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like representation of him alike in peace and war. His father, mother, cousins, and nephews surround him. The bronze likeness given to him even by the jealous Senate of the Republic still remains in his palace. The long gallery is entirely lined with pictures on an elaborate scale of his warlike exploits in different parts of Greece. A chamber adjoining is filled with his trophies. There is the sword on the blade of which is inscribed the calendar of the ecclesiastical year, and then, as if by a reverse process, there is a small book of devotion with a pistol concealed in the thickness of its 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 soldier. There is also, as if to bring us into the most familiar connexion with his private life, the skeleton of his favourite cat, companion of his wars, having its paw on the skeleton of a mouse. His chapel, or rather small oratory, beautifully decorated, gives a like insight into his private devotions, and within it is the splendid fald stool, or prie-dieu, which accompanied him on board ship in all his voyages and in his tent throughout all his campaigns.

collector of book-plates as a Goth, who defaces precious volumes by stripping them of what rendered them doubly precious, the evidence of their possession by this or that great man. Of this sin, at least, I am guiltless. I never plundered a volume in this way; and if the captious critic proceeds to ask, How, then, did I acquire them?-my answer is, that when the binding of old books becomes so dilapidated that they must be rebound, the bookplates which they contain would perish in the hands of the binder unless they were rescued, as mine have been. Perhaps it would be better to say bookbinders are quite aware of the value of bookplates, and preserve them when they fall into their hands. But at the time of which I write there were few or no collectors, and so it happened that I being a customer of the late Mr. John Lilly, the well-known bookseller, he was good enough to save for me such book-plates as were to be found in the volumes which he intended to rebind.

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He died at Nauplia in Argolis, and his body was brought home and buried in the church of St. Stephen, close by his palace. In the nave of that church the grave is marked by a vast circular slab circumscribed with these words: FRANCISCI MAUROCENI PELOPONNESIACI VENETIARUM PRINCIPIS OSSA. It was a striking spectacle to witness, standing silent around that pathetic gravestone, the circle of distinguished visitors who, as we have said, were congregated at that moment in the ancient capital of the Adriatic.

The palace is still intact, and we trust that no remonstrance from England will be needed to preserve it unchanged, as nearly the sole relic of the ancient warrior chiefs of the great republic.

A. P. S.

MY COLLECTION OF BOOK-PLATES. Though a collection of book-plates may not seem a very lively subject, still it may be instructive, if not amusing; the more so, perhaps, that this particular collection was made almost entirely forty years ago. In the outset, let me justify myself with those very worthy people who look on a

Having thus freed my soul, I turn to the collection itself. It is not very large, for in all these forty years I have scarcely added anything to it. It cannot compare, therefore, with the collection formed by the Hon. Gerald Ponsonby in quantity, and perhaps not in quality, but it contains many most interesting objects, and some certainly which it will be hard to match. My purpose is, however, not to boast of my collection, but to call attention to a very interesting subject. Of Popes I have Barberini's book-plate, charmingly engraved, the keys of St. Peter and the lappets of the triple crown forming a shield for the bees of his family coat, while below are Romulus and Remus suckled by the she-wolf. Of cardinals, Cardinal Maury's book-plate, containing his arms below the cardinal's hat, and underneath the order of the St. Esprit, inscribed, "Bibliothèque particulière de son Eminence Mgr le Cardinal de Maury." Other foreign ecclesiastics I have, but I pass them over, and turn to our own Church. It is not every day that you can see the book-plate of Gilbert Burnet, Lord Bishop of Salisbury, Chanceller of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, yet it is here, recalling a whole chapter both of political and church history. We only glance at other Bishops of Salisbury, side by side with Chester and Durham -Van Mildert being the prelate who filled the last-named see-and pass on to more worldly dignitaries. Of our own royal family I have the bookplate of Her Most Gracious Majesty for her library at Windsor, a very beautiful piece of modern wood-engraving, together with the Prince Regent's bookplate, for his library at Carlton House, which is spelt Carleton" House, and William IV.'s cipher and monogram, inscribed "Royal Library." I am not rich in foreign royal book-plates, that of Charles XIII., bearing the three crowns surrounded by the collar and cross of the order of the Seraphin

and his motto, "Folkets wäl mint hogsta lag," "The people's weal my highest law."

Of our own nobility I have the book-plate of Augustus Henry, Duke of Grafton, with his bend sinister across the royal arms of England, that of "the most noble Wriothesley, Duke of Bedford, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter," dated 1703, a very beautiful specimen, showing only the Russell coat, with no quarterings, surrounded by the "Honi soit qui mal y pense" on the ribbon of the Garter, and below, the "Che sarà sarà," the well-known motto of the family. Side by side I have placed the book-plate of Hastings, Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, an excellent example of modern wood-engraving, though, to my mind, not so good as the copperplate of his ancestor. Next comes the plate of Richard, Duke of Buckingham, the spendthrift duke, who brought Stowe and its treasures to auction. His many quarterings and the "Templa quam dilecta" of his motto afford another proof, if any were needed, that modern temples, however much beloved, may be laid in ruin by improvidence. Of marquesses, I have Sligo, from the collection of Westport House, with its wise motto, "Suivez raison," and the extinct Carnarvon, with its no less wise "Maintein le droit"; the more modern Lansdowne brings with it many memories of a house which has for two centuries deserved well of its country, whose motto, "Virtute, non verbis," does them but half justice, as from generation to generation they have been able to debate in both Houses of Parliament. The family seem always to have been fond of books, for I have three or four book-plates of Earls of Shelburne. Of other earls I have book-plates of the "Rt. Hon. Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, Viscount Maldon, and Baron Capell of Hadham," dated 1701, and of the "Right Hon. Philip Sydney, Earle of Leicester, Viscount Lisle, and Baron Sydney of Penshurst, 1704." These two are in the same style as that of the Duke of Bedford mentioned above, the shields containing one coat, with helmet and crest above the coronet, beautiful mantling, and the motto beneath. There is a grandeur and simplicity in the Or, a pheon sable, of the Sidneys, and a harmony between it and the motto, "Quo fata vocant." Very interesting are the book-plates of the Earls of Delawarr, and better still that of the same house when they were only barons, with their fine old motto, "Jour de ma vie," and their two badges, a calthrop enclosing the letter r and a doubleseeded rose, parti argent and gules. In the same way, the book-plate of the Earl of Guildford, encircled by the ribbon of the Guelphic order and its motto, "La vertue est la seule noblesse," is anything but an improvement on that of his ancestor, "The Right Hon. Francis North, Baron of Guildford, 1703," his motto being "Animo et fide." Very good, too, is the book-plate of the

Right Hon. Charles, Viscount Bruce of Ampthill (son and heir-apparent of Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury), and Baron Bruce of Whorleton, 1712. Nor, though as late as 1750, is the book-plate of "Deburgh, Earl of Clanricarde," with its fine old coat and noble motto, "Un roy, un foy, un loy," to be passed over without notice.

Extremely interesting are the cases where a succession of book-plates marks the rise of a noble family, and shows the steps by which it attained its honours. For instance, among the baronets in this collection is the book-plate of "Sir John Percivale, Baronet, of Boston, in the county of Cork in Ireland, 1702," with the motto, "Sub cruce canto," punning on the crosses and canton in his coat. So the family remained for thirteen years. In 1715 we find "John, La Percival, Baron of Boston, in the county of Cork in Ireland." In 1736 we find the book-plate of John Perceval, Earl of Egmont in the United Kingdom. These three plates were found pasted, one over the other, on the binding of the same book when it was sent to be rebound. Of other baronets, we find the book-plates of Pye, Mainwaring, Steuart of Coltness (afterwards changed to Steuart-Denham), Thorold of Syston Park, Wemyss of Bogie, Hutchinson, Parker, with its flanges and stag's head cabossed, crest a hand grasping an antler, all alluding to the days when the first Parker kept the royal parks and forests. Nor should the plate of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, the great book collector, be forgotten, who either copied from or was copied by a still greater collector, the Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville, in the style of his book-plate. Earliest of the baronets is the book-plate of Sir John Anstruther of that ilk, baronet, with its motto, "Periissem nisi periissem."

I have only left myself space to glance at the rest of my collection. The book-plate of Cosmas Nevill, Esq., of Holt, Leicestershire, reminds the reader painfully of a magnificent library now scattered and dispersed; that of Bryan Edwards, of Greenwich Park, Jamaica, recalls the historian of that island in the days when West India estates were worth having; that of William Wilberforce has a deep interest, not only on account of the philanthropic labours of the man, but for those of his still more remarkable son Samuel. In that of Marsden is revived the memory of a great Orientalist, who bequeathed his fine library to King's College, London. The cross ragulée on the bookplate of the Dignums is worth mentioning, were it only for its punning motto, "Crucem ferre dignum." That of Dr. Dibdin, with its composite coat. formed out of Caxton's device and those of other early printers, recalls the days of bibliomania, when Lord Spenser and the Duke of Marlborough were outbidding each other at public auctions The simple book-plate of William Bromley, of Baginton, in the county of Warwick, conjures up

which formed part of Heber's magnificent library,
and have written on them, according to his
invariable practice, the price of each book, and
from whom, or at what auction, it was bought.
G. W. D.

Athenæum Club.

[We hope to receive many such interesting notes from "Bookour valued correspondent, and especially on Nov. 19 and Dec. 18, 1877, for evidence that the subject Plates." May we refer him to the Pall Mall Gazette of has not hitherto attracted so much attention in this country as its interest would justify?]

the shade of the Speaker of the House of Commons in Queen Anne's days. The plate of Augustine Earle, of Heydon, in Norfolk, represents an ancient family merged by marriage in that of the Bulwers. That of Alfred Thrale Perkins smacks of two worthy houses of brewers, whose draymen were champions of Kossuth. With that of John Wilkes, Esq., we come to another darling of the populace, whose motto, alluding to the crossbow as his crest, "Arcui meo non confido," was anything but fitted to the character of the man. It might be said, indeed, that he trusted too much both the cross and long bow. On the same page stands the bookEPISCOPACY IN SCOTLAND IN 1710. plate of James Bindley, a great book collector. A little further on comes that of Joseph Haslewood, Wroxton Abbey, may interest the historians of the The paper which follows, from the original at an antiquary, who had hard fights with Ritson, and 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 vraye," recalls a name venerable both for lineage and for good report in literature and art. The book-plate of Anna Damer has an interest of its own, besides the artistic genius of the owner. for it was designed by her friend Agnes Berry in 1793, one of the two sisters whom some of us at least can remember in their extreme old age. The name of Sir Francis Freeling reminds us of a man who, besides being Secretary to the Post Office, was another bibliomaniac, and had a choice library. The book-plate of "Ric. Rawlinson, A.M. e. Coll. Di. Jo. Bapt., Oxon., et R.S.S.," bears witness to the good taste of one of our oldest antiquarians, borne out by his motto, "Sunt antiquissima quæque optima." That of William Blackstone tells of Sir William, one of our greatest legal luminaries, even though his famous commentaries have, in spite of constant mending, become almost antiquated and worn out. That of Jermy, of Preston Hall, with its many quarterings, speaks of an ancient family which received such deadly blows at the hand of the murderer Rush.

Besides these there are many more which cannot be now mentioned. If it be asked, What is the oldest book-plate?-the question is not easy to answer. The oldest in this collection is that of Joseph Barnes, or Josephus Barnesius, who was printer to the University of Oxford about the middle of Elizabeth's reign. It is very interesting, and almost deserves a notice to itself. Among my foreign book-plates is one dated 1590, belonging to "Thomas Lunde Canon. S. Joannis Ratis." This is a book-plate in every sense of the word, with arms, mantling, crest, and inscription complete. Perhaps still older is a large woodcut belonging to some medieval monastery. I read the arms Party per pale gules and argent, over all a fir cone proper resting on the capital of a

column.

Let me add, before I cease this notice, that several of these book-plates came from volumes

Episcopal congregations in that country in 1710,
with other particulars. It is entitled :-
thither, in October, 1709, concerning the Disposition of
"Remarks on some Affairs in Scotland since my going
the Nobility towards Episcopacy; of the People in their
several Shires; the Persecution of some Episcopal Minis-
ters; and some Particulars touching the Presbyterian
Ministers."

The name of the writer is not given, but the paper appears to have been intended for the information of the Government, the queen herself being, as is well known, inclined to favour the Episcopalians. In the appendix to Lawson's History of the Scottish Episcopal Church (Edinburgh, 1843, 8vo.), p. 515, is a paper on the "State of the Episcopal Church in 1708," which may be compared with the present "Remarks." The former would seem to have been written by a Presbyterian, the latter certainly by an Episcopalian.

First the Nobility and Gentry do generally embrace or espouse the Episcopal persuasion and use of the English private reasons or those of State are secret in their reLiturgy. Many of them profess it openly, and some for spects towards it.

Dukes of Hamilton, Queensberry, Roxburgh.-Well inclined.

Buccleuch, Athol.-Profest.

Marquis of Annandale.-Inclined.

Earls of Errol, Marshal, Morton, Glencairn, Eglinton, Findlater, Carnworth, Dysart, Panmure, Northesk, Kincardin, Balcarras.-Profest Episcopals.

Dundonald, Dumbarton, Kintore, Braidalbin, Aberdeen, Winton, Linlithgow, Hume, Wigton, Strathmore, AberDunmore, March, Cromarty, Roseberry, Cassils, Murray, corn, Kelly, Dumfries, Southesk, Dalhousey, Airly, Portmore, Bute, Delorain.-Profest Episcopals.

Marr, Selkirk, Kilmarnock, Orkney, Ruglen, Seafield, Stair, Galloway, Lauderdale, Kinoul, Weems.-Inclined. Arbuthnot, Irwing, Newhaven, Kingston, Strathallan.— Viscounts of Falkland, Stormont, Kenmore, Kilsyth,

Profest.

Barons of Salton, Gray, Sinclair, Semple, Elphinston, Lovat, Lindors, Balminno, Forrester, Pitsligo, Frazer, Banff, Elibank, Hackorton, Duffus, Nairn, Dingwel, Ballenden.-Profest Episcopals.

Mordington, Blantyre, Oliphant, Belhaven.-Inclined. Secondly the populace are generally Presbyterian in the West and Southern parts; but not go in the north of

Scotland: the men of Estates & education every where are mostly Episcopal. A regard to the Church of England Liturgy does daily encrease, so that tho' before the Revolution very few had the Common Prayers and none received ye Sacrament of the Lord's Supper kneeling; yet now there be many thousands of y Episcopalians that use ye former, and almost all of them do ye latter. An account of them in the several shires is as follows.

In the S. Western shires, Galloway, Ayre, Renfrew, Lanark and Dumfreis, they are the most bigotted to Presbytery & ye Covenant, from which were ye Insurrections at Pentland hills, and Bothwel Bridge; yet there be some well disposed to the Church and Liturgy, who take opportunities to communicate therewith when they come to Edinburgh, or can send for Episcopal Ministers to their Houses.

In Dumbartonshire are Cowgratins ffamily, Chappeltons, & Kilmarnocks, to which are great Resorts of Clergy and Laity; as also to y Meeting House at Dumbarton. In Stirlingshire is a Chaplain in Vist Kilsyths ffamily; & a great congregation in the Church of England Meeting House at Stirling, and also at y Earl of Linlithgows in Callender House.

In Perthshire there be Meeting Houses at Down, Minthill, Perth, Mugle(?), Innerman, the Carse of Gowry, &c., besides Chaplains at ye Lord Stormonts & Nairne, & Lairds of Loggys, Kerrys, Blagowros & Grandully.

In ffifeshire are English Meeting Houses at Cowper, Crail, ffalkland, St Andrews and many other places, besides Chaplains at the Earls of Murrays & Kellys.

In Angus are Meeting Houses at Montross & Dundee, & Chaplains at ye Earls of Strathnarn, Southesk & Panmure's; besides many Episcopal Ministers yet in their Churches; there are about a hundred of them in the north of Scotland, who according to the 23 Act of Parliamt 1693, confirmed by ye 27 of 1695, and other subsequent Acts, if they took the oath of allegiance, and were then in possession of their Churches & Benefices, they continue. In Mernishire [Kincardinshire?] are Meeting Houses at Stonehive & Fettercrosse.

In Aberdeenshire are several Meeting Houses for ye English service with two in......* and several Episcopal Ministers yet in their Churches.

In Murrayshire are English Meeting Houses at Elgin, Duffus,......Torras, Aberlour, &c., with many Episcopals yet in their Churches.

In Ross-shire is an English Meeting House at Canonry, besides many Episcopal. In this last shire, and those of Inverness, Cromarty, Kincardin & Caithness are more Episcopals than Presbyterian Min's in their Churches, & yo people so generally disposed to y fformer, that few or none will hear the Presbyterian Preachers.

In Orkney there is a great Meeting House for y English Service at Kirkwal, and the Gentry generally thereto disposed thro' all that country.

In West-Lothian or Linlithgow are many ffamilys that resort to the English Service.

In Mid-Lothian are 14 or 15 Meeting Houses in Edinburgh, & so general a Disposition therein for y English Liturgy that they want nothing but liberty & encouragemt to gain them wholly to it. There are also Meeting Houses at Leith, Dalkeith, & Musselburgh. In East-Lothian are Meeting Houses at Trenant & Haddington where is an Episcopal Minister in his Church, as also at Dunbar, & a Chaplain at y Countess of Roxburghs.

In Berwickshire is a Meeting-House at Coldingham, and an Episcopal Minister at the Earl of Humes. In Teviotdale is a Meeting-House at Kelso. In Tweedale, are many Episcopal Ministers yet in their Churches, &

Here and in several other places the original is deaced.

much people well dispos'd & yet notwithstanding the numbers and quality of the Episcopalians the Presbyterian Ministers do violently press.

Thirdly the Persecution of the Episcopal Ministers. It is too true yt many of the Episcopalians have not given Testimony of their affection to the present Governmt. But if any Difference be made in their furious Persecution of y Episcopals, as to that respect, it is rather more fierce against those that swear to, or pray for Her Majties Person & Government, and this raises or continues their prejudices against the Governmt. when they suffer so much and so long under it.

Mr. Greenshields is a known case, since his Imprisont were these persecutions.

Mr. James Lyon for reading the Liturgy at Kirkwal in Orkney, from the Presbytery was before y Lords Justiciary prosecuted with violence, but the Prosecution drop't this summer session thro' ye Informality of the process.

Mr Ross of Cowper & Mr Hunnyman of Crail in Fife, were prosecuted by the Presbytories for using the English Service Book, and should have been pursued by the Criminal Court, or Magistrates, but yt they wait y issue of Mr Greenshields case before the House of Lords.

The Chaplains to the Lords Stormont & laird of Blagowre & Mr Wm Smith were pursued by ye Presbyterian Church Judicatories for reading the Common Prayers, but at present......stops, tho' yet depending.

......of Glasgow, was in July last threatned with the utmost severity, by the......magistrates if he did not withdraw his Episcopal Meeting from y° City: upon......to retire into the Country......Magistrates of Elgin were prosecuted by that Presbytery and from y circuit......before ye justiciary in ffebruary last, [but they wisely drop't it] for not [keeping the fast against Innovations in the Presbyterian Worship, enjoyned only by y Commission of the Assembly, upon that act of theirs against Mr Greenshields. Yet that Judiciary is not establish'd or authorized upon any act of Parliament, nor is there any statute yt without wresting, can subject the Episcopal Clergy to any Presbyterian Judicature, nor favour their prosecutions, except y' act about Irregular Marriages and Baptism's, 12th Act of Parl: 1695: and Mr Hay of Aberlour in Murray, was in October last pursued by the Lord Minto in the Circuit Court, for reading the English Liturgy in a Meeting House of great resort, and when the Jury gave up a verdict for acquitting him, he forced them with threats to return, and gave him in guilty, and not having law otherwise to punish him, having baptized children, he thereupon sentenced him to perpetual Imprisont or Banishment from his Country, to which last he was forced to submit; and now resides at London, and all this severity against him, that was otherwise inoffensive, and always pray'd for the Queen, and had converted many papists. Mr Skinner Minister of Brichen by many unjust and irregular proceedings was deposed from his Church by that Presbytery, and imprisoned in Edinburgh Tolbooth by the Justiciary, until he should go into Banishment, or give security never to exercise any part of his Ministerial function within Scotland. Mr Downes of Petty near Inverness, was somewhat like case. Mr Sheen & Mr Sutherland's Meeting House for y English Service in Nidderies Wynd was shut up by y Magistrates of Edinburgh, in y summer 1709, and being open'd again by these Ministers in October 1710, it now threat'ned to be again shut up, & y Ministers punish'd, after the determination of Mr Greenshield's case. All these foregoing ffacts being within something more than one year, it may be considered what usage the Episcopals have met with in the course of 22 years, & will hereafter, if y Presbyterian Cruelty be not allay'd.

which formed part of Heber's magnificent library,
and have written on them, according to his
invariable practice, the price of each book, and
from whom, or at what auction, it was bought.
G. W. D.

Athenæum Club.

Plates."

[We hope to receive many such interesting notes from "Bookour valued correspondent, and especially on Nov. 19 and Dec. 18, 1877, for evidence that the subject May we refer him to the Pall Mall Gazette of has not hitherto attracted so much attention in this country as its interest would justify?]

the shade of the Speaker of the House of Commons in Queen Anne's days. The plate of Augustine Earle, of Heydon, in Norfolk, represents an ancient family merged by marriage in that of the Bulwers. That of Alfred Thrale Perkins smacks of two worthy houses of brewers, whose draymen were champions of Kossuth. With that of John Wilkes, Esq., we come to another darling of the populace, whose motto, alluding to the crossbow as his crest, "Arcui meo non confido," was anything but fitted to the character of the man. It might be said, indeed, that he trusted too much both the cross and long bow. On the same page stands the bookEPISCOPACY 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, vraye," recalls a name venerable both for lineage and with other particulars. It is entitled :— for good report in literature and art. The book-plate thither, in October, 1709, concerning the Disposition of "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 can remember in Ministers." their extreme old age. The name of Sir Francis Freeling reminds us of a man who, besides being Secretary to the Post Office, was another bibliomaniac, and had a choice library. The book-plate of "Ric. Rawlinson, A.M. e. Coll. Di. Jo. Bapt., Oxon., et R.S.S.," bears witness to the good taste of one of our oldest antiquarians, borne out by his motto, "Sunt antiquissima quæque optima." That of William Blackstone tells of Sir William, one of our greatest legal luminaries, even though his famous commentaries have, in spite of constant mending, become almost antiquated and worn out. That of Jermy, of Preston Hall, with its many quarterings, speaks of an ancient family which received such deadly blows at the hand of the murderer Rush.

Besides these there are many more which cannot be now mentioned. If it be asked, What is the oldest book-plate ?-the question is not easy to answer. The oldest in this collection is that of Joseph Barnes, or Josephus Barnesius, who was printer to the University of Oxford about the middle of Elizabeth's reign. It is very interesting, and almost deserves a notice to itself. Among my foreign book-plates is one dated 1590, belonging "Thomas Lunde Canon. S. Joannis Ratis." This is a book-plate in every sense of the word, with arms, mantling, crest, and inscription complete. Perhaps still older is a large woodcut belonging to some medieval monastery. I read the arms Party per pale gules and argent, over all a fir cone proper resting on the capital of a

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column.

Let me add, before I cease this notice, that several of these book-plates came from volumes

The name of the writer is not given, but the paper appears to have been intended for the information of the Government, the queen herself being, as is well known, inclined to favour the Episcopalians. In the appendix to Lawson's History of the Scottish Episcopal Church (Edinburgh, 1843, Svo.), p. 515, is a paper on the "State of the Episcopal Church in 1708," which may be compared with the present "Remarks." The former would seem to have been written by a Presbyterian, the latter certainly by an Episcopalian.

First the Nobility and Gentry do generally embrace or

espouse the Episcopal persuasion and use of the English private reasons or those of State are secret in their reLiturgy. Many of them profess it openly, and some for spects towards it.

Dukes of Hamilton, Queensberry, Roxburgh.-Well inclined.

Buccleuch, Athol.-Profest.

Marquis of Annandale.-Inclined.

Earls of Errol, Marshal, Morton, Glencairn, Eglinton, Findlater, Carnworth, Dysart, Panmure, Northesk, Kincardin, Balcarras.-Profest Episcopals.

Dundonald, Dumbarton, Kintore, Braidalbin, Aberdeen, Winton, Linlithgow, Hume, Wigton, Strathmore, AberDunmore, March, Cromarty, Roseberry, Cassils, Murray, corn, Kelly, Dumfries, Southesk, Dalhousey, Airly, Portmore, Bute, Delorain.-Profest Episcopals.

Marr, Selkirk, Kilmarnock, Orkney, Ruglen, Seafield, Stair, Galloway, Lauderdale, Kinoul, Weems.-Inclined. Viscounts of Falkland, Stormont, Kenmore, Kilsyth,

Arbuthnot, Irwing, Newhaven, Kingston, Strathallan.

Profest.

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