Notes and Queries, Number 225, February 18, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 225, February 18, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
Sepulchral Memorials of the English at Bruges and Caen.
Many original Charters, several Wills, and Funeral Certificates.
Survey, temp. Philip and Mary, of the Manors of Crosthole, Landren,
Landulph, Lightdurrant, Porpehan, and Tynton, in Cornwall; Aylesheare
and Whytford, co. Devon; Ewerne Courtenay, co. Dorset; Mudford and
Hinton, West Coker, and Stoke Courcy, co. Somerset; Rolleston, co.
Stafford; and Corton, co. Wilts.
Survey of the Marshes of the Medway, temp. Henry VIII.
A Description of Cleveland, addressed to Sir Thomas Chaloner, temp.
James I.
A Catalogue of the Monumental Brasses, ancient Monuments, and Painted
Glass existing in the Churches of Bedfordshire, with all Names and
Dates.
Catalogue of Sepulchral Monuments in Suffolk, throughout the hundreds
of Babergh, Blackbourn, Blything, Bosmere and Claydon, Carlford,
Colnies, Cosford, Hartismere, Hoxne, Town of Ipswich, Hundreds of
Lackford and Loes. By the late D. E. Davy, Esq. of Ufford.
Published by J. B. NICHOLS & SONS, 25. Parliament Street, Westminster;
where may be obtained, on application, a fuller abstract of the
contents of these volumes, and also of the "Collectanea Topographica et
Genealogica," now complete in Eight Volumes.
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_LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1854._
Notes.
REMARKABLE IMPRINTS.
More than one pen has considered titles, dedications, and imprints worth a
Note, and as there are still gleanings in their track, I take the liberty
of sending you a few of the latter; some from my common-place book, others
from the fountainheads on my own shelves, but all drawn at random, without
much regard to classification or chronological arrangement.
The horrors of the Star Chamber and the Ecclesiastical Courts produced many
extraordinary imprints, particularly to those seditious books of the
Puritans, better known as the _Marprelate Family_; works which were printed
by ambulatory presses, and circulated by unseen hands, now under the walls
of Archiepiscopal Lambeth, and _presto_! (when the spy would lay his hands
upon them) sprite-like, Martin re-appeared in the provinces! This game at
hide and seek between the brave old Nonconformists and the Church, went on
for years without detection: but the readers of "N. & Q." do not require
from me the history of the Marprelate Faction, so well told already in the
_Miscellanies of Literature_ and elsewhere; the animus of these towards the
hierarchy will be sufficiently exhibited for my purpose in a few of their
imprints. _An Almond for a Parrot_, for example, purports to be--
"Imprynted at a place not farre from a place; by the Assignes of
Signior Some-body, and are to be soulde at his shoppe in Trouble-Knave
Street."
Again, _Oh read ouer D. John Bridges, for it is a worthy work_, is
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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