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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'«i S. X. Sept. 22. '60. 



-wherein Jesus Christ became Incarnate, Demonstrated 

 from Holy Writ." 



Chap. iL " Of the Nabonassarean Year, at the Incarna- 

 tion of Christ, demonstrated by Holy Writ, with Mathe- 

 matical Demonstrations compared." 



Chap. III. "Of the Testimonies out of prophane Authours, 

 compared with Jewish storj', and agreeing with Holy 

 Writ, and evidencing by the Roman Accounts the certain 

 Year of Christ's Nativity by severall Circumstances." 



The second book contains four chapters : — 



Chap. I. " How the certain Day of Christ's Incarnation 

 may be evidenced from the Day on Avhich the World was 

 Created ; and of the Day of the Worlds Creation, from 

 Hoh' Writ, and by Mathematical Demonstration made 

 evident." 



Chap. II. " Of the certaine Day of the Moneth on which 

 S* John Baptist was Conceived and Born, and of the Dis- 

 tance between the Birth of S' John and our ever Blessed 

 Saviour Jesus Christ very demonstrably made evident." 



Chap. III. " Of the Testimony of Antient Records agree- 

 ing with Holy Writ, that Christ was born on the 25th 

 Day of December." 



At p. 97. a new title occurs : — 



" XPlSTOAOriA ; or a Kalendar Scriptural and Astro- 

 nomical. For Four Years space: viz. the Years Julian 

 44, 45, 46, 47. Whereof Two were before, and the other 

 Two were after the Birth of the ever Blessed our Lord 

 Jesus Christ. And do more plainly demonstrate the due 

 Order of all Passages and Circumstances of Thne, relating 

 to Christ's or John Baptist's Conception and Birth, ac- 

 cording to the Books and Chapters foregoing by John 

 Butler, B.D.," &c. 



This Kalendar extends to p. 149. : — 

 Chap. IV. " Of the certain Year, Moneth, and Day, 

 both of the Passion and Baptisme of the ever Blessed our 

 Lord Jesus Christ. And of the Day and Year of his 

 Birth, from thence demonstrated, by means of the An- 

 cient Computation of the Olympiades, according to the 

 Greeks." 



At p. 179. we have another new title : — 

 " XPlSTOAOriA ; or a Kalendar Scriptural and Astro- 

 nomical, For Five Years space, and part of Two other 

 Years : viz. The Years Julian 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, and part 

 79 and 8L Whereof Four Years and 3 Moneths were the 

 Time of Christ's Ministrj', and the rest of the Time was 

 after. And do clearly evidence the due Order of all Pas- 

 sages and Circumstances of Time relating to the Ministry' 

 of Christ. And thenceforth demonstrate the certain 

 Times of his Birth, Baptisme, and Passion, by John But- 

 ler, B.D., &c." 



This Kalendar completes Book II. at p. 255. : — 

 " The Third Book : of the punctual Hour of the Day, 

 and Minute of that Hour, whereon Jesus Christ was 

 born. Proved by the un-erring Canons of Astrology." 



This part of the work contains some astrological 

 diagrams, such for instance as " A True Scheam 

 of Heaven at the moment of time of Christ's Na- 

 tivity," &c. These, however, are quite unintel- 

 ligible to those who have not studied that abstruse 

 and occult science. Should, however, any of the 

 correspondents of "N. & Q." interested in this 

 subject wish to examine the contents of the book 

 more closely, I shall feel great pleasure in for- 

 warding it to him, R. C. 



Cork. 



MAURICE GREENE, MUS. DOC, HIS FAMILY. 

 (2°'^S,iv. 287. 421.) 



I have gleaned some information concerning 

 this gentleman's family from a curious pamphlet, 

 which, either from its rarity or presumed insig- 

 nificance, has been left unnoticed by Lowndes and 

 other bibliographers. It appeared in the year 

 1711, and was ushered into the world with the 

 following lengthy title : — 



" A Vindication of Thomas Greene, Doctor in Divinit3% 

 and Minister of the United Parishes of St. Olave in the 

 Old Jewry, and of St. Martin's in Ironmonger Lane, in 

 the City of London, from the Complaints and Objections 

 which Lawrence Smith, Doctor of Civil Law, and Rector 

 of South Warmborough in Hampshire, and some of his 

 friends have made against him, for endeavouring to re- 

 move him from the Sunday Afternoon Lecture, in the 

 Church belonging to those Parishes. To which is added, 

 D"-. Greene's Request to his Parishioners for their Favour 

 and Assistance, that his Son may succeed Doctor Smith 

 in his Lecture for a limited time, if the Bishop of London 

 shall remove him from it at Lady-day next. Feb. the 

 17. 17jo. London, Printed for the Author, 17|o." Quarto. 



The writer (Dr. Maurice Greene's father) tells 

 us that he was a native of one of the parishes of 

 which he was the incumbent ; that he was then 

 upwards of 63 years of age ; had a wife (also ad- 

 vanced in years) and three sons, and had been 

 for above thirty-two years minister of the parishes. 

 That his income was very limited — he alludes to 

 the possibility of its becoming increased on the 

 happening of certain contingencies, to nearly 100/. 

 per annum — and that he had " received" many 

 great crosses and losses and disappointments in 

 the world." He describes the son whose appoint- 

 ment as Lecturer he was seeking to obtain, as 

 being not only young, but also " very little and 

 low of stature, but which circumstances he hopes 

 will not operate unfavourably to him, since, 

 " under the same disadvantages, His [the son's] 

 Grandfather Greene, who liv'd in the Old Jewry 

 was so eminent in the profession of the Law that 

 he got Fifteen Hundred Pounds Yearly by his 

 Practise towards the latter end of his Life, and 

 Dyed at last Recorder of the City of London 

 about the 42d year of his Age." 



The Obituary of Richard Smith, printed by the 

 Camden Society, contains the following entries 

 relating to the Greene family : — 



" 1633. Decem. 5. M^ Fyncher, M'. Green's clerk in 

 the Old Jurj', died. 



1641. June 21. M'» Green, in the Old Jur3-, died. 



1653. May 17. Serjeant John Green died in Fleet 

 Street, buried in the country. 



1G69. Novem. 1. M''. John Greene, Recorder of Lon- 

 don, son to Serjeant Greene, died. 



1659. Novem. 29. M" Greene, wife to M"". Greene, late 

 Recorder, died in child bed ; her child died ^' day be- 

 fore." 



Besides the Vicar >of St. Olave's, Jewry, there 

 were two other clergymen bearing the name of 

 Thomas Greene, who were contemporaries with 



