sufficient dose for inward disorders."

For the ointment he gives the following receipt:

"Bruise the _flowers_; and to two handfuls of these, add a pound of
hog's grease dried. Put it in a stone pot, covered with paper, and set
it in the sun or a warm place three or four days to melt. Take it out
and boil it a little; strain it out when hot; pressing it out very hard
in a press. To this grease add as many herbs as before, and repeat the
whole process, if you wish the ointment strong.--Yet this I tell you,
the fuller of juice the herbs are, the sooner will your ointment be
strong; the last time you boil it, boil it so long till your herbs be
crisp, and the juice consumed; then strain it, pressing it hard in a
press; and to every pound of ointment, add two ounces of turpentine,
and as much wax."

CERIDWEN.

_Coninger or Coningry, Coneygar or Conygre_ (Vol. vii., pp. 182. 241.
368.).--There are many fields in the midland counties which bear the name
of _conigree_. In some instances they are in the vicinity of manor-houses.
The British name of a rabbit is _cwningen_, plural _cwning_. That of a
rabbit warren is _cwning-gaer_, that is, literally, rabbits' camp. The term
_coneygar_ is so like this, that it may be supposed to have been derived
from it.

N. W. S. (2)

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

It would be difficult to find a book better calculated to prove the good
service which the Camden Society is rendering to historical literature,
than the one which has just been circulated among its members. The work,
which is entitled _Letters and Papers of the Verney Family down to the end
of the year 1639. Printed from the original MSS. in the possession of Sir
Harry Verney, Bart., edited by_ John Bruce, Esq., Treas. S. A., is of
direct historical value, although at the first glance it would seem rather
to illustrate the fortunes of the Verneys than the history of the country.
For, as the editor well observes--

"The most valuable materials, even for general history, are to be found
among the records of private and personal experience. More true
knowledge of the spirit of an age, more real acquaintance with the
feelings and actual circumstances of a people, may be gleaned from a
delineation of the affairs of a single family, than from studied
historical composition. The one is the expression of cotem