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SEVENTEENTH - CENTURY SCHOOLBOOKS
<11 S. viii. 406). I think that I can con-
fidently identify two of DR. MAGRATH'S
schoolbooks.
4. " The Young Secretary's Guide or a Speedy Help to Learning, in Two Parts. I. Containing the True Method of writing Letters upon any Sub- ject ; whether concerning Business or otherwise : Fitted to all Capacities, in the most smooth and obliging Style, with about 200 Examples never before published. As also Instructions how properly to Intitle, Subscribe, or Direct a Letter to any Person of what Quality soever. With full directions for True Pointing. II. Containing an exact Collection of Acquittances, Bills, Bonds, Wills, Indentures, Deeds of Gifts, Letters of Attorney, Assignments, Releases, Warrants of Attorney, Bills of Sale, Counter-Securities : With Notes of Directions, relating to what is most difficult to be understood in the most Legal Sense, Form and Manner. To which is added the True Method every Honest Dealer should take (according to Law) to get in what is owing to him, either by shuffling Tradesmen in the City, or dishonest Correspondents in the Country. With Methods for Compounding of Debts ; and what ought to be observed therein, &c." By J. Hill.
Hill's name does not occur in the ' D.N.B.' or in Lowndes. I do not know when the first edition was published. My copy is the twenty-sixth, and is dated 1754.
5. " The Posing of the Parts : or a Most Plain and Easie Way of Examining the Accidence and Grammar, by Questions and Answers, arising directly out of the Words of the Rules. Whereby All Scholars may attain most speedily to the perfect learning, full understanding, and right use thereof, for the happy proceeding in the Latine Tongue. Gathered purposely for the benefit of Schooles. and for the use and delight of Masters and Scholars."
There is no name on the title-page, but the author is known to be John Brinsley, who wrote also the ' Ludus Literarius.' My copy (of the tenth edition) is dated 1647. The first edition was published in 1630.
1. ' Greek Winchester Epigrams.' Hugh Robinson, Head Master of Winchester, published in 1654 ' Scholae Wintoniensis Phrases Latinse.' This, when used in other schools, was generally called ' Winchester <or Winchester's) Phrases.' Perhaps there was a corresponding book for Greek. The most popular book of Greek epigrams -was Thomas Farnaby's ' Florilegium Epigram- matum Graecorum eorumque Latino versu a variis redditorum ' (1629).
6. ' A Consaring Grammar.' Could " con- saring" possibly be construing ? While Lily's was the authorized Latin grammar, several translations of the rules were used in schools.
7. * Catichism of Ques. and Ans.' Per- haps this was Eusebius Pagit's * Holy Bible briefly collected by way of Questions and
Answers,' first published in 1613 and often
reprinted.
Many of the seventeenth-century books are mentioned in Hoole's ' New Discovery of the Old Art of Teaching Schoole ' (1659). Prof. Campagnac in his edition of this work identifies most of them.
Details respecting textbooks will also be found in Prof. Foster Watson's ' English Grammar Schools to 1660.'
DAVID SALMON.
Swansea.
Nixox (11 S. vii. 30). There are lines by a J. Nixon in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1765, vol. xxxv. p. 186. They are entitled 'Upon presenting a Bird -Cage to a Lady at Bath. Addressed to the Lady's Bird.' As the lines by John Nixon to Somervile are in the 1743 edition of 'The Chace,' it is probable they were written by the same man. I append the verses : If, pleas'd with your new tenement, your breast, Dear warbler ! glows with gratitude imprest, Your gen'rous pity to your friend display, And with kind offices his boon repay- When Cloe's ear enraptur'd from thy throat, Imbibes the pow'rs of thy melodious note ; With soft relen tings all her soul inspire, To ease my pain, and crown my fond desire. I then, devoted, in thy lot wou'd join, Thy duty, and thy mistress shou'd be mine ; With life co-eval our attachment prove, You, by these wires contin'd, and I by love.
J. NIXON.
I hope this may be of interest to A. C. C. R. M. INGERSLEY.
NAME OF DURHAM (US. viii. 348). The Durham referred to by R. B. S. (11 S. vi. 436) was Herculina Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Hercules Durham, who was married at Dinapore, 25 March, 1790, to Sir Robert Blair, General H.E.I.C.S. The writer of the note, Robert Blair Swinton, late Indian Civil Service, died 23 Dec., 1912, aged 83. A. T. M.
CASE OF DUPLICATE MARRIAGE (11 S. viii. 410). The record of marriages being entered in two parishes is certainly common. My own family history affords an example of a triplicate entry.
My great -great -grandfather (James Fish- wick), according to the Register of Goosnargh, was married on 26 Oct., 1699, to Jennet Cross ; the Register at Chipping reads : " Mr. James Fishwick and Jennet Cross were married 26 Oct., 1699 " ; whilst at Preston, under the same date, is the follow- ing entry : " James Fishwick of Goosnargh and Jennet Cross of Barton were married by licence, as they affirm."
