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possible for him, therefore, to use the edition of 

 Gerbelius : and I have no doubt that it was one 

 of several copies of the N. T., printed and in 

 manuscript, tliat the great reformer had before 

 him. But that it was not the edition used by him 

 for his version was clearly proved in the contro- 

 versy on this subject which was carried on be- 

 tween Eckhard On the one side and Boysen and 

 Palme on the other, at the beginning of the last 

 century. There was nothing indeed in the cha- 

 racter of the text to entitle it to this distinction. 

 It follows the second edition of Erasmus so ser- 

 vilely as to omit Mark, xi. 26. For the omission 

 of 1 John, v. 7. -the editor could plead sufficient 

 authority. S. D. 



The Mannock Family (2"^ S. v. 5.) —Within 

 my recollection, i. e. in 1837, a branch of the Man- 

 nock family, professing the religion of the Church 

 of Rome, was seated at Gilford's Hall, near Had- 

 leigh, in Suffolk. The house was let at that time 

 to a gentleman of my acquaintance, on whom I 

 called when I was staying in the same year in 

 that neighbourhood, on a visit to the Archdeacon 

 of Colchester of that day, and more recently Dean 

 of Canterbury. The mansion is of the true Tudor 

 type, lying low among green meadows watered by 

 a clear front stream, the Brent, I think. Whether 

 this family still exists, or whether it is an off- 

 shoot of the baronet family of Mannock, men- 

 tioned in connexion with Pope, I am quite unable 

 to state. C. W. 



[Gilford's Hall was the property and seat of the baro- 

 net family of Mannock, in whose ancestors the estate has 

 been vested since the time of Henry VI. Sir George 

 Mannock, the ninth baronet, died in 1787. William Va- 

 lentine Commyns Mannock, Esq., died in 1819; after his 

 death this property was purchased by Patrick Power, 

 Esq., who has taken the name of Mannock.] 



Coal Clubs in Agricultural Districts (2°^ S. iv. 

 491.) — A Query of the same kind as the above 

 appeared about the same time in the Gardener's 

 Chronicle. As Vrtan Rheged's object is to 

 benefit the poor to the greatest extent, and his 

 fund appears to be a permanent one, the case of a 

 neighbouring parish may be perhaps suggestive to 

 him. 



At some time and by some person certain 

 lands were devised — the rents to be applied, pri- 

 marily, to the keeping up and decorating the 

 parish church, and then the surplus to be divided 

 among the poor. All documentary trace of this 

 has vanished (how conveniently such documents 

 always do vanish !) — the land luckily, however, is 

 still extant, and its proceeds are administered by 

 trustees under, I believe, a Chancery deed, who, 

 after expending a few shillings on the outside of 

 the fabric in the way of replacing a loose stone 

 and stopping sparrow-holes in the thatch (the in- 

 terior they refuse to interfere with), distribute at 

 least a ton of coal to each household — provided 



they have a legal settlement in the parish, and 

 have not been chargeable thereto for relief, for 

 the space of a year. The man then becomes 

 eligible to be placed on the list, but he has to 

 wait then another year for his coals. By what 

 parochial conspiracy this deed was originally ob- 

 tained, it is impossible now to find out, but the 

 working of the rule is excessively pernicious. 



The real persons benefited are the cottage 

 owners and the ratepayers, — the one class by 

 the advance of their rents, the others by the 

 straits the poor will undergo to avoid forfeiting 

 their coals by accepting parochial relief. The 

 healthy and able-bodied labourer is no better off; 

 while the infirm, the sick, the maimed — who are 

 driven by stern necessity to apply for assistance 

 to the parish — are actually worse off than they 

 would be, if no such charity existed ; inasmuch 

 as they have to pay the extra rent, without the 

 advantage of the boon held out to them as an in- 

 ducement to hire in the first instance. No won- 

 der, then, that, where no impediment exists, the 

 charity is clamorously demanded as a right. 



E. S. Taylor. 



Separation of the Sexes in Churches (2"^ S. iii. 

 108. 178.; iv. 54. 96. 499.)— In the parish of 

 which I am the incumbent, situated in the co. 

 Tyrone, and on the edge of the co. Fermanagh, a 

 small portion of which is included in it, there are 

 two Episcopalian places of worship ; in the smaller 

 of which this distinction is rigidly observed, 

 while in the larger there is a marked tendency 

 towards the practice. 



Here at least Calvinistic tenets will not ac- 

 count for the custom, which is locally attributed, 

 both in this and neighbouring parishes, to Me- 

 thodistic teaching, though with what truth I can- 

 not say. • Enivri. 



A Lady restored to Life (P' S. xi. 146. ; xii. 

 154. 215. 314.) — In Smith's History of Cork, vol. 

 ii. p. 428., I have met with the following para- 

 graph : — 



" Mr. John Goodman of Cork died in January, 1747, 

 aged about fourscore ; but what is remarkable of him, his 

 mother was interred while she lay in a trance ; having 

 been buried in a vault, which she found means to open, 

 she Avalked home, and this Mr. Goodman was born some 

 time after." 



Can any reader of " N. & Q." tell me whether 

 this was really the case ? I have heard and read 

 of many similar instances; but I am rather scepti- 

 cal. Abhba. 



Quotation Wanted: '■'■Millions of spiritual crea- 

 tures," Sfc. (2"'^ S. v. 49.) — H. R. F. will find the 

 line — 



"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth" — 



(not myriads) in Paradise Lost, book iv. line 677. 



Edw. J. Sage. 



