like representation of him alike in peace and war. collector of book-plates as a Goth, who defaces His father, mother, cousins, and nephews surround precious volumes by stripping them of what renhim. The bronze likeness given to him even by dered them doubly precious, the evidence of their the jealous Senate of the Republic still remains in possession by this or that great man. Of this sin, his palace. The long gallery is entirely lined with at least, I am guiltless. I never plundered a volume pictures on an elaborate scale of his warlike ex- in this way; and if the captious critic proceeds to ploits in different parts of Greece. A chamber ask, How, then, did I acquire them ?-my answer adjoining is filled with his trophies. There is the is, that when the binding of old books becomes so sword on the blade of which is inscribed the calen- dilapidated that they must be rebound, the bookdar of the ecclesiastical year, and then, as if by plates which they contain would perish in the a reverse process, there is a small book of devotion hands of the binder unless they were rescued, as with a pistol concealed in the thickness of its mine have been. Perhaps it would be better to say wooden cover-memorials which exhibit in sin- would have,” for I believe that at the present day gular union the devout Catholic and the fierce bookbinders are quite aware of the value of booksoldier. There is also, as if to bring us into the plates, and preserve them when they fall into most familiar connexion with his private life, the their hands. But at the time of which I write skeleton of his favourite cat, companion of his there were few or no collectors, and so it happened wars, having its paw on the skeleton of a mouse. that I being a customer of the late Mr. John Lilly, His chapel, or rather small oratory, beautifully the well-known bookseller, he was good enough to decorated, gives a like insight into his private de- save for me such book-plates as were to be found votid and within it is the splendid faldstool, in the volumes which he intended to rebind. or prie-dien, which accompanied him on board Having thus freed my soul, I turn to the col. ship in all his voyages and in his tent throughout lection itself. It is not very large, for in all these all his campaigns.

forty years I have scarcely added anything to it. His exploits were carried on through a consider. It cannot compare, therefore, with the collection able part of the seventeenth century, and if at formed by the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby in quantity, Athens they were marked by the melancholy in- and perhaps not in quality, but it contains many cident that it was a bombshell from his batteries most interesting objects, and some certainly which that reduced the Parthenon to its present state of it will be hard to match. My purpose is, however, ruin, it must be remembered that the Acropolis not to boast of my collection, but to call attention was then a Turkish fortress, and that even in those to a very interesting subject. Of Popes I have comparatively uneducated times Morosini gave Barberini's book-plate, charmingly engraved, the vent to his mingled grief and indignation in the keys of St. Peter and the lappets of the triple cry, "O Athens ! nurse of arts and letters, what crown forming a shield for the bees of his family have I done to thee?"

coat, while below are Romulus and Remus suckled He died at Nauplia in Argolis, and his body was by the she.wolf. Of cardinals, Cardinal Maury's brought home and buried in the church of St. book-plate, containing his arms below the cardinals Stephen, close by his palace. In the nave of that hat, and underneath the order of the St. Esprit, church the grave is marked by a vast circular slab inscribed, “ Bibliothèque particulière de son Emicircumscribed with these words : FRANCISCI MAU- nence Mgr le Cardinal de Maury." Other foreign ROCENI PELOPONNESIACI VENETIARUM PRINCIPIS ecclesiastics I have, but I pass them over, and turn

It was a striking spectacle to witness, to our own Church. It is not every day that you standing silent around that pathetic gravestone, can see the book-plate of Gilbert Burnet, Lord the circle of distinguished visitors who, as we have Bishop of Salisbury, Chanceller of the Most Noble said, were congregated at that moment in the Order of the Garter, yet it is here, recalling a ancient capital of the Adriatic.

whole chapter both of political and church The palace is still intact, and we trust that no history. We only glance at other Bishops of remonstrance from England will be needed to pre- Salisbury, side by side with Chester and Durham serve it unchanged, as nearly the sole relic of the - Van Mildert being the prelate who filled the ancient warrior chiefs of the great republic.

last-named see-and pass on to more worldly digA. P. S. nitaries. Of our own royal family I have the book

plate of Her Most Gracious Majesty for her library

at Windsor, a very beautiful piece of modern MY COLLECTION OF BOOK-PLATES.

wood-engraving, together with the Prince Regent's Though a collection of book-plates may not seem bookplate, for his library at Carlton House, which a very lively subject, still it may be instructive, is spelt “ Carleton" House, and William IV.'s pot amusing; the more so, perhaps, that this par- cipher and monogram, inscribed “Royal Library.”. ticular collection was made almost entirely forty I am not rich in foreign royal book-plates, that of years ago. In the outset, let me justify myself Charles XIII., bearing the three crowns surrounded with those very worthy people who look on a by the collar and cross of the order of the Seraphin

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and his motto, Folkets wäl mint hogsta lag,” Right Hon. Charles, Viscount Bruce of Ampthill “The people's weal my highest law.”

(son and heir-apparent of Thomas, Earl of AilesOf our own nobility I have the book-plate of bury), and Baron Bruce of Whorleton, 1712. Nor, Augustus Henry, Duke of Grafton, with his bend though as late as 1750, is the book-plate of “Desinister across the royal arms of England, that of burgh, Earl of Clanricarde," with its fine old coat “the most noble Wriothesley, Duke of Bedford, and noble motto,.“ Un roy, un foy, un loy,” to Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter," be passed over without notice. dated 1703, a very beautiful specimen, showing Extremely interesting are the cases where a only the Russell coat, with no quarterings, sur- succession of book-plates marks the rise of a noble rounded by the “Honi soit qui mal y pense” on family, and shows the steps by which it attained the ribbon of the Garter, and below, the “Che its honours. For instance, among the baronets in sarà sarà," the well-known motto of the family. this collection is the book-plate of “Sir John PerSide by side I have placed the book-plate of civale, Baronet, of Boston, in the county of Cork Hastings, Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, an in Ireland, 1702," with the motto,

Sub cruce excellent example of modern wood-engraving, canto," punning on the crosses and canton in his though, to my mind, not so good as the copper- coat.' So the family remained for thirteen years. plate of his ancestor. Next comes the plate of In 1715 we find “John, La Percival, Baron of Richard, Duke of Buckingham, the spendthrift Boston, in the county of Cork in Ireland." In duke, who brought Stowe and its treasures to 1736 we find the book-plate of John Perceval, auction. His many quarterings and the “Templa Earl of Egmont in the United Kingdom. These quam dilecta" of his motto afford another proof, if three plates were found pasted, one over the other, any were needed, that modern temples, however on the binding of the same book when it was sent much beloved, may be laid in ruin by impro- to be rebound. Of other baronets, we find the vidence. Of marquesses, I have Sligo, from the book-plates of Pye, Mainwaring, Steuart of Coltcollection of Westport House, with its wise motto, ness (afterwards changed to Steuart-Denham), “Suivez raison," and the extinct Carnarvon, with Thorold of Syston Park, Wemyss of Bogie, Hutits no less wise “Maintein le droit”; the more chinson, Parker, with its flanges and stag's head modern Lansdowne brings with it many memories cabossed, crest' a hand grasping an antler, all of a house which has for two centuries deserved alluding to the days when the first Parker kept well of its country, whose motto, “Virtute, non the royal parks and forests. Nor should the plate verbis," does them but half justice, as from genera- of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, the great book tion to generation they have been able to debate collector, be forgotten, who either copied from or in both Houses of Parliament. The family seem was copied by a still greater collector, the Rt. Hon. always to have been fond

of books, for I have three Thomas Grenville, in the style of his book-plate. or four book-plates of Earls of Shelburne. Of Earliest of the baronets is the book-plate of Sir other earls I have book-plates of the "Rt. Hon. John Anstruther of that ilk, baronet, with its Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon, motto, "Periissem nisi periissem." and Baron Capell of Hadham,” dated 1701, and of I have only left myself space to glance at the the “Right Hon. Philip Sydney, Earle of Leicester, rest of my collection. The book-plate of Cosmas Viscount Lisle, and Baron Sydney of Penshurst, Nevill, Esq., of Holt, Leicestershire, reminds the 1704.” These two are in the same style as that of reader painfully of a magnificent library now the Duke of Bedford mentioned above, the shields scattered and dispersed ; that of Bryan Edwards, containing one coat, with helmet and crest above of Greenwich Park, Jamaica, recalls the historian the coronet, beautiful mantling, and the motto of that island in the days when West India estates beneath. There is a grandeur and simplicity in were worth having ; that of William Wilberforce the Or, a pheon sable, of the Sidneys, and a har- has a deep interest, not only on account of the mony between it and the motto, “Quo fata vocant." philanthropic labours of the man, but for those of Very interesting are the book-plates of the Earls his still more remarkable son Samuel. In that of of Delawarr, and better still that of the same house Marsden is revived the memory of a great Oriwhen they were only barons, with their fine old entalist, who bequeathed his fine library to King's motto, “Jour de ma vie," and their two badges, College, London. The cross ragulée on the booka calthrop enclosing the letter r and a double plate of the Dignums is worth mentioning, were it seeded rose, parti argent and gules. In the same only for its punning motto, “Crucem ferre dignum.” way, the book-plate of the Earl of Guildford, en. That of Dr. Dibdin, with its composite coat. circled by the ribbon of the Guelphic order and formed out of Caxton's device and those of other its motto, “La vertue est la seule noblesse,” is early printers, recalls the days of bibliomania, anything but an improvement on that of his when Lord Spenser and the Duke of Marlborough ancestor, “ The Right Hop. Francis North, Baron were outbidding each other at public auctions of Guildford, 1703,” his motto being “Animo et The simple book-plate of William Bromley, of fide." Very good, too, is the book-plate of the Baginton, in the county of Warwick, conjures up

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the shade of the Speaker of the House of Commons which formed part of Heber's magnificent library, in Queen Anne's days. The plate of Augustine Earle, and have written on them, according to his of #eydon, in Norfolk, represents an ancient family invariable practice, the price of each book, and merged by marriage in that of the Bulwers. That from whom, or at what auction, it was bought. of Alfred Thrale Perkins smacks of two worthy

G. W. D. houses of brewers, whose draymen were champions

Athenæum Club. of Kossuth. With that of John Wilkes, Esq., we (We hope to receive many such interesting notes from come to another darling of the populace, whose our valued, correspondent, and especially on motto, alluding to the crossbow as his crest, Nov. 19 and Dec. 18, 1877, for evidence that the subject

Plates.” May we refer him to the Pall Mall Gazette of “ Arcui meo non confido," was anything but fitted has not hitherto attracted so much attention in this to the character of the man. It might be said, country as its interest would justify?] indeed, that he trusted too much both the cross and long bow. On the same page stands the book

EPISCOPACY IN SCOTLAND IN 1710, plate of James Bindley, a great book collector. A little further on comes that of Joseph Haslewood,

The paper which follows, from the original at an antiquary, who had hard fights with Ritson, and Wroxton Abbey, may interest the historians of the whose work on book rarities, which he entitled Nut- Church of Scotland. Though short it is compremegs for Nightingales, is forgotten. John Towne- hensive, and gives a detailed account of the different ley's, with its simple cont and fine motto, “Tenes le Episcopal congregations in that country in 1710, for good report in literature and art. The book-plate thither, in October, 1709, concerning the Disposition of vraye,” recalls a name venerable both for lineage and with other particulars. It is entitled :

“Remarks on some Affairs in Scotland since my going of Anna Damer has an interest of its own, besides the Nobility towards Episcopacy; of the People in their the artistic genius of the owner. for it was designed several Shires ; the Persecution of some Episcopal Minisby her friend Agnes Berry in 1793, one of the two ters; and some Particulars touching the Presbyterian sisters whom some of us at least cap remember in Ministers.” their extreme old age. The name of Sir Francis The name of the writer is not given, but the Freeling reminds us of a man who, besides being paper appears to have been intended for the inforSecretary to the Post Office, was another biblio- mation of the Government, the queen herself being, maniac, and had a choice library. The book-plate as is well known, inclined to favour the Episcoof “Ric. Rawlinson, A.M. e. Coll. Di. Jo. Bapt., palians. In the appendix to Lawson's History of Oxon., et R.S.S.,” bears witness to the good taste the Scottish Episcopal Church (Edinburgh, 1843, of one of our oldest antiquarians, borne out by his 8vo.), p. 515, is a paper on the “State of the Epismotto, “Sunt antiquissima quaeque optima.” That copal Church in 1708,” which may be compared of William Blackstone tells of Sir William, one of with the present “Remarks." The former would our greatest legal luminaries, even though his seem to have been written by a Presbyterian, the famous commentaries have, in spite of constant latter certainly by an Episcopalian. mending, become almost antiquated and worn out. First the Nobility and Gentry do generally embrace or That of Jermy, of Preston Hall, with its many espouse the Episcopal persuasion and use of the English quarterings, speaks of an ancient family which re- private reasons or those of State are secret in their re

Liturgy. Many of them profess it openly, and some for ceived such deadly blows at the hand of the mur-spects towards it. derer Rush.

Dukes of Hamilton, Queensberry, Roxburgh. -Well Besides these there are many more which cannot inclined. be now mentioned. If it be asked, What is the

Buccleuch, Athol.-Profest. oldest book-plate ?—the question is not easy to

Marquis of Annandale.--Inclined.

Earls of Errol, Marshal, Morton, Glencairn, Eglinton, answer. The oldest in this collection is that of Findlater, Carnworth, Dysart, Panmure, Northesk, KinJoseph Barnes, or Josephus Barnesius, who was cardin, Balcarras. Profest Episcopals. printer to the University of Oxford about the Dundonald, Dumbarton, Kintore, Braidalbin, Aberdeen, middle of Elizabeth's reign. It is very interesting, Winton, Linlithgow, Hume, Wigton, Strathmore, Aber

Dunmore, March, Cromarty, Roseberry, Cassils, Murray, and almost deserves a notice to itself.

Among corn,

Kelly, Dumfries, Southesk, Dalhousey, Airly, Portmy foreign book-plates is one dated 1590, belonging more, Bute, Delorain.—Profest Episcopals. to Thomas Lunde Canon. S. Joannis Ratis." Marr, Selkirk, Kilmarnock, Orkney, Ruglen, Seafield, This is a book-plate in every sense of the word, Stair, Galloway, Lauderdale, Kinoul, Weems.-Inclined.

Viscounts of Falkland, Stormont, Kenmore, Kilsyth, with arms, mantling, crest, and inscription complete. Perhaps still older is a large woodcut Arbuthnot, Irwing, Newhaven, Kingston, Strathallan. --belonging to some mediæval monastery. I read Barons of Salton, Gray, Sinclair, Somple, Elphinston, the arms Party per pale gules and argent, over Lovat, Lindors, Balminno, Forrester, Pitsligo, Frazer, all a fir cone proper resting on the capital of a Banff, Elibank, Hackorton, Duffus, Nairn, Dingwel, column.

Ballenden.-Profest Episcopals. Let me add, before I cease this notice, that

Mordington, Blantyre, Oliphant, Belhaven.--Inclinod.

Secondly the populace aro generally Presbyterian in several of these book-plates came from volumes the West and Southern parts; but not go in tlie north of

Scotland : the men of Estates & education every where much people well dispos'd &_yet notwithstanding the are mostly Episcopal. regard to the Church of England numbers and quality of the Episcopalians the PresbyLiturgy does daily encrease, so that tho' before the Re- terian Ministers do violently press. volution very few had the Common Prayers and none Thirdly the Persecution of the Episcopal Ministers. received ye Sacrament of the Lord's Supper kneeling; yet It is too true yt many of the Episcopalians have not given now there be many thousands of ye Episcopalians that Testimony of their affection to the prosent Governmt. use ye former, and almost all of them do yo latter. An But if any Difference be made in their furious Persecuaccount of them in the several shires is as follows. tion of yo Episcopals, as to that respect, it is rather more

In the S. Western shires, Galloway, Ayre, Renfrew, La fierce against those that swear to, or pray for Her Majtles Dark and Dumfreis, they are the most bigotted to Presby- Person & Government, and this raises or continues their tery & ye Covenant, from which were ye Insurrections at prejudices against the Governmt. when they suffer 80

& Pentland hills, and Bothwel Bridge ; yet there be some much and so long under it. well disposed to the Church and Liturgy, who take *Mr. Greenshields is a known case, since his Imprisont opportunities to communicate therewith when they como were these persecutions. to Edinburgh, or can send for Episcopal Ministers to Mr. James Lyon for reading the Liturgy at Kirkwal in their Houses.

Orkney, from the Presbytery was before yo Lords JusIn Dumbartonshire are Cowgratins ffamily, Chappel- ticiary prosecuted with violence, but the Prosecution tons, & Kilmarnocks, to which are great Resorts of Clergy drop't this summer session thro' ya Informality of the and Laity; as also to ye Meeting House at Dumbarton. process. In Stirlingshire is a Chaplain in Vis' Kilsyths ffamily; M' Ross of Cowper & M* Hunnyman of Crail in Fife, & a great congregation in the Church of England Meet- were prosecuted by the Presbytories for using the Eng. ing House at Stirling, and also at ye Earl of Linlithgows lish Service Book, and should have been pursued by the in Callender House.

Criminal Court, or Magistrates, but yt they wait yo isque In Perthshire there be Meeting Houses at Down, Mint- of M* Greenshields case before the House of Lords. hill, Perth, Mugle(?), Innerman, the Carse of Gowry, &c., The Chaplains to the Lords Stormont & laird of Blabesides Chaplains at ye Lord Stormonts & Nairne, & Lairds gowre & M' Wm Smith were pursued by yo Presbyterian of Loggys, Kerrys, Blagowros & Grandully.

Church Judicatories for reading the Common Prayers, In fifeshire are English Meeting Houses at Cowper, but at present......stops, tho' yet depending. Crail, ffalkland, St Andrews and many other places, be- ......of Glasgow, was in July last threatned with sides Chaplains at the Earls of Murrays & Kellys. the utmost severity, by the......magistrates if he did

In Angus are Meeting Houses at Montross & Dundee, not withdraw his Episcopal Meeting from yo. City : & Chaplains at ye Earls of Strathnarn, Southesk & Pan. upon......to retire into the Country...... Magistrates mure's; besides many Episcopal Ministers yet in their of Elgin were prosecuted by that Presbytery and Churches; there are about a hundred of them in the from ye circuit...... before yo justiciary in ffebruary north of Scotland, who according to the 23 Act of Parliamt last, [but they wisely drop't it] for not (keepi]ng 1693, confirmed by ye 27 of 1695, and other subsequent the fast against Innovations in the Presbyterian Acts, if they took the oath of allegiance, and were then in Worship, enjoyned only by ye Commission of the possession of their Churches & Benefices, they continue. Assembly, upon that act of theirs against Mr Green

In Mernishire (Kincardinshire?] are Meeting Houses shields. Yet that Judiciary is not establish'd or authoat Stonehive & Fettercrosse.

rized upon any act of Parliament, nor is there any statute In Aberdeenshire are several Meeting Houses for yo yt without wresting, can subject the Episcopal Clergy to English service with two in......* and several Episcopal any Presbyterian Judicature, nor favour their prosecuMinisters yet in their Churches.

tions, except yi act about Irregular Marriages and BapIn Murraysbire are English Meeting Houses at Elgin, tism's, 1211 Act of Parl: 1695: and MHay of Aberlour in Duffus,...... Torras, Aberlour, &c., with many Episcopals Murray, was in October last pursued by the Lord Minto yet in their Churches.

in the Circuit Court, for reading the English Liturgy in In Ross-shire is an English Meeting House at Canonry, a Meeting House of great resort, and when the Jury gave besides many Episcopal. In this last shire, and those of up a verdict for acquitting him, he forced them with Inverness, Cromarty, Kincardin & Caithness are more threats to return, and gave him in guilty, and not having Episcopals than Presbyterian Mints in their Churches, law otherwise to punish him, having baptized children, & yo people so generally disposed to go fformer, that fow he thereupon sentenced him to perpetual Imprisont or or none will hear the Presbyterian Preachers,

Banishment from his Country, to which last he was In Orkney there is a great Meeting House for yo Eng. forced to submit; and now resides at London, and all lish Service at Kirkwal, and the Gentry generally thereto this severity against him, that was otherwise inoffensive, disposed thro' all that country.

and always pray'd for the Queen, and had converted In West-Lothian or Linlithgow are many ffamilys that many papists. MSkinner Minister of Brichen by many resort to the English Service.

unjust and irregular proceedings was doposed from his In Mid-Lothian are 14 or 15 Meeting Houses in Church by that Presbytery, and imprisoned in Edinburgh Edinburgh, & so general a Disposition therein for ye Tolbooth by the Justiciary, until he should go into BanishEnglish Liturgy that they want nothing but liberty & ment, or give security never to exercise any part of his encouragemt to gain them wholly to it. There are also Ministerial ffunction within Scotland. Mi Downes of Meeting Houses at Leith, Dalkeith, & Musselburgh.. In Petty near Inverness, was somewhat like case. M' Sheon East-Lothian are Meeting Houses at Trenant & Hadding- & Mr Sutherland's Meeting House for yo English Service ton where is an Episcopal Minister in his Church, as also in Nidderies Wynd was shut up by yo Magistrates of Edinat Dunbar, & a Chaplain at yo Countess of Roxburgbs. burgh, in yo summer 1709, and being open'd again by

In Berwickshire is a Meeting-House at Coldingham, these Ministers in October 1710, it is now threat'ned to and an Episcopal Minister at the Earl of Humes. In be again shut up, & yo Ministers punish'd, after the de. Teviotdale is á Meeting-House at Kelso. In Tweedale, termination of Mr Greenshield's case. All these foreare many Episcopal Ministers yet in their Churches, & going ffacts being within something more than one year,

it may be considered what usage the Episcopals have * Here and in several other places the original is de- met with in the course of 22 years, & will hereafter, if yo aced.

Presbyterian Cruelty be not allay'd.

the shade of the Speaker of the House of Commons which formed part of Heber's magnificent library, in Queen Anne's days. The plate of Augustine Earle, and have written on them, according to his of Heydon, in Norfolk, represents an ancient family invariable practice, the price of each book, and merged by marriage in that of the Bulwers. That from whom, or at what auction, it was bought. of Alfred Thrale Perkins smacks of two worthy

G. W. D. houses of brewers, whose draymen were champions

Athenæum Club. of Kossuth. With that of John Wilkes, Esq., we [We hope to receive many such interesting notes from

“ Bookcome to another darling of the populace, whose our valued correspondent, and especially on motto, alluding to the crossbow as his crest, Nov. 19 and Dec. 18, 1877, for evidence that the subject

Plates." May we refer him to the Pall Mall Gazette of “ Arcúi meo non confido," was anything but fitted has not hitherto attracted so much attention in this to the character of the man. It might be said, country as its interest would justify?] indeed, that he trusted too much both the cross and long bow. On the same page stands the book

EPISCOPACY IN SCOTLAND IN 1710. plate of James Bindley, a great book collector. A little further on comes that of Joseph Haslewood,

The paper which follows, from the original at an antiquary, who had hard fights with Ritson, and Wroxton Abbey, may interest the historians of the whose work on book rarities, which he entitled Nut- Church of Scotland. Though short it is compremegs for Nightingales, is forgotten. John Towne- hensive, and gives a detailed account of the different ley's, with its simple coat and fine motto, “Tenes le Episcopal congregations in that country in 1710, for good report in literature aud art. The book-plate thither, in October, 1709, concerning the Disposition of vraye,” recalls a name venerable both for lineage and with other particulars. It is entitled :

“Remarks on some Affairs in Scotland since my going of Ånna Damer has an interest of its own, besides the Nobility towards Episcopacy; of the People in their the artistic genius of the owner. for it was designed several Shires ; the Persecution of some Episcopal Minisby her friend Agnes Berry in 1793, one of the two ters; and some Particulars touching the Presbyterian sisters whom some of us at least can remember in Ministers.” their extreme old age. The name of Sir Francis The name of the writer is not given, but the Freeling reminds us of a man who, besides being paper appears to have been intended for the inforSecretary to the Post Office, was another biblio-mation of the Government, the queen herself being, maniac, and had a choice library. The book-plate as is well known, inclined to favour the Episcoof “Ric. Rawlinson, A.M. e. Coll. Di. Jo. Bapt., palians. In the appendix to Lawson's History of Oxon., et R.S.S.,” bears witness to the good taste the Scottish Episcopal Church (Edinburgh, 1843, of one of our oldest antiquarians, borne out by his 8vo.), p. 515, is a paper on the “State of the Epismotto, “Sunt antiquissima quaeque optima.” That copal Church in 1708,” which may be compared of William Blackstone tells of Sir William, one of with the present “Remarks." The former would our greatest legal luminaries, even though his seem to have been written by a Presbyterian, the famous commentaries have, in spite of constant latter certainly by an Episcopalian. mending, become almost antiquated and worn out. First the Nobility and Gentry do generally embrace or That of Jermy, of Preston Hall, with its many espouse the Episcopal persuasion and use of the English quarterings, speaks of an ancient family which re- private reasons or those of State are secret in their re

Liturgy. Many of them profess it openly, and some for ceived such deadly blows at the hand of the mur-spects towards it. derer Rush.

Dukes of Hamilton, Queensberry, Roxburgh. -Well Besides these there are many more which cannot inclined. be now mentioned. If it be asked, What is the

Buccleuch, Athol.-Profest. oldest book-plate ?—the question is not easy to

Marquis of Annandale.-Inclined.

Earls of Errol, Marshal, Morton, Glencairn, Eglinton, The oldest in this collection is that of Findlater, Carnworth, Dysart, Panmure, Northesk, KinJoseph Barnes, or Josephus Barnesius, who was cardin, Balcarras. - Profest Episcopals. printer to the University of Oxford about the Dundonald, Dumbarton, Kintore, Braidalbin, Aberdeen, middle of Elizabeth's reign. It is very interesting, Winton, Linlithgow, Hume, Wigton, Strathmore, Aber:

Dunmore, March, Cromarty, Roseberry, Cassils, Murray, and almost deserves a notice to itself. Among corn, Kelly, Dumfries, Southesk, Dalhousey, Airlý, Portmy foreign book-plates is one dated 1590, belonging more, Buto, Delorain.-Profest Episcopals. to “ Thomas Lunde Canon. S. Joannis Ratis.” Marr, Selkirk, Kilmarnock, Orkney. Ruglen, Seafield, This is a book-plate in every sense of the word, Stair, Galloway, Lauderdale, Kinoul, Weems.--Inclined. with arms, mantling, crest, and inscription com

Viscounts of Falkland, Stormont, Kenmore, Kilsyth,

Arbuthnot, Irwing, Newhaven, Kingston, Strathallan.plete. Perhaps still older is a large woodcut

Profest. belonging to some mediæval monastery. I read Barons of Salton, Gray, Sinclair, Semple, Elphinston, the arms Party per pale gules and argent, over Lovat, Lindors, Balminno, Forrester, Pitsligo, Frazer, all a fir cone proper resting on the capital of a Banff, Elibank, Hackorton, Duffus, Nairn, Dingwel, column.

Ballenden.-Profest Episcopals. Let me add, before I cease this notice, that

Mordington, Blantyre, Oliphant, Belhaven.--Inclined.'

Secondly the populace aro generally Presbyterian in several of these book-plates came from volumes the West and Southern parts ; but not go in tlie north of

answer.