Rugby.

"Si quis errantem
Videat libellum
Reddat, aut collo
Dabitur capistrum
Carnufex ejus
Tunicas habebit
Terra cadaver."

"Small is the wren,
Black is the rook,
Great is the sinner
That steals this book."

W. W.

As your correspondent BALLIOLENSIS inquires regarding inscriptions in
books, perhaps the following may add to his proposed collection, being an
old ditty much in use among schoolboys, &c.:

"Hic liber est meus,
And that I will show;
Si aliquis capit,
I'll give him a blow."

N. N.

_Lines quoted by Charles Lamb_ (Vol. vii., p. 286.).--The author of the
lines quoted--

"Bind me, ye woodbines, in your twines;
Curl me about, ye gadding vines," &c.--

is Andrew Marvell. They are taken from his fine poem on Nun-Appleton, Lord
Fairfax's seat in Yorkshire; and will be found in vol. iii. p. 198. of
Marvell's _Works_, edit. 1776, 4to.

JAS. CROSSLEY.

_Parochial Libraries_ (Vol. vi., p. 432.; Vol. vii., pp. 193. 369.).--Upon
visiting Cartmel in Lancashire ten years ago, I found a library in the
vestry, and in my diary made the following entry:

"There is a small library in the vestry, of a very miscellaneous
description, left by a former incumbent, two hundred years ago, to the
vicar for the time being, to be kept in the vestry. There is a fine
copy, in small quarto, of Spenser's _Faery Queene_ in the collection,
of the date 1560."

How I ascertained the date of the gift, or whether there were any other
particulars worth recording, I do not remember. Since taking "N. & Q." I
have learnt the benefit, I might say the necessity, of being more
particular.

BRICK.

To your list of parochial libraries may be added one in Swaffham Church,
Norfolk, bequeathed to the parish by one of the Spelman family. It contains
several hundred volumes, and among them some of the Elzevir classics. About
seven years ago I visited Swaffham, and found this collection of books in a
most disgraceful state, covered with dust and the dung of mice and bats,
and many of the books torn from their bindings. It would afford me great
pleasure to hear that more care is taken of such a valuable collection of
books. There is also a smaller library, in somewhat better preservation, in
the vestry of St. Peter's, Mancroft Church, in the city of Norwich.

E. G. R.

There are parochial libraries at Milden, Brent Eleigh, and at All Saints,
Sudbury, Suffolk. See Rev. C. Badham's _H