2»4 a VIII., Oct. 22. '69.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



331 



follow four Sermons not mentioned in the " Table 

 of Contents," viz. ; — 



1. The Trvmpet of the Soule sounding to Judgement. 



2. The Poore-Man's Teares. 



3. An Alarvm from Heaven, summoning al Men vnto 



the Hearing of the Trueth. 



4. A Memento for Magistrates. 



The volume is a small 4to of 584 pages ; and 

 the writer of this Note would be glad to re-edit 

 the whole, or portions of it, for any publisher or 

 society that would undertake the expense, having 

 long thought it a pity that the great bulk of the 

 religious part of the community should, from the 

 scarcity of the work, be deprived of such an inex' 

 haustible store of plain honest truths set forth in 

 nervous English, enforced by the most striking, 

 though often quaint, illustrations. Henry Smith 

 was unquestionably the best preacher in his day ; 

 and the style and language of the Sermons is such 

 that they could not but be listened to and clearly 

 understood even if preached in our own day. JIas 

 not, however, a modern edition already been pub- 

 lished? It will be seen that the above list does 

 not include " Jonah's Punishmenf," " The SinfuU 

 Man's Searche," " Marie's Choyce " ; unless indeed 

 they are given under a different title, — as for 

 instance, the " Looking- Glasse for Drunkards," 

 in the above list, corresponds to " Noah's Drunk- 

 ^nnesse " in Mr. Cowper's list. 



J. Eastwood, M.A. 



Eckington, Derbyshire. 



My well-worn and much-prized copy of that 

 ^'common family-book" (as Strype calls it), 

 Henry Smith's Sermons, seems to be so -much 

 more complete than that of Mr. Cowper, that I 

 make no apology for describing it. 



If their republication, which I agree with him 

 in thinking highly desirable, were contemplated, 

 it would be well that the whereabouts of any old 

 editions should be ascertained. 



The date and printer's name are torn from the 

 principal title-page, which, however, stands thus : 



" The Sermons of Mr. Henry Smith, gathered into one 

 volume, Printed according to his corrected copies in his 

 lifetime. Whereunto is added God's Arrow against Athe- 

 ists." 



Then follow " The Severall Texts and Titles 

 of the Sermons contained in this book," forty-two 

 in number, commencing with " A Preparative to 

 Marriage," and " A Treatise of the Lord's Supper 

 in two Sermons," and concluding with " God's 

 Arrow against Atheists." 



On the next page is an Epistle to the Reader, 

 signed " Thine in Christ, H. S.," with a short 

 •supplementary Epistle referring to the Treatise 

 on the Lord's Supper. In both of these he al- 

 ludes to his illness ; the first begins, " Because 

 sicknesse hath restrained me from preaching, I 

 am content to doe any good by writing;" and 



the latter ends with these affecting words : — " I 

 would have thee profit somewhat more by this 

 book, because it hath weakened me more than all 

 the rest." 



All but the last four of the subjects announced 

 in the programme then succeed, and occupy, to- 

 gether with " Three Godly Prayers," 600 pages, 

 duly paginated. 



Tlie book then proceeds, like Mr. Cowper's, 

 without pagination, beginning with his title-page 

 No. 2., " Twelve Sermons, &c.," and followed, as 

 in his copy, with two supernumerary title-pages, 

 " Six Sermons," &c., and " Fovre Sermons, &c." 

 After the last of these, however, not only " The 

 Trumpet of the Soule," but the three missing 

 Sermons on " The Sinful Man's Search," " Marie's 

 Choyce," and "Noah's Drunkennesse," as well as 

 two " Zealous Prayers," appear : then come the 

 four subjects omitted at the end of the first Table, 

 viz.: "God's Arrow against Atheists" (Mr. 

 Cowper's No. 1.), and, lastly, Three Sermons, with 

 another new title -pajje, on, 1. " The Benefit of 

 Contentation ; " 2. " The Aflinity of the Faithful;" 

 and 3- " The Lost Sheepe found." This la"st re- 

 fers to a certain Robert Dickons, a " Prentise of 

 Mansfield," who called himself Elias, but whose 

 recantation was brought about, It would seem, by 

 the efforts of Henry Smith, directed by a precept 

 from " the Lord Judges." 



The volume concludes at p. 54. with an imper- 

 fect list of " Questions gathered out of his (i. e. 

 Robert DIckons's) owne Confession, by Henry 

 Smith, which are yet unanswered." 



C. W. Bingham. 



LONDON IN 1558. 

 (2'"' S. viii. 292.) 



In reply to the inquiry of W. P. relative to the 

 drawings of London by A. Van Den Wyngrerde, 

 1558, I am happy to state that they are still in 

 existence. They were purchased of Messrs. Col- 

 naghi some years since by the late Mrs. Suther- 

 land of Gower Street, Bedford Square, and form 

 a portion of the magnificent illustrated Clarendon 

 presented by her to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, 

 where they may any day be inspected. 



As it may be interesting to W. P., and to many 

 of the readers of "N. & Q.," to be informed of 

 the earlier history of these valuable drawings, I 

 am enabled through the courtesy of Mr. Colnaghi 

 to gratify their curiosity. 



The English drawings were twenty in number, 

 and were originally deposited with the justly 

 celebrated printer, Christopher Plantin of Ant- 

 werp, who was highly esteemed by Phillip II. of 

 Spain, consort of Mary I. of England : as views 

 in Spain and Flanders were also discovered in his 

 possession, it is conjectured they were intended to 

 illustrate a history of the possessions of Phillip, 



