Notes and Queries, Number 50, October 12, 1850 | Page 9

still rung at eight P.M. at Morpeth in
Northumberland.
E.H.A.
_Exeter._--The curfew is rung in Exeter Cathedral at eight P.M.
The present practice is to toll the bell thirty strokes, and after a short
interval to toll eight more; the latter, I presume, denoting the hour.

G.T.
_Winchester._--Curfew is still rung at Winchester.
AN OLD COMMONER PREFECT.
_Over, near Winsford, Cheshire._--The custom of ringing the curfew is
still kept up at Over, near Winsford, Cheshire; and the parish church, St.
Chads, is nightly visited for that purpose at eight o'clock. This bell is
the signal amongst the farmers in the neighbourhood for "looking up"
their cattle in the winter evenings; and was, before the establishment of
a public clock in the tower of the Weaver Church at Winsford,
considered the standard time by which to regulate their movements.
A READER.
[We are indebted to the courtesy of the Editor of the Liverpool Albion
for this Reply, which was originally communicated to that paper.]
_The Curfew_, of which some inquiries have appeared in the "NOTES
AND QUERIES," is generally rung in the north of England. But then it
is also common in the south of Scotland. I have heard it in Kelso, and
other towns in Roxburghshire. The latter circumstance would appear to
prove that it cannot have originated with the Norman conqueror, to
whom it is attributed.
W.
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ENGELMANNS BIBLIOTHECA SCRIPTORUM CLASSICORUM.
(Vol. ii., p. 296.)
The shortest reply to MR. DE MORGAN'S complaint against a foreign
bookseller would be, that Engelmann himself printed for any of the
purchasers of a large number of his Catalogues the titles to which MR.
DE MORGAN objects so much.
Will you allow me to add one or two remarks occasioned by MR. DE

MORGAN'S strictures?
1. Engelmann is not, strictly speaking, a bookseller, and his catalogues
are not booksellers' catalogues in the sense in which that term is
generally received here. He is a publisher and compiler (and an
admirable one) of general classified catalogues for the use of the trade
and of students, without any reference to his stock, or, in many
instances, to the possibility of easily acquiring copies of the books
enumerated: and although he might execute an order from his
catalogues, getting orders is not the end for which he publishes them.
2. Some foreign houses in London, as well as in other countries, bought
a large number of his Catalogues, not as a book but as a _catalogue_, to
be supplied to their customers at the bare cost, or, where it appears
advisable, to be delivered gratis to purchasers of a certain amount.
3. It appears to me pardonable if, under these circumstances, a notice is
inserted on the title, that orders may be directed to the house which has
purchased a number, and supplies them without any immediate profit;
and I may add that I do {313} not believe any of the houses concerned
would object to a notice being taken of such a proceeding in your
paper.
4. The error in omitting the words "from 1700" on the title-page, is one
to which MR. DE MORGAN'S notice first directed my attention,
classics printed before that date not being commonly in demand among
foreign booksellers.
5. The practice of compiling catalogues for general use, with the names
of the purchasers of any number of copies of the catalogue inserted on
the title or wrapper, is very common in Germany.
Hinrichs of Leipsic issues--
1. A Six-monthly Alphabetical Catalogue, with a systematic index;
2. A Quarterly Catalogue, systematically arranged, with an alphabetical
index;

Vandenhoeck of Gottigen issues _half-yearly_--
1. A Bibliotheca Medico-Chirurgica et Pharmaceuto-Chemica;
2. A Bibliotheca Theologica, for Protestant theology;
3. A Bibliotheca Classica et Philologica;
4. A Bibliotheca Juridica;
and Engelmann, from time to time, numerous general catalogues;--
all of which are not only supplied to London houses, with English titles,
but may be had all over Germany, with the firms of different
booksellers inserted as publishers of the catalogue.
Will you make use of the above in any way in which you may think it
of advantage to your readers?
ANOTHER FOREIGN BOOKSELLER.
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CROZIER AND PASTORAL STAFF.
(Vol. ii., p. 248.)
A correspondent inquires what was the difference between a crozier
and a pastoral staff. The crozier (_Crocia_, Mediæval Latin), Fr.
_Crosse_, Ital. _Rocco Pastorale_, German. _Bischofstab_, is the
ornamental staff used by archbishops and legates, and derives its name
from the cross which surmounts it. A crozier behind a pall is borne on
the primatial arms of Canterbury. The use of the crozier can only be
traced back to the 12th century. Cavendish mentions "two great crosses
of silver, whereof one of them was for his archbishoprick and the other
for his legatry, always before" Cardinal Wolsey.