During this interval many burials are marked paupers.
Waldegrave Brewster.
Hawarden, Flints.
Clergy sold for Slaves (Vol. ii., p. 41.).—Walker says:
"Mr. Dugdale, in relating the same matter, adds that Rigby not only exposed them to sale, but found purchasers also; and what is more, had actually contracted with two merchants for them; and for that reason moved it twice (in the House, as I understand him) that they might be disposed of."
Waldegrave Brewster.
Miscellaneous.
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
When a work of such general reference as a Peerage, which is wanted upon every library table, and in every club and reading-room "where men do congregate;" which is, at the same time, from its nature, open to the criticism of hundreds of critics,—when a work of this nature and of such extent as Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire bears on its title-page the brief but expressive words "Thirteenth Edition," it has obviously long outlived the time when any question can exist as to its merits. These have long been recognised by those best able to appreciate them, namely, the noble personages to whose history, and the history of whose descent and collateral branches, it is especially devoted; and whose personal communications have served to procure for the present work the merit by which it seeks to distinguish itself from all similar productions, namely, by its greater fullness of detail and its extreme accuracy.