May 29. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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proposed to publish an edition of the authorised 

 version under the title of " Keseph's Bible," with 

 the substitution of the Hebrew terms Alehim, 

 AleJi, Al, Adon, Adonai, &c. &c. for our English 

 ones God, Lord, &c. &c. 



Can any of your readers inform me if this was 

 ever published ? and can they also favour me with 

 the loan of the pamphlet for a month ? 



The Ebitob of the " Chronologicai* 

 New Testament." 



36. Trinity Square, Southwark. 



[This Bible was published in 1830, as far as chap. xix. 

 of the Second Book of Kings, with the following title : 

 The Holy Bible, according to the Established Version : 

 with the Exception of the Substitution of the Original 

 Hebrew Names, in place of the English Words, Lord and 

 God, and of a few corrections thereby rendered necessary. 

 With Notes. London : Westley and Davis, 4to. It 

 contains a Preface of four pages, and a list of the Mean- 

 ing or Signification of the Sacred Names substituted in 

 this edition, of nine pages. A copy of it is in the 

 British Museum, the press mark 1276 h.] 



Proclamations to prohibit the Use of Coal, as 

 Fuel, in London. — Dr. BaehofFner, in the lecture 

 which he is now delivering at the Royal Poly- 

 technic Institution, mentions the fact that three 

 separate proclamations were issued for this pur- 

 pose, and that it was at last made a capital offence ; 

 and a man was actually accused, tried, condemned, 

 and executed for burning coal within the me- 

 tropolis. Now what I want to ascertain relative 

 to the above facts, is : 1. The date of each ; 



2. Any particulars that you or any of your cor- 

 respondents may be kind enough to furnish; 



3. The name, and station, trade, or pi'ofession of 

 the person so executed. 



As Dr. Bachoifner has now often reiterated the 

 above statement at the Polytechnic, and as it has 

 always been received (at least when I have been 

 there) with acclamations of surprise, I have no 

 doubt that the particulars will interest many of 

 your readers. Arthur C. Wilsoj^. 



[We have not been able to find any account of the 

 execution for burning coal noticed by Dr. BaehofFner, 

 which probably took place during the reign of Ed- 

 ward I., when the use of coal was prohibited by pro- 

 clamation at London in the year 1306. These procla- 

 mations are noticed in Prynne's Aniinadoersions on the 

 Fourth Part of Sir Edward Coke's Institutes, p. 182., 

 where it is said, that " in the latter part of the reign of 

 Edward I., when brewers, dyers, and other artificers 

 using great fires, began to use sea-coals instead of dry 

 wood and charcoal, in and near the city of London, the 

 prelates, nobles, commons, and other people of the 

 realm, resorting thither to parliaments, and upon other 

 occasions, with the inhabitants of the city, Southwark, 

 Wapping.and East Smithfield, complained thereof twice 

 one after another to the king as a public nuisance, cor- 

 rupting the air with its stink and smoke, to the great 

 prejudice and detriment of their health. Whereupon 

 the king first prohibited the burning of sea-coal by his 



proclamation; which being disobeyed. by many for 

 their private lucre, the king upon their second com- 

 plaint issued a commission of Oyer and Terminer to 

 inquire of all such who burned sea-coals against his 

 proclamation within the city, or parts adjoining to it, 

 and to punish them for their first offence by great fines 

 and ransoms ; and for the second offence to demolish 

 their furnaces, kilns wherein they burnt sea-coals, and 

 to see his proclamation strictly observed for times to 

 come, as the Record of 35 Edw. I. informs us." On 

 this subject our correspondent should consult Eding- 

 ton's I'reatise on the Coal Trade ; Ralph Gardiner's 

 England's Grievance discovered in Relation to the Coat 

 Trade; and Anderson's Origin of Commerce.'\ 



ADDISON AND HIS HYMNS. 



(Vol. v., p. 439.) 



Any attempt to divorce Addison from his hymns 

 in the Spectator, and to ascribe them to any other 

 writer, is so great a wrench to the feelings of a 

 sexagenarian like myself, that the question must 

 at once be set at rest. 



In reply to J. G. F.'s inquiry, these hymns, or 

 a portion of them, were claimed for Andrew 

 Marvell by Captain Edward Thompson, the editor 

 of Marvell's works; but a writer in Kippis'a 

 edition of the Biographia Britannica remarks: 



" We shall content ourselves with observing, that 

 any man who can suppose that the ease, eloquence, and 

 harmony of the ode, ' The Spacious Firmament,' &c., 

 could flow from Marvell's pen, must be very deficient 

 in taste and judgment." 



This claim on Captain Thompson's part was to 

 have been considered under the article " Marvell," 

 but the second edition of the Biographia did not, 

 as we well know, extend beyond the letter F. 



But though we cannot concede these hymns to 

 Marvell, he must not be underrated. His down- 

 right honesty of character and purpose must ever 

 excite respect. His biographer strangely in- 

 troduces him to us as "A witty droll in the se- 

 venteenth century, the son of a facetious gentle- 

 man at Hull." In one respect he resembled our 

 gifted essayist ; his style in prose was so cap- 

 tivating that we are told 



" From the King down to the Tradesman, his Re- 

 hearsal Transposed was read with great pleasure ; he 

 had all the men of wit on his side." 

 To return to the hymns and the just claims of 

 Addison to the whole of them. 



In the Spectator, No. 453., Addison says, 



" I have already communicated to the public some 

 pieces of divine poetry, and as they have met with a 

 very favourable reception, / shall from time to time pub' 

 lish any work of the same nature which has not yet ap- 

 peared in print, and may be acceptable to my readers." 



Then follows the hymn " "When all Thy Mercies," 

 &c. Coming from such a man as Addison, this 



