April 3. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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copious ; but, such as they are, they are of value, 

 as throwing new light on some points of history ; 

 and they a[)pear not to have been known to any of 

 the biographers of Laud, or to those who, as Arch- 

 bishop Sancroft and Wharton, sought most care- 

 fully after his literary remains. 



The volume of which I speak is the property of 

 an Institution at Warrington, "The Warrington 

 Museum and Library," to which it was presented 

 by Mr. Crosfield, of Fir Grove, Latchford, at the 

 time of the library being established, in 1848, 

 kaving been bought by his father at a book-stall 

 in Manchester some years previously. 



A transcript of the notes is now before me ; 

 which the Committee of the Museum have, with 

 great liberality, allowed to be made for the edition 

 of the Archbishop's works now publishing in The 

 Anglo-Catholic Librarif. The readiness which they 

 have shown to impart the benefit of their collection, 

 and the kindness with which the Hon. Secretary, 

 Mr. Marsh, has given a full and accurate account 

 of the MS. information, and himself transcribed the 

 notes, deserve the most public acknowledgment. 



That the notes in this volume are not written 

 by the Archbishop is proved decisively, not only 

 by the handwriting, but by the following note on 

 Prynne's translation of the Diary, at p. 9. last 

 line, — " I, whiles others were absent, held the cup 

 to him," on which the following is the note : — 



" III y' Breviate in which y« Archbp. has made [his 

 notes], 'tis printed city, and in this place he has [written] 

 * In my diary 'tis calicem. Note that . . . . ' " 



Owing to the edge of the paper being worn, 

 some parts of the note are lost ; they have been 

 <;onjecturally filled up by the words in brackets. 



On the title-page is written, in a hand cotem- 

 porary with the transcript : 



" Memorand. Mr. Prynn presented this worke of his 

 -to the Lds. Sep. 2nd, 1644, y** same day that y^ poor 

 Archbp. was to make his recapitulation, divers Lords 

 iiolding it in their hands all the while, &c." 

 And beneath this, apparently in the same hand, 

 is written : 



" This I suppose was written by Mr. Dell, secretary 

 to Archbp." 



It is inferred that this memorandum had been 

 made by Mr. Dell on the Archbishop's copy, and 

 transcribed together with the notes. 



Now the Queries I have to make are these three : 



1 . Whether any copies of Prynne's Breviate are 

 ■extant, having, in the last line of the ninth page 

 olted above, the misprint city for cup ? * 



["■ It is clear there have been two editions of 

 Prynne's Breviate, both printed in the year 1644. The 

 copy in the King's Library, at the British Museum, 

 contains the misprinted word r.ity, but is corrected in 

 the Errata, at the bottom of p. 35. ; whereas the copy 

 in the Grenville Library has it correctly printed cup, 

 and the list of Errata is omitted. — Ed.] 



2. Whether any information can be given which 

 may lead to the discovery of the copy containing 

 the original notes of the Archbishop, of which the 

 Warrington copy is a transcript ? 



3. Whether any allusion to the fact of the 

 Archbishop having made such notes is made by 

 any cotemporary writer.? Antony Wood, "Wharton, 

 and Ileylin do not mention it. 



In respect to the second Query, I presume to 

 ask every one who has access to a copy of Prynne's 

 Breviate to look into it, and see whether it con- 

 tains MS. marginal notes. I do so, because in 

 so many cases copies of works stand in their places 

 in libraries unopened, and with contents unknown; 

 the knowledge of their special value having per- 

 haps been possessed by some curious collector or 

 librarian, but not being noted down, having died 

 with him : and the owner of the volume, should it 

 be found, will receive his reward in the conscious- 

 ness of possessing a treasure, such as it is, which 

 before he knew not of — some of the last writing 

 of a great man, imprisoned and anticipating death, 

 who was engaged in vindicating himself from 

 misrepresentation and calumnies, part of which 

 had adhered to his memory till these notes came 

 to light. 



For the identification of that volume, should it 

 be found, and for the information of your readers, 

 I will transcribe the first paragraph of the Breviate, 

 with the Archbishop's marginalia : 



" Hee was borne at Redding in Barkshire, October 7, 

 1573, of poore (a) and obscure (b) parents, in a cot- 

 tage (c), just over against the (d) Cage: which Cage 

 since his qomming to the Arcbbishoprick of Canterbury^ 

 upon complaint of Master Elreston (that it was a dis- 

 honour the Cage should be suffered to stand so neare 

 the house, where so great a royall Favourite and 

 Prelate had his birth) was removed to some other 

 place; and the cottage (e) pulled downe, and new- 

 built by the Bishop." 



(a) " All this, if true, is no fault of mine." 



(b) " My father had born all offices in y<' town save 

 y" mayoralty." 



(c) " The bowsing wh'='' my father dwelt in is rented 

 at this day at thirty-three pounds a year." 



(d) "The Cage stood two streets off" from my father's 

 house all his life time, and divers years after, as many 

 yet living know. By whom it was remov'd into y* 

 street, and why out again, I know not." 



(e) " No one stick of y» cottage was pulled down 

 by me." 



The passage which concludes the notes on p. 35. 

 is unfortunately maimed by the wearing away of 

 the edges of the leaves ; it is as follows : — 



" And as I hope for comfort in my Saviour 



this is true uncharitable conclusion, my life- 

 is in y" hands of God blessed be His name. 



But let not Mr. Pryn call for Blood " 



It should be added that the volume has been 

 formerly in the hands of some one who took an 

 interest in the Archbishop's history, as a few notes 



