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of the correspondence In question to have been 

 in another, and implies that it so remained; not 

 even going so far as to say that Bp. Burnet had 

 ever had the letters out of the library " in which 

 he met ivith them." Yet the frequent loose- 

 ness of Strype's expressions leaves room for hope 

 that the letters may have passed ouj; of Smith's 

 library into the ownership of the Historian of the 

 Reformation ; or at least into his keeping, so as to 

 have been there when Smith's books were dis- 

 persed, and so not included in the sale. 



It now becomes important to know where the 

 lot purchased for 26^. by Mr. Boone on the 21st 

 July, 1838, can be found? May I not hope that 

 some one of your many correspondents may be 

 able and willing to let it be known where that 

 lot is, and ivhat it did contain ? 



The following extract concerning one of Cran- 

 mer's works, which I take the liberty of offering 

 for insertion as a " Note," may serve to suggest the 

 reasons for attaching more than usual interest to 

 the epistolary intercourse between Archbishop 

 Cranmer and the remarkable man at Nuremberg 

 with whom he was so closely connected. W. M. 



Baltimore, U. S. A. 



" Crannief's Catechism. 



" This is a translation from the German, (with altera- 

 tions from a Latin Translation by Justus Jonas, and fur- 

 ther original alterations and additions) of a Catecliism 

 prepared for the reformed Churches of Nuremberg and 

 Brandenburg, b}' Andrew Osiander (whose niece Cranmer 

 married) in the j'ear 1533, at which time Cranmer was 

 resident at Nuremberg in close intimacy and daily con- 

 ference with the author. The continually varying clioice 

 between the German and Latin copies, and the multitu- 

 dinous modifications, (some very nice, and more than one 

 of great and very curious importance,) amply prove that 

 Cranmer was entirely justifiable in assuming, as he did, 

 the full responsibilitj' for the work. He avowed it in his 

 controversy with Gardiner, and again before his triers, 

 with his dying breath. He changed his views afterward 

 on the subject of the Holy Eucharist ; but gave, by word 

 nor sign, no indication of other change. 



" The time of its appearance makes it of great import- 

 ance, as a medium of interpretation for our Formularies. 

 It came out just after the First Book of Homilies, and just 

 before the First Book of Common Prayer. They who 

 really want to know what the compilers of those authori- 

 ties meant by any overbrief, or isolated, or ambiguous 

 expression, have only to look for fuller statements in the 

 clear, elaborate and popular work put forth to keep them 

 compan3'. The internal evidence of most diligent super- 

 vision afforded by a comparison of the English with the 

 German and Latin, (which I have made throughout,) 

 furnishes convincing proof that no word or sentence found 

 its way into that book which had not Cranmer's entire 

 assent at the time when he, as principal agent and con- 

 trolling mind, put forth the Homilies and Prayer Book. 



" It has, besides, a special value as an expository mean 

 in application to our Baptismal Offices, for thej-, it is 

 well known, are greatly influenced by the Formulary of 

 Herman of Cologne, which was prepared by Bucer and 

 Melanchthon avowedly on the basis of that of Nurem- 

 berg ; and the Nuremberg Formulary tvas prepared and 

 published by the same author, at the same time, with this 

 Catechism. 



" It is at once interesting and instructive, too, to know 

 that this Catechism of Cranmer contains the whole of Lu- 

 ther's Minor Catechism, except one answer (the supplement 

 to the First Commandment) and the supplement on Con- 

 fession ; copying it word for v^ord as it stands in the Nu- 

 remberg Catechism, of which it is the basis. 



" The Nuremberg book came out before the articles of 

 1536, which were the germ of our present 'Thirty-nine.' 

 Cranmer, who, three years before that date, had been 

 present, and in all probability assisting at its preparation, 

 used his very earliest freedom under the young reforming 

 King, to bestow on it his riper care and study, and bring 

 out, for the indoctrination of the whole Church in which 

 he held chief oflice, what every indication in his writings 

 shows to have been the cherished and persistent type of 

 his own inmost convictions of religious truth. No inter- 

 pretation of any thing in which Cranmer bore chief hand 

 between 1533 ami his dying day, can be intelligent or 

 conclusive unless it take into account the teachings of 

 this Catechism, and from it supply deficiencies, explain 

 ambiguities, and settle controverted meanings." 



The American Standabd : Henry Laurens, 

 ETC. — Can any of your transatlantic readers fur- 

 nish me with some account of the American 

 national flag, the date of its adoption, &c., or al-» 

 terations ? As I find mentioned that, in 1775, 

 " the rebels hoisted upon the State House, at 

 Charles Town (S. Carolina), a blue silk standard 

 with the device of thirteen golden rattle-snakes 

 twisted together." Was this the acknowledged 

 standard of all the provinces who threw off the 

 yoke of Great Britain ? Henry Laurens, the de- 

 mocratic Vice-president of that province, obtained 

 the fuHest account of the movements of Great 

 Britain in the struggle for independency, the des- 

 tination and strength of the armament equipped 

 for America, &c., from his son John Laurens in 

 London. This information, so fatal to the Royal 

 interest, was regularly supplied to the younger 

 Laurens by Peter Taylor, Esq., M.P. for Ports- 

 mouth, whose intimacy with various gentlemen in 

 public offices enabled him to procure the same. 



Abracadabra. 



Pedigree of Evans of Loddington, Co. 

 NoRTHAMFTON. — Is any pedigree of the a'opve 

 family, resident at Loddington, co. Northampton, 

 towards the early part of the seventeenth century, 

 in existence ? I can find none in the Visitations 

 of the period. Lady Tanfield, wife of Sir Lau- 

 rance Tanfield, Lord Chief Baron of the Ex- 

 chequer temp. Charles I., and grandmother of the 

 great Lord Falkland, was an " Elizabeth Evans" 

 of Loddington ; and a few years later Mr. Speaker 

 Lenthall (then described as " William Lenthall, 

 Esq., of Lincoln's Inn") also married an " Eliza- 

 beth," daughter of Ambrose Evans, Esq., of the 

 same place. In 1625 (in conjunction with his 

 youngest brother, Francis Lenthall), it appears 

 that he bought the mansion and estate at Lod- 

 dington of his father-.in-law ; who, however, in 

 1627, still continued to reside there. Some trace 



