Their remarks upon cathedrals and monuments, castles, and prisons are interesting and quaint. Another

extract or two may amuse :

"At Newark wee found a joviale Hoste, as merry as 20 good fellows, his name, agreeing with his mirth, was Twentyman; he was a proper ffellow, like a Beefe-eating Guard-Boy, and a very good intelligencer."

"We entred the fayre Church, which is richly adorned with monuments, and scats of Noblemen, Knights, and others. The stately upright spir'd steeple is joyn'd to his beautifull spouse the Church, and standeth by her, as a proper Bridegroom doth by his newly trim'd bride."

Their description of the metropolitan city of York and its cathedral is highly graphic; as also is that of the chapter-house, shown to them by the verger:

"The magnificent, rich and stately, and lofty winding entrance whereof did exactly promise and curiously foretell us the worth within, which I am not able to express,

only I remembered to commemorate. At the entrance into her, over the doore, is curiously cut and framed our Saviour's picture in his mother's arms; St Peter and St Paul on either side; the seaven lofty, stately, rich windowes, curiously painted with the story of the Booke of Bookes; as also that strange miraculous roofe, framed with Geometrycall Art, which is most beautifull and rare to all that behold it, and accounted by all travellers one of the neatest, uniform, and most excellent small peeces in Christendom; so that one traveller did so admire, commend, and approve it, that he caused this Latin verse in golden old Saxon letters to be inserted on the wall at the entrance thereof:

"Ut Rosa Flos Florum,

Sic est Domus ista Domorum.""

After viewing that famous abbey, called St. Marie's, and after a. set at tennis there, and a cup of refreshment,

"They found it time to depart from this old Citty, though they would willingly have stay'd longer to have heard a famous scholler try'd for Blasphemy in the High Commission Court; but we had spun out our longest period of time, and so, with many God thank hers,' we bad our good cheap Hostesse adieu."

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were thus rounding, facing, counter-marching, and wheeling, in this strong garrison towne, we heard of a messenger from that truly noble Lord, we the last day miss'd at Naworth, wth a curteous invitation to dinner at indeed, a mighty favour from soe noble a person, and sent Corby Castle the next day, wch we accompted, as it was

back his Lp.'s servant, wth the tender of our services, till the next day that we were to present them ourselves."

"The next day wee went thither, and were by that generous brave Lord courteously and nobly entertayn'd; and sorry he sayd he was, that hee was not at Naworth, to give us there the like. His Lp.'s comaunds made us to transgresse good manners, for neither would he suffer us to speake uncover'd, nor to stand up, although our duty requir'd another posture; but plac'd us by his Lp. himselfe to discourse with him untill dinner time."

"Anon appear'd a grave and vertuous Matron, his Honble Lady, who told us indeed we were heartily welcome; and whilst our Ancient and myself address'd our

selves to satisfy his Lp. in such occurrents of Norfolke* as he pleas'd to aske, and desired to knowe, wee left our modest Captaine to relate to his noble Lady what she

By the conclusion of the Tour it seems that the travellers were residents in this county.

desired. These noble twaine, as it pleas'd themselves to tell us themselves, could nott make 25 years both together when first they were marry'd; that now can make above 140 yeares, and are very hearty, well, and merry; and long may they continue soe, for soe have they all just cause to pray that live neer them; for their Hospitality and free entertainment agrees with their generous and noble extraction, and their yeares retaine the memory of their Honble Predecessors' bountifull Housekeeping."

The Tour is replete with valuable information relative to public edifices, monuments, brasses, crosses, and other medieval antiquities, either entirely lost or defaced by time and personal violence; together with the characters of eminent individuals of the period, all well worthy of the attention of the Archeologist.. J. M. GUTCH. Worcester.

[This curious Itinerary will be found in the Lansdowne MS., No. 213. fols. 319-350., and makes sixty-four closely written pages. It is entitled, "A Relation of a Short Survey of Twenty-six Counties, briefly describing the Citties and their Scytuations, and the Corporate Towns and Castles therein. Observed in a Seven Weekes Journey begun at the City of Norwich, and from thence into the North, on Monday, August 11th, 1634, and ending at the same Place. By a Captaine, a Lieutenant, and an Ancient: all three of the Military Company in Norwich." At the end are three pages of poetry, entitled, "In Commendation of the Gentile Travellers and the Journal. By a Friend."]

dar, in excess of correct time when Walton wrote; and, as we now use the correct computation of time, any specified date can be no more in advance of correct time now than it was then.

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The Julian calendar would appear to have been discovered to be faulty as early as the Council of Nice, in 325, as the ten days which Gregory XIII. retrenched in 1582, are said to have arisen in the computation of time from that event. Besides rejecting these ten days, the Gregorian calendar appointed that the hundredth year of each century should have no Bissextile, excepting each fourth century." (Chambers's Universal Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, art. "Calendar.") Thus we find the difference of twelve days between the Old Style, as used now by the Russians, and the New, as used by the Western nations, to have accrued between A.D. 325 and the present time; and therefore the difference stated in the following table is that which must be allowed in the calculations of dates in the respective periods:

Difference. 1 day. days.

7

10

11

12

CHANGE OF STYLE.

Will you allow me to make a Note on a not unimportant subject? I would call attention to the fact that writers occasionally, not to say frequently, content themselves with the statement that in the calculation of the difference between the Old and New Styles twelve days must be allowed, and this irrespective of the period at which the occurrence spoken of took place. It is of course correct as to the present century, but not of any other. An instance occurs in 2nd S. v. 501., in CUTHBERT BEDE's interesting article on "Orientation," though it would appear to be an oversight of the Rev. W. Airy rather than his own. He says, speaking more particularly of

If I have made any error in the details of the foregoing, I trust some among your numerous correspondents will correct me. I feel sure the TEE BEE. subject is worthy their consideration.

In consequence of the notice of an "old Bible in" N. & Q." vol. vi. p. 30., I am induced to record that there is in the library of Lichfield cathedral a small quarto volume containing the Prayer-Book of 1559, and Cawood's edition of Cranmer's Text of the Bible, but unfortunately it is not perfect. The first remaining page is "A Table for the Order of the Psalmes," and the last is part of "A Table to fynde the Epystles and Ghospells."