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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 120. 



Trappett's crosse at the Hawelanesende, and sett vp at 

 Short Groves end, where the gospell is sayd vpon Ascen- 

 sion Even, for ye^ch j assigne xs." — Bury Wills, p. 118. 



BURIENSIS. 



; THE PENDULUM BEMONSTEATION. 



(Vol. v., p. 84.) 

 , A £ew lines will suffice for my rejoinder to 

 H. C. K.'s further observations on this subject. 



Since be and I are substantially of the same 

 opinion as to the reality of the phenomenon, it 

 would be bootless to discuss the comparative merits 

 of the considerations that have led us to it. But 

 inasmuch as I am very careful in making asser- 

 tions, so am I proportionately impatient when 

 their correctness is wrongfully impugned. 



_H. C. K., in remarking upon a statement of 

 mine, enters into a calculation to show that it is 

 absurd. At least such I suppose to be the mean- 

 ing of the paragraph concluding with the words 

 " which is absurd." 



My assertion was, that the difference alluded to 

 was "greatly in excess of the alleged apparent 

 motion." 



Now "the difference" was fifty feet in twenty- 

 four hours, or upwards of two feet in the hour ; 

 and " the alleged apparent motiorr had been stated 

 over and over again to be a complete revolution 

 in about thirty hours (for the latitude of London). 

 Hence, the circumference of a ten-feet circle 

 being about thirty feet, it requires no great pro- 

 fundity to discover that "the alleged apparent 

 motion" is one foot in the hour; but the "differ- 

 ence" in velocity is two feet in the hour, which 

 surely justifies the assertion that the latter is 

 "greatly in excess" of the former. 



It would occupy too much space to show H. C.K. 

 where it is that his calculation has gone astray ; 

 but if he will reconsider it, he will perceive, 

 firstly, that he has no authority, except his own, 

 for assuming a revolution (of the line of oscilla- 

 tion) in twenty-four hours ; and secondly, that five 

 feet on either side of the centre is equal to ten feet 

 altogether. 



But, above all, he must recollect that his own 

 original assertion (Vol. iv., p. 236.), to which mine 

 was but an answer, was, that "the difference" 

 would be '■'■practically nothing:'''' of this even his 

 own calculation is a sufficient refutation. A. E. B. 



Leeds. 



EXPUEGATED QUAKER BIBLE. 



(Vol. iv., pp. 87. 412. ; Vol. v., p. 44.) 

 By favour of an intelligent and respected friend, 

 I am enabled to send some kind of answer to the 

 inquiries made on this subject in your Numbers. 

 Jhe Society of Friends have never published 



nor authorised a mutilated edition of the Holy 

 Scriptures. The Bible in common use with them 

 is the authorised version of King James. The 

 translation published in 1764, by Antony Purver, 

 a member of the Society, contains several altera- 

 tions from the received version, but it does not 

 omit any part. Besides, this edition never came 

 into general use. It was too expensive, and too 

 bulky, being in two large folio volumes. It never 

 was reprinted, and in fact is seldom found except 

 in public libraries. It is quite true, that many of 

 the Friends, as well as other Christians, have felt 

 that there are parts of the sacred volume, which 

 at this time are ill suited for being read aloud and 

 discussed in a family circle : and some of them 

 have devised expedients for a ready selection of 

 the most edifying portions of Holy Writ for such 

 occasions. ()ne of their ministers, Mr. George 

 Withy, published a small tract in 1846, which he 

 named An Index to the Holy Scriptu7-es, intended 

 to facilitate the Audible Reading thereof in Families 

 and in Schools. His tract enumerates those chap- 

 ters of the Old and New Testaments, which he 

 judged most suitable for that purpose. 



In 1830, John Kendall (to whom one of your 

 correspondents alludes) published in 2 vols. 12mo. 

 The Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testa- 

 ment, by way of Abstract ; containing ivhat is more 

 especially Instructive in the Historical Parts, Sfc. SfC. 

 He designed this for the special use of young per- 

 sons, and expressly states that "it was not in- 

 tended to supersede the reading of the Scriptures 

 at large by those who are come to an age of dis- 

 cernment." He adheres mostly, but not entirely, 

 to the words of the authorised version. 



Twenty or thirty years later, the same feeling of 

 the want of an edition of the Bible entirely fit for 

 audible reading in the presence of a mixed family, 

 induced Mr. William Alexander, a printer of York, 

 to endeavour to supply the deficiency : and after 

 fourteen years of earnest attention to the subject, 

 he issued proposals for publishing a Bible so 

 arranged. It was designed to be in three (perhaps 

 four) volumes, imperial octavo size : but, for want 

 of sufficient encourngement, only the first volume 

 appeared, containing the Pentateuch. This con- 

 sists of 792 pages ; has foot-notes, side-notes, and 

 marginal references ; together with introductions 

 to the several books, and dissertations upon sundry 

 interesting subjects. It is evident, that the whole 

 work, if completed in the same manner, would 

 have been far too cumbrous for general use, and 

 could not have been sold for less than fifty shillings 

 or three pounds ; so that we need not be surprised 

 at its remaining unfinished, as it Avould have been 

 little likely to find its way into many of those 

 families for whose benefit it was kindly intended. 



The author explains his views and manner of 

 proceeding in his preface. I cannot enter into 

 them at length here. "Where a single word or 



