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account of that library, which is given in Mr. Bot- 

 field's Notes on the Cathedral Librarien of Eng- 

 land, 1849, 8vo., p. 315., this is termed " u very 

 curious volume," and a copy is given of a MS. in- 

 scription made in it : but, among several minor 

 discropancies, that copy contains one error which 

 is of importance, as it misrepresents the name of 

 Tyndale's father. The following transcript is 

 more exact : 



" Orate charitatiue pro aia JolJis tj'ndall qui dedit hue 

 libru couentui de grenwycti frni minora de obsuancia 

 \_to which is added, by a second hand'] die pfessionis sui 

 filii ffis Wiliini Anno diii 1501." 



AVilliam Tyndale was born at Hunt's Court, 

 Nibley, Gloucestershire, the third son of John 

 Tyndale, alias Hytchins, of that place, about the 

 year 1477- In the memoir of him, by Mr. Geo. 

 Offor, prefixed to Bagster's edition (1836) of 

 Tyndale's New Testament of 1526, it is related 

 that — 



" The ordination of William Tyndale took place at the 

 conventual church of the priory of St. Bartholomew in 

 Smithfield, on the eleventh day of March, 1502, by 

 Thomas, Suffragan Bishop of Pavaden, by aathorit3' of 

 William Warham, Bishop of London; and [he] was or- 

 dained priest to the nunnery of Lambley, in the diocese 

 of Carlisle. He took the vows, and became a friar in the 

 monastery at Greenwich in 1508. We are indebted to 

 the Rev. K. H. Barham, of St. Paul's, for the discovery 

 of a memorandum in Latin, peculiarly interesting in 

 tracing the history of Tyndale. It is on the title-page of 

 the Sermones de Herolt, a small folio, printed in the year 

 1495, in the cathedral library : ' Charitably pray for the 

 soul of John Tyndale, who gave this book to the monas- 

 tery of Greenwich of the observance of the minor brothers, 

 on the day that brother William, his son, made his pro- 

 fession, in the year 1508.' " 



Mr. Offbr found a confirmation of the identity 

 of this William Tyndale with the Reformer in a 

 passage of his preface to the Parable of the Wicked 

 Mammon, 1528, in which he mentions " one Je- 

 rome, a brother of Oreenwich also." But " the 

 monastery of Greenwich of the observance of the 

 minor brothers" isa very unintelligible translation 

 of the true designation of the convent at Green- 

 wich; which was one of the few houses in England 

 of Friars minors, or Franciscans, of the stricter or 

 reformed rule, called de Observantia, or Recollects. 



J. G. N. 



Mlnax ^atti. 



Boohs Burnt. — Poor Tom Durfey ! who would 

 have expected to have seen his witty works en- 

 shrined in the martyrology of books, — a punishment 

 no doubt owing to his attachment to the Tory in- 

 terest. It appears that the members of the re- 

 nowned Kit-Cat Club requested their founder to 

 bake some mutton-pies with Durfey's Woi-ks under 

 them. On one occasion the club complained that 

 the pies were never baked enough, when Christo- 

 pher Kat, the pastrycook, swore that Durfey's 



Works were so cold that the dough could not bake 

 for them. J. Y. 



Spare Moments : a Hint to Husbands. — As all 

 bonnets take, It Is admitted, _/?i5e minutes to put on, 

 and as in practice It is found that most of them 

 require considerably more than that time, " hus- 

 bands in waiting" will do well to follow the ex- 

 ample of the Chancellor D'Aguesseau, who, finding 

 that his wife always kept him waiting a quarter of 

 an hour after the dinner bell had rung, resolved 

 to devote the time to writing a book on jurispru- 

 dence, and putting the project in execution, in 

 course of time produced a work in four quarto 

 volumes. R. W. Hackwood. 



A Cure for Sea-sichness. — A French passenger 

 once crossing the Channel from Boulogne, having 

 been surprised midway by certain premonitory 

 sensations, which it may be well not to depict too 

 vividly in your pages, was heard to pour forth, 

 'midst a torrent of ejaculations, the unavailing 

 lament that, as " ' Britannia ruled the waves,' she 

 had'nt rtded them this time a little straighter!" 

 which reminds me of a very simple remedy for 

 sea-sickness announced some days since by The 

 Press newspaper as the discovery of a Dr. Lan- 

 derer, a medical man at Athens. Those of your 

 readers who may have the misfortune to be 

 troubled with rebellious stomachs might be in- 

 clined, when seized with the revolutionary sym- 

 ptoms, to adopt the antidote prescribed in the 

 following paragraph ; — 



" His remedy is to give from ten to twelve drops of 

 chloroform in water. The chloroform in most cases re- 

 moves nausea, and persons who have taken the remedy 

 soon become able to stand up, and get accustomed to the 

 movement of the vessel. Should the sickness return, a 

 fresh dose is to be taken. It was tried on twenty pas- 

 sengers on a ver}' rough voyage from Zea to Athens, and 

 all, with the exception of two, were cured by one dose. 

 The minority, two ladies, were able to resist the feeling 

 of illness on taking a second dose." 



I do not know if recipes are admissible in your 

 columns ; but. If prescription carries with it any 

 right, the above may be allowed to claim inser- 

 tion in " N. & Q." F. Phillott. 



Vr. Watts and Nash's " Pierce Pennilesse.'" — ■ 

 Few of your readers will have forgotten the lines 

 in The Sluggard, — 



" So he on big bed 



Turns his sides, and his shoulders, and his heavy head. 

 ' A little more sleep and a little more slumber.' " 



I am almost tempted to think that Dr. Watts, 

 when he penned these lines, had the following 

 passage from Pierce Pennilesse running in his 

 mind : 



"The third is swine, drunk, heavy, lumpish, and 

 sleepy, and cries for a little more drink and a few more 

 clothes." 



Henry T. RiLBr. 



