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i2 s. VIIL JUNE ii, 1921,3 NOTES AND QUERIES. 465 16 PAYMENTS. 34 Paid unto mr Bobt Rypine as a gratuitie from Mr Bayliffs and Jthe rest of the company . . . . .. . . . 17 00 00 to Francis Chapman for mendinge the houre glasse at Church 00 00 06 Paid for rayles payles posts battens and nailes to tryme the pound in the Street and for workman shipp 00 17 01 For a lock for the stocks . . . . 00 00 06 Paid the Constables money they laid out for wardinge before the Sessions June . . 00 02 08 More to him (Richard Lilborne) for beere on the Sessions day for Mr Rivett 00 02 06 mere to him for carrieinge the Kings lettrs 00 01 06 more to him for helpinge to mesure the towne Rye . . . , . . 00 00 06 more to him (Willm Baldwin) for wine and tobacco unto the hall at an as- sembly 00 03 06 Oeven by the apointmt of Mr Bayliffs to the Kings players . . . . . . 01 00 00 Pd Tho : Payne for goinge about the towne to keepe poore children from begginge for 13 weeks at 6d p weeke . . . . 00 06 06 To Charles Warne for cuttinge an arch at Church to place the pulpitt . . 00 01 06 more to him for a horse hire to Sr Tho : Glemham wh a porquepice . . 00 01 00 for strowinge hearbes for the town hall 00 00 04 To Charles warne for mendinge table on the towne hall 00 02 00 More to him for a boxe to put towne writings in . . . . . . 00 01 08 More to her (widow Bardwell) for wine when the Lord Banyngs was in towne . . . . . . 00 16 00 Given Tho : Smith the Bellman to buy him a Koate 00 13 04 more to him (Richard Usher) for the half of a newe buckett . . . . . . 00 00 08 To Edmund Bixbie for 2 juns of beere spent upon our Trayninge dayes. . 00 08 00 To Thomas Wyard for trmynge the towne Cushions . . . . . . 00 00 06 To Jo : Cossie for makinge of a newe payer of gates for the Church porch . . 00 12 00 For boards ledges posts and nailes for the gates as appeere p bill . . . . 00 12 04 To Jo : Reynolds for hengells pikes locks and a haspe for them . . . . 00 10 10 To Charles Warne for a new frame for the Clocke and for new Joyntinge the diall 00 16 00 Pd Jo : Insent for payntinge the dyall 01 00 00 For help to gitt the diall up and downe and to nailes and ledges . . . . 00 03 03 for a box lock and gymers to put towne wrightings in . . . . 00 01 08 for a skynne of pchment for the townes use . . 00 01 00 AlTHUR T. WlNN. Aldeburgh, Suffolk. (To be continued.') FORGOTTEN PERIODICALS OF 1830-1833. A COMPLETE collection of very interesting London periodicals has just come into my hands ; it consists of publications between 1830 and 1833, all of which had a very short-lived career and are now for- gotten. Curiously enough they are all of one size, and with the exception of one or two all priced at one penny. Their size is 11 by 9 inches, which has enabled them to be bound up together. The owner of the volume has had it labelled ' Various Penny Periodicals,' which is a misnomer, as the first number is a sixpenny weekly entitled The Cerberus ; or, Tartarean Re- view, No. 1 of the Earthly Edition. Whether it was published elsewhere is not clear, but it appears that only this one number was issued, on May 1, 1830, and twelve copies only sold, the rest being bought up and destroyed, so that it seems clear that it was not really wanted by mortals. It consists of eight pages of scurrilous verse and prose. It was supposed to emanate from the lower regions, furnishing a chronicle of the proceedings there and comments on passing events. It is full of poor punning material and was evidently suppressed, probably by the law. Only ten numbers were published of Punchinello ; or, Sharps, Flats, and Naturals. No. 1 is dated Jan. 20, 1832, price one penny, and the series contains illustrations by Robert Cruikshank. As an inducement to newsmen to order and sell this paper, they were entitled to copies of the wood- cuts on vellum paper if they undertook to order twelve dozen weekly copies. The Weekly Visitor and London Literary Museum first saw light on Jan. 21, 1832, and managed to exist through fifteen numbers. It is advertised to print twenty thousand copies weekly, but the only advertisers were of quack pills and balsams. Several portraits may be traced in the puzzle pictures which were a feature of this publication. No. 14 is missing from the British Museum Copy. A Slap at the Church is a curious title for a weekly periodical. It was published in 1832 at a penny and was illustrated by Cruikshank, Seymour and others. It ran to seventeen numbers and issued a title- page and index. In its valedictory it said it had accomplished its object " to amuse by a little harmless satire " ; its promoters