atchword to those
who should love the truth, 'In quietness and confidence shall be your
strength.' There have been manifold tokens that patience is the one
great grace which God is now calling forth in our church," &c.

I will not here inquire which of the two great religious revolutions I have
mentioned has been more truly characterised by the spirit of this beautiful
and striking text, but perhaps some of your readers will agree with me in
thinking that the coincidence is at least a note-worthy one; and not the
less so, because it was probably undesigned.

JOSHUA G. FITCH.

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BINDERS OF THE VOLUMES IN THE HARLEIAN LIBRARY.

In Dr. Dibdin's _Bibliographical Decameron_, 1817, vol. ii. p. 503., he
thus introduces the subject:

"The commencement of the eighteenth century saw the rise and progress
of the rival libraries of Harley and Sunderland. What a field,
therefore, was here for the display of the bibliopegistic art! Harley
usually preferred red morocco, with a broad border of gold, and the
fore-edges of the leaves without colour or gilt. Generally speaking,
the Harleian volumes are most respectably bound; but they have little
variety, and the style of art which they generally exhibit rather
belongs to works of devotion."

In a note on the above passage, Dibdin adds:

"I have often consulted my bibliomaniacal friends respecting the name
of the binder or binders of the Harleian Library. Had Bagford or Wanley
the chief direction? I suspect the _latter_."

If Dr. Dibdin and his "bibliomaniacal friends" had not preferred the easy
labour of looking at printed title-pages to the rather more laborious task
of examining manuscripts, they might readily have solved the Query thus
raised by referring to Wanley's _Autograph Diary_, preserved in the
Lansdowne Collection, Nos. 771, 772, which proves that the binders employed
by Lord Oxford were Christopher Chapman of Duck Lane, and Thomas Elliot.
Very many entries occur between January 1719-20 and May 1726, relative to
the binding both of manuscripts and books in morocco and calf; and it
appears, in regard to the former material, that it was supplied by Lord
Oxford himself. Some of these entries will show the jealous care exercised
by honest Humphrey Wanley over the charge committed to him.

"25th January, 1719-20. This day having inspected Mr. Elliot's bill, I
found hi