NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY RECORDS.
The County Records Committee of the Nottinghamshire County Council, under the Duke of Portland's chairmanship, have been active in the examination and rearrangement of the
County Records, which date back to the beginning of the reign of James I. They have now published a volume of Notes and Extracts from the Nottinghamshire County Records
of the 1714 Century, edited by Mr. H. Hampton Copnall (Nottingham : Henry B. Saxton, 6s. net), which contains much that will interest the local historian. The general reader, too, will be pleased by many curiosities among the extracts from the Quarter Sessions Records, as, for instance :—
" On 14th April, 1034, a warrant was issued against a laborer of Radford for abusing Oorvuse Tovery Esgre a Justice of the Peace with his scandalous words ,viz : He vas sometimes a Justice of Peace, and sometimes a Just Iwo.'"
We may also mention a remarkable list of the classes of people who were defined in 1G55 as rogues and vagabonds.
Among them were :— "All persons calling themselves &hollers going about begging; . . all idle persons useing any subtill craft or unlawfull games or feigning themselves to have knowledge in Physiognomy, Palmaistry or other like Crafty Science Or pretending that they can tell destinys fortunes or such other Phantasticall Imagina- tions ; . . . all fencers boarwards comon players of Interludes and Minstralle wandring abroad; all Jugglers Tinkers Pedlers and potty chap:nen wandring abroad ; . . . all persons pretending themselves to be Egiptiants or wandring in ye habit form or atty re of counterfeit Egiptians ; All such persons are adjudged Rogues."
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