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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°a S. V. 126., Mat 29. '58. 



of the councillors of the Earl of Flanders, in his 

 dramatic poem of Philip Van Artevelde : — 



" Lives, lives, my Lord, take frcel}', 

 But spare the lands, the burgapres, and moncj's. 

 Tlie father dead, may sleep and be forgotten ; 

 T!ie patrimony gone, that leaves a wound 

 That is more slow to heal — heirs are above-ground 

 ulways" 



J. E. T. 



Book Inscription. — At the end of 



jNIS. 



" Newc Testament " (apparently WicklifFe's trans- 

 lation) in Bp. Cosln's Library, Durham, is the 

 following note in an old handwriting : — 

 " Verse founde upon an olde abby wall. 

 ' Christ was the worde y' spake it, 

 Hce gave the breade and brake it, 

 Looke what that worde did make it, 

 That I believe and take it.' " 



The words seem familiar to me, but I cannot 

 recall where it is that I have seen them. Can you 

 fissist nie ? 



The book belonged to one who signs himself 

 thus : — " Thos. de Virgineo Fonte, Maidenwell or 

 Maidwell." ' C. J. R. 



The Castle, Durham. 



[We cannot discover with certainty who is the author 

 of these lines. The}' are usuallj' attributed to Queen 

 Elizabeth, who, says Miss Strickland {Queetts of England, 

 iv. lOG.), "being pressed to declare her opinion as to the 

 real presence of the Saviour in the Sacrament of the 

 Lord's Supper, replied in the following extempore lines : 

 ' Christ was the Word that spake it, 



He took the bread and brake it ; 



And what his Word did make it, 



That I believe and take it.' 



This is given on the alleged authoritj' of Camden, but in 

 which of his works is not stated. The same idea, clothed 

 in almost the same words, is found in a conversation of 

 the Lady Jane Grey, which she held with Feckingham, a 

 Roman Catholic priest, a few days before her execution ; 

 — "What took he but bread? and what broke he but 

 bread? and what gave he but bread? Look what he 

 took he brake ; and look what he brake he gave ; and 

 look what he gave that did thej' eat." (Vide Appendix 

 to her Life and Remains, by Sir H. Nicolas.) To increase 

 the difficulty, these lines are attributed to Dr. Donne in 

 his Poems, 18mo. edit. 1654, p. 352. ; but as we find in the 

 same volume two other pieces attributed to him which 

 are hy Sir John Roe (see pp. 62. 197.), much reliance 

 cannot be placed on this edition.] 



John Fox on Time and the End of Time. — 

 Messrs. G. & R. King, of Aberdeen, published in 

 12mo,, 1855, a little work, entitled Time and the 

 End of Time, in two discourses, the first on re- 

 demption of time, the second on the consideration 

 of our latter end. They attributed the authorship 

 to John Fox the martyrologist, of whom a brief 

 memoir is prefixed. This edition is reprinted 

 from one at Glasgow, by John Robertson and 

 Mr. Maclean, booksellers, in the Saltmarket, 



1746. An edition (London, 1683) is in Sion 

 College library, Q. iv. 56. From a note by Mr. 

 Baker, in Wood's Athen. Oxon. (ed. Bliss, i, 533.) 

 we were induced to suppose the real author to 

 have been John Fox, B.D., sometime of S. 

 John's College, Cambridge, afterwards Fellow of 

 Catharine Hall, and ultimately prebendary of S. 

 Paul's, rector of Hanwell, Middlesex, and canon 

 of Westminster, who died about Oct. 1623; but 

 we find it attributed by Palmer (Nonconformist 

 Memorial, ii. 253.) to John Fox, ejected from the 

 vicarage of Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire, 1662, 

 and who took the degree of B.A. at Clare Hall, 

 Cambridge, 1624. The work is not mentioned by 

 Watt or Lowndes, and any farther particulars 

 respecting it or its author will be acceptable to 



C. H. AND Thompeon CoorER. 



Cambridge. 



[The date of the earliest edition of Time and the End 

 of Time is that of 1670. In 1676, the same author pub- 

 lished the following work, The Door of Heaven Opened 

 and Shut : Opened to the Ready and Prepared ; Shut 

 against the Uni-eady and Unprepared. Viy John Fox, 

 Minister of the Gospel, and author of the Discourse con- 

 cerning Time and the End of Time. London, printed for 

 Sam. Sprint, at the Blue Bell in Little Britain. 1676. 

 12mo. From these dates we think the authorship must 

 be attributed to John Fox, the ejected minister of Puc- 

 klechurch, and afterwards pastor of a congregation at 

 Nailsworth. In The Life and Errors of John Dunton, i. 

 209., edit. 1818, we read that " Mr. Samuel Sprint, sen,, 

 thrives much in trade, and has printed Mr. Fox of Time, 

 and Mr. Doolittle on the Sacraments."'^ 



Rhemish New Testament. — Will Mr. Offor 

 have the kindness to give me a short collation of 

 the Rhemish New Testament, 1600, and inform me 

 if there were tivo editions of the Rhemish New 

 Testament, 1582; as I have a copy, but without 

 title-page, closely resembling the latter, and should 

 like to know the date of it. J. S. M. 



[We subjoin Mr. Offor's repl}'; — "I have never 

 heard of two editions of 1582. Mj' copy was the property 

 of Sir John Eveljm : large margins, clean and crackling 

 as when it came from the press. That of 1600 is a re- 

 print of every leaf, except that it has added, after the 

 Preface, a table of places corruptly translated in the 

 English editions, &c. When placed in juxtaposition, the 

 difference is seen in every page ; but without this, J. S. 

 M. m&j satisfy himself by examining pp. 238-9. One of 

 the marginal notes in 1582, is ' As ludas of al vnbeleeuing 

 heretikes, so Peter beareth the person of al beleeuing 

 Catholikes, namely, in the B. Sacrament.' This is al- 

 tered in the second edition [1600] to 'As S. Peter bear- 

 eth the person of al beleeuing Catholikes ; so ludas of al 

 vnbeleeuing Heretikes. He being the first arch-heretike ; 

 and this, against the B. Sacrament, the first heresie.' The 

 head-line of p. 543, is 'To the Cnlossians;' from p. 745. 

 they differ; in 1600, a table, &c., begins on that page, but 

 in 1582, it has a very handsome large ornament — 'A 

 table' beginning on the reverse. The last page (1582) has 

 'Thefaultes correcte thus;' the list contains 16. That 

 of 1600, • The faultes escapeil in printing, we trust the 

 gentle reader wil of his curtesie easily amend and pardon.' 

 The edition of 1582 is noted for the frequent use of an 

 indelicate initial letter A, supported b3'two naked satyrs. 

 See Matt, xxvi., &c, Gborge Offok."] 



