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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°'i S. VIII. Oct. 1. '69. 



shop articles. A fevr years ago I picked up, in a 

 street of this town, a fragment of Coverdale's 

 Bible, being part of the first chapter of " Wis- 

 dome," with the ornamental initial letter. It 

 had been used to wrap up some butter. 



My copy of Foxe's Martyrs was in one volume, 

 in its original binding ; but, being somewhat out 

 of condition, it was rebound in two vols., rough 

 calf. I think it is perfect, except that it wants 

 the last leaf of the " Table of Contents " at the 

 end. It has the two title-pages, and all the 

 woodcuts, including the curious folding print, on 

 a separate sheet of paper, entitled " The Descrip- 

 tion of Windsore Castle," and showing the burn- 

 ing of Person, Testwood, and Filmer under the 

 Castle ; with (in a separate compartment, amongst 

 others) of Ockham in the pillory at Newbury. 

 This print is inserted between pp. 1112 — 13., 

 which contain the narrative. In my copy, im- 

 mediately after the title-page of vol. i., is " The 

 Kalender," in six pages, a remarkable peculiarity 

 of which is that January 2nd is marked " John 

 Wickliffe, Preacher, Marter," (rubricated), and 

 the date 387, instead of 1387, in the col. for the 

 year of our Lord. Then follow " Ad dominum 

 Jesum Christum," &c., 2 pages ; Foxe's Address 

 to Q. Elizabeth, 3 pages ; his " ad Doctum Lec- 

 torem," 2 pages ; the " Protestation to the whole 

 Church of England," 5 pages ; " The Utilitie of 

 this Story," 2 pages ; " Four Questions proposed 

 to the Papists," 3 pages ; " Four Considerations," 

 &c., 1 page ; and the laudatory addresses, 2 pages. 

 But all these pages and the Table of Contents at 

 the end, in 25 pages, beginning on the verso of 

 the last numbered, ending with the second item 

 under v. a), are wranumbered. The body of the 

 work is comprised in 1949 pages, all numbered 

 continuously, except the 1731st page, which com- 

 mences vol. 2nd, and is not numbered. The sig- 

 nature or press mark of page 1 949 is zjjjjjJJ.iii. 

 The letter-press measures 11 J by 8| inches. 



Has Mr. Nichols, besides his desire to know 

 where such " copies exist," any wish for their 

 being deposited in some public building or li- 

 brary ? P. H. Fisher. 



Stroud. 



For the information of Mr. J. G. Nichols 

 upon the subject of the early editions of Foxe's 

 Sook of Martyrs, I beg to inform you that I 

 possess a folio copy in three volumes, large paper, 

 in excellent condition, of the edition of 1641. 



Foley. 



Worksop Manor. 



I am fortunate enough to possess a copy of the 

 edition of 1583, in tolerable preservation. The 

 title-page of vol. i. is missing, and it commences 

 with the first leaf of " the Kalender ; " but the 

 title-page of vol. ii., following page 794., iden- 



tifies it as ", newly recognized, and inlarged by 

 the Authour, John Foxe, 1583," and printed at 

 London " by John Day, dwelling over Alders- 

 gate." The total number of pages is 2154, be- 

 sides " a diligent Table or Index," which, with 

 some lacunce, is complete as far as the letters w — i. 

 The book is in the original clamped binding, 

 though the clasps are gone. C. W. Bingham. 



The following books were in the " Black 

 Letter Collection" of the late George Stokes, 

 Esquire, of Cheltenham : — 



" John Foxe, Acts and Monuments - 1576. 



„ „ „ - - - 1583. 



„ „ „ ... 1596. 



„ „ „ ... 1684. 



Eerum in Ecclesise Gestarum. Basileae. 1563." 



Also : — 



" Actea des Martyres deduits en Sept Livres depuis le 

 Temps de Wiclef et de Hus iusques h. present. Crespin. 

 1564." 



Mb. Stokes compiled with much care and 

 labour from the Foxian MSS. in the British Mu- 

 seum the " Memoir of John Foxe " which is 

 prefixed to the volume of the British Reformers, 

 containing extracts from the writings of the 

 Martyrologist. This series was edited by Mr. S., 

 and is published by the Religious Tract Society. 



S. M. S. 



I should not have thought the rarity of editions 

 of Foxe's Martyrs, after the third or fourth, so 

 great as described by Mb. Nichols. They oc- 

 casionally occur in catalogues. I have a fine copy 

 of the edition of 1596, in the original binding 

 (second vol. only), which, from its condition, is 

 certainly one of those which rested on the library 

 shelves. There can be no doubt that the tempta- 

 tion offered by the woodcuts has caused the de- 

 struction of many copies. Only to-day I saw in 

 a printseller's shop several cuts of martyrdoms 

 from this work offered at Is. each — a price which, 

 if realised, would make the piecemeal sale of a 

 copy pretty profitable. X.- 



West Derby, near Liverpool, Sept. 22. 



I have in my library a copy of Foxe's Actes, 

 1st and 2nd vols., of the date of 1596. A few 

 leaves are wanting, but on the whole it is in fair 

 preservation. It is in oak boards, at least half an 

 inch thick, and has raised brass bosses at the 

 corners. N. S. Heineken. 



Sidmouth. 



LATIN POEM AGAINST MILTON. 



(2"'» S. viii. 227.) 

 In reply to Ithubiel, it may be stated that in 

 1670 there was published at Cambridge, from the 



