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CONTENTS. 

 NoTSS : — Page 



John Goodwin's Six Booksellers' Proctor nonsuited, by 

 Jamrs Crossley ------ 



Mr. Collier's Folio Shakspeare : A Passage in " As You 

 Like It," by Samuel Hickson - 



Notes on Books, No. III. — Laurence Humphrey, Pre- 

 sident of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Dean of Win- 

 chester, by S. W. Singer - - . . 



Scoto-Galliclsms ------ 



On a Passage in " Cymbeline," Act IV. Sc. 2., by 

 S. W. Singer ------ 



Old Concert Bill, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault 



Minor Notes : — Note for Mr. Worsaae — Singular 

 Epitaph — Largesse — Brogue and Fetch — Taibhse 



— Derivation of " Caul" — " Pandecte," an entire 

 Copy of the Bible - - - - 



Queries : — 



Boy Bishop at Eton . - - _ . 



•' Speculum Christianorum multa bona continens," by 

 W. Sparrow Simpson - - - - - 



Massacre of the Welsh Bards . - - . 



Minor Queries: — Portrait of William Combe — " Quod 

 non fecerunt barbari," &c. — Lines on English History 



— Windows — Angel-beast ; Cleek ; Longtriloo — Royal 

 Arms in Churches — "Cease, rude Boreas" — Pic- 

 torial Proverbs — Inscription on George Inn, Wansted 



— Learned Man referred to by Rogers — Mormonism 

 and Spalding's Romance — Carrs or Calves— Stoup — 

 Casper Ziegler and the Diaconate — Inscription at 

 Persepolis — " I do not know what the truth may be " 



— Twittens — Clapper Gate — Jemmy — MufTi worn 

 by Gentlemen -.--.. 



Replies : — 



St. Patrick, by D.Rock, &c. . _ . - 



Nashe's " Terrors of the Night " - 

 Serjeant's Rings ---._. 

 The Old Coimtess of Desmond - - - - 



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561 

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 563 

 564 



A few Things about Richard Baxter, by Cuthbert Bade 865 



666 

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St. Botulph -...-._ 

 Sir Richard Pole, the Father of Cardinal Pole - 

 Proclamations to prohibit the Use of Coal, by F. Somner 

 Merryweather .---»- 

 Ralph Winterton .----. 

 Keplies to Minor Queries : — Family of BuUen — Wal- 

 lington's Journal — The Amber Witch — Twy ford — 

 The Ring Finger — Brass of Lady Gore— Gospel Trees 

 — " Who from the dark and doubtful love to run " — Son 

 of the Conqueror ; Walter Tyrrel — Sir Gilbert Ger- 

 rard — Fides Carbonarii — Line on Franklin — Mean- 

 ing of Royd as an Addition to Yorkshire Names — 

 Binnacle — Plague Stones — Ramasshed — Yankee 

 Doodle — " Chords that vibrate," &c. — Derivation of 

 Martinique — Anthony Babington, &c. - - - 569 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - . . » - 574 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - . - 575 



Notices to Correspondents - . . -575 



Advertisements - - .... 575 



Vol. v.— No. 137. 



JOHN GOODWIH's six BOOKSELLERS' PROCTOR 

 NONSUITED. 



The London booksellers of the present day 

 (good harmless men !) are satisfied with endeavour- 

 ing to put down heresies as to discounts. Their 

 predecessors, in the year 1655, set to work in good 

 earnest, associated to purify the faith by denounc- 

 ing in an Index expurgatorius, under the alarminof 

 titles of A Beacon set on Fire, and A Second Bea- 

 con set on Fire, all publications of a blasphemous, 

 heretical, or improper kind. Six booksellers, viz. 

 Luke Fawne, Samuel Gellibrand, Joshua Kirton, 

 John Rothwell, Thomas Underbill, and Nathaniel 

 Webb, took the lead on the occasion ; and the 

 battle waxed hot and fierce between them and the 

 apologists of the books condemned. Amongst the 

 latter was the famous John Goodwin, whose part 

 in the controversy Mr. Jackson, in his elaborate 

 Life of him, has adverted to, and has noticed his 

 pamphlet entitled The High Presbyterian Spirit, 

 written in answer to the Second Beacon Fired. 

 John Goodwin, however, published a second pam- 

 phlet in the same controversy, neither noticed by 

 Mr. Jackson, nor any one else that I am aware of^ 

 in which he finishes up his first charge upon the 

 unfortunate booksellers, and lays on them with a 

 vigour and determination that it does one good to 

 see so well bestowed, scattering their arguments 

 and quotations to the winds, and sending them 

 back to their proper occupation of printing and 

 publishing, instead of clipping and suppressing. 

 The title of this very rare pamphlet, which is to be 

 found in vol. xviii. of a collection of tracts (be- 

 tween 1640 and 1660) in ninety-six vols. 4to., 

 made by President Bradshaw, and containing 

 many of his MS. notes and observations now in 

 my possession, is as follows ; 



" Six Booksellers' Proctor Nonsuited, wherein the 

 gross Falsifications and Untruths, together with the 

 inconsiderate and weak Passages found in the Apologie 

 for the said Booksellers, are briefly noted and evicted. 

 And the said Booksellers proved so unworthy both in 

 their Second Beacon Fired, and likewise in their 

 Epistle written in Defence of it, that they are out of 

 the Protection of any Christian or reasonable Apologie 

 for either. By J. G., a Minister of the Gospel of 



