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."
_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.
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.
_Painter--Derrick_ (Vol. vii., pp. 178. 391.).--I cannot agree with J. S. C. that _painter_ is a corruption of _punter_, from the Saxon _punt_, a boat. { 508} According to the construction and analogy of our language, a _punter_ or _boater_ would be the person who worked or managed the boat. I consider that _painter_--like _halter_ and _tether_, derived from Gothic words signifying to _hold_ and to _tie_--is a corruption of _bynder_, from the Saxon _bynd_, to bind. If the Anglo-Norman word _panter_, a snare for catching and holding birds, be a corruption of _bynder_, we are brought to the word at once. Or, indeed, we may go no farther back than _panter_.