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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 117. 



titled The Scoundrel's Dictionary ; or, an Explanation 

 of the Cant Words used by Thieves, Housebreakers, 

 Street Robbers, and Pickpockets. To which are pre- 

 fixed some Curious Dissertations on the Art of Wheed- 

 ling ; and a Collection of Flash Songs, with a proper 

 Glossary, 8vo., London, 1754.] 



Muggleton and Reeve. — I wish to obtain some 

 accurate information as to John Reeve and E,o- 

 dowick Muggleton, the founders of the sect called 

 Muggletonians, which appears to have been in 

 existence up to the end of the last century. ^ Mr. 

 Macaulay calls Muggleton " a drunken tailor," 

 butjigives no reference. The article " Muggle- 

 tonians" in the Encyclopcedia Britannica is ex- 

 tremely meagre, both in matter and length. Is 

 there any authentic portrait of Reeve or Muggle- 

 ton? Any information on these points, or in- 

 dication as to where it may be found, will greatly 

 oblige R- S. 



Highgate. 



[Our correspondent will find the Information he re- 

 quires in the following works : " The New Witnesses 

 proved Old Hereticks," by William Penn, 4to. 1672. 

 " A True Representation of the Absurd and Mis- 

 chievous Principles of the Sect commonly known by 

 the name of Muggletonians," 4to. 1694. Muggleton's 

 Works, with his portrait, 1 756. " A Complete Collec- 

 tion of the Works of Reeve and Muggleton, together 

 Avith other Muggletonian Tracts," .S vols. 4to. 1832. 

 See also Leslie's Snake in the Grass ; Collier's His- 

 torical Dictionary, Supplement; and Gentleman's Mag., 

 vol. Ixii. pt. i. p. 218.] 



Rev. T. Adams. — Can any particulars be noted 

 of the Rev. Thomas Adams, a preacher at Paul's 

 Cross in 1612, besides those mentioned by the 

 editor of a Selection from his Sermons, published 

 in 1847— the Rev. W. H. Stowell. His works 

 were printed in 1630 in a thick folio volume, but 

 some of them had previously appeared in small 

 4to., one such is in the British Museum, and 

 another I recollect seeing at a bookseller's. I 

 should much like to have a list and some account 

 of these 4to. editions. S. Ft. 



[Thomas Adams, D. D., was minister at Willington, 

 in Bedfordshire, and afterwards rector of St. Bennet's, 

 Paul's Wharf. According to Newcourt (Repertorium, 

 i. 302.), " he was sequestered for his loyalty in the 

 late rebellion, and was esteemed an excellent preacher ; 

 but died before the Restoration." The following Ser- 

 mons by him were all published in 4to. : those dis- 

 tinguished by an asterisk are in the British Museum, 

 the others in the Bodleian. 1. The Gallant's Burden; 

 a Sermon on Isa. xxi. 11, 12., 1612. 2. Heaven and 

 Earth Reconciled : on Dan. xii. 3., preached at Bedford 

 at the Visitation of M. Eland, Archdeacon, 1613. 

 *3. The Diuell's Banquet, described in Six Sermons, 

 1614. 4. England's Sickness comparatively conferred 

 with Israel's; in Two Sermons on Jer. viii. 22., 1615. 

 5. The Two Sonnes; or the Dissolute conferred with the 

 Hypocrite; on Matt. xxi. 28., 1615. 6. The Leaven, 



or a Direction to Heaven, on Matt. xiil. 33. p. 97. ibid. 

 '•'7. The Spiritual Navigator bound for the Holy Land, 

 preached at Cripplegate on Trinity Sunday, 1615. 

 8. The Sacrifice of Thankfulness, on Ps. cxviii. 27., 

 whereunto are annexed five other Sermons never before 

 printed, 1616. 9. Diseases of the Sovle : a Discourse 

 Divine, Morall, and Physicall, 1616. *10. The Hap- 

 piness of the Church : being the Summe of Diverse 

 Sermons preached at St. Gregorie's, 1618.] 



TTie Archbishop of Spalatro (Vol. iv., pp.257. 

 295.). — Who were the English bishops, at whose 

 consecration Antonius de Dominis assisted in 

 Lambeth Chapel ? Agbippa. 



[On December 14, 1617, Mark Spalatro assisted as 

 a prelate at the consecration of Nicholas Felton, Bishop 

 of Bristol, and George Monteigne, Bishop of Lincoln. 

 See a list of the consecrations from the Lambeth Re- 

 gisters in Perceval's Apology for the Doctrine of Apo- 

 stolical Succession, Appendix, p. 183.] 



Bishop Bridgeman. — Will you direct me to the 

 best means of obtaining answers to the following 

 questions : — 



John Bridgeman, fellow and tutor of Magdalen 

 Coll. Camb., was admitted ad eundem at Oxford, 

 July 4, 1600 ; and consecrated Bishop of Chester, 

 May, 1619. The points of inquiry are — 



\. When was the said John Bridgeman entered 

 at Cambridge ? 



2. When and where was he born ? 



3. Who and what were his parents ? 



C. J. Clay, B. A. (Trin. Coll. Camb.) 



[Leycester, in his Cheshire, says, " Bishop Bridgeman 

 was the son of Thomas Bridgeman of Greenway in 

 Devonshire," but other authorities make him a native of 

 Exeter. Prince ( Worthies of Devon, p. 99.) says, " He 

 was born in the city of Exeter, not far from the palace- 

 gate there, of honest and gentile parentage. His 

 fkther was Edmund Bridgeman, sometime high-sheriiF 

 of that city and county, a. d. 1578. Who his mother 

 was I do not find." In Wood's Fasti, vol. i. p. 286. 

 Mr. Bliss has the following note : " John Bridgman, 

 natus erat Exoni». Vid. Izaak's Antiq. of Exeter, 

 p. 156, S. T. P. Cant. Coll. Magd. an. 1612. Vid. 

 Prynne's Antipathy, p. 290., and Worthies of Devon, 

 Baker." Ormorod {Hist, of Cheshire, i. 79.) says, 

 " He was the compiler of a valuable work relating to 

 the ecclesiastical history of the diocese, now deposited 

 in the episcopal registry, and usually denominated 

 Bishop Bridgeman's Leger." For other particulars 

 respecting him, consult Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, 

 Part 11. p. 10. ; Ackermann's Cambridge, vol. ii. p. 160.; 

 Prynne's New Discovery of the Prelate's Tyranny. 

 pp.'91. 108. 218. ; and Cole's MSS. vol. xxvii. p. 218.] 



Rouse, the Scottish Psalmist. — Can any of your 

 readers favour me with some particulars of the life 

 of Rouse, the author of the Scottish metrical version 

 of the Psalms ? His name does not appear in any of 

 the biographical dictionaries I have had an oppor- 

 tunity of consulting. From some historical scraps 

 this version had come into the hands of the West- 



