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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2na s. No 74., May 30. '67. 



tioned it to hie, told me that the only copy he had 

 ever seen was a German reprint of it. 



How uncertain is the fate of periodicals ! How 

 difficult to meet with are copies of the older ones ! 

 Here is a magazine which was thought worthy of 

 being reprinted in Germany ; and yet one of our 

 best English bibliographers and most intelligent 

 and extensive dealers In old books, declares that his 

 only knowledge of it was gathered from such Ger- 

 man reprint. William J. Thoms. 



Whitgift's Answer to Cartwright. — It is gene- 

 rally asserted that Abp. Whitgift disclaimed for 

 Episcopacy any claim to a divine authority ; but 

 Sir Francis KnoUys writing on this subject to the 

 Lord Treasurer (1592), says : — 



" If this were true, then it were requisite and necessary 

 that the Lord Abp. of Canterbury should recant his saj-^- 

 ing in his book of the great volume against Cartwright, 

 where he said in plain words, by the name of D' Whit- 

 gift, that ' the superiority of Bishops was by God's own 

 institution.' " 



Can any of your contributors — an easier reader 

 of "black letter" — give me a precise reference to 

 the passage "of the great volume" alluded to by 

 Mr. Treasurer ? M. W. J. A. 



Sliakspeare's Sonnets, Sec. — May I trouble you 

 with a question which I asked about two months 

 since, but which I dare say in the mass of your 

 correspondence has been accidentally overlooked ? 

 To whom is the sonnet commencing, 



" If music and sweet poetry agree," 



ascribed ? as I see it is omitted in all the recent 

 editions of The Passionate Pilgrim, although M. 

 Francois Hugo gives it a place in his late volume 

 of Shakspeare' s Sonnets. 



Can you also inform me how many editions of 

 Shakspeare' s Sonnets were originally published, 

 with their respective booksellers' names ? 



Ignoto. 



" Every-Day Characters^ — Who is the author 

 of Every-Day Characters, a Satirical Comedy, in 

 five acts, 8vo., 1805-6 ? X. 



Outhreak at Boston in 1770. — Can any of your 

 correspondents in England or America explain 

 the allusions in the following extract from a letter 

 written on August 29, 1770? The sinking of the 

 tea in Boston Harbour did not take place till 

 more than three years after this. 



" For a protection almost miraculous, afforded to our 

 dear Connections at Boston in hour of the greatest dan- 

 ger, we have great reason to pay the most grateful ac- 

 knowledgments. How are poor Capt. Preston's friends ? 

 How my heart bleeds for them ! But I hope yet he will 

 be delivered frojn the Hands of his merciless Enemies. M' 

 H[ulton] and family, your dear Brother, with the rest of 

 the Government's Servants, were all got safe to Castle 

 William, on the Island which was their Asylum before, on 

 the 1" July last, and were well ; but I should not think 

 them safe anywhere, but for a trust in that power and 



goodness which has defended them from the attempts of 

 those that came with a design to destroy them." 



Henry Hulton, Esq., Commissioner of Customs 

 in New England, was nephew to the writer of the 

 letter ; and her son held a subordinate situation in 

 his department. The sources of her information 

 were, therefore, of the best description. Mr. 

 Hulton had married a Miss Preston ; and the 

 Capt. Preston who is mentioned was probably a 

 relative of hers. It appears from the letter that 

 the party had taken refuge on the Castle Island 

 on a former occasion as well as on this. 



E. H. D. D. 



Emblem of the Lamb and Cross. — I see in a 

 recent Number of " N. & Q." reference to a work 

 on the subject of the emblems of saints. It reminds 

 me of a singular circumstance which I noticed 

 when in Egypt last winter. I was very much 

 surprised to see sculptured on one of the old 

 temples (I think at Thebes) the emblem of St. 

 John, viz. a lamb bearing a cross. Query, Did 

 the Christians borrow it from the Egyptians ? 

 The Christian cross was very common, and is to 

 be found on many of the temples ; I believe it 

 was the emblem of life. All these temples date 

 many centuries before the Christian era. R. G. 



Glasgow. 



Prideaux, Bishop of Worcester. — In my re- 

 searches respecting the bishops of the Church of 

 England who were natives of Devonshire and 

 Cornwall, I find it stated in Prince's Worthies of 

 Devon that John Prideaux, Bishop of Worcester, 

 married for his first wife the daughter of Dr. 

 Taylor, the martyr of Queen Mary's days. Should 

 it not be granddaughter ? I should also be glad 

 of further information respecting his parents than 

 that given in Prince ; also if there are any de- 

 scendants of his daughters now living, as they 

 both married, but whether they had any children 

 I have been unable to learn. 



Were either of his sons married and had chil- 

 dren ? An Ecclbsiastic. 



* Templar Lands. — Some time ago I saw an 

 auctioneer's advertisement offering for sale a pro- 

 perty near Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, one of the 

 recommendations of which he stated to be, that 

 " the lands being what are termed Templar lands 

 have the peculiar advantages of being tithe-free 

 when occupied by a resident owner." 



It is not uncommon that lands should be tithe- 

 free, and I can readily conceive that the lands of 

 the Templars should enjoy that exemption ; but I 

 cannot understand why it should be limited to an 

 occupier who is also the resident owner. This 

 surely is not the ordinary condition of tithe-free 

 estates. I would therefore ask your correspond- 

 ents, conversant in such matters, first, whether 

 the Templar lands are generally held under that 



