2«'» S. X. July 28. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 26. 18C0. 



K". 239.— CONTENTS. 



NOTES : — Bishop Bedell, Gl — Tomb Records, 63 — TJnpub- 

 lished Letter of Oliver Cromwell, 64 — Are Critics Logi- 

 cians ? 65 — Europe as it would be, 66. 



MiN OE Notes : — Typographical Error in the authorised Ver- 

 sion of the English Bilile — A Hint to Publishers — Cage 

 of Bells — Modal on the Duke of Monmouth's Execution — 

 Gonge — Clever — John Bo^vring, 66. 



QUERIES : — Venus found, 67— Cardinal Mazarin— Church 

 Chancels — Fratres de Penitentia Jesu Christi, otherwise 

 Fratres de Sacco — Witton— Epsom Church — Prances C. 

 Barnard — Prophecy — Washing the Lions in the Tower 



— Diatessaron — The Magnetic Declination — Socrates — 

 Malton Priory — Lodge Family, Wills of— Political Poem 

 by Canning — Old Ballad: " Up jumped the Mackerel " — 

 S. van Son, a Painter. 68. 



QuiEiES WITH Answers:- Heidelberg Castle — Richard 

 Adams : Dr. Andrewes — Artillery — Plan of Boulogne — 

 Bibliography of Proverbs, Maxims, &c.,70. 



REPLIES : — The Flambard Brass and its supposed want 

 of Evangelical Teaching, 70 — The Harrow Brass : Mr. J. 

 G. Nichols and Dr. Rock, 73 — Oxford Riding School, 74— 

 Thomas Bedwel), J6. — Thomas Gyll, Esq., 75— Sir William 

 Dugdale's Collections— John Greenhalgh — Mrs. Lepell — 

 Clerical Incumbents — Sir Harry Trelawny- The Reay 

 Country — Rebellion of 1715 — Spiriting Away — Quota- 

 tion Wanted — Hell-Fire Club — Miss Parsons and D— 



— Array and Navy — Babylon — Sermons by Steele of Gad- 

 girth- General Breeze ho ! — John Amyatt — Charles II. 



— Sixtine Edition of the Bible — Signs at Monksheath, 

 Cheshire — Britain 1116 B.C. — Alban Butler —Publication 

 of Banns — Colonel Hooke, 76. 



Notes on Books. 



BISHOP BEDELL. 

 (2""^ S. y'u. jJdssim ; viii. 301.) 



Allusion has been already made in " N. & Q." 

 (2"** S. vii. 350.) to Cole's " extremely racy notes 

 on Burnet's Life of Wni. Bedell." These notes, 

 with Baker's, I now send entire, with a few ad- 

 ditional authorities which I have met with since 

 my former communications. 



MS. Harl. 6400. is a life of Bedell by one inti- 

 mately connected with him " in the rear of his 

 Life from 36 to the Captivity of the Land in 41," 

 who says, " I shall endeavour to make knowne, 

 what I have heard of him by those I had good 

 reason to beleeve, what I heard from himself, and 

 what I myself observed in my abode with him all 

 that space." It fills 175 4to. pages, small and 

 close hand, and has some letters and documents 

 not in Burnet. It is strange that Kennett (MSS. 

 Lansd.) has no article on Bedell, 



He was in Cambridge, Oct. 1627. (Birch's Court 

 of Charles /., ii. 274.) There is a letter about 

 him in Sir H. Wotton's Bemaiiis, pp. 329, 330. (re- 

 printed by Burnet, p. 31.) No doubt Wotton 

 refers to him (pp. 399, 400.), where he mentions 

 an excellent comforter of his absence, and a lov- 

 ing and discreet divider and easer of his travels, 

 procured by Edm. Bacon's mediation. One Mr. 

 B. was with Wotton in 162| (p. 854. ; cf, 356.), 



but this may not have been Bedell. A Bible in 

 Irish character, after Bedell's edition, was printed 

 at Dublin, 1827, roy. 8vo. 



See also Laud's Works, vi. 260. Cole MS. 20. 

 p. 110. 



I now return to Cole and Baker. (Cole's MS. 

 vol. xxxi. p. 58. b. seq.) : — 



"As every note of Mr. Baker has its value; so I shall 

 in this place transcribe a few of them which he had en- 

 tered into his copy of Bp. Burnet's Life of Bp. Bedell: 

 which copy was sold witii the rest of Mr. Bilker's books 

 at an auction in Cambridge, while I was unluckily absent 

 from the university, and bought by my worthy and es- 

 teemed friend Mr. Edward Betiiam fellow and one of the 

 bursars of King's College; from whence I faithfully 

 transcribed the MS. notes into my copy of the same book: 

 in which I have also entered many marginal observa- 

 tions, which I shall also transcribe in this place: not out 

 of any conceit of their excellence ; but out of regard to 

 truth, and to remind mj'self of the great prejudice and 

 partiality of the Scotch prelate. To prevent any mis- 

 takes to Mr. Baker's prejudice, I shall carefully add at 

 the end of each note the initial letters of our names. 



" See two Letters (original) from Wm. Bedell to Lady 

 'Wray. AJSS. Collections, vol. 38. p. 433, 434. T. B. 

 [This entry is repeated in nearly the same words.] 



" See a Sermon of Bp. Bedell's publisht by Dr. Nich. 

 Bernard, An. 1659, with Bp. Usher's Discourses, p. 33, 

 &c. T. B. : 



" See a character of Bp. Bedell. Ibid. p. 347, &c. 

 T. B. 



"See Bp. of Sarum'.s Vindication, p. 70, 71, &c. ia 

 Answer to a Pamphlet, supposed to be wrote by Dr. H. 

 See p. 87. T. B. 



" See two Letters of Bp.'Bedell to ArchBp. Laud and 

 Ld. Deputy of Ireland in Prynne's Canterbury's Doome, 

 p. 436, 437. T. B. 



" See some severe Eeflections in a Book, entituled, Dis- 

 courses upon Dr. Burnet and Dr. Tillotson, supposed to be 

 wrote by Dr. Hickes, p. 27, 28, &c. T. B. 



" See Bayle's Dictionary, English : Article, Bedell, Wil' 

 Ham. T. B. 



" W. Bedle admissus in Matriculam Acad. Cantab. 

 (Coll. Eman. conv. 2.), Mar. 12, 1584, Regr. T. B^ 



" I meet with John Bedel of Blacke-Notley, Com. Es- 

 sex, yeoman, Jan. xi. 1590, who had a Son of Eman. 

 College. See MSS. vol. 27. p. 65. T. B. 



" Wm. Bedell, B.D., Member of Convocation for the 

 Dioc. of Norwich; Feb. 13, 1623. Registrum vagum. 



" See vol. 32. No. 6. p. 153. of Mr. Baker's Collections, 

 at p. 47. of this Volume. W. C. 



" See a Letter from Bp. Bedell to the Lord Deputy 

 Wentworth, dated Feb. 22, 1637, in Lord Deputv's printed 

 Letters. T. B. 



" 1 have wrote on the back of the title-page as fol- 

 lows : — 



" There are many things of curiosity in this book ; 

 which, however, seems calculated to serve a turn : more 

 especially by publishing Bp. Bedell's Refutation of Popery, 

 at a time, when it was supposed, that England was mak- 

 ing large strides to that church. 



" It was published in 1687. Towards the conclusion of 

 his preface, he gives a most prodigious high character of 

 some Scotch Bps. since the Restoration : calls their Vir- 

 tue Angelical; and adds, that he 'saw things in them 

 that would look li ker /air /rfeas, than what Men, cloathed 

 with Flesli and Blood, could grow up to.' To which I 

 have added on the margin : 



