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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1869. 



N". 199. — CONTENTS. 



NOTKS: — Forgeries on Banyan, by George Offor, 321 —John Bunyan 

 and " the Pilgrim's Progress," &c., 322 _ De Guileville's " Pilgrimage 

 of the Soul," lb. — Probation Lists of Merchant 'laylors' School— No. 

 3., by Rev. Charles J. Robinson, M.A., /6. — Prince of Wales in Ox- 

 ford, by Rev. F. Trench, 323 — Sir William Ussher, 324 _ Sir Amyas 

 Paulett and Sir Drue I)rury,76. — Kiric Session Records, 125. 



Minor Notes : — Careless Writing and Odd Result— Sponge or Spanish 

 Cakes — Charm for cutting Teeth — Lynching by Women in Oldea 

 Time — Bobyll and the Cardinal's Hat, 326. 



QUERIES : —Poem on the French War, by Joshua Leavitt, 327. 



Minor Qceries: — Francis Burgersdicius — Bulse — James Anderson 

 — Grinding Old People Young —Drummondof Colquhalzie— The 

 Combat between the Dukes of Norfolk and Hereford — Quotation — 

 Joseph of Exeter's Poem, entitled " Antiocheis," ifec, 327. 



Minor Qokrtes with Answers:- Vindicta Bernardi — Jetonniers — 

 Aylward Family Crest — The Duchess of Marlborough— i'aul Gem- 

 scge — Bible, Misprint in Seventh Commandment, 329. 



REPLIES: — Henry Smith, by Rev. J. Eastwood, &c.,S30 — London in 

 1558, 331 —Bacon's Essays, 332 — Bearded Women, by P. Hutchinson, 

 333 — Soul, by T. J. Buckton, 334 — Early Editions of Foxe's Book of 

 Martyrs, by Nicholas Pocock,«:c.,/6. 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Sir Robert le Gris — Alderman Hart — 

 Baron of Beef at Windsor— Mr, Abdias Ashton of St. John's Coll. 



Camb Sutt'ragiin Bishop — Sir William and Sir Richard Weston- 



Actresses ennobled by Marrias e— Duchess of Bolton—Termination in 

 ■' -ness " — Cross and Candlesticks on Super- Altar — Lord Nithsdale's 

 Escape — Schuyler— Gay's Works, &c., 337. 



Monthly Feuilleton on French Books. 



FORGERIES ON JOHN BUNYAN. 



The Editor of the first complete edition of all 

 Bunyan's works reprinted accurately from the ori- 

 ginal editions, which were corrected by the author, 

 is desirous of giving as perfect a list as possible 

 of all the books which have been published under 

 his name or initials, or with titles intended to de- 

 ceive the public into a belief that works with 

 which he was not in the slightest degree con- 

 nected were written by him ; the popularity of 

 his name ensuring a large sale to such forgeries. 

 He denounced this iniquity prior to his decease in 

 1688 on the reverse of the title-page to the third 

 edition of One Thing is Needful, and other poems, 

 by John Bunyan, in these words : — 



" Advertisemetit. This Author having Publish'd many 

 Bookij which have gone oflf very well : There are certain 

 Ballad-sellers about Newgate, and on London- Bridge, who 

 have put the two first letters of this Author's name and 

 his Effigies to their Rhimes and Ridiculous Books, sug- 

 gesting to the World as if -they were his : Now know, 

 that this Author publisheth his Name at large to all his 

 Books ; and what you shall see otherwise he disowns." 



Can any of the readers of " N. & Q." add to 

 the following list ? — 



1. The Saints' Triumph, or the G\ory of the Saints with 

 Jesus Christ. Describing the Joys and Comforts a Be- 

 liever reaps in Heaven after his painful Pilgrimage and 

 Sufferings on Earth. By J. B., with Bunyan's portrait 

 on the title. Small 4to. pamphlet. J. Blare, Looking Glass 

 on London Bridge, 1689. 



2. The Second Part of the Pilgrim's Progress, 1683. De- 

 dicated to Jehovah by T. S. Frontispiece, two clergymen 

 in full costume, one sleeping. Bunyan published his Se- 

 cond Part in 1684. Query, who was T. S. ? 



3. The Pilgrim's Progress, the Third Part. London 



Bridge, 1693. The preface is signed J. B. J. Eyiand 

 considered this as inferior to Bunjan as a piece of hop- 

 sack is to the finest cambrick, or a daub to a Titian. It 

 has also very indelicate passages, and to it was appended 

 a life of Bunyan containing a paragraph about the ran- 

 ters so indecent that a new life was written for the 

 fourth edition, 1700. In the reprint of the old life, by* 

 Mr. Ivimey, the bad part was omitted. Querj% who was 

 the author of the book, or of either of the lives ? 



4. An Exhortation to Peace and Unity among all that 

 fear God. The late Mr. Robinson of Cambridge has 

 fully proved that this was not from the pen of Bunj'an. 

 It has been published in every edition of his works. 

 Query, Is there any edition of it before Buuj-an's death, 

 1688? The first that I have seen is in the .second edition 

 of the Barren Fig Tree, 1688. This has a black border 

 round the title-page, it being published after the author's 

 death. 



5. The Visions of John Bunyan; being his Last Re- 

 mains, giving an Account of the Glories of Heaven, and 

 the Terrors of Hell. Midwinter, London Bridge. No 

 date, but after the accession of George I. 



This is a verbal reprint, preface and all, of "the World 

 to Come, the Glories of Heaven and the Terrors of Hell 

 Lively displaj'ed under the Similitude of a Vision." By 

 G. L. 4>ika.v9ptanoi, GwiUim, 1711. G. L. was George Lar- 

 kin, a friend of Duntoa's, who mentions the book in his 

 Memoirs. 



6. Hearts-Ease in Heart Trouble by J. B., a servant of 

 Jesus Christ, 1G9I, republished in 1728 by J. B., Minister 

 of the Gospel, with a Hebrew motto on the title. This 

 book was written by James Burdwood, a Nonconformist 

 minister ejected from St. Patrick's, Dartmouth [Palmer's 

 Noncon. Memorial']. It is dated " From the house of my 

 pilgrimage March, 1690, Bunyan having long before en- 

 tered upon his house eternal in the heavens. In 1762 it 

 was published under the name of John Bunyan, and 

 went through many subsequent editions; one even by 

 the Tract Society, but was soon withdrawn. The third 

 page exhibits a sentence diametricallj' opposed to Bun- 

 yan's sentiments. " We are always too prone to fall into 

 extreams; to sin either in excess or in defect, too much, 

 or too little; we are faulty both ways." What a slan- 

 der to charge Bunj'an with saying, men sinned too little ! 



7. The Riches of Christ or the Glorious Treasure of 

 Heavenly Joys, Exhortations to Repentance, with a de- 

 vout Prayer. By J. Bunyan, Edinburgh, 1741, 12mo., 8 

 leaves. 



8. The new Pilgrim's Progress, or a Pilgrimage to 

 Greatness, under the Similitude of a Dream. By John 

 Bunyan, 2 lines (rom Horace, 1756, 8vo. A political squib 

 supposed to be aimed at Walpole. It passed through 

 several editions. 



9. Bunyan's Shove. A copy of the title and date re- 

 quested. 



10. The Advantages and Disadvantages of the Mar- 

 riage State. By J. B., minister of the Gospel ; frontis- 

 piece, the sleeping portrait inscribed John Bunyan of 

 Bedforde. Printed /or the Author, 1775. 



The foulest and most unfounded slander upon the 

 fair fame of Bunyan has been recently published 

 in the Freemans Journal, in which it is asserted 

 that Bunyan copied his Pilgrim's Progress nearly 

 verbatim from an old Popish work on purgatory, 

 called The Pilgrimage of the Soul, which com- 

 mences after the body is dead, and goes through 

 all the imaginary pains of that fraudulent inven- 

 tion so profitable to the priest, called purgatory, 

 scarcely one sentence in which has the slightest 



