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Was William of Wykeham of the Family of Swalcliffe? By Charles Wykeham Martin, Esq., M.P., F.S.A.

Account of Sir Toby Caulfield rendered to the Irish Exchequer, relative to the Chattel Property of the Earl of Tyrone and other fugitives from Ulster in the year 1616, communicated by James F. Ferguson, Esq., of the Exchequer Record Office, Dublin.

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Sepulchral Memorials of the English at Bruges and Caen.

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Survey, temp. Philip and Mary, of the Manors of Crosthole, Landren, Landulph, Lightdurrant, Porpehan, and Tynton, in Cornwall; Aylesheare and Whytford, co. Devon; Ewerne Courtenay, co. Dorset; Mudford and Hinton, West Coker, and Stoke Courcy, co. Somerset; Rolleston, co. Stafford; and Corton, co. Wilts.

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Notes.

REMARKABLE IMPRINTS.

More than one pen has considered titles, dedications, and imprints worth a Note, and as there are still gleanings in their track, I take the liberty of sending you a few of the latter; some from my common-place book, others from the fountainheads on my own shelves, but all drawn at random, without much regard to classification or chronological arrangement.

The horrors of the Star Chamber and the Ecclesiastical Courts produced many extraordinary imprints, particularly to those seditious books of the Puritans, better known as the Marprelate Family; works which were printed by ambulatory presses, and circulated by unseen hands, now under the walls of Archiepiscopal Lambeth, and presto! (when the spy would lay his hands upon them) sprite-like, Martin re-appeared in the provinces! This game at hide and seek between the brave old Nonconformists and the Church, went on for years without detection: but the readers of "N. & Q." do not require from me the history of the Marprelate Faction, so well told already in the Miscellanies of Literature and elsewhere; the animus of these towards the hierarchy will be