The most interesting _manuscript_ lists are those of the notabilities present at the Preston Guild for more than 500 years; and that of the founders of a Library in Hereford 200 years ago. The Guild is in existence still. The books given to the library by Viscount Scudamore, and some hundreds of the county people, were rotting on a damp floor not long since. It may be hoped they are now better cared for. Equally attractive are the lists still preserved of the zealous contributors to public loans to meet a national crisis. _John Locke_ and _Somers_ were among the first proprietors of the Bank of England. Those of the East India Company, or the like Stocks were the leading Tories. The founders of our early colonies--holders of even five-shilling shares--have thus their enduring record; and a diligent collector may enrich his library of tracts with the printed names of all the graduates of old Harvard College in New England in the seventeenth century--so zealously did the Puritans ground their sons in learning. The present production, although of more moderate pretensions, contains individual names of some historical weight. Its most striking feature is the severance of “_Goldsmiths that keep Running cashes_”--precursors of the modern bankers--from the mass of merchants of London, in 1677. Before that year the goldsmiths had really been bankers, and proper laws had long been advocated for their better establishment in the craft. This list fixes their residence chiefly in our ancient Lombard Street. Of fifty-eight, the whole number of them, thirty-eight lived there. Of the rest, we have Blanchard and _Child_, partners, in Fleet Street, at the Mary-gold; and James _Hore_ in Cheapside, at the Golden Bottle, for then every house of business had its sign.