2°<» S. V, 127., June 5. *68.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



453 



" The Bpp. of Herreford. 

 " Feb. 6«'S 1642. The text taken out of the 85 psalme the 

 gth verse. • Surelj* his saluacOn is nigh them that 

 feare him, and that glorie may dwell in our Land.' 

 "The Bpp. of Eley. 



« The text taken out of the 50"« psal. the 



last verse. 'Whoso oflfereth praise glorifieth mee, 

 and to him that ordereth his conversacoa aright will 

 1 shew the SalvaoOn of God.' 



« The Bpp. of Oxford. 

 "Feb, 20'h, 1642. The text taken out of the I. Epistle of 

 St. Paul to the Corinth., 11 chap. 31 verse. 'For if 

 wee should judge our selues wee should not bee 

 iudged.' 



« Th6 Bpp. oir Landaflf. 

 " Feb. 27, 1642. The text taken out of the 51 psalme 25 

 verse. • Behold I was shapen in Inequitie, and in 

 Sinne did my mother conceiue me." 

 " The Bpp. of Gloucester. 

 "March ll«t, 1642. The text taken out of the 101 psalme 

 the 1 verse. 'I will sing of mercy and iudgment; 

 vnto thee, o lord, will I singe.' 



Arch Bpp. of Yorke. 

 "Apr. W\ 1642. The text taken out of the 20««»i' chapt. 

 of St. John's Gospell 19'h .verse. ' Then the same day 

 at evening, being the 1*' day of the weeke, when the 

 doores were shutt where the disciples were assembled 

 for feare of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the 

 ihidst and said, peace bee vnto you.' " 



The dedication, to "William Earle of Pembroke, 

 Lord Chamberlain ; Thomas Earle of Arundel ; 

 and Philip Earle of Mountgomery," is signed " W. 

 Crashavve." The poet, I presume. Probably this 

 has been remarked before. R. F. S. 



Newark. 



Minor ififlte*. 



Smoking Tobacco in the East. — The Wahabys, 

 a strict sect of Islam, adhering to the Koran and 

 Senna, have made a rallying word of " no smok- 

 ing;" and Burckhardt (^Notes, ii. 199.) relates, 

 that 



" a respectable woman, accused of having smoked the 

 Persian pipe, was placed upon a jackass, with the pipe 

 suspended from her neck, round which was twisted the 

 long flexible tube, or snake : in this state she was paraded 

 through the town." 



He states that "the smoking of intoxicating 

 plants is directly against the Koran " (Notes, ii. 

 115.) ; but it appears from Sale's Preliminary 

 Discourse on the Koran (p. 88.), that opium and 

 beng {hashish) are not mentioned in the Koran ; 

 and tobacco could not, being a modern discovery. 

 The Moslems have, however, a tradition of Mo- 

 hammed saying, "that in the latter days there 

 should be men who should bear the name of 

 Moslems, but should not be really such ; and that 

 they should smoke a certain weed, which should 

 be called tobacco," The Wahabys interpret this 

 against the Turks, being hostile to them in the 

 highest degree for their notorious violations of 



the Prophet's laws, A free exposition of the 

 Koran in the following passage (c. ii. v. 216. p. 

 25.) may also enforce abstinence from smoking : — 



o ■- 

 "They will ask thee concerning wine ( A-i^) [inter- 



preted to comprehend all inebriating liquors] and lots 

 ( ^^^). Answer, In both there is great sin, and also 



some things of use unto men: but their sinfulness is 

 greater than their use." (Conf, c, v, p. 93.) 



T. J. BOCKTON. 

 Lichfield. 



Tobacco Smoking. — Of an old building at Con- 

 stantinople, which was converted into a monument 

 of Sultan Mustafa, Evliya Effendi says ->- 



" This old building is of Greek architecture, and was 

 built before the Prophet's birth. When converted [in the 

 beginning of the 17th century] into a mausoleum, it was 

 a thousand years old. While the windows were being 

 cut in the walls a tobacco-pipe was found among the 

 stones, which smelt even then of smoke; an evident proof 

 of the antiquity of smoking." — Travels of Evliya Effendi, 

 translated by Von Hammer, vol. i. part ii. p. 12. 



o. if. 



Richard Brathwaite. — In Edward Farr's Select 

 Poetry of the Reign of James /., 12mo., Camb., 

 1847, it is said, at p. xxxii., " Richard Brathwaite 

 was the author of nw/weroris dramatic works;" a 

 statement which is not true, and likely to lead to 

 future errors. Brathwaite was a prolific writer, 

 but only two of his publications assume a dra- 

 matic form, — Mercurius Britannicus, or the Eng- 

 lish Intelligencer, 1641 ; and Regicidum, 1665. 

 The first is a political satire, never acted, nor 

 calculated for the stage ; the second a dull Latin 

 tragi-comedy, full of scholastic learning, but to- 

 tally devoid of dramatic interest, and forgotten 

 after it had served its turn. 



Edward F. Rimbaci.t. 



Bp. Cosin's Library, Durham. — As no printed 

 Catalogue of this collection exists, few people are 

 aware of the number of valuable MSS. and printed 

 works that it contains. 



Among the MSS. are : — 



The Works of Thomas Hoccleve. 

 Lidgate's Life of the Virgin Mary. 

 Lidgate's Boetius his Bookes of Philosophical! Com- 

 fort. 



Lidgate's Destruction of Thebes. 

 Peregrinatio Job. Maunderile. 

 The Goolden Roose. [Who is the author?] 

 Chaucer's fine books of Troilus and Chreseide. 



Very few of these have, I believe, ever been 

 collated. C. J. R. 



Suspended Animation.—'' N. & Q." has recorded 

 several instances of suspended animation. I have 

 cut the following from the Stamford Mercury of 

 May 14, 1858. K it be true it is worth a Note 



