, pp. 357. 416.).--Permit me to
acquaint your correspondent that among the many singular and curious books
which formed the library of that talented antiquary the late Charles
Kirkpatrick Sharp, and which were sold here by auction some time ago, there
was a small 12mo. volume containing _French translations_, with rude
woodcuts, of--

1. "La Vie joyeuse et recreative de Tiel-Ullespiegle, de ses Faits
merveilleux et Fortunes qu'il a eues; lequel par aucune Ruse ne se
laissa pas tromper. A Troyes, chez Garner, 1838."

2. "Histoire de Richard Sans Peur, Duc de Normandie, Fils de Robert le
Diable, &c. A Troyes, chez Oudot, 1745."

T. G. S.

Edinburgh.

_Parochial Libraries_ (Vol. vi., p. 432.; Vol. vii., pp. 193. 369. 438.).--

"In the year 1635, upon the request of the Rev. Anthony Tuckney, Vicar
of Boston, it was ordained by the Archbishop of Canterbury (Laud), then
on his metropolitical visitation at Boston, 'that the roome over the
porch of the saide churche shall be repaired and decently fitted up to
make a librarye, to the end that, in case any well and charitably
disposed person shall hereafter bestow any books to the use of the
parish, they may be there safely preserved and kept.'"

This library at present contains several hundred volumes of ancient
(patristic, scholastic, and post-Reformation) divinity.

I hope to be able ere long to make a correct catalogue of the books at
present remaining, and at the same time make an attempt to restore them to
that decent "keeping" in which the great and good archbishop desired they
might remain.

Query: In making preparations for the catalogue, I have been informed by a
gentleman that he remembers two or more _cart loads_ of books from this
library being sold by the churchwardens, and, as he believes, by the then
archdeacon's orders, at waste paper price; that the bulk of them was
purchased by a bookseller then resident in Boston, and re-sold by him to a
clergyman in the neighbourhood of Silsby.

1. What was the date of the sale?

2. The name of the _Venerable_ Archdeacon who perpetrated this robbery?

3. Whether there are any legal means for recovering the missing works?

My extracts are from Thompson's _History of Boston_, a correspondent of
yours, a new edition of whose laborious work is about to appear.

THOMAS COLLIS.

Boston.

_Painter--Derrick_ (Vol. vii., pp. 178. 391.).--I cannot agree with
J. S. C. t