l^OY. 27. 1852.] 



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straight to the vestry, and, applying herself to the dean, 

 thus she spoke to him : 



" Queen. Mr. Dean, how came it to pass that a new 

 service-book was placed on my cushion?" 



To which the dean answered : " May it please your 

 Majesty, I caused it to be placed there." 



Then said the Queen, " Wherefore did you so ? " 



" D. To present your Majesty with a new year's 

 gift. 



Q. You could never present me with a worse. 



JD. Why so, madam ? 



Q. You know I have an aversion to idolatry, and 

 pictures of this kind. 



D. Wherein is the idolatry, may it please your 

 Majesty ? 



Q. In the cuts resembling angels and saints ; nay, 

 grosser absurdities, pictures resembling the blessed 

 Trinity. 



D. I meant no harm; nor did I think it would 

 offend your Majesty, when I intended it for a new 

 year's gift. 



Q. You must needs be ignorant, then. Have you 

 forgotten our proclamation against images, pictures, 

 and Romish relics in the churches ? Was it not read 

 in your deanery ? 



I). It was read. But be your Majesty assured I 

 meant no harm, when I caused the cuts to be bound 

 with the service-book. 



Q. You must needs be very ignorant, to do this 

 after our prohibition of them. 



D. It being my ignorance, your Majesty may the 

 better pardon me. 



Q. I am sorry for it ; yet glad to hear it was your 

 ignorance rather than your opinion. 



D. Be your Majesty assured it was my ignorance. 



Q. If so, Mr. Dean, God grant you His Spirit, and 

 more wisdom for the future. 



D. Amen, I pray God. 



Q. I pray, Mr. Dean, how came you by these pic- 

 tures ? Who engraved them ? 



D. I know not who engraved them; I bought 

 them. 



Q. From whom bought you them ? 



D. From a German. 



Q. It is well it was from a stranger. Had it been 

 any of our subjects, we should have questioned the 

 matter. Pray let no more mistakes of this kind be 

 committed within the churches of our realm for the 

 future. 



D. There shall not." 



Mr. Nichols, after inserting the preceding dialogue 

 in Queen Elizabeth's Progresses, vol. i. p. 105., remarks: 

 " This matter occasioned all the clergy in and about 

 London, and the churchwardens of each parish, to search 

 their churches and chapels ; and caused them to wash 

 out of the walls all paintings that seemed to be Romish 

 and idolatrous ; and in lieu thereof, suitable texts, taken 

 out of the Holy Scriptures, to be written." Similar 

 inscriptions had been previously adopted, but the effect 

 of the Queen's disapprobation of pictorial represent- 

 ations was to increase the number of painted texts. 



Most of our readers will remember that Izaak Wal- 

 ton admired the worthy dean, Nowell, as a saint of the 

 first water ; in short, as one of the most meek, loving. 



and patient of all God's creatures, just because he be- 

 longed to the piscatorial brotherhood. " I say," remarks 

 Walton, "this good man was a dear lover and constant 

 practiser of angling, as any age can produce ; and was 

 observed to spend a tenth part of his time in angling ; 

 and also, for I have conversed with those who have 

 conversed with him, to bestow a tenth part of his re- 

 venue, and usually all his fish, amongst the poor that 

 inhabited near to those rivers in which it was caught. 

 And the good old man, though he was very learned, 

 yet knowing that God leads us not to heaven by many 

 nor by hard questions, like an honest angler, made that 

 good, plain, and unperplexed Catechism which is printed 

 in our good old service-book."] 



" Plurima, pauca, nihil." — What is the first part 

 of an epigram which ends with these three words : 

 " plurima, pauca, nihil ? " 



G.T. 

 Durham. 



[See Martial, lib. iv. ep. 78.] 



Numismatic Works. — Where can I find an ac- 

 count of the copper and silver coinage of the Eu- 

 ropean nations, within the last two centuries ? 



K. L. 



Tavistock, Devon. 



[In M'CuUoch's Dictionary of Commerce, article 

 Coins.] 



Gabriel Harvey. — Can any of your numerous 

 contributors obligingly supply lists of the published 

 works of Gabriel Harvey, the friend of Spencer 

 the poet, and the antagonist of Nash and Green, 

 and E.i«hard Braithwait, the author of Drunken 

 Bamabys Journal ; and point out in what public 

 or private libraries such works now are to be met 

 with ? W. S. 



[For lists of their works, consult Watt's Bibliotheca 

 Bi'itannica, and Lowndes' Bibliographer's Manual ; also 

 the various catalogues of the British Museum.] 



De Vita Functorum. — I have a work on the first 

 leaf of which is the following : 



" Imprimatur denuo : Quicquid enim De Vita Func- 

 torum Statu eruditus auctor statuit, h£BC certe de eo 

 statuendum; Nee vita Fruiturum sine honore, nee 

 Functurum sine gloria." , 



It is signed, Lambeth, March 2nd, 1663-4, 

 M. Franck, S. T. P. &c. The title-page of this 

 most learned work is gone : is it De Vita Func- 

 torum Statu f The author appears from a MS. 

 note to have been "Dr. Jas. Windet, a learned 

 Physician." He dedicates the book to "V. D. 

 Samuel! Hallo suo." Is this book the same as 

 that called Pythagoras ? I should feel much grati- 

 fied to know more of this curious work, which, 

 appears to be one of some value. B. H. C. 



[The first edition of Dr. Windet's work, De Vita 

 Functorum Statu, was published in 4to., 1663. The 

 imprimatur to this edition is signed M. Franck, S. T. P. 



