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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. VII. Jan. 1. '59. 



is not even alluded to by most historical writers 

 of that time. 



With respect to his descent, Carleton says, 

 " An old soldier I may truly call myself, and my 

 family allows me the title of a gentleman." In 

 the preface to Sir Walter Scott's edition of the 

 Memoirs, the author is stated to have been " born 

 at Ewelme in Oxfordshire, descended from a 

 noble and honourable family." The registers 

 both of that parish and of the neighbouring one 

 of Swincombe were searched, at my request, by 

 my late friend Dr. Bliss, but without success. 

 Dr. Bliss communicated to me the following 

 notes, which may direct searches in other quar- 

 ters, and assist in ascertaining the paternity of 

 Carleton. The registry of Brightwell, where 

 Carleton may have been baptized, will be exa- 

 mined : — 



" From some MS. church notes of Baldwin Brightwell, 

 CO. Oxon. in Bodley. 



" Here resteth the Bodies of John Carleton, Esq., and 

 Joyce his wife, which John was the first of the irame, 

 owner and lord of this towne, and came from Walton 

 upon Thames in the countie of Surre. They had issue v 

 Sonnes, as Anthony, George, William, John. John died 

 unmarried at Bolonia de Gracia in Itali, and Edward ; 

 Daughters iiii Anne married to Rowland Lj'tton ; Kathe- 

 rine to Fraunces Blunte Esq'"'' brother to Lord Monfjoy. 

 Mabell, and Jane married to Erasmus Gainsford, Esq. 



" Among Dr. Rawlinson's MSS. in the Bodleian is a 

 life of Mrs. Mary Carleton by Samuel Crisp. The afore- 

 said Mary was daughter of Dr. Crisp and Mary Wilson. 

 In 1647 she married Mr. John Carleton, a merchant ad- 

 venturer, with whom she lived upwards of 23 j'ears, 

 bearing to him 17 children. She died Jan. 29, 1670." 



The Catalogue of De Foe's writings given by 

 Mr. Walter Wilson, though not regarded by him 

 as complete, contains not less than 210 different 

 works. We leave to De Foe, what he justly 

 merits, undying fame — the undisputed authorship 

 of perhaps the most popular book in our language ; 

 and we claim Ar the gallant officer the rightful 

 ownership of the faithful narrative of his profes- 

 sional life of which he has been too often de- 

 prived. J. H. Markland. 



Your correspondent ;8 has not carried his re- 

 searches on the subject of the Carletons quite far 

 enough. Allow me to suggest to him that if he 

 could refer to the Biographical Dictionaries of 

 Chalmers, Gorton, or Watkins, he would learn 

 something more about Sir Dudley Carleton. )8's 

 Will-o'th'Wisp has dazzled, if not blinded him, 

 but you ought not to allow him to strike out of 

 English history so prominent a Secretary of State 

 as Viscount Dorchester. C. 



TYNDAIiE S FIRST OCTAVO TESTAMENT. 



(2"'i S. vi. 175. 50^.) 

 Having justly complained of the inaccuracies 

 in Mr. Anderson's Ajmals of the Bible, Mr. 



GoTCH, as if two wrongs could make a right, finds 

 fault with Mr. Bagster's edition of Tyndale's New 

 Testament ; and finds it " by no means a pleasant 

 task," because " the reprint of this unique volume 

 was edited by Mr. Offor himself in 1 836," and 

 " that it abounds in inaccuracies." His assertion 

 that I edited the reprint is incorrect. 'Shis unique 

 volume was entirely reprinted when I first saw 

 it. Mr. Bagster requested me to write a short 

 memoir of the translator to prefix to the book, 

 which I did con amore, and for that alone I am 

 answerable. The first three paragraphs of the 

 Advertisement were written by me, the last two 

 by Mr. Bagster ; and it being a mixed produc- 

 tion, it was not signed. Had Mr. B. added a 

 note stating that, to render the volume more 

 generally useful, all evident misprints were cor- 

 rected ; that all words contracted were reprinted 

 at full length, and that capitals were used in 

 surnames, no fault could have been found with 

 it. Mr. Bagster states on the title-page that it is 

 " reprinted verbatim," and he appears to have 

 been fully justified in that statement. Had he 

 put into my hands the text to edit, it should 

 have been as accurate a facsimile as the art of 

 printing could have produced, and as an anti- 

 quary, but not a general reader, could have de- 

 sired. 



With regard to the almost incredible number 

 of 261 errors in Mr. Anderson's attempt to re- 

 print literally forty-six lines from Tyndale and 

 Coverdale, Mr. Gotch does not deny the fact, 

 but says, " that Mr. Anderson's inaccuracies relate 

 principally to the spelling of words, and do not 

 affect his argument." Surely Mr. Gotch cannot 

 have examined these extracts. The argument is 

 to prove the superiority of Tyndale over Cover- 

 dale as a translator of Holy Writ. In doing 

 this Mr. Anderson alters Coverdale's version by 

 changing forty-eight words into Italics ; but not 

 one is so changed in Tyndale. He omits three 

 words in Tyndale and three also in Coverdale. 

 He changes four words in Tyndale, one being 

 from " stond " to " continue," as if to create a 

 difference where none existed. These are not 

 merely inaccuracies in spelling, but serious alter- 

 ations. They are sins of omission and of com- 

 mission. 



It is a singular coincidence that Bishop Tun- 

 stall charged Tyndale with about the same num- 

 ber of heresies in his first edition of the New 

 Testament as Mr. Gotch charges the editor of 

 the first reprint with errata. Tyndale replied, 

 that if an i lacked a little over his head it was 

 counted for an heresy. And Mr. Bagster might 

 complain that surely the correction of typo- 

 graphical errors should not be counted as errata. 

 You instance fol. cxxi. as containing five errors ; 

 these are, that " laye " is correctly spelt " lawe," 

 " ofte," " often," " tho " corrected to " the," and . 



