NOTES AND QUERIES A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. * * * * * "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * NO. 11.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 12. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition, 4d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Sir E. Dering's Household Book, by E. Rimbault Bayswater and its Origin Eva, Daughter of D. MacMurrough Plagiarisms, or Parallel Passages Billingsgate Notes from Fly-Leaves, No. 4. Opinions on English Historians, No. II.--Lord Clarendon MISCELLANIES:-- Books by the Yard--Thistle of Scotland--Miry-land Town--Richard Greene of Lichfield--Lobster on Medal of Pretender--Marescantia--Macaulay's Young Levite--Travelling in England--Warning to Watchmen --Ælfric's Colloquy--Humble Pie--By Hook or by Crook--Origin of Grog--Barnacles--Vondel's Lucifer--Dr. Faustus--To Fettle, &c. QUERIES:-- Catacombs and Bone-houses, by Rev. A. Gatty Contradictions in Don Quixote, &c., by S.W. Singer Ancient Alms-Basins Minor Queries:--Cupid Crying--Was Sir G. Jackson Junius?--Ballad of Dick and the Devil--Erasmus' Paraphrase--Iland Chest--Court of Wards--Ancient Tiles--Pilgrimage of kings--Anthony Bek--Welsh Custom--Fall of Rain--Metal for Telescopes--Colonel Blood's House--Lucas's MS.--Theophania--MS. Account of Britain MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. Books and Odd Volumes wanted Notices to Correspondents Advertisements * * * * * SIR EDWARD DERING'S[1] HOUSEHOLD BOOK, A.D. 1648-52. About ten years since, I remember seeing, in the hands of a London bookseller, a curious MS. purporting to be the "Household Book of Receipts and Expences of Sir Edward Dering, Bart., of Surrenden Dering, Kent, from Lady-Day, 1648, to April, 1652." It was a think folio, in the original binding, entirely in the hand-writing of the distinguished baronet. Sir Edward was the only son of Sir Edward Dering, the first baronet, by his second wife, Anne, daughter of Sir John Ashburnham, of Ashburnham, Sussex, Knt. He succeeded to the baronetcy upon the death of his father, in 1644, and married Mary, daughter of Daniel Harvey, Esq., of Combe, Surrey, who was brother of the famous Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulations of the blood.