Nov. 13. 1852.] 



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use, dose, danger, and antidotes. Together with an 

 Introduction to Herbarisme, &c. ; Appendix of Exo- 

 ticks; and an Universal Index of Plants, shewing what 

 grow wild in England. The second edition, with many 

 additions mentioned at the end of the Preface ; Oxford, 

 1665." A short notice of the author will be found in 

 Wood's AthencB Oxon., by Bliss, vol. iv. p. 296.] 



Ch. Harvie. — In Walton and Cotton's Angler, 

 p. 125. 3(1 edition, 1775, by Hawkins, is a very 

 beautiful though short poem " on the Book of 

 Common Prayer," by Ch. Harvie. Is anything 

 known of him ? Who was he ? Has he published 

 anything else? He is described as an imitator of 

 Herbert, and, by the specimen there given, not by 

 any means a bad one. K. J. S. 



[Sir Harris Nicolas has added the following note to 

 the words quoted by our correspondent : r— -" This pas- 

 sage ('that the author is a friend of mine, and I am 

 sure no enemy to angling') goes very near to unfold 

 the name of the author of The Synagogue, a collection 

 of poems, suppletory to that of Mr. George Herbert, 

 entitled The Temple. For we see ' Ch. Harvie ' sub- 

 scribed to the ensuing eulogium on the Common Prayer, 

 which is also to be found in The Synagogue. And I 

 find in the Athen. Oxon., vol. i. p. 267., a Christopher 

 Harvey, a Master of Arts, vicar of Clifton in Warwick- 

 shire, born in 1597, and who lived to 1663, and perhaps 

 after. Further, the second copy of commendatory 

 verses prefixed to this book has the subscription ' Ch. 

 Harvie, M. A.' The presumption, therefore, is very 

 strong that both were written by the Christopher 

 Harvey above mentioned. At the end of The Syna- 

 gogue are some verses, subscribed ' Iz. Wa.' H. An- 

 thony Wood says The Synagogue was written by Thomas 

 Harvey. — Athen. Oxon., by Bliss."] 



Hugh Broughton. — May I, through the " me- 

 •dium," put the following Queries ? Where can 

 be found the fullest biographical notice of this 

 biblical worthy of the sixteenth century ? Was 

 ever a collected edition of his works published, 

 and when ? Your correspondents will much 

 oblige me by answering either or both of these 

 Queries. A. W. 



Kilburn. 



[In the year 1662 was published The Works of the 

 Great Albionean Divine, renowned in many Nations for 

 rare skill in Salems and Athens Tongues, and familiar 

 Acquaintance with all Rabbinical Learning, Mr. Hugh 

 Broughton. Collected into one volume, and digested 

 into four tomes. The editor. Dr. John Lightfoot, has 

 prefixed a " Preface, giving some Account of the 

 Author's Life and Writings ; " and at the end of the 

 volume is a Funeral Sermon for Mr. Broughton by 

 Dr. James Speght. The best account of Broughton 

 will be found in Kippis' Biographia Britannica, vol. ii. 

 p. 604. Although Dr. Lightfoot collected the greater 

 portion of Broughton's pieces, still we are inclined to 

 think, that many of his theological manuscripts are 

 yet unpublished, and preserved in the British Museum, 

 of which a list is given in Ayscough's Catalogue. Among 



the miscellaneous folio sheets in the British Museum 

 is " A Schedule of the Workes of the late Reverend and 

 Learned Mr. Hugh Broughton, as they were preparing 

 for the Presse." It contains a list of seventy-eight 

 separate pieces, is without any date, but appears to 

 have been issued during the Commonwealth. The 

 following curious " Advertisement to the Reader " is 

 prefixed to the list : " This ensuing Catalogue pre- 

 sents itself to view with a double scope — an intimation 

 and a request. The former gives to understand a pur- 

 pose to set forth in an entire work the scattered pieces 

 of that famous divine, Mr. Hugh Broughton, a man 

 rarely learned in the originals, excellent in the cleare 

 handling of darkest passages in the Holy Scripture, of 

 closest meaning, eminent in his generation. It pre- 

 sents what by careful well-wishers to the truest know- 

 ledge and publique good hath been preserved in sinister 

 times from perishing in obscurity. This facilitates the 

 request : That if pieces to perfect what is defective, or 

 adde to the whole, be in private hands, they will be 

 pleased not to envy them to the publick, and to light 

 his candle, which without their charge shall shine to. 

 themselves brighter. Nor shall this candid goodness 

 be concealed, that they may reap the good name of 

 faithful treasurers and liberal stewards. Please they 

 therefore to repair to Mr. George Thomason [see " N. 

 & Q.," Vol. vi., p. 175.], at the Rose and Crowne in 

 St. Paul's Churchyard, London, they shall finde a 

 further assurance not to fail of serious performance to 

 answer their pious expectations."] 



Carthusian Order. — When was the Carthusian 

 Order established, and what is known of its his- 

 tory ? 



Mr Weld, in his Auvergne, Piedmont, and Savoy^ 

 thus remarks : 



" Voltaire, cynical as he was, admitted that this was 

 the only ancient order which never wanted reform, 

 the leading rules of governance being so admirably 

 framed as never to require an alteration." 



w.w. 



Malta. 



[The order of Carthusians was founded in the year 

 1084, by Bruno of Cologne, a Canon of the Church of 

 Rheims, who retired with six companions to the desert 

 of Chartreuse, near Grenoble, in Dauphine, and thence 

 took the name of Carthusians. Each member of the 

 community has a cell, with a little garden adjoining. 

 By this means the recluses, however numerous, have 

 no communication with each other. They never meet 

 excepting at the public service, to which women are not 

 admitted ; and whenever it is necessary to make any 

 communication to their brethren, it is done by signs. 

 During meals, they are enjoined to keep their eyes on 

 the dish, their hands on the table, their attention oa 

 the reader, and their hearts fixed on God. Notwith- 

 standing this great severity of their regulations, it ap- 

 pears that no monastic society degenerated so little 

 from their primitive institution and discipline as that of 

 the Carthusians. The progress of their order, how- 

 ever, was less rapid than that of those establishments 

 whose laws were less rigorous, and whose manners 

 were less austere. Consult the Narrative of a Tour 



