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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2>"i S. VIII. Dkc. 31. '59. 



volume contains 1240 pages. The title-page of 

 one of these sermons is as follows : — 



" The Soldier's Honour, Preached to the Worthie Com- 

 panie of Gentlemen that exercise in the Artillerie Gar- 

 den, and now on their second request published to farther 

 use. London, Printed by Augustine Matthews for John 

 Grismand, 1629." 



A volume of the works of the author of the 

 Whole Duty of Man, containing 



« The Whole Duty of Man. The Cause of the Decay of 

 Christian Pietj'. The Gentleman's Calling." 



The above bear this imprint, " London, printed 

 by Roger Norton for Robert Pawlet at the Sign 

 of the Bible in Chancery Lane, near Fleet Street, 

 1683." 



Then follows the Second Part of the works of 

 the author of the Whole Duty of Man, containing 



" The Ladies' Calling. The Government of the Tongue. 

 The Art of Contentment, and the Lively Oracles given to 

 us." 



The "Second Part" was printed at the Theatre 

 in Oxford, 1684. 



The following inscription is on the cover of this 

 volume : — 



"The Gift of y« Worshippfull Sir Edward Waldo of 

 Pinnar in the County of Middlesex to the Parish of 

 Enstone in the County of Oxford." 



"A Companion to the Temple, or a Help to Devotion 

 in the Use of the Common Prayer, &c. By Thomas 

 Comber, D.D. ; London, printed by Samuel Roycroft for 

 Robert Clavell at the Sign of the Peacock, near the West 

 End of St. Paul's church, 1684." 



The following inscription is on the cover : — 



" The Gift of Thomas Martin, Gent., late of Rowsham, 

 to y" Church of Enston." 



"A Collection of Cases and other Discourses lately 

 written to Recover Dissenters to the Communion of the 

 Church of England. By Some Divines of the City of 

 London. London : Printed for Thomas Basset at the 

 George in Fleet Street, and Benj. Tooke, 1694." 



On the cover is this inscription : — 



" D.D. Vir Claris : Car: Aldworth Savilliau : Professo: 

 & Coll: Magda: Oxon: Socius, Anno Domini jidcxcvi." 



A volume containing fifty-four Sermons, and 

 The Rule of Faith, by Archb. Tillotson, 6th edi- 

 tion (title-page wanting). The cover is thus in- 

 scribed : — 



"The Gift of the Honour'd Esquire Keck, 1701." 



J. J. Howard. 

 Lee. 



I have at this time in my possession a copy 

 of the second edition (1570) of this work be- 

 longing to the church of Saint John the Baptist, 

 Glastonbury. It is bound in two volumes, the 

 first ending with page 924. The whole work con- 

 tains 2302 pages, besides an unpaged index. The 

 , edition accords with that referred to by Mr. Po- 

 COCK (ante, 335.), excepting that in the Glaston- 

 bury copy pages 1269. and 1270. are correctly 



numbered, and the index, although incomplete, 

 contains twelve leaves. The title-page of the first 

 volume is gone, but it otherwise appears perfect. 

 The title-page of the second volume is also miss- 

 ing, as well as eleven leaves, and the index from 

 the word " strife." In other respects th^ copy is 

 in a very fair condition. It was formerly chained 

 to desks in the church, and a portion of the chain 

 is still attached to the first volume. J. G. L. B. 



I have a fair copy of Foxe : its margins, how- 

 ever, are sadly cut down, and it is in an ordinary 

 modern binding. The first volume has on the 

 title, "Printed for the Company of Stationers, 

 1641." The second, " Printed Anno Domini 

 1631." The third, " Printed by R. Yoyng, 1631." 

 In each of the latter dates the figure 3 has been 

 altered with a pen to a 4 ; but with ink so pale as 

 to leave the 3 plainly discernible. This copy ap- 

 pears to be perfect, with the exception of perhaps 

 two leaves before the beginning of the work in 

 vol. ii., and of one leaf of the " Table " at the end 

 of vol. iii. It is in fair condition, some of the 

 leaves containing the commencement of Queen 

 Mary's reign having been carefully mended : the 

 only part apparently which has been much studied. 



This copy has, after p. 1030. of vol. iii., " A 

 continuation," &c. " London, Printed by Adam 

 Islip Fffilix Kingston and Robert Yong, 1632," in 

 the highly ornamented title-page described by your 

 correspondent A. B. R. That title-page, I think, 

 has no reference to any earlier edition of Foxe. 

 Your correspondent will probably see at the top 

 of the ornament the letters NI, under the device 

 of a lamb bound on an altar, above which are the 

 words possidete animas vestras, and the mark ^ 

 below them ; which I take to be the initials and 

 cypher of the engraver, or printer for whom it was 

 first engraved, or both. I shall be glad to know 

 from some of your correspondents to whom they 

 refer. The very same ornamental title is prefixed 

 to the several treatises comprised in Sir Henry 

 Savile's Collection of English Chroniclers, printed 

 at London in 1596. Henry Freeman. 



Norman Cross, Stilton. • 



Dr. Crawford is very glad to be able to inform 

 Ma. J. G. Nichols that he also has a large, 

 clean, and perfect copy of the 1641 edition of 

 Foxe's Book of Martps, which he bought more 

 than thirty years ago of Mr. Talboys of Oxford. 



Woodmansteme Rector3', near Epsom. 



Canon Morris, in his valuable contribution to 

 English history, The Life and Martyrdom of St. 

 Thomas Becket, lately published, says, note 418., 

 p. 435., that in the library of the English College, 

 Rome, there is the copy of Foxe's Martyrs used 

 by Father Parsons : the edition is not mentioned. 



