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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2'»* S, V. 122., May 1. '68. 



coppy of Tho» Mathew's Translacio (by Edm. Becke). 

 Lond. By Jhon Dave, 23 Maye, 1551. Folio. 



" Though stated on the title to be Mathew's translation, 

 it is, with the exceptions of a few chapters (pointed out 

 b3' Mr. Lea Wilson, vide list, p. 39.), in reality Taverner's 

 of 1539, with trivial variations by Ed. Becke, and the 

 addition of the third book of Maccabees (for the first 

 time added). The New Testament is Tyndale's, with his 

 prologues, &c." 



The Query I wish to propound is this : — How 

 can tlie above extracts be reconciled ? Is the 

 third of Maccabees really in the Bible of 1549, 

 or only in the Concordance of 1550 and Bible of 

 1551 ? Mark Cann. 



Plymouth. 



[Mu. Offor has kindly forwarded the following 

 reply : — 



" It is not surprising that Mr. Cann finds difl[iculties in 

 reconciling the date when this interesting book was first 

 published. The words 'neuer before this set foorthe in the 

 Engh'she tounge ' were continued to the last edition in 

 1563. The first that I have seen is in the British Mu- 

 seum, small thick 8vo. Apocrypha by Day and Seres, 

 1549. TJniforialy with this the Canonical books were 

 published in the same year by Day and Seres in four 

 volumes under separate titles: — 'Printed in sundry 

 partes for those pore — that they which ar not able to 

 bie the hole, may bie a part.' 



" In my own collection is that by Bullynger dedicated 

 to the Dutchess of Somerset bj' Gwalter Lynne, 1550. 

 This is in a small volume entitled * A briefe and com- 

 pendyouse Table, in a maner of a Concordaunce,' &c. 



" The Byble old Testament from Taverner and the New 

 from Tyndale by Jhon Day, folio, 1551. The date at the 

 end of this volume is 1551, but on a separate leaf of the 

 royal arms it is 1549. 



" A second edition of the briefe and compendiouse table 

 by Walter Lynne, with the third book of Maccabees, a 

 pocket volume. 1563. It was reprinted in Bp. Wilson's 

 valuable edition of the Bible in three volumes 4to. Bath, 

 1785. It is also found in the French Protestant Bibles, 

 Paris, 1675, and quarto by Blaen, Amsterdam, 1687. This 

 latter has a short but very useful ' Avertissement ' to this 

 III. Maccabees. George Offor."] 



"Durand" — Who is the author of the following 

 play : Durand, or Jncobinism Displayed, a tragedy 

 in five acts, printed by J. Jackson, and published 

 by Bettison, Cheltenham [1816] ? The prologue 

 to this piece appeared in the Gentleman! s Maga- 

 zine for July, 1821, p. 64. Sigma. 



"Blen" in Local Names. — What does this syl- 

 lable imply in the names of Cumbrian localities, 

 such as Blencowe, Blencogs, Blenkinsop, and 

 Blennerhasset ? There are Blaens in Wales, and 

 Blanes in Scotland. Do they proceed from some 

 common Celtic root ? M. A. Lower. 



Lewes. 



Surnames. — I shall be grateful to any corre- 

 spondent of " N. & Q." who will either supply to 

 these pages, or point out to me privately, the 

 sources from which a full list of names with the 



Celtic O' and Mac can be obtained. There are 

 some Macs in Ireland and a few Cs in Scotland, 

 and I shall be glad to have the distinction between 

 the Gaelic and the Erse names preserved. 



M. A. Lower. 

 Lewes. 



Quotations Wanted. — From what author does De 

 Quincey, in his Confessions of an English Opium- 

 Eater, quote the lines beginning, 



" Battlements whose restless fronts bore stars ? " 



T. Q. C. 



Who is the author of the following lines ? — 



" And then the diamond word of Pride 

 In modest accents thus replied, 

 Deep in Golconda's mines we lay." 



I presume the poem to be entitled The Advan- 

 tages of Civilisation. Deva. 



Whence the following ? — 



" Nomina si nescis perit et cognitio rerum." 



(A line quoted by Dr. Flemming, a Glasgow (?) 

 professor.) X. 



Revolvers. — In "N. & Q." 2"'^ S. v. 245., there 

 is an account of " a gun that will discharge nine 

 times with one loading." At the Dublin Exhi- 

 bition, 1853, there was shown a revolver pistol, 

 found in a bog in the north-west of Ireland, about 

 eighty years before. It was, without the slightest 

 diiFerence, the same as one of " Colt's revolvers." 

 Can any one explain this ? S. R. 



Altar-rail Decorations. — A white cloth stretched 

 upon the altar-rails on Communion Sundays, I 

 noticed in a small church in Shropshire where I 

 was taking duty a few years ago. The clerk 

 affirmed it to be an old custom. At Wimborne 

 minster, I am told, such Candidas pannus is a con- 

 stant embellishment. Can any reader supply other 

 examples ? R. L. 



Bartolomo Bergami. — Can any of your i-eaders 

 say what has become of Bartolomo Bergami, who 

 made so conspicuous a figure in the trial of (^ueen 

 Caroline in 1821 ? Is he still in life? or if not, 

 when and where did he die ? J. 



Deafness at Will. — More than twelve months 

 ago a correspondent in "N. & Q." wrote under 

 the above-mentioned title, and stated he was em- 

 ployed in an upper room, composing articles for 

 the public journals, and that under the same 

 room the noise occasioned by the works of a 

 printing office (particularly the devils) often pre- 

 vented him writing with ease and comfort ; and 

 he asked if any of your correspondents knew of 

 any mechanical contrivance by which deafness at 

 will might be procured, without injury to the 

 organ of hearing. I read " N. & Q." at a library, 



