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Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851 by Various
page 21 of 64 (32%)

A second edition of

"De Guardian of de Britsche Zedemeester, door den Ridder Richard
Steele. Uit het Engelsch vertaald dor P. le Clercq. Te Rotterdam, by
Jan Daniel Beman, 1734, iii. vol. in 12º."

A third edition of

"De Spectator, of verrezene Socrates. Uit het Engelsch vertaald door
A.G. & R.G. (some volumes by P. le Clercq) t'Amsterdam, by Dirk
Sligtenhorst, Boekverkooper, 1743, ix. vol. 12º."

JANUS DOUSA.

_Long Meg of Westminster_ (Vol. ii., p. 131.).--The same epithet has been
applied to women in other places. In the parish Register of Tiverton,
Devon, is the following entry:

"Burials. April, 1596. The long Jone seruant to Mr. Demant's. iii.
day."

Why should "long Meg" be more fabulous than "long Jone?"

E.A.D.

_Errors in the Date of Printed Books._--In the title-page of Peter Heylin's
_Microcosmos_, 8th ed., the date is printed 1939 instead of 1639. In like
manner, in _Historical Applications and occasional Meditations upon several
Subjects, written by a Person of Honour_, printed in 1670, the imprimatur,
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