2"'i S. VIII. Dec. 31. '59.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



535 



From the known courtesy of the present rector, 

 Dr. English, I am sure, if Mr. G. Nichols should 

 wish to learn its date, he has only to write and 

 ask that gentleman. 



In a room over the porch of Sutton Church, 

 near Abingdon, I saw, some few years ago, the 

 fragments of what looked like the copy of an 

 early edition of the work. D. R. 



.In the old library of St. Nicholas church in 

 Newcastle- on-Tyne is a copy of Foxe's Book of 

 Martyrs, edition of 1632, to which was formerly 

 attached the chains by which the books were fas- 

 tened to the desk in the choir of the church. 

 These chains are now in the possession of Mr. 

 Emerson Charnley, bookseller of this town. 



In Dr. Tomlinson's library attached to the same 

 church is a fine copy of the edition of 1684 in 

 three volumes folio. The work itself is perfect and 

 clean, but it calls aloud for a new binding. 



Edward Thompson. 



Newcastle-on-Tvne. 



There is a good copy in 3 vols, of date 1641 in 

 the Library belonging to Lichfield Cathedral. 



There is a fine large paper copy of the edition 

 of 1684 in the Permanent Library of Lichfield. 



I have vol. i. of the edition of 1641, with the 

 large woodcut of the " Poysoning of King John 

 by a Monke," and the " Pope treading on the neck 

 of the Emperour Frederick," and many other cuts. 



T. G. LoMAx. 



Lichfield. 



In the parish church of Kinver, Staffordshire, 

 near Stourbridge, is a copy of The Acts and 

 Monuments of Christian Martyrs, printed by John 

 Daye, 1583 ; together with a sermon in Latin in 

 the reigne of Edward VI. by John Jewel, Bishop 

 of Sarisburie, and The Whole Duty of Man, date 

 1703, which three old volumes are preserved in 

 a desk standing in the south aisle of the above- 

 named church. T. E. Winnington. 



QUENTIN BEIiY : MORWEG : LAALE. 



(2°« S. i. 433.) 



The proper title of the book from which Breboeuf 

 quotes is — 



" De HoUandsche Liis met de Brabandsche-Bely, 

 poetischer Wyse vorgestelt en gedicht, door Gilles Jacobs 

 Quintiin, 's Gravenhage, 1629, pp. 368." 



The lines quoted are at p. 198. I cannot find 

 any account of the author beyond what is in his 

 book, from which it appears that he had lived 

 about twenty years at Haarlem as a citizen and 

 shopkeeper (burger en koopman), p. 332., but was 

 residing at the Hague in 1629, as the book 

 " vindtse te koop by den Autheur, daer nu woo- 



nachtig, op de Suyl-straet." At p. 76. he says he 

 had been some time in London, and (p. 321.) 

 shows his knowledge of English by a song to the 

 tune " Com Scheapherdes deck jour Heads." 



The two principal poems, Lys and Bely, are 

 satires descriptive of Dutch manners and morals, 

 written in easy harmonious doggrel, very pleasant 

 to read, but not always easy to understand, the 

 spelling being antiquated, and many of the words 

 " patter." That the author was a strict moralist 

 I have little doubt ; but he is occasionally very 

 coarse, and must have been thought so even in 

 that coarse age, for (p. 330.) he insists that he 

 has described the vices of licentious youth only in 

 such terms as the clergy would use in the pulpit. 

 Among the prodigalities of the women who dress, 

 beyond their station he mentions the wearing of 

 stockings (p. 188.), and having wine poured over 

 their hands instead of water after dinner (p. 213.). 

 Some ladies smoked : — 



" Anderen Tabacco drincken 

 Die dan stincken 



Als een bier-man, in de banck : 



Wie ! son willen by haer slapen, 

 Allsse gapen, 



Overraits haer vuylcr stanck ! " 



All these, however, are the "bastaerdt soorte," not 

 the virtuous old Brabanters. 



At p. 348. are some lines to the reader who may 

 think the book dear. I do not make out the price, 

 but it could not be low. The printing is excel- 

 lent, and the paper so good that the cuts are un- 

 injured by the letter-press on their backs. The 

 drawing and engraving are of a high order ; the 

 figures are wonderfully varied and alive, and the 

 subjects generally treated with great decency, for 

 that time. I say generally, for one illustration is 

 the dirtiest I ever saw. 



As the book is not common, perhaps you may 

 find room for a handsome compliment to the Eng- 

 lish youth of the beginning of the seventeenth 

 century. In an address to the Netherlandish 

 young men in London Quintyn says : — 



" De Engels Jeugdt aldaer 



U voorgaet allegaer, 

 In Eerbaerheijt van leven : 

 Wilt haer nu volgen dan 

 Om dat myn pen u kan 

 Haest heter roem na geven 

 Siet, hoe de Engels Maegt, 

 Haer Vader daer behaegt ; 

 Als sy in vuyle weder, 

 Eerbiedig op de straet 



Haer plicht hem blijkcn laet, 

 Int vallen voor hem neder *, 

 Sie ist in kleren net 

 Niet slordig als een slet 

 Niet kaeckel-bont als hoeren 

 Hoe komtem dan Vriendin, 

 Dat gy, door dertel sin, ■ 

 Vlaet aldus vervoreren? 



* An expensive mark of respect if the daughter is not 

 emancipated, and the father pays her dressmaker. 



