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tween subject and subject, so far as cognizance was taken of it by the Crown or by a court of law.

Take first the records of the Court of Chancery. NOTES:-Our Public Records, 341-The Pope's Golden Rose, We all know of what paramount importance and 343-Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots, 344-Glendoveer "Like a bolt from the blue"-The Garden of the Hes- of what antiquity was the office of Chancellor. The perides, 345-Cogers' Hall-Stephen Gosson-Charles Rossi Chancellor was the sovereign's principal secretary, -"Step-girl"-Shakspearian Relics-"We are seven' the supervisor of royal grants, and, indeed, of all Rents in 1699-Chester, 346-" Practical Politics," 347. business transacted under the Great Seal, of which QUERIES:-"Fargood"-Works of King Alfred-Epiphany he was the keeper. From the reign of Richard I. Offering- The Confederation of Kilkenny'-'Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers-Heraldic Castle-Foreigners' the Chancery has been a court of justice, and its Descriptions of England-Duel-Enfield and Edmonton-business rapidly assumed very large proportions. Kennedy-Lord Robert Douglas, 347-Copper Seal Captain Rush-One Pound Scots-S. Storace-HablotEvery mickle makes a muckle"-St. Martin's-in-theFields Library School-Maize, 348-Hilcock-R. Newland -Handie-Authors Wanted, 349.

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NOTES ON BOOKS:-Wheatley's The Diary of Samuel
Pepys'-Cass's East Barnet.'
Notices to Correspondents.

Notes.

OUR PUBLIC RECORDS.

It is obvious, therefore, how very large is the mass of documentary evidence belonging to the Chancery. Let me enumerate and describe some of the important classes of Chancery records, dealing with those not of a legal nature first.

REPLIES-Abbey Churches, 349-St. Victor-Octagonal Fonts, 351-Quadruple Births-Anecdote of Queen Victoria There is the record of royal grants, be those -Trollope's Novels-George Eliot, 352-Rhymed Deeds Eating Poor Jack"-Titus Oates, 353-Folk-lore-grants of property, office, or what not, and to sub"Ventre-saint-gris," 354-Cause of Death-Lady of the jects, clerical or lay. These we find chiefly in the Bedchamber, 355-Walter Long-Celtic-"Whether or no"-Goethe's Faust, 356-George Isham-The Poets Charter, Patent, or Close Rolls. The Charter Laureate-Feast of the Windy Sheet-Palfrey and Post-Rolls are the smallest series of the three, and Tennyson's Crossing the Bar'-" God save the Queen," extend from the first year of King John to 357-English Sapphics-George Robins-Lines by Tennyson-Charles Steward-E. Hoppus-Tolny or Udny, 358- the eighth of Henry VIII. On them are enManila-Authors Wanted, 359. rolled original grants and confirmations of those previously made, so that we may here look for accurate copies of donative charters of a much earlier date than the commencement of the series, and, indeed, of grants not made by the Crown at all, but inter partes. The whole of the Charter Rolls down to the close of John's unfortunate reign are printed in full with a good index nominum and locorum, a copy of which is placed in the In this and the following short papers on the Record Office Search Room, so there is no need to contents of the great repository of our national refer to the rolls themselves. Of those from archives - which stands near the headquarters Henry III. to Edward IV. there is a printed of N. & Q'-I do not propose to waste words calendar, but a very poor and incomplete onein enlarging upon the wonders of the public records numerous charters on the rolls are not even noticed and their preservation; the recent visit of the the indexes to which are badly compiled. The Prince of Wales to the Public Record Office afforded to the press an excellent opportunity of doing this, which it did not neglect. I aim rather at making the readers of N. & Q.' acquainted with what they may reasonably hope to find if they pay a visit to the Record Officewhat points in antiquarian research they may hope to elucidate. The writer wishes to be perfectly frank, and not to be a sucker of other men's brains without due acknowledgment, and therefore desires to say that, though he has brought his own experience to bear in compiling his work, he has used-as every sensible man would use -the valuable 'Handbook' to the records issued some years back by Mr. ScargillBird, F.S.A., the best book on the subject ever compiled.

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Let me say at the outset that within this vast building are kept the whole of the public documents of the kingdom, and, roughly speaking, every record, from the time of King John onwards, of the dealings between sovereign and subject, and be

rolls for Richard III., Henry VII., and Henry VIII. are calendared in contemporary writing in MS., the calendar being incorporated with that to the Patent Rolls, kept in the Legal Search Room.

The next great class of Chancery enrolments is the Patent Rolls. Here we have the same kind of entries as are on the Charter Rolls, and also a great many others besides. We have not only charters and grants, but the promulgation of public instruments of every description; entries as to our diplomatic relations with other powers, to the discharge of the judicial affairs of the kingdom, the enrolment of letters of safe conduct, credence, or protection, the appointments of ambassadors, licences for the election of bishops and other ecclesiastical dignitaries, restitutions of temporalities, presentations to ecclesiastical benefices, creations of nobility, liveries of lands, proclamations, and what not; the later rolls do not contain so much as the earlier ones, but for all practical purposes the foregoing may be taken as a

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