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coffin in the earth, while the body had remained on the 

 bier, in order as it had been brought fortli.' " 



E. M. 

 Oxford. 



Old illuminations often i-epresent the placing of 

 a corpse in the tomb. The body is evidently 

 cofHnless, and is wrapped in white linen, often 

 with a cross on it, formed by a red line from head 

 to feet, and another from shoulder to shoulder. 



P.P. 

 AuTHOEisED Version (2'^^ S. x. 230.) — There 

 is no evidence that the revisers of the Bishops' 

 Bible under James I. had their attention directed 

 to the state of the text, or that they had a shadow 

 of doubt as to its perfect correctness. This was 

 assumed to begin with ; for the period of 1603 — 

 1611 had not been enlightened by Biblical criticism. 

 The various ancient' recensions had settled the text 

 in the minds of the learned of that day ; and even 

 the state of the New Testament text, although not 

 then fixed in its present form by the Elzevir edi- 

 tion of 1624, was equally undoubted as the text 

 of the Old Testament. The revisers had but a 

 small sum allowed for their expenses, totally in- 

 adequate for collation of MSS, needed ; some of 

 them reluctantly embarked in, and some refused 

 the undertaking: both Universities were dead 

 against such revision. It originated with the 

 Puritan party, who thought to gain an advantage 

 over episcopacy by altering the Sishops" version. 

 Selden's description (Table Talk, p. 5., ed. 1716) 

 of the way the business was done by the com- 

 panies — committees, as we should now call them, 

 — shows the perfunctory manner in which it was 

 executed, and accounts for the bad English with 

 which this version is tinctured. (Translators' Pre- 

 face ; Lewis's Hist, of Translations, 307 — 354. ; 

 Home's Introd., ii. 257. ; Marsh's Led., ii. iii. and 

 Appendix.) T. J. Btjckton. 



Lichfield. 



LoNGEViTT (2°'i S. X. 15. 56. 155. 218.) — Sir 

 Bernard Burke, in his recent volume {Vicissitudes 

 of Families, 2nd Series), brings forward fresh evi- 

 dence in support of the story of the " Old Countess 

 of Desmond." She died in the 140th year of her 

 age, and it would seem that at the date of her 

 death (1604) her daughter was still living. 



Sir B. Burke does not inform us of the fate of 

 the latter, nor is it easy to learn from his account 

 the precise time of her birth. C. J. Robinson. 



The following may be deemed worthy of a cor- 

 ner in " N. & Q. : " — 



" Died, 26th ult, at Old Leighlin, in a very advanced 

 age, Joseph Wharton, who had been verger in the cathe- 

 dral of that place upwards of fifty years ; during which 

 time he had seen a succession of thirteen- Bishops, five 

 Deans, two entire rounds of the Members of the Chapter, 

 and seven Curates. He had seen every living in the dio- 

 cese of Leighlin vacant by death, and filled up, and some 

 twice or thrice, and was a licensed parish-clerk at Powers- 



town in the reign of Queen Anne." — Dublin Freeman's 

 Journal, 9th January, 1770. 



Abhba. 

 On visiting the church at Battle, in Sussex, the 

 sexton who accompanied me drew my attention 

 to a gravestone in memory of Isaac Ingall, who 

 died April 2, 1798, aged 120 years. The sexton 

 said he (I. I.) was born in that parish, where his 

 register is still to be seen ; and that he lived 101 

 years in the service of the Webster family, having 

 entered it at the age of nineteen. I see no reason 

 for doubting this account. H. E. S. 



The following note, taken from a Kilkenny 

 Moderator of last April, is a remarkable case of 

 longevity, and will be interesting to some of your 

 readers : — 



" On April 8th, Mr. S. Cronesberry died at Farmer's 

 Bridge, aged 99. His grandfather d. in 97th year ; his 

 father d. in 97th vear ; his mother in 98th year." 



J. A. S. 



Longevity of CiiEBicAL Incumbents (2"^ S. 

 X. 1 19.) — 2. 2. in the above article, is wrong in his 

 arithmetic ; for incumbent No. 2. 1608 — 1644 only 

 held the living 36, instead of 5G, years ; so that 

 the total will then be 179, making the average 

 44 1\. A 5. 



Ferbandine OB Febrandeen (2°'^ S. X. 170.) 

 may possibly be a silk stuff. Ferrandinier, s. ra. 

 in French, is a silk weaver, and the verb the weav- 

 ing of silk ; but I do not find (as one might ex- 

 pect) any such subs, as ferrandine for woven silk 

 stuff. Can this stuff have any connexion in its 

 name with the town of Ferrandina in the Basill- 

 cata, near Matera, Naples ? This is not much 

 worth as a Note, but it may possibly help to iden- 

 tify the waistcoat stuff of Nottingham, 1684. 



c. w. c. 



As no one has yet given us the derivation of this 

 word, I venture, not indeed to propoije a solution, 

 but to throw out a suggestion. May not the word 

 be a corruption of Farringdon ? In former days 

 there were woollen manufactures in Berkshire ; 

 and the article in question, which seems to have 

 been a kind of coarse woollen stuff, might have 

 been a speciality of Fai'rlngdon. As there are 

 Worstead hose, Axminster carpets, Witney 

 blankets, &c., so there might have been Farring- 

 don waistcoats. In the absence of conclusive evi- 

 dence, this conjecture may stand for what It is 

 worth. John Wix-liams. 



Amo's Court. 



John a Lasco (2"'' S. x. 210.) — " 



" The Dutch had the Church of Austin Friars assigned 

 them, and John k Lasco was their minister. Saxons and 

 other High Germans had the same liberty, and so had 

 the Italians, who had Bernadine and Michael Angelo 

 Florio for ministers. Valerandus Pollanus was pastor of a 

 Walloon congregation at Glastonbury. French Protest- 

 ants and Spaniards had the same freedom. There were 



