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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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tional benefits of the machinery which he invented. 

 Such a combination of talent, interspersed with 

 a variety of entertaining anecdotes, is not excelled 

 bj' any of our modern biographers, and unfortu- 

 nately the volume I possess, which has beautifully 

 engraved portraits of Marvell and Ann Clifford, 

 states it to be the end of volume one. 



Can any of the readers of " N. & Q." inform 

 me if there was a second volume ever published, 

 and by whom ? The work seldom appears for sale 

 in our booksellers' catalogues. J. M. Gxitch. 



Worcester. 



[The above biographies, by the late Hartley Coleridge, 

 have been frequently reprinted. They were published 

 originally under the title of Biographia Boredlis, or Lives 

 of Distinguished Northerns, 8vo,, Lond. 1833. The second 

 edition appeared at Leeds (8vo. 1834),. and was entitled 

 The Worthies of Yorkshire and Lancashire : being Lives 

 of the most distinguished Persons that have been born in, or 

 connected with, those Provinces. ( Vide an admirable re- 

 view of it in the Quarterly, vol. liv. pp. 330 — 355.) The 

 third edition, 8vo., Lond. and Hull, 1835, was simply en- 

 titled Lives of Illustrious Worthies of Yorkshire, &c., and 

 was an exact duplicate of pp. 1 — 480. of the Biographia 

 Borealis, with the introductory Essaj', but with two fine 

 portraits of Andrew Marvell and Anne Clifford, Countess 

 of Dorset. The fourth and most complete edition was 

 published so lately as 1852 (12mo. Lond.) in 3 vols, under 

 the title of Lives of Northern Worthies, with the last cor- 

 rections of the author, and the marginal observations of 

 his father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Our correspondent 

 Mr. Gutch appears to possess all the Lives with the ex- 

 ception of that of John Fothergill, BI.D., which closes the 

 series.] 



Vulture Hopkins. — In the south-west corner of 

 Wimbledon churchyard is to be found a tomb- 

 stone with this inscription : — 



" In a vault under this stone lies interred the body of 

 John Hopkins, Esq., familiarly known as ' Vulture Hop- 

 kins,' who departed this life the 25th April, 1732, Aged 

 69." 



Can you inform an old subscriber who Mr. 

 "Vulture Hopkins" was, and for what he was 

 "familiarly" celebrated? Miles. 



[John Hopkins was a wealthy London merchant, and 

 resided in Old Broad Street. He was the architect of 

 nearly his whole fortune, which originated in some highly 

 fortunate speculations in the stocks, and was considerably 

 increased at the explosion of the South-Sea bubble in 

 1720. He obtained the name of Vulture Hopkins from 

 his rapacious mode of acquiring his immense wealth, 

 which at his death amounted to 300,000?. On one occa- 

 sion he paid an evening visit to Guy, the founder of the 

 Hospital in Southwark, who also was as remarkable for 

 his private parsimony as his public munificence. On 

 Hopkins entering the room, Mr. Guy lighted a farthing 

 candle which lay ready on the table, and desired to know 

 the purport of the gentleman's visit. " I have been told," 

 said Hopkins, " that you, Sir, are better versed in the pru- 

 dent and necessary art of saving than any man now living, 

 and I therefore wait upon j-ou for a lesson of frugality ; 

 an art in which I used to think I excelled, but am told 

 by all who know you, that you are greatly my superior." 

 " And is that all you came about ? " replied Guy, " why 

 then we can talk this matter over in the dark." Upon 

 this, he with great deliberation extinguished his new- 



lighted farthing candle. Struck with this example of 

 economy, Hopkins rose up, acknowledged himself con- 

 vinced of the other's superior thrift, and took his leave.* 



Unfortunately for Hopkins, he happened to be a Whig, 

 and was moreover concerned in various loans to a govern- 

 ment composed of Whigs; this may account for the 

 exacerbation of Pope in the following lines from Epistle 

 III. of his Moral Essays : — 



" When Hopkins dies, a thousand lights attend 

 The wretch, who living saved a candle's end : 

 Should'ring God's altar a vile image stands, 

 Belies his features, nay, extends his hands ; 

 That live-long wig which Gorgon's self might own. 

 Eternal buckle takes in Parian stone."] 



Bibliographical Queries. — Where can I find an 

 accurate description of the leaves which should 

 precede and follow the text of Coverdale's Bible 

 of 1553 ? My copy has a perfect title, differing 

 slightly from Dibdin's Ames's Typogr. Antiq. (iv. 

 246-7.) The other preliminary leaves do not 

 agree with the account given by Mr. Lea Wilson 

 (p. 36.) 



I have a " New Testament in Englishe, fayth- 

 fully traslated accordyng to the Texte of Eras- 

 mus," &c. " Imprinted ad London, in Flete 

 strete, at the Signe of y" Rosegarland, by Wyl- 

 lyam Copland for John Wayly, 1550," 12mo. 

 (See Dibdin's Ames's Typ. Antiq.., iii. 131.) Does 

 it occur in any of the printed lists ? And is it at 

 all rare ? Joseph Rix. 



St. Xeots. 



[^Coverdale's Bible, 4to., published by Jugge, 1553. 

 This book was printed at Zurich by Chrystoffer Fros- 

 chower, 1550. On his title he, by mistake, says " purely 

 translated into Englische by Mayst. Thomas Mathewe " 

 [Wm. Tyndale]. This error was rectified when the book 

 reached England, and Hester put a new title, with " fay th- 

 fully translated into Englyshe by Myles Coverdale, 

 1550." My copy of this edition (a very fine one) has 

 the same number of preliminary leaves contained in the 

 issue of the same book by Jugge in 1553. My copy of 

 Jugge is remarkably fine ; it was Dr. GifTord's, and is 

 bound in old blue turkey, and both this and Hester's 

 are apparently unsophisticated,- the preliminary leaves 

 being the same in each, viz. twelve. But I am told 

 that the Zurich edition had eighteen, Hester's eight, 

 and Jugge's twelve preliminary leaves — each having 

 three leaves of table at the end. Dr. Cotton, in his 

 Appendix to the lists of editions, has an accurate ac- 

 count of the twelve preliminary leaves to the edition of 

 1553, under the date of 1550. Dibdin has only perpe- 

 trated ten errors in reprinting the title-page ! An ac- 

 curate facsimile of Froschower's title and table has been 

 recently published. 



The 'New Testament from Erasmus, by Copland, for 

 Wayly, 1550, r2mo., is of very great rarity. The only 

 account of it that I have met with, is that referred to by 

 Mb. Rix — the fortunate possessor of this volume. _ I 

 hope that he will, when coming to London, bring it with 

 him, and make an appointment with me to meet at the 

 British Museum, and compare it with a very beautiful 

 copy of Copland's edition of 1549, which appears to be 

 very similar. — George Offor.] 



Wiclif's Testament.— 1 have lately picked up, at 

 a bookseller's, a copy of Wiclif's translation of the 

 New Testament, edited by Lewi?, folio, 1731. 



