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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



t2»<» S. VIII. Dec. 24. '59. 



to smooth James's accession to tbe crown. Its rarity and 

 literary value will be appreciated by the following ex- 

 tracts 'from M'Crie's Life of Melcille, ii. 489. : " Fond of 

 «eeing this work in print, and j'et conscious that it would 

 give great oft'ence, James was anxious to keep it from 

 the knowledge of his native subjects until circumstances 

 should enable him to publish it with safety. ' With this 

 view, the printer being first sworn to secres}' (says be), 

 I only permitted seven of them to be printed, and these 

 SEVEN I dispersed among some of my trustiest servants 

 to be kept close by them.' I have now before me (adds 

 M'Crie) a copy of the first edition [now in the Grenville 

 librarj", Britisli Museum], and I have no doubt that it is 

 one of the seven copies (perhaps the only one existing) to 

 which that edition was limited. It is beautifully printed 

 in a large Italic letter. Prefixed to it are two sonnets, 

 the first of which, entitled ' The Dedication of the booke,' 

 is not to be found in the subsequent editions. On com- 

 paring this with the subsequent ones, I find that altera- 

 tions were made in the work. For though all the charges 

 ngainst the Scottish preachers are retained, James found 

 it necessary to drop or to soften some of his most un- 

 guarded and harsh expressions, and to give an ambigu- 

 ous turn to the sentences which had created the greatest 

 offence. For example, in the original edition he says, 

 ' If my conscience had not resolved me, that all my re- 

 ligion was grounded upon the plaine words of the scrip- 

 ture, I had never outwardly avowed it, for pleasure or 

 awe of the vaine pride of some sedicious Prcachours' In 

 the edition of 11503, that sentence stands thus, 'I had 

 never outwardlie avowed it, for pleasure or awe of any 

 flesh.' " Several other alterations of the text are quoted, 

 and the following among other sentences is omitted, 

 speaking of the Islanders of Scotland, "Thinke no other 

 of them all, then as Wolves and Wild Boares." The 

 other editions, entitled BA2IAIK0N AfiPON, or His Ma- 

 iesties Instrvctions to his Dearest Sonne, Henri/ the Prince, 

 are those of Edinb., 1G03 ; Lond. 1G03, 12mo. ; Lond. 

 1082, with portraits of the King and Prince Henry by 

 White: Latin, Lond. 1604, 8vo. : French, Poictiers, 

 1603, 12mo.; Rouen, 1603; Paris, 1604, 12mo.] 



Founders of Wesleyan Methodism. — The follow- 

 ing cutting from The Times of Nov. 30, 1859, is 

 worthy of being embalmed in your pages, for the 

 sake of the future historians of Wesleyanism : — 



" It is not a little singular that the town of Epworth, 

 Lincolnshire, should have produced both the Rev. John 

 Wesley, the founder of the Wesleyan Society, and the 

 Kev. Alexander Kilham, the founder of the Methodist 

 New Connexion. Wesley was born in 1703, and Kilham 

 in 1762. No monument of either has been erected in the 

 town ; but the Conference of the New Connexion have 

 approved a proposal to erect a monumental chapel in me- 

 morj' of the latter. The site selected for the building is 

 almost in the centre of the town, facing the High Street." 



Wesley died March 2, 1791, aged eighty-eight. 

 When did Kilham die ? and what was his age at 

 his death ? A. T. L. 



[According to a marble monument erected in his chapel 

 at Nottingham, where he was interred, Alex. Kilham died 

 on Dec. 20, 1798, aged thirty-six.] 



" March Hares." — Can you inform me of the 

 origin of the saying, " As mad as a March hare ? " 



W. E. M. 



[In Nares's Glossary, ed. 1858, we read that " Hares 

 are said to be unusually wild in the month of March, 

 v/bjcji is their rutting time." An old sportsman, how- 



ever, informs us, that hares in the month of March, when 

 the winds are usually high, quit the cover to avoid the • 

 continual disturbance arising from the falling of decayed 

 twigs and the rustling of dried leaves. 



" And neither took the gifts he brought here. 

 Nor yet would give him back his daughter, 

 Therefore e're since this cunning archer. 

 Hath been as mad as any March hare." 



Homer a la Mode, 1665. 



" As mad as a March hare; where madness compares, 

 Are not Midsummer hares as mad as March hares? " 

 Ilcy wood's Epigrammes, 1567.] 



Thomas Aquinas. — I wish to identify two 

 volumes containing works of Thomas Aquinas. 

 The books were formerly in the library of Dr. 

 Kloss, the "Bibliophilist" of Frankfort, and now 

 are in my collection. Any information regarding 

 them will be acceptable. Both are in black-letter : 

 the first, 4to., not paged ; initials in rubrical MSS. 

 Text occupies 64 pages ; no " explicit" or " finis"; 

 no registers ; fuUstop only point used. Water- 

 mark, lamb of St. John, with banner, in a circle. 

 On reverse of first leaf is a table containing head- 

 ings of the chapters ; headings numbered conse- 

 cutively from 1 to 18, — the shapes of figures 4, 5, 

 7, 14, 15, 17, arc curious. In a MS. note, on the 

 fly-leaf, in handwriting of Dr. Kloss (?), the book 

 is desci'ibed thus : *' Editio incognita (Coloniaj, 

 Therhoem, 1474 :) confrond duo En :" This note 

 requires explanation : — Is it still " incognita 

 editio" ? What is the meaning of " duo En :" ? 

 Is the printer's name rightly spelt ? Does Pan- 

 zer mention this edition ? The other book is 

 "Thomas Aquinas de Articulis Fidei," etc., 

 folio ; no initials ; not paged ; colon and fuUstop 

 used ; " Et sic est finis" at end ; occupies 35 

 pages. On the cover is the following note by Dr. 

 Kloss : " Panzer, i. 90. 480. (Argintorati, Martinus 

 Flach, 1475,) typis Sallustiis." Will some of 

 your readers kindly refer to Panzer, and co])y 

 any information he may offer concerning either 

 of these works ? I would feel obliged for any 

 notes concerning their identity. I endeavoured, 

 but unsuccessfully, to obtain a copy of the Sale 

 Catalogue of Dr. Kloss's library. It was for sale 

 in Mr. Miller's List for last month, but sold off 

 before I could get it. C. Le Poer Kennedy. 



[Can the former of the two volumes respecting which 

 our correspondent inquires be No. 304. in the Sale Cata- 

 logue of Dr. Kloss's library? 



" 304. [Aquino (S. Thomse de)] Tractatus de Periculis 

 contingentibus circa Sacramentum Eucharisticie (Coloniae, 

 Arti. Ther. Hoernen, 147|." 



We think the " duo En : " to be a memorandum of the 

 price at which the book was purchased = " two engel- 

 groschen " ? Each engelgroschen was worth about six- 

 pence sterling. But there was also the engelthaler, worth 

 about five shillings. 



The other book appears to be No. 397. of the Sale Cata- 

 logue, unless it be No. 898. : "Aliud exemplar, uncut." 

 The following is from Panzer, i. 90. : — 



" * 480. S.Thomae Sunimade Articulis Fidei et Ecclesi® 

 Sacramentis. Tractatus de Periculis cfusp contingunt 



