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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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nble to give Sheriff Bell's authority for the state- 

 ment, as woU as the " old lady's " name, age, and 

 history. I do not remember her being quoted in 

 your interesting collection of remote traditions 

 through few intermediate links. E. C. 



Davis the Almanac Maker. — In my wander- 

 ings among the churches and churchyards of our 

 merry England, in the autumn of last year, I paid 

 a short visit to the parish of Priors Marston, in 

 the county of Warwick, where the village school- 

 master was my cicerone ; and, finding I was in 

 search of the curious, he called my attention to 

 an inscription on a flat stone between the high 

 pews in a side aisle, which, from the darkness of 

 the place, would have escaped my observation ; 

 but here it is : 



" In Memory of 



Mr. Richard Davis, 



An Eminent Scholar*, 



Could make Almanacks, 



Who died 10"» Ocf, 1793, 



' Aged 85 years. 



The stone-mason appears to have committed a 

 most grievous error in cutting the inscription, by 

 the omission of that which was evidently the most 

 important portion of it ; for the line " * Could 

 make Almanacks" is cut at the foot of the stone, 

 with an asterisk at the end of " Scholar" pointing 

 thereto, which omission, if not duly corrected, 

 would probably have consigned the reputation of 

 the deceased in this curious art to oblivion. As 

 it is not so long since this venerable gentleman 

 was gathered to his fathers, it may be hoped that 

 some of your correspondents may be able to give 

 us an a(>count of his life, and whether he really 

 was the maker of any of the Almanacs of the 

 period in which he lived. J. B. Whitborne. 



" Chimcera" — Can any of your readers name 

 the author of a short poem, in four stanzas, called 

 " The Chimasra," the first stanza of which I sub- 

 join ? It was copied, several years ago, from a 

 novel, the title of which was not preserved : 

 " I dreamed one morn a waking dream, 

 Brighter than slumbers are, 

 Of wandering where the planets gleam, 



Like an unsphered star. 

 Round a Chimaira's yielding neck 

 With grasping hands I clung; 

 No need of spur, no fear of check, 

 Those fields of air among." 



Stylites. 

 " Rebukes for Sin" — 



" Rebukes for Sin bj' God's Burning Anger : by the 

 Burning of London : by the Burning of the World : by 

 the Burning of the Wicked in Hell -Fire. To which is 

 added, A Short Discourse of Heart-Fixedness, as a Means 

 against Perplexing Fears in Times of Danger : occasioned 

 by tlie General Distractions of the Present Times. By 

 T. D. London : printed, and are to be sold by Dorman 

 Newman, at the Chyrurgeons' Arms in Little Britain, 

 near the Hospital, 1667." 



Who was T. D. ? Anon. 



John Hollyhush. — I shall be much obliged by 

 any one informing me, through your pages, who 

 was Jhon Hollybush. I have a folio, bound up 

 with my Turner's Herhal and Battles in England, 

 bearing this title : 



" A most Excellent and Perfecte Homish Apothecarye, 

 or homely Physicke Booke, for all the Grefes and Diseases 

 of the Bodye. Translated out of the Almaine Speche in 

 English, by Jhon Hollybush. Imprinted at Collen, by 

 Arnold Birckman, in the yeare of our Lord 1561." 



Miles Coverdale translated the New Testament 

 out of the Latin, and it was published in 1538 

 (2nd edit.), and its title-page states it Is " fayth- 

 fuUye translated by Johan Hollybushe." Had 

 Coverdale anything to do with translating the 

 Homish Apothecarye ? G. W. J. 



[John Hollybushe was an assistant of James Nichol- 

 son, printer in Southwark, who seems afterwards to have 

 settled at Cologne. It is quite certain that Coverdale had 

 nothing t» do with the publication of the Homish Apnthe^ 

 tarye. The history of the edition of the New Testament 



%earing the name of Hollybushe is somewhat curious. In 

 the enrly part of 1538 Nicholson proposed to print Cover- 

 dale's translation and the Vulgate in parallel columns; 

 and previously to the bishop setting off for Paris, he had 

 written a dedication to Henry VIIL, trusting to Nichol- 

 son's care for the correcting of the press. When the book 

 came out it was so incorrectly executed that the bishop 

 immediately disowned it, and brought out at Paris, in 

 December, 1538, a more correct edition. In his dedi- 

 cation to Lord Cromwell he saj-s, "Truth it is that this 

 last Lent I did, with all humbleness, direct an epistle 

 unto the King's most noble Grace, tnisting that the book, 

 whereunto it was prefixed, should afterwards have been 

 as well correct as other books be. And because I could 

 not be present myself, by the reason of sundry notable 

 impediments, therefore inasmuch as the New Testament, 

 which I had set forth in English before, doth so agree 

 with the Latin, I was .heartilj' well content that the Latin 

 and it should be together : Provided alway that the cor- 

 rector should follow the true copy of the Latin in any 



• wise, and to keep the true and right English of the same. 

 And so doing, I was content to set mj' name to it : and 

 even so I did ; trusting that though I were absent and out 

 of the land, yet all should be well. And, as God is my 

 record, I knew none other, till this last July, that it was 

 my chance here in these parts, at a stranger's hand, to 

 come by a copj' of the said print : which, when I had 

 perused, I found that as it v.'as disagreeable to my former 

 translation in English, so was not the true copy of the 

 Latin observed, neither the English so correspondent to 

 the same as it ought to be : but in many places both base, 

 insensible, and clean contrar}', not only to the phrase of 

 our language, but also from the understanding of the text 

 in Latin." {Gov. State Papers, vol. i. p. 591.) Nichol- 

 son the printer, wishing in some wa3'to cover the loss he 

 had incurred, printed another edition, which was stated 

 in the title to be "Faythfullye translated by Jhon Holly- 

 bushe," to distinguish it from the previous edition. See 

 the Rev. Henry Walter's First Letter to the Bishop of 

 Peterborough, p. 31. ; and Anderson's Annals of the En- 

 glish Bible', vol. ii. p. 36.] 



Miirdiston v. Millar. — In an article on dogs in 

 Chambers's Misccllanif, vol. i., and also in Sir 

 AValter Scott's notes to St. Ronans Well, men- 



