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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 163. 



being the legal year, and in all public, and most 

 private, written documents; the latter generally 

 used in print, as it was all over the Continent. 

 There, therefore, can be no doubt on the point 

 raised, and that September 1660 preceded Ja- 

 nuary 1660, which should be designated as Ja- 

 mmry 16|y- I' is inconceivable what a difficulty 

 this difference of style makes in arranging the 

 dates of old papers ; but the legal year was most 

 generally followed, even in private letters. C. 



Editions of the Prayer Book prior to 1662 

 (Vol. vi., p. 435.). — The object of my Query, 

 printed at page 435., was to obtain an accurate list 

 of the various editions of the Book of Common 

 Prayer which issued from the press from 1549 to 

 1662 inclusive. The very valuable work. Ree- 

 ling's Liturg. Brit., refers rather to the renisions 

 which the Prayer Book underwent. I have not 

 access, at present, to Mr. Pickering's elegant re- 

 prints, but I do not think that even this work 

 would supply my desideratum. The following 

 very imperfect list will, perhaps, form a ground- 

 work for a correct one, to the compilation of which 

 I solicit the attention of your correspondents : 



1549. Whitchurche. 7th March, London. (Brit. 



Mas.) 

 Whitchurche. 4th May, London. (Brit. 



Mus. ) 

 Whitchurche. 16th June. (Brit. Mus.) 

 Grafton. March. (Brasenose Coll. Oxon.) 

 (Query the same as Whitchurche, 7th March ?) 

 Grafton, 8th March. (Bishop of Cashel. ) 

 Grafton. Mense Martii on title, but Mense 



Junii in colophon. (Brit. Mus.) 

 Oswen. Worcester, 23rd May. 

 Oswen. , 30th July. (Brit. Mus.) 



1550. Grafton. Booke of Common Praier. Noted, 



4to. 



1552. Whitchurche. First edition. (In private 



possession. ) 

 Whitchurche. Second edition. (Brit. Mus.) 

 Grafton. August, first edition. (Lambeth.) 

 Grafton. August, second edition. (Brit. 



Mus. ) 



1553. Reginald Wolfe. Liber Precum Publicarum. 



4to. 



1559. Grafton, or Jugge and Cawoode. (Univ. 



Lib. Cam.) 



1560. Reginald Wolfe. Liber Precum, &c. 4to. 

 Day. Church Service, fol. 



1562. Cawood. 



1569. Reginald Wolfe. Liber Precum, &c. 12mo. 



1571. Reginald Wolfe. Liber Precum, &c. 12mo. 



1572. R. Jugge. Fourme of Common Prayer. 



1573. Vautrollier. Liber Precum, &c. 4to. 



1574. Vautrollier. Liber Precum, &c. 8vo. 

 s. D. Christopher and Robert Barker, 4to. 



1604. Query, by whom printed? (Trin. Coll. 



Cam.) 

 1620. Barker and Bill. (In my own possession.) 

 1637. Scotch Service Book. (S. John's Coll. Cam.) 



This list has been compiled chiefly from the 

 following sources ; Rev. J. Ketley's Two Liturgies 

 of Edward VI. (Parker Society) ; Rev. W. Kee- 

 ling' s Liturgies Britannicoe, 1st edit. ; Mr. Stephen's 

 reprint of the Sealed Books (Eccl. Hist. Soc.) ; 

 and Johnson's Typographia, vol. i. 



I do not remember to have seen any list of the 

 editions of the Prayer Book prior to 1661-62, 

 when it assumed its present form ; though I can- 

 not but think that some such list may be in ex- 

 istence in one of the many works devoted to its 

 history. If a complete list has not yet been 

 printed, the literary history of the Prayer Book 

 will receive a valuable addition from the commu- 

 nications of those of your correspondents who may 

 be disposed to correct and amplify the preceding 

 enumeration ; which, permit me to say, is put 

 forth, not as having any pretensions to complete- 

 ness (especially towards its. conclusion), but simply 

 as a nucleus for further information. 



W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 



Office for Commemoration of Benefactors (Vol. v., 

 pp. 126. 186.). — It has been suggested to me that, 

 in order to complete my former communication, 

 I should send you a transcript of the Collect there 

 referred to ; it is as follows : 



" O Lord, we glorify Thee in these Thy Servants our 

 Benefactors, (Jeparted out of this present life ; beseech- 

 ing Thee, that as they for their time bestowed cha- 

 ritably for our comfort the temporal things wliich Thou 

 didst give them, so we for our time may fruitfully use 

 the same to the setting forth of Thy Holy Word to Thy 

 laud and praise, and, finally, that both they and we 

 may everlastingly reign with Thee in glory ; through 

 Jesus Christ our Lord. — Amen," 



W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. 



" The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong " 

 (Vol. iii., p. 494. ; Vol. iv., p. 125. &c.).— Could this 

 memorable line have originated from Milton's De- 

 fensio pro Pop. Ang, ? I quote a passage or two 

 out of many : 



" Detur ilia regia licentia male faciendi." — Cap. ii. 

 p. 15., Londini, 1651, 4to, 



" Noli igitur Deo banc atrocissimam injuriam facere, 

 quasi is regum pravitates et nefaria facinora jus esse re- 

 gium doceret." — Cap. ii. p. 23. 



"Jus male faciendi cum sit regi nullum, manet jus 

 populi natura supremum," — Cap. v. p. 94. 



Kt. 



Warmington, 



Civilation (Vol. vi., pp. 199. 376.).— Thomas De 

 Quincey, to an article in Hogg's Instructor, or 

 Sir William Hamilton, with a Glance at his Logical 

 Reforms (Part LII., new series, July, 1852), has 

 the following note : 



" In a state of civilation : and what state may that be ? 

 As the word is a valuable word, and in some danger of 



