if small population. This change is no doubt a boon to navigators in these waters, but it is impossible not to regret it from other points of view. The Hysker was a most fascinating spot for the yachtsman, the naturalist, and the lover of nature, and it is to be hoped that the great groy seals and the numerous sea birds, which formerly held undisturbed sway there, will not have reason to regret the intrusion of man. S. G. D. states that Lady Grange was kept at the Hyskers for nearly a year before being removed to St. Kilda. Is this the case? I had always supposed that it was the Heisker lying west of North Uist, one of the Monach Isles. Perhaps some contributor to N. & Q.' can settle this question. T. F. D. "VENI, CREATOR" (10th S. iv. 89).-Not in any way answering the precise query of ST. SWITHIN, but only as casting some light on the history of the translation of the "Veni, Creator," to which he refers, it may be mentioned that Julian, in his 'Dictionary of Hymnology' (p. 1209), deals at some length with the various translations of this ancient hymn of the Church. He there states that, in the form in which ST. SWITHIN gives, its first appearance can be traced to the Book of Common Prayer of 1662. But in an earlier form (the "alternative of ST. SWITHIN), as to orthography, &c., it was inserted in the Second Prayer Book of Edward VI. (1552), and apparently in the Ordinal of 1549. It was also inserted in Archbishop Parker's Psalter, said to have been written by him while in exile (1553-8). The differences between the two lie more in the orthography and construction of the sentences than in any other point, and are chiefly interesting on that account. I do not see the difficulty that is suggested by ST. SWITHIN as to the tune to which the "alter native" hymn could be sung, as it would easily go to any one of the ordinary common-metre tunes, though naturally it would be better fitted to some than to others. version, probably made by Dryden, was added in 1661. Eleven of the sixteen stanzas of the second version appear in Hymns Ancient and Modern,' No. 508, where they are set to the two well-known C.M. tunes, Tallis or St. Flavian. JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. [The REV. E. S. CRANE is also thanked for a reply.] TULIPOMANIA (10th S. iv. 90).-Information on the subject is given by Lindley and Moore. "Bulbs were bought and sold," they write, "without even being seen-without even being in existence. In fact, they were the subject of a speculation not unlike that of railway scrip in this country at no very distant date." Dr. Charles Mackay devotes a chapter to it in his 'Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions,' p. 85. Regular marts, he says, for the sale of tulips were established in various Dutch towns in 1636, and then symptoms of gambling became apparent. "The stockjobbers, ever on the alert for a new speculation, dealt largely in tulips, making use of all the means they so well knew how to employ to cause fluctuations in prices." In the second satire of 'The Universal Passion,' Young, of 'Night Thoughts,' alludes to the mania in a passage which begins thus : But Florio's fame, the product of a shower, Grows in his garden an illustrious flower! Why teems the earth? Why melt the vernal skies? Why shines the sun? To make Paul Diack rise. This appeared in 1726, and about forty years later Churchill touched the suggestive theme in his Gotham,' i. 250. The poet, reflecting on the appearance and character of the tulip, accords it somewhat qualified approval, and ultimately dismisses it as "the fop of flowers, the More of a parterre." THOMAS BAYNE. schichte. Von H. Grafen zu Solms-Laubach. See "Weizen und Tulpe und deren GeLeipzig, Verlag von Arthur Felix, 1899," a learned and scientific history of the tulip, its cultivation and commerce, concluding with an excellent list of its literature. SENGA. [DR. BRUSHFIELD also refers to Dr. Mackay's book.] LIVERPOOL PRINTED BOOKS: DR. HOOD (10th S. iv. 67).-The author of the books mentioned by my friend MR. T. CANN HUGHES would be, I think, Bartholomew Prescot, a native of Buckley Mountain, in the parish of Hawarden, Flint (Willett's 'History of Hawarden,' 1822, p. 145), and an accountant at Liverpool, whose name appears in Gore's Directories down to the year 1849. He is mentioned in Smithers's 'Liverpool, its Commerce,' &c., 1825, as the author of two antiCopernican pamphlets, and in De Morgan's 'Budget of Paradoxes.' See also references to him in the memoirs of Richard Brothers, the prophet, and John Finlayson, his disciple, in theD.N.B.,' vi. 444, xix. 33. Finlayson, at Brothers's request, wrote against Prescot, describing his System of the Universe' as a "misapprehended, mistaken, elaborate performance or book." The title of Samuel Hood's book is 'Analytic Physiology.' Liverpool, 1822; second edition, London, 1829. C. W. SUTTON. "THE MISSAL' (10th S. iii. 469; iv. 34, 75). In times when the Mass was penalized, and when consequently Catholics could very seldom be present at it, pious people frequently read the Ordo Missæ every day, as This was particularly an act of devotion. the case in Ireland, whero, Sunday by Sunday, a few of the faithful gathered together while one of their number read aloud the Divine Liturgy for the benefit of the rest. An old woman told me she could well remember this being done fifty or sixty years ago in parts of Norfolk where the ancient religion still lingered on. I think this custom would probably account in some measure for the word "Missal" being applied to all Catholic books of devotion. I remember joining in this act of piety with some half dozen Catholics in a village in Pennsylvania many miles from a church some twenty years ago, when the Missal was the only prayerbook any of us possessed. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. The passage to which your correspondent refers is that in which the midnight funeral of Lady Glenallan is described. The Funeral Office (Exsequiarum Ordo') itself is not contained in the Breviary. But at a certain point in this office the rubric directs that "nisi quid impediat ") the Officium Defunctorum' shall be said or sung, after which the 'Exsequiarum Ordo' is resumed in the church and finished at the grave-side. Scott was probably misled by the title 'Officium Defunctorum' to suppose that this was the actual Funeral Office; whereas it is really the Breviary office appointed to be said on All Souls' Day and some other days. But his mistake, in default of precise information, was a natural one. As for the "Alleluia," he certainly would not find that in either of the offices, but it might perhaps have been the conclusion of a hymn sung by the assemblage after the ceremony was concluded. C. S. JERRAM. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal. By the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval. (T. C. & E. C. Jack.) HAVING posed for a time as the historian of Jacoand Raineval now constitutes himself that of the bite rights and claims, the Marquis of Ruvigny Blood Royal of England, and is supplying, in a series of handsome and richly illustrated volumes, a full list of all those in whose veins runs the august strain of English royalty. Each volume is distinct and separate from its companions. The first (for which see 10th S. i. 19) supplied a roll of the living descendants of Edward IV. and Henry VII. of England and James III. of Scotland; that which now appears is called the Clarence volume, and contains the descendants of George, Duke of Clarence. Nothing has to be added to what has been said in defence of works of the class. Genealogy, on their trial, and the importance of the present family history, and " pedigree-lore" are no longer experiment, and its success, so far as it has progressed, are abundantly attested in the popularity of the opening volume and the rapidity with which it has been followed by a second, no less ambitious workmanship. Little perceptible departure has in scope and thorough paced and conscientious in been made from the plan adopted in the previous volume, now, for the sake of convenience and distinction, spoken of as the Tudor Roll of the "Blood Royal of Great Britain." In a series of some eighty until the middle of the nineteenth century or someor so tables the lines from Duke George are traced what later, the descendants of the various persons last named being given in the order of priniogeniture in the body of the work. George, Duke of Clarence, is, of course, Shakespeare's False, fleeting, perassociated in tradition, as jured Clarence,' in Richard III..' with the butt of Malmsey, murdered in the Tower 18 Feb., 1478. His wife Isabel was the eldest daughter, and in her issue sole heir, of Richard (Nevill), Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, and his wife Anne, sister and sole heir of Henry (Beauchamp), King of the Isle of Wight and Duke of Warwick; so, as is pointed out, all those named in the volume are not only descended from Edfamous King-Maker, while those entitled to quarter ward III., but are equally descended from the the arms of George of Clarence are also entitled to quarter those of the Nevills and the Beauchamps. Two hundred and ten peers are descended from Clarence, Lord Granard coming first with eleven descents, and Lord Petre second with ten. Some 17,625 living, or very lately living, descendants of Clarence are given in the volume. These have among them 31,936 lines of descent. being an average of a little under two descents each. Four hundred and twenty-seven years after Clarence's in Europe, King Charles of Roumania being dedeath a descendant is, for the first time, reigning scended from Lady Ursula Pole." It appears that the Roumanian royal house has much interest for British genealogists, since "not only are the children of the Crown Prince the only three persons in whose veins is united the blood of Charles I. and Queen Victoria, but they are also the only descendants of the Duke of Clarence who are descended as well from Queen Victoria." By the marriage of 66 Lady Maria Theresa Bruce, daughter of the Earl of Ailesbury, with the Prince of Hornes, and that of their two daughters with the Princes of SalmKyrburg and Stolberg-Guedern, the blood of Clarence is carried to the Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns. Naturally the volume is chiefly occupied with persons of British race and nationality, though many Americans, French, Germans, Spaniards, Swedes, &c., find mention. Barillas, late President of Guatemala, appears through his grandchildren, and Jeanne Papoutsopoulos is the solitary Greek descendant of Clarence. Though Charles of Roumania is the only king descended from Duke Charles, Bertha of Rohan, the consort of Don Carlos, would, but for revolutionary upheaval, have occupied a throne, as would Louisa of Stolberg had the Revolution of 1688 never taken place, in which case she "would have been queen of these realms in fact as she was in name. While there are at present living some 50,000 descendants of Edward III., that number, large as it seems, is but insignificant out of a total estimated conjecturally at 100,000,000 of British descent, and while, says the Marquis, Edward 1. may be justly termed the father of the British people, "it is quite a different thing to be able to trace the line." Among recently deceased descendants of the Duke of Clarence we were prepared to find Charles Stewart Parnell. Cardinal Vaughan and Miss Charlotte M. Yonge are also, it seems, of the number. We have already drawn attention to the obscure position of some individuals of highest descent, and have ourselves, as we believe, found a direct descendant of Saxon kings in a village tailor. To a genealogist the interest and importance of this work are inexhaustible. Other volumes are in progress, and how far the series may extend we are unable to say. Among the illustrations are photogravures of portraits of the Duke of Clarence (serving as frontispiece), of Isabel Nevill, Duchess of Clarence, of Margaret, Countess of Salisbury, and Reginald, Cardinal Pole, and portraits of King Edward III., Queen Philippa of Hainault, Charles I., King of Roumania, Louisa of Stolberg, Bertha of Rohan, and very many others. & dyuers wrytynges of holy men to dyspose men The History of the Society of Apothecaries of London. 66 THOUGH boasting of no remarkable antiquity, the Society of Apothecaries is the owner of interesting and instructive records and has a story worth telling. It seems at one time to have been in possession of materials for a full history, now no longer accessible, but still, it is to be hoped, recoverable. In the excellent work compiled by Mr. Barrett we hear, in 1790-1, of the presentation to the Society of a very valuable collection of tracts relating to its history. The donor of these was a former Master, a Mr. John. Field. Whether these are yet in existence is unknown to Mr. Barrett. They can scarcely have been lost without culpable negligence, if nothing worse, on the part of the authorities. Their disappearance is the more surprising since a minute. dated 19 October, 1804, supplies an order that the collection be not shown to anybody without the. permission of the Court of Assistants. A question in our own columns might conceivably lead to a knowledge of their whereabouts. They may have been misappropriated, but can scarcely have been destroyed. A Ryght Profytable Treatyse. By Thomas Betson. (Cambridge, University Press.) THIS, the second of the incunabula issued by the Cambridge University Press, is neither less scarce nor less curious than the Augustini Dacti Libellus' by which it was preceded. Like this it comes from the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely 1707-14, and was presented by George I. to the University in 1715. Like it, too, it is the work of a man not It is satisfactory to learn that the minutes of otherwise known, and concerning whose very name the Society, from which the writer has drawn the there seems to be question. On the not often dis- greater part of his information, are “in an absoputed authority of William Herbert, whose informa- lutely perfect state." Except in the case of entries tion was derived from William Cole of Milton," referring to the "Physic Garden" at Chelsea, they his name is given as Thomas Betton. There is, how-offer, indeed, virgin soil to the antiquary. Mr. ever, little question that the reading is correct Barrett has elected to give a species of description. of Mr. Francis Jenkinson, supported as it is by Mr. or informal digest of their contents, or rather a Bernard W. Henderson and Mr. Falconer Madan. transcription. Where the object is to commend The letters in what may be accepted as a colophon a book to general perusal this is presumably wise, has been blurred. On the evidence of the printer's books full of documents being apt, as is sugmark and of the cut of the Crucifixion, which gested, to become wearisome. The first mention appears twice, the year of publication is given as of an apothecary in England occurs, we are told in 1500, when it was printed by Wynkyn de Worde in limine, in Rymer's 'Foedera,' where one Coursus Caxton's house. Wholly edifying are the contents, de Gangeland, "an Apothecary of London, which are extracted from St. Jerome, St. Bernard, mentioned as receiving in 1345 a pension of 6d. per Gerson, and other pious writers. It is indeed, as diem for attending on King Edward III. while lying Betson says, "co'pendiously drawen out of manny sick in Scotland. The earliest charter granted to is ration James II. had abdicated. the Apothecaries is dated 9 April, 1606, before which time Shakespeare had, of course, mentioned his lean apothecary in Romeo and Juliet.' By this charter the Apothecaries were incorporated with the Grocers. A new charter, forming them into a separate company, was granted them 6 December, 1617. Under this charter the Society still holds. On 10 April, 1684, the charter, which had undergone many attacks, was assailed by a quo warranto. The king demanded a surrender, which was made, and a new charter was conceded. A stormy period followed. On 6 May, 1685, "a precept was received from the Lord Mayor stating that the King desired the Company to have a livery, it being one of the Companies which he had decided should have one.' In spite of Court influences, however, the new charter was ultimately surrendered and cancelled, and the old charter was restored. Twelve days after its restoTroublous from the outset were the fortunes of the new society. Some among the Apothecaries objected to be dissociated from the Grocers, and the complaint was made that the charter "disables an Ancient Corporation, giving foreign Apothecaries the same licence as English.' James I. was not to be thwarted in his purpose, and compelled obedience to his orders. On 9 September, 1618, the business of the Society began in earnest, a search for defective and bad medicine being made in London, Westminster, and Southwark, and divers people being summoned for having inferior and adulterated drugs. From the first the struggle for existence was keen, and was intensified by royal demands, which in the time of Charles I. became onerous. Legal troubles and attacks on the Society were constant, the most celebrated having attained a position in literature by provoking the publication of Garth's 'Dispensary.' Then followed the provision of a hall and the obtaining of a barge, with similar matters. For a time the poverty of the institution compelled it to rent a hall. In time, however, it obtained that it still occupies. Those accustomed to study minutes will scarcely be surprised to hear how little attention was paid in them to events of the greatest importance, political or other. It is, however, surprising, in the case of an institution of the class, to find a matter such as the Great Plague passing unnoticed, and even more astounding that no entry appears of the Fire of London, in which the fabric of the hall was destroyed, necessitating re-edification. In consequence of the poverty of the company, the banquets were occasionally suspended. Decorum seems not always to have been observed at the feasts, since we find that, in consequence of the behaviour of those present on Lord Mayor's Day, 1675, women were excluded. In the reception of Charles II. on This Restoration the company, besides paying 721. as their share of a present to the king of 12,000l., had to send twelve persons of the most grave, tall, and comely personages......every one of them to be well horsed and in the best array of furniture of velvett, plush or sattin and chains of gold......with one footeman apeece in decent habit," and provide banners, streamers, and other ornaments of triumph. With the educational and the serious functions of the Society we have not concerned ourselves. Mr. Barrett's task has been well executed. In addition to the letterpress he has supplied some interesting illustrations of the premises and the antiquarian possessions of the Society. Book-Auction Records. Edited by Frank Karslake. Vol. II. Part III., April 1st to June 30th, 1905. (Karslake & Co.) To those who seek a handy record of the modern prices of books the work of Mr. Karslake may be commended. Two volumes, the first of which is all but exhausted, and is only obtainable at an enhanced price, have appeared, or are on the point of so doing, and the whole will in time be a useful work of reference. The arrangement is alphabetical, and, so far as possible, under names of authors. In the present part are 5,616 records the Robbins-who was born in 1817, took part in the To The British Weekly for 27 July Mr. Richard Reform agitation of 1831, and remembers General Election of June, 1826-sends some recolGeorge IV. see N. & Q..' 9th S. x. 3. Mr. Robbins lections. For his memories of the Coronation of has contributed to the Eighth and Ninth Series: see, for instance, 9th S. vi. 415. His son, Mr. Alfred F. Robbins, will be recognized as a frequent and valuable contributor, whose name occupies to itself over a column in the General Index to the Ninth Series. His grandson, Mr. Clifton Robbins, had a query on Cricket: Pictures and Engravings' on July (ante, p. 9). 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