2n<iS. VII. June 11. '59.1 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



483 



Price of Bible 1625 {and in 1648) (2"'» S. vii. 

 373.) — A Bible passed through my hands many 

 years ago for a literary purpose, which once be- 

 longed to the celebrated " Paraphrast " Mr. 

 Zachary Boyd, minister of the barony parish of 

 Glasgow from 1623 till his death in 1653— a 4to. 

 vol. : — 



" London, printed by John Field, 1648, with a briefe 

 Concordance or Table to the Bible of the Last Transla- 

 tion carefullie perused and enlarged by Mr. John Dow- 

 name, B. in Divinilie, London printed by the Assignees 

 of Clement Cotton." 



The edition will no doubt be familiar to Mr. 

 Offok. 



At the time Mr. Boyd made the purchase of 

 this Bible he has recorded on the title-page 

 " emptus 8 lib," and some Greek, the translation 

 of which is, " God is the beginning and end of 

 all " — " M. Zacharias Bodius " — and has besides 

 liberally interspersed the text with his MS. notes 

 and illustrations. The price therefore of this 

 Bible, in 1648, at 8 lib Scots money, equivalent to 

 13*. 4(/. Eyiglish, and that of Norton and Bill, 

 1625, paid for by "Robert Wantlopp" at 12s. 

 comes pretty close. 



Shortly before Mr. Boyd died he gifted this 

 Bible to his wife, according to his handwriting 

 on the fly-leaf, in the following terms : — 



" I have given this Bible to my Loving Spouse Mar- 

 garet Mure — M. Zachary Boyd" — 



which she acknowledges and confirms below by 

 her own subscription, 



" Margarata Mure * Oweth this Book, 1 with my hand 

 at the penne " — 



the " oweth " here being the same word as the 

 " oue" queried by Mr. Offor, and which appears 

 to have been then used for " owneth " in the 

 sense of possession, as well as the Scottish em- 

 phatic " aught " or " aucht," often about that 

 period- occurring, one example of which I may 

 quote in an inscription on the fly-leaf of Robert 

 Record's Arithmetic, London, 1673, r2mo. : 

 "John Kairns Aught this Book 



God give me grace y"'on to look 



And mak thou me to understane 



All things contained in the same 

 ■ ' And y' 1 may thee glorifie 



For all thy goodnes unto me. 

 " Written with mv hand at hous of hill the 31st day 

 of July, 1696.— Jo. Kaikns." 



The foregoing may be interesting to Mr. Offor, 

 to whom the readers of " N. & Q." are sometimes 

 so much obliged for his original and valuable 



* She was one of six daughters of the Laird of Glan- 

 derstone, in Renfrewshire, all of whom were married, and 

 some of them to distinguished men. She afterwards be- 

 came the wife of the Kev. Mr. James Durham, an emi- 

 nent minister of the High Church of Glasgow. (See 

 Selections from the Family Papers preserved at Cald- 

 well, Part I. p. 25., Glasgow, 1854. Presented to the 

 Maitland Club by William Mure of Caldwell.) 



researches on points relating to editions of the 

 Sacred Scriptures. G. N. 



Scotch Paraphrases : Michael Bruce (2"'' S. vii. 

 358.) — A list of the authors of the paraphrases 

 used in the public worship of the Church of Scot- 

 land, appeared in the Edinburgh Christian In- 

 structor for the year 1827. The list of authors 

 produced in pp. 422—3. of " N. & Q." is the same 

 with a few unimportant exceptions. From the 

 terms in which Senex in his Query writes of the 

 "eccentric John Logan and the unfortunate 

 Michael Bruce," I conclude that he has not seen 

 the volume entitled Lochleven and other Poems by 

 Michael Bruce, with a Life of the Author from 

 Original Sources, by the Rev. William Mackelvie, 

 Balgedie, Kinross-shire. To this volume I beg 

 to refer Senex. I rose from its perusal many 

 years ago fully convinced that " Logan " should 

 give place to " Bruce " in the catalogue of authors 

 of the paraphrases of the church of Scotland. 

 The volume 1 have mentioned was published at 

 Edinburgh, 1837. 



In the Edinburgh Christian Instructor for 1827 

 there is a short account given of the Rev. Dr. 

 Morrison, one of the authors. The Rev. Mr. 

 Brodie, Free Church minister of Monimail, Fife- 

 shire, was appointed some thirty years ago assis- 

 tant to his grandfather, the late Dr. Martin, the 

 author of the Twelve Paraphrases, and could con- 

 sequently be prepared to afford information to 

 Senex on the subject of his Query. 



John Husband. 



Berwick. 



Coins in Foundations (2'"' S. vii. 297.) — May 

 not this custom have descended to our day, fil- 

 tered through increasing civilisation and a purer 

 religion, from the ancient practice of burying hu- 

 man beings alive under city walls and gateways ? 

 The subject having been apparently at i:est I de- 

 stroyed the notes I made on it a few years since, 

 and I can now recal only that Gibbon gives an 

 instance, with respect (I think) to Adrianople ; 

 and that Jewish legends aflirm that the Hebrews 

 were compelled to build their children into the 

 Egyptian walls. I had other instances of it in 

 Asia. Pallas mentions one, but I cannot refer to 

 it. F. C. B. 



Dowle (2"<i S. vii. 336.) — 



" . . . .As diminish 

 One dowle that's in my plume." 



Tempest, Act HI. Sc. 3. 

 In Gloucestershire the plumage of young gos- 

 lings before they have feathers is called dowle. 

 I believe that any plumage that I should call 

 down they would call dowle, and that that part of 

 an ostrich feather which is farthest from the tip 

 and nearest to the quill, they would say was the 

 dowle. F. A. Carrington. 



Ogbourne St. George, Wilts. 



