July 22. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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his elder brother John. Thomas Baker, being 

 allowed by the family to examine this, made an 

 extract from it, omitting much in the earlier part, 

 but retaining nearly the whole account of the 

 Gidding settlement. His transcript preserves two 

 (unpublished) letters of George Herbert, letters 

 worthy of the man, in which he thanks his friend 

 for a contribution towards building Leighton 

 Church. As the most effectual means of eliciting 

 the whole memoir, I propose to print this frag- 

 ment. In the meantime I send this extract for 

 your bibliographic readers (Baker's MSS., xxxv. 

 397.) : 



" And as N. F. communicated his heart to him (Her- 

 bert), so he made him the Peruser, and desired the appro- 

 bation of what he did, as in tliose three translations of 

 Valdezzo, Lessius, and Carbo. To the first Mr. Herbert 

 made an epistle, to the second he sent to add that of 

 Cornarius' Temperance, and well approved of the last." 



The Hundred and Ten Considerations of Signior 

 John Valdesso, . . . 7tow translated out of the 

 Italian copy into English, with Notes, Oxford, 

 Lichfield, 1638, 4to., is in the Bodleian, Cam- 

 bridge University, and Sion College libraries. It 

 has notes by George Herbert, and is licensed for 

 the press by Thomas Jackson.* 



The edition of 1646 omits " The Publisher to 

 the Reader," and (of course) Jackson's license ; 

 nor does it end with Valdesso's epistle dedicatory 

 to his commentary upon the Romans. On the 

 other hand, it has given the full date of Herbert's 

 letter (the first edition omits the year), and has 

 an index. The language is slightly different in 

 the two editions. The Hygiasticon of Lessius, 

 Angl. by T. S., 12mo. (Peckard, p. 216., says 

 24mo.), was published with Herbert's translation 

 of Cornaro, De VitcB sobrice commodis, at Cam- 

 bridge in 1634, 



" June 15, 1634. Mr. Ferrar finished a translation of 

 the Instruction of Children in the Christian Doctrine, by 

 Ludovico Carbo. ... In the year 1636 he sent this 

 translation to Cambridge to be licensed for the press. 

 But the authority prevailing at that time in the Uni- 



Aug. 1772, p. 364., and from Mr. Macdonogh's book 

 (Dodd's extract in the Christian Mag. for 1761, I have 

 not yet been able to meet with), is not very much more 

 than a compilation from John Ferrar. But where is 

 Bishop Turner's MS. ? Had Mr. Macdonogh a copy ? 



* This edition, and that in small 8vo., " Cambridge, 

 printed for E. D. by Roger Daniel, Printer to the Uni- 

 versity, 1646," are now before me. See Peckard's note, 

 p. 210. seq., and Mr. Holmes's in the new edition of 

 Wordsworth's Eccl. Biogr., vol. iv. p. 47., where, after 

 giving an account of the book, he says : " It may be re- 

 marked as singular, that at the present time (1852), when 

 so many books have been reprinted, a work translated by 

 Nicholas Ferrar, having notes by George Herbert, and a 

 preface (.') by Thomas Jackson, should have remained 

 unnoticed." These notes of Mr. Holmes's add greatly to 

 the value of Dr. Wordsworth's book ; but much remains 

 to be done, both in the notes and index. There are 

 abundant materials, printed and MS., for a similar col- 

 lection. 



versity would not sufier it to be then published." — 

 Peckard, p. 217. n. 



Has this translation ever appeared ? 



J. E. B. Mayor. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



P. S. — "E. D.," for whom the second edition 

 of Valdesso was printed, is doubtless Edmund 

 Duncon, Herbert's executor. This second edition 

 (1646) has several new notes, which are printed 

 in George Herbert's Remains (ed. Pickering) ; on 

 the other hand, several of the original notes are 

 omitted, and othei's altered. As this edition ap- 

 peared after Herbert's death, we cannot be sure 

 that the alterations have his sanction. At all 

 events the editor should have printed all the notes 

 of both editions and stated the variations. Bar- 

 nabas Oley, in his Life of George Herbert, gives 

 some account of the first edition ; of Ferrar's 

 other translations he says (p. xcix., Pickering, 

 1836) : 



"He helped to put out Lessius, and to stir up us 

 ministers to be painful in that excellent labour of the 

 Lord, catechizing, feeding the lambs of Christ ; he trans- 

 lated a piece of Lud. Carbo, wherein Carbo confesseth 

 that the heretics (t. e. Protestants) had got much advan- 

 tage by catechizing: but the authority at Cambridge 

 suftered not that Egyptian jewel to be published." 



AMERICAN SURNAMES. 



The changes that have taken place in family 

 names during the short period that has elapsed 

 since the settlement of America by Europeans, 

 lead us to believe in the greater changes that are 

 reported to have occurred in surnames in the old 

 world. 



Whenever William Penn could translate a Ger- 

 man name into a corresponding English one, he 

 did so, in issuing patents for land in Pennsylvania : 

 thus, the respectable Carpenter family in Lancas- 

 ter are the descendants of a Zimmerman. 



Many Swedish and German names have suf- 

 fered change : from Soupli has come Supplee ; 

 from Up der Graeff, Graeff and Updegrove ; from 

 Hendrick's son, Henderson. The district of 

 Southwark, in this county, covers ground once 

 owned by a Swede named Swen. His son was 

 called Swen's son, from whom the Swanson family 

 derived their name. The Vastine family came 

 from a Van de Vorstein. 



A person whose family name was Sturdevant, 

 Englished it into Treadaway a few years ago ; and 

 a family which during the Revolution spelt their 

 name Boehm have since softened it into Bumm. 



Occasionally a French name is translated. One 

 of two brothers living near this city is known as 

 Mr. La Rue, his brother as Mr. Street. Several 

 New England names are corrupted from those of 

 the French Acadians : thus Bumpus comes from 



