bour give
To as much beauty as could live.

J. H. M.

Bath.

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Minor Queries.

_The Vellum-bound Junius._--Mr. Cramp, in his late publication, _Junius and
his Works_, conjectures that the printer having bound a copy of _Junius_
for and under the direction of the writer of the letters, followed the
pattern in the binding of other copies; and this, he says, "will account
for similar copies having been found in the libraries of so many persons,
which from time to time has occasioned so much speculation." With Mr.
Cramp's conjecture I do not concern myself; but I should be much obliged if
he would inform me, through your Journal, in what libraries, and where,
these many vellum-bound copies have been found, and where I can find the
speculations to which they have given rise.

V. B.

_The Vellum-bound Junius._--Some years ago, on reading the private letters
of Junius, addressed to H. S. Woodfall, and printed by G. Woodfall, 1812, I
was particularly struck by those of No. 58. and 59., wherein he states a
desire to have one set of his letters (which were published 3d March, 1772,
by Woodfall) _bound in vellum_.

Constantly bearing in mind the fact of the vellum copy, I invariably
examined all the book {263} catalogues that came in my way for it. At last
the long-wished-for object appeared in the Stowe sale, and I immediately
gave my agent instruction to purchase the book for me, and he might offer
as much as 10l.: he bid 8l., and then it was intimated that it was no use
to go on; that fifty guineas would not purchase it, or any other sum.

Query, Has this volume been in any other sale? if not, it certainly
connects the Buckingham family with Junius, though it does not prove the
author.

W. D. HAGGARD.

[The Stowe copy of Junius, it appears, was bought by Mr. Rodd for 9l.,
no doubt upon commission.]

_What is a "Tye?"_--In Essex, many parishes have a place called "the tye,"
which I believe is always an out-lying place where three roads meet. In an
old map I have seen one place now called "Tye" written "Dei." Is it where a
cross once stood, and Tye a corruption of Dei? Forby, in his _East Anglian
Vocabulary_, mentions it, but cannot make it out.

A. HOLT WHITE.

_"Marriage is such a Rabble Rout."_--In D'Israeli's _Curiosities of
Literature_, Moxon's edition, in 1 vol. p. 118., or ed. edited by his son,
vol. i. p. 363., under the head "A Literary Wife," are