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ARRICK (clii. 406, 407, 447; cliii. 34, 232). I have gone over the London and Salisbury lists of Marriage Licences, also all Marriages up to 1838 in Salisbury, except St. Paul's. MR. BINGHAM ADAMS has given me some very good information. I am sorry to say that the registers he has mentioned are not here. There is only a very early edition of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, in our library. In St. Stephen's, Walbrook, London, I find one family of four sons, who spell their names respectively, Harwick, Harrick, Harrwick, Harrwicke. The second died, and in the Burial Register he appears as Hurricke.

Regarding Mr. Houston, I have been in touch with him, a friend of mine in Scotland, it appears, knows him well. It is quite true

that Andrew Arrok lived in Sauchie in 1610; that is the date of his wife's will. Andrew Orok's wife's will is proved at Sauchie, 1632. There was no Church in Sauchie till 1883. Mr. Donald Tod, of London, gave me this in January last, and says that the form Arrok (no doubt the early form of Arrick) occurred in Sauchie in 1610. He has no matter to prove this out of his large stock of Scottish family history.

The Minister of Clackmannan looked up his records at the Register House for me for the same dates as Mr. Houston, 1760-1795: no success. I have been also to the Register House and looked up records from 1700-60. I find the records from 1610-1700 are imperfect, and many leaves missing.

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MERCHANTS' MARKS (cliii. 137,177,250). -It is interesting to note the likeness between some merchants', masons', and printers' marks, especially in the matter of the reversed 4 and the masts and pennants. In the Victoria and Albert Museum, on the cover of a German Ledger, 1648, is such a mark, also introducing the letters B and M. Mayor of Norwich in 1451 presented the screen to the Chapel of St. Mary in St. John's, Maddermarket, Norwich. His mark, in which is an inverted 4, is, I believe, somewhere thereon. In vol. i., No. 2 Journal of the O. U. Brass Rubbing Soc., there is an article by H. K. St. John Sanderson, on Merchants' Marks. He refers to an article by R. Webb, Cambridge Camden Society, 1846. WALTER E. GAWTHORP.

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The Library.

A History of the Parish Church of Woodford in the County of Essex. By F. G. Emler. Stanley L. Hunt, Rushden. 4s. 6d.).

On Stimulus in Economic Life.
By Sir'
Josiah Stamp. (Cambridge University Press.
3s. net.).

THIS year's Rede Lecture brings up, in the

WiFittle more than one hundred years old, stimulation.
WOODFORD Parish Church as we now see it

but it stands on an ancient church site and its
history goes back to the twelfth century. Mr.
Emler gives us first, from the Parish Records,
a lively account of the steps taken-not always
in peace and unanimity-towards replacing the
old building by the present one. He then goes
through the forty-three names of the Woodford
Rectors, which start with William Wisard v.
Wystard. Among them is John Larke, who
was at Woodford but a year, being presented in
1527 to the living of Chelsea by Sir Thomas
More, and who was executed at Tyburn in
1544/5 for refusing to acknowledge the King's
ecclesiastical supremacy. Robert Wright, later
Bishop of Bristol, and then of Lichfield and
Coventry, who was called on to suffer some
hardship for opposition to Parliament in the
early days of the Rebellion, was Rector of
Woodford from 1589 to 1619; a pluralist who
was not much seen in any of his many
parishes More than one of these Rectors
resembled him in this. For the last sixty years
or so the Parish Clerks have been drawn from
the Lowe family, one of whom held the office
for thirty-five years. Mr. Emler gives a care-
ful, detailed description of the Registers. the
earliest of which goes back to 1638. According
to the second of these books Woodford collected
on Oct. 10, 1666-the day appointed for a general
fast-£3 6s. 4d. to be sent to the Mayor for
the lamentable fire at London." Twice over
in the history of the church was the whole of
the Communion plate stolen-in 1693/4 and in
1773. The bells-six in number-are from the
Whitechapel Foundry of Richard Phelps and
all bear the date 1721. Those who are inter-
ested in the social significance of the pew and
how proprietorship in pews worked out will
find a good deal to their purpose here. In the
way of monuments, too, Woodford Church has
some things worth notice. The oldest is that
to Robert Wynch, who died in 1590; then there
are memorials of Elwes. Holbech, Bosanquet,
Selwyn, Roe with several others, and outside
lies Sir Thomas St. George, who succeeded
Dugdale as Garter King-of-arms. The Godfrey
family were connected with Woodford for sev-
eral generations, and there is a sumptuous
monument to them in the Churchyard. In the
eighteenth century Thomas Godfrey desired +
leave £400 to the parish to be invested for the
benefit of the poor on condition that this monu-
ment should be kept in repair, but the Vestry
would not accept the bequest on those terms,
the structure being so elaborate.. This is a
good book of its kind.

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course of illustration, a number of the newer interesting facts and no less interesting gaps in knowledge-concerned with response, whether physiological or psycholog In some good pages towards the end the author suggests correction of the common assumption that a stimulus is to be condemned, always and altogether, if, after producing the effective energy desired, it is followed by violent reaction. He also discusses with discernment the relative effectiveness of different economic stimuli, among which the prospect of pecuniary gain is probably rated too high as an incentive.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUE.

his Catalogue No. 91, and a large proportion of the items this describes are well worth the collector's and the student's consideration.

MR. BERNARD HALLIDAY of Leicester sends us

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A piece of outstanding interest-it is priced
£85 is a portrait in oils, original and con-
temporary, of Capt. Cook, apparently
about 40 years of age, "not so good looking
than in Webber's."
as in Dance's portrait, but better looking
A photograph of this
Shelton's Don Quixote the first in the sec-
Two volumes of
can be had on application.
ond issue of the first edition, the second in the
first edition, bound by Riviere, are offered for
£65; and a first edition of Chapman's

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Homer,' in the original caif, in excellent condition and containing the engraved title to the second part, though it lacks the general engraved title, is offered for £85. A fifteenth century English manuscript of St. Augustine's Meditationes de Spiritu Sancto from the London Charterhouse is an interesting item of which the price is £31 10s. Under Shakespeare' the principal book is a Fourth Folio (1685: £185). Seven volumes of Ackermann's books of coloured plates are offered for £140; and here is also his Microcosm of London offered for £42. Then there are first editions of 'Robinson Crusoe (265) and Sterne's Sentimental Journey (£45); several first editions of Dickens of which the most important are Martin Chuzzlewit' (£33) and a copy of Hard Times' which is a variation of the first edition hitherto unknown (£35); a copy in perfect condition of Gough's 'Sepul chral Monuments in Great Britain,' 1786-99: (30); a collection of eighteenth and early nineteenth century juvenile literature (£7 10s.); a collection of MS. material, in all over 150 pieces, of dates between 1780 and 1840 dealing with Roads, Canals, Bridges, Railways, etc. (£12 10s.); and the first issue of Alken's Ideas, Accidental and Incidental to Hunting and other Sports, caught in Leicestershire' (£105).

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First Scottish Lord Mayor of London-Village
children's " peep-shows
Lot grass Jno.-
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Cardiff Old Town Hall-Jean le Féron-' St
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'Pinkies," 377.

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'An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students.'

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Memorabilia.

until they marry within the citè by running work-rooms where they can get employment. Each citè has its co-operative store, its surgery, its men's club, its cinema, and its various social institutions. To all appearances the Lens miner is satisfied with his lot. The attitude of the company towards its

employees is on a par with the broad lines on which it has laid its plans for the expansion of the industry by the manufacture of sub-products of coal. They are both typical of the larger and more far-sighted industrial policy which has manifested itself in France since the war.

ON Wednesday last we noticed in The Times

Nor can

description of Miss Nan West's decoration of the waiting-room of the new OutPatient Department at the Royal Orthopedic Hospital in Great Portland Street. The subjects chosen are summer landscapes treated, the critic reports, with freshness, gentleness and gaiety-which should make THE mining town of Lens, on the coal-field them acceptable to the people who will most of the Pas-de-Calais, has risen from its often be looking at them. The artist is ruins-ruin so complete that the whole had young; and it may well be thought, that the to be new-built. The Times of Nov. 16 gives special charm of youth is peculiarly approan account and pictures of the new town, priate to a hospital. It is further satisfacthe result of the energy and ability of the tory to find this new field opening up for Société des Mines de Lens, one of the largest artists. The easel picture under modern industrial companies in the North of home conditions, will probably be less and France. The company was faced not only less in demand; it will be clear gain if much with the task of restoring the mines and and that the best-of what art is and contheir wrecked superstructure, but with re-veys comes to be transferred back to a posibuilding the homes of their workpeople, a tion it occupied more largely in former days gigantic work, now almost completed. With the walls of public buildings. one exception the pits are in working order, and trim rows of cottages stand in place of the wilderness of battered bricks. In the region of Lens, as in most colliery districts where the mining shafts have been sunk in open country, the miners' dwellings cluster round the pithead, forming, with the church, the schools, and a certain number of shops, a self-contained social unit. In France such a settlement is called a citè, and the town of Lens is made up of a dozen or so of these citès. The company now provides in every way for the needs of the miner and his family. It gives him a home, with a garden sufficient for him to grow all the vegetables which he requires, and adds a gardening school where he can learn to grow them. It assumes the role of the Government in the upbringing of his children, and gives them a first-class elementary education. It provides cookery and dressmaking classes for the elder girls, and allows them to earn their living

we help hoping that the artist will find here not only opportunity for new and interesting developments in technique, but also occasion for new inspiration.

THE Rev. S. Claude Tickell, Vicar of Latton, Swindon, writes to us as follows on the subject of preserving perishable inscriptions and oral traditions: "I am writing to suggest that in every parish some one wishful to preserve the perishable evidences of an imperishable past should copy all perishable inscriptions (especially those in the open air), with a numbered plan of church and churchyard, and take down all oral traditions, and so preserve what must else inevitably be lost in a generation or so.

Copies of inscriptions and traditions should be placed in the church safe, and copies of inscriptions, with numbered plan of church and churchyard, would be gratefully acknowledged by the Society of Genealogists, 5, Bloomsbury Square, W.C.1.

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