H.K.S.C.


_What is the correct Prefix of Mayors?_ (Vol. i., p. 380.)--In Leicester
the usage has always been to designate the chief magistrate "The
worshipful the Mayor," which, I believe, is the style used in
_boroughs_. In _cities_, and places _specially privileged_, "Right
worshipful" are the terms employed.

JAYTEE.


_Marks of Cadency_ (Vol. ii., p. 248.).--The label of the Prince of
Wales has, from the time of Edward III. up to the present time, been of
three points argent, and _not_ charged.

F.E.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

Although we do not usually record in our columns the losses which
literature sustains from time to time, we cannot permit the death of
Thomas Amyot, the learned Director of the Camden Society, and for so
many years the Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries, to pass without