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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°^ s. VIII. July 2. '69. 



PRICE OF BIBLES. 



(2°'> S. vii. 373. 483.) 



The following is an extract from a MS. letter, 

 date 1664, from the Rev. Joha AUin in London, 

 to his friend at Rye : — 



" I cannot yet gett a bible for y* old woman, but one 

 printed 1661, 12s. price, and 6d. if claspt, but I count y* 

 too deare, and not of y* edition she desire with Beza's 

 Annotations." 



From the catalogue of a private library of the 

 date of the latter part of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury, in which all the books are methodically 

 described, with their cost prices, I transcribe the 

 following list of Bibles, &c. : — 



" 8vo. Hebrew Bible contaiiig all y* Old Testament. 

 Amsterdam. — English Singing Psalmes. London. 1631. 

 6s. 



Fol. Latin. Old Testament and Apocrypha, with mar- 

 gent. Imanuel Tremellius and Ffrancis Junius. — New 

 Testament, both of Tremellius and Beza, with notes. St. 

 Gervase. 1607. 12s. 



4to. English Service and Psalmes. — Old Testament 

 and Apocrypha with Margent, New Testament with 

 Margent, 1686. — Two Tables. — Singing Psalmes. London. 

 1584. 6s. 



8vo. French. Old Testament and Apocrypha, New Tes- 

 tament with Tables (Rochell, 1616, Church of Geneva). 

 — Singing Psalmes, fForme of Ecclesiastique Prayers, &c. 

 6s. 



4to. Latin. Old Testament and Apocrypha, — New 

 Testament with Tables. Basil. 1578. Vulgar edition. 5s. 



8vo. English Service and Psalmes. London. 1640. 

 — Old Testament and Apocrj'pha. Imanuel Tremelius, 

 Francis Junius, Amsterdam. 1639. — New Testament. 

 Theodore Beza. — English Singing Psalmes. London. 

 1641. 6.». 



8vo. Latin. Old and New Testament. London. 1640. 

 — English singing Psalmes. London. 1648. 4s. 



8vo. Old and New Testament and singing Psalmes. 

 Cambridge and London. 1647. 4s. 



8vo. New Testament with Beza's Notes. L. Tomson. 

 London, 1582. — English singing Psalmes. London. 

 1613. 2». 



16mo. Greek. New Testament ; Epistle of Hen. Ste- 

 phens, and Notes of Isaac Casaubon. Oliva. 1617. Is. 6c?. 



16mo. Greek. New Testament. Amsterdam. 1632. — 

 English singing Psalmes. London. 1632. Is. 6d. 



16mo. Dutch. New Testament. — Singing Psalmes. — 

 Catechisme. — Christelicke Gebeden, &c. Amsterdam. 

 1652. Is. 6d. 



8vo. Latin. New Testament. Vulgar edition. 4d. 



16mo. Italian. New Testament. Antony Bruciclus. 

 Lyons. 1549. Is. 6d. 



12mo. Psalmes and Hymmes and Spirituall Songes 

 inMeeter. New English Church. London. 1652. 6d. 



8vo. Old and New Testament. John Came. 1662. 

 35. 9(2. 



8vo. Hebrew Bible cent, all y^ Old Testam'. Edition 

 of Menasseh ben Isr. Amsterdam. 1639. — Greek New 

 Testament, edition of Rich. Whittaker. London. 1633. 



168. 



8vo. Latin. Old Testament, Apocrypha, New Testa- 

 ment, with Tables, &c. Lugduni. 1663. Vulgar edi- 

 tion. Is. 



Fol. Greek and Latin. New Testament in 2 versions, 

 ye one old, y« other of Beza, with large Annotations on 

 the Greeke and 2 Tables. 1598. 4s. 



4to. Syriac. Psalmi Davidis, &c. lingua Syriaca, &c. 



in vers Latin. Lugduni. Thomas Erxenius. 1625. — 

 Marci Evangelistae Evangelium, Syriac^ Cothenis. 1622. 

 — Divi Johannis Epistola Cathol. 1» Syriack Martinus 

 Trostius Cothenis. 1621. Is. 



W.S. 

 Hastings. , 



3^tif\iti to Minat ^xiexiei. 



" Sig7ia" of Battel Abbey (1»* S. ii. 199.) — 

 Mr. M. a. Lower asked for assistance to inter- 

 pret the designation of one of the tenants of. 

 Battel Abbey about the year 1170, who occurs as 

 " J^dricus qui signa fundebat." At p. 237. of 

 the same volume answer was made by the Rev. 

 Dr. Rock, that the word signum was frequently 

 used for a bell ; but I now venture to suggest 

 that the signa in question were the tokens or 

 brooches cast to give or sell to the votaries at 

 Battel as memorials of their visits, — like those 

 which are known to have been distributed at 

 Canterbury, Walsingham, and other celebrated 

 shrines. Since the year 1850, when Volume II. 

 of " N. & Q." was printed, much has been col- 

 lected respecting these Signs of Pilgrimage. 

 Many of the most curious have been engraved 

 from the collection of the Rev. Thomas Hugo, 

 F. S. A,, to illustrate a paper in the forthcoming 

 volume of Archceologia : and I am inclined to 

 hope that, upon the suggestion I now make, either 

 Mr. Lower, Mr. Figg, or some other of the 

 able antiquaries of Sussex, will detect the signa 

 of Battel Abbey either in those plates or in their 

 own cabinets. John Gough Nichols. 



Queen Anne's Churches (2°^ S. vii. 513.) — 

 Another chapel of ease made a church by Queen 

 Anne's commissioners was Aylesbury Chapel, St. 

 John Square, Clerkenwell, which on the 27th 

 December, 1723, was consecrated by the name of 

 the church of St. John, Clerkenwell, and bad a 

 parish assigned to it. For particulars, vide Hone's 

 Every Day Book, pp. 1475—80. W. J. Pinks. 



Barrymore and the Du Barrys (2°'^ S. vii. 362.) 

 — Horace Wal pole, in a letter to the Miss Berrys, 

 dated " Berkeley Square, Feb. 26, 1791," has the 

 following passage : — 



«* Madame du Barry is come over to recover her jewels ; 

 of which she has been robbed, not by the National As- 

 sembly, but by four Jews, who have been seized here, and 

 committed to Newgate. Though the late Lord Barry- 

 more acknowledged her husband to be of his noble blood, 

 will she own the present Earl for a relation, when she 

 finds him turned strolling player?" — Letters of Horace 

 Walpole, by Cunningham, vol. ix. p. 291. 



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CromwelVs Children (2""^ S. vii. 476. 507.) — 

 The Protector had five sons and four daughters, of 

 which the following is a correct list. His two 

 first male children died in infancy ; his fifth died 

 on the day subsequent to his birth. By his wife 



