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the Hope and Happiness of all Converted and Returning 

 Sinners, Most Mighty and Eternal God, thou Ring of 

 Kings, and Prince of Peace." 



It is a pocket volume of 187 pages by T. S., 

 similar in size to the first part, and to Bunyan's 

 Second Part; frontispiece, two clergymen, one 

 leeping. Query, who was T. S. ? 



George Offor. 



The first edition of Andrew Willet's Synopsis 

 Papismi (fol., 1614.) has the following dedica- 

 tion : — 



" Ad Omnipotentem Dominum, Deum Optimum Maxi- 

 mum, 

 Munificentissimum et Benignissimum Seruatorem nos- 

 trum 

 Dominum Jesum Christum : Eucharlsticon." 



K. P. D. E. 



Bible by Barker dated 1495 (2""* S. x. 170.) 

 — I have now before me an imperfect copy of a 

 Bible of the same edition as that possessed by 

 Miss Rattenburt. The date 1495 is evidently 

 a misprint for 1595. According to Cotton's List, 

 Christopher Barker's Bibles date from 1575 to 

 1588. Those of his deputies from 1589 to 1602. 

 The deputies of C. Barker did publish a Bible in 

 1595, a copy of which, according to Cotton, is in 

 Brasen Nose College ; perhaps a few copies were 

 misprinted, and then the date altered, or as the 

 date 1495 is on the title-page of the New Testa- 

 ment, the date on the Old Testament (which in 

 my copy is wanting) was probably 1595. AVill 

 N. T. say whether Miss Rattbnbury's copy con- 

 tains the date once or oftener? C. D. H. 



The Genevan Translation, vulgarly called the 

 " Breeches Bible." N. T. is correct in supposing 

 that there is " a mistake in this figure." It is not 

 an uncommon book ; I have three copies of it. The 

 first title to " The Bible " is " Imprinted at Lon- 

 don by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, 1594." 

 In printing the second title, being to " The Newe 

 Testament," the figures of the date were trans- 

 posed to 1495. There is no date on the third 

 title, " Two right profitable and fruitful concord- 

 ances," nor at the end of the volume. One of my 

 copies appears to be on large paper. 



The vicar of Epping in 1833 lent me a copy of 

 this book in which the original title-page had been 

 altered by pasting a woodcut ornament over 1594 

 and the words " cum gratia & privilegio Regife 

 Maiestatis " to prevent discovery that it was printed 

 in a queen's reign ; and in a blank square in the 

 woodcut under the title was Inserted the figures 

 1495,^ apparently with type used by ladies in 

 marking linen. The worthy clergyman sent me a 

 letter of thanks for having so cleverly detected this 

 attempt at deception. George Offor. 



Family of ap Rhys (2°^ S. x. 126.)— The 

 families of Rhys-Rice or Price are descended from 

 Nefydd Hardd, the 6th royal tribe of Wales. 



Nefydd Hardd of Nant Conwy lived in the 

 time of Owain Gwynedd, who gave him his son 

 Idwal to rear, but Nefydd caused his son Duna- 

 vet to kill the young prince, at a place called from 

 him Cwm Idwal, for which he and his posterity 

 were degraded. To expiate this murder he gave 

 the lands on which the church of Llanrwst was 

 built. 



Rhys Goch ap Maengrch and Caradoc Freich- 

 fras, who was slain at the battle of Rhuddlan, 795, 

 were descended from Nefydd Hardd. 



Arms : sa. a chev. between three spears' heads 

 ar. embrued gu. These arms are borne by all the 

 descendants. E. C. Gbesford. 



The Rommany or Gypsies (2"'^ S. x. 149.) — 

 Mr. Roberts's notions about the identity of the 

 modern gypsies with the ancient Egyptians seem 

 to be utterly unfounded. The origin of the gyp- 

 sies seems now to be known, and this knowledge 

 disposes at once of all his arguments drawn from 

 the unsvLYQ words of prophecy. It so happened, 

 curiously enough, that only last Sunday I read 

 through the " obscure " Book of the prophet Eze- 

 kiel, and I am sure that I found nothing in it fit 

 to serve as a sure foundation for Mr. Roberts's 

 argument. But, all I intended to say at present is, 

 that at a meeting of the Royal Geographical So- 

 ciety on — February, 1856, Sir H. Rawlinson 

 gave an account of the migrations of the gypsies, 

 tracing them distinctly from the Indus, through 

 Persia, Syria, and Asia Minor, to the Bospborus, 

 where they arrived in the fourteenth century. 

 You will find a notice of this interesting commu- 

 nication in the Athemeum, 1856 (p. 312.), conclud- 

 ing thus : " Everywhere their dialect corresponds 

 with the Hindostani, and in Aleppo particularly 

 they may be conversed with in that language 

 without difficulty." To this I may add, that " the 

 ancient language of the Egyptians is not a lost 

 language." Thanks to the labours of Egyptolo- 

 gists it is now so well known as at least to establish 

 beyond question that it has no connexion what- 

 ever, radical or otherwise, with the language of 

 the gypsies. V. S. V. 



Edinburgh. 



American Rivers (2"^ S. x. 90. 157.)— Al- 

 though no record exists of the volume of water 

 discharged into the ocean respectively by the St. 

 Lawrence, 1891 miles in length, and the Missis- 

 sippi, 3500 miles long, there is no reason to doubt 

 that the Mississippi discharges a much greater 

 volume of water than the St. Lawrence. The 

 mouth of the St. Lawrence is an estuary, and the 

 sea-water reaches to Kamouraska, 103 miles be- 

 low Quebec, and 300 miles above Anticosti. On 

 the 'contrary, the Mississippi has formed a delta, 

 with a coast line 250 miles in length ; and the 

 extent of its basin, according to Johnston, is 

 982,400 square miles 5 whilst that of the St. Law- 



