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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 164. 



the laity of the Church will have not only a great 

 but a dominant share." R, G. 



[We think it will appear, after a careful examination 

 of the subjoined tabular list of the editions containing 

 this corruption, that it looks more like a typographical 

 blunder of the compositor, than a wilful perversion of 

 the Puritan. The majority of the corrupt editions are 

 those issued by the king's printers after the Restoration, 

 whilst the beautiful edition by Bently the Puritan in 

 1648, and that by Giles Calvert the Quaker in 1653, 

 are both correctly printed with the word " we." John 

 Field, who printed seven or eight editions of the pocket 

 Bible, supposed to have been for the use of the parlia- 

 mentarian army, gave the correct rendering of the pas- 

 sage, "whom we may appoint;" although in one of 

 those editions he made a much more serious error, in 

 Rom. vi. 13. : " Neither yield ye your members as 

 instruments of righteousness unto sin ; " and another in 

 1 Cor. vi. 9. ; *' Know ye not that the unrighteous 

 shall inherit the kingdom of God." Both these edi- 

 tions may be seen in the library of George OfFor, Esq., 

 of Hackney, to whose valuable collection and personal 

 assistance we are indebted for the following list. The 

 authorities quoted are— (S.) Stackhouse's History of 

 the Bible; (L.) Lewis, wlio has quoted Howel's His- 

 tory ; and (O.) George Offbrs collection. Those with 

 the initials K. P. are by the king's printers. 



Adamsons "England's Defence; or Treatise con- 

 cerning Invasion" (folio, London, 1680). — Can any 

 of your correspondents give me any account of this 

 work, or its author? I find it mentioned in 

 Brand's Catalogue, first day's sale. E. H. A. 



[This work was written by Thomas Digges, son of 

 Leonard Digges the mathematician, and father of Sir 

 Dudley, and was merely edited by Thomas Adamson. 



It is a tract of sixteen pages, of the same character 

 with that printed at the end of Digges' Stratioticos. 

 The following is a copy of its title-page : "England's 

 Defence. A Treatise concerning Invasion; or, a brief 

 Discourse of what Orders were best for repulsing of 

 foreign Forces, if at any Time they should invade us 

 by Sea in Kent or elsewhere. Exhibited in writing to 

 the Rt. Hon. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a little 

 before the Spanish Invasion, a.d. 1588. By Thomas 

 DiGGs, Esq., Muster-Master General of all her Ma- 

 jesty's Forces in the Low Countries. To which is now 

 added, An Account of such Stores of War and other 

 Materials as are requisite for the Defence of a Fort, a 

 Train of Artillery, and for a Magazine belonging to a 

 Field Army. And also a List of the Ships of War, and 

 the Charge of them, and th~e Land Forces designed by 

 the Parliament against France, anno 1678. Also a List 

 of the present Governors of the Garri.sons of England, 

 and of all the Lord Lieutenants and High Sheriffs of 

 all those Counties adjoining the Coasts. Lastly, the 

 Wages of Officers and Seamen serving in his Majesty's 

 Fleet at Sea per month. Collected by Thomas Adam- 

 son, Master-Gunner of his Majesty's Train of Artillery, 

 anno 1673 ; and now thought fit to be published for 

 the use of the Protestant Subjects of his Majesty's 

 Kingdoms and Plantations : London, 1380."] 



The Abhotsford, Bannatyne, Maitland, and 

 Spottiswood Societies, Spc. — It has often occurred to 

 me that the above and other societies of a similar 

 description do not bring themselves into view so 

 prominently as they ought. Many a very ju- 

 dicious antiquary cannot tell whether the Ab- 

 botsford, Bannatyne, and Maitland Clubs are esta- 

 blished in London, Edinburgh, or Glasgow. Now 

 if the secretary of each of these societies was to 

 communicate to such a publication as " N. & Q." 

 the following particulars, it would save much time, 

 trouble, and research : — 



When the society or club was instituted, and the 

 respective works issued, and the subjects on which 

 they treat. 



The town or city in which the head-quarters of 

 such society is. 



The amount of annual subscription, and any 

 other particulars which might naturally suggest 

 themselves. Aberdoniensis. 



[Our correspondent's hints are valuable ; these pub- 

 lishing clubs and their works ought to be more gene- 

 rally known. The best notice of them will be found 

 in Mr. Martin's Bibliographical Jtccount of privately- 

 printed Books, 2 vols. 4to., 1834, a new edition of which 

 has been announced in our advertising columns.] 



BUrUS's OAK AND STONE. 



(Vol. vL, pp. 264. 343.) 

 The copy of the inscription on the original 

 Stone supplied from Old England is inaccurate 

 in several particulars, which may, perhaps, render 



