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KOTi;S AND QUERIES. 



[2'>d S. V. 123,, June 12. '68. 



Dedication of Churches to St Patrick (2°'* S. 

 V. 375.) — In reply tq C. O. I. I can inform him 

 that there are seven churches in England dedi- 

 cated to him, but I cannot say whether any have 

 been since the Reformation. I see no objection 

 to a church being so dedicated, A. B. M. 



^tc(crtIane0uS. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, £TC. 



Mr. Forster's Historical and Biographical Essays is 

 composed of two parts, so distinct that we doubt whether 

 it would not have been better to have published them sepa- 

 rately. The papers on De Foe, and Steele, and Churchill, 

 and Foote are well-known and delightful Biographical 

 Essays, — amongst the best of their kind. They need no 

 recommendation to ensure in their new form ^ far wider 

 circle of readers. The new matter in the present work, 

 which forms the other of the two portions of which we have 

 spoken, principally relates to the Stewart period of our 

 history, and the most important part of it comes before 

 us in the shape of an Essay on the Grand Remonstrance 

 of 1641. This document, which from whatever side we 

 view it, — whether we read it with the eyes of Royalist 

 or Roundhead, — is probably the most important state 

 paper in our history, seems to have fallen out of its pro- 

 per historical place. Mr. Forster has now put it before 

 us in such a way as will effectually prevent its being 

 again forgotten. By a minute investigation of its history, 

 and a most careful consideration of its contents — in deal- 

 ing with both which parts of his subject he has worked in 

 the hitherto almost unexplored mines of the D'Ewes MSS., 

 and has brought to bear the recent additions to our his- 

 torical materials for this period made by the Camden 

 Society — Mr. Forster has written a work of a highly im- 

 portant and suggestive character. We are of that old- 

 fashioned school which has not yet consented to believe 

 that King Charles I. was quite so bad as he is painted in 

 modern historical literature; but in considering such a 

 work as Mr. Forster's, the question of good or bad as 

 applicable to Charles I. is one which we must remit to the 

 inquiry and examination of future, and perhaps even yet 

 unborn, historical students and critics. We can only re- 

 gard and rejoice in the honest and careful research which 

 is here applied to the subject, and the manly and inter- 

 esting way in which the results are placed before us. 

 One result of Mr. Forstei-'s examination of the D'Ewes 

 MSS., which seems established by the fac-simile ap- 

 pended to his first volume, has startled soiTie of the best- 

 read scholars in this period of our history. It is that 

 Pym and Hampden opposed the abandonment of the im- 

 peachment of the Earl of Strafibrd and the proceeding 

 against him hy bill of attainder. That such a fact should 

 never have been discovered before is a curious evidence 

 both of the imperfection of our knowledge of the period, 

 and of the value of Mr. Forster's researches. 



The second Division of Mr. Darling's most useful 

 Ct/clopcBtlia Bibliographica, a Library Manual of Theo- 

 logical uyid General Literature, and Guide to Boohs for 

 Authors, Preachers, Students, and Literary Men. Analy- 

 tical, Bibliographical, and Biographical, has reached its 

 Seventh Part. It is quite beyond the limits of " N. & Q." 

 to give an idea of the labour and industry with which 

 Mr. Darling is carrying out his well-considered plan, — 

 or of the amount of practical information and ready re- 

 ference to Books, Treatises, Sermons, and Dissertations, 

 whether published as distinct works, or forming parts of 

 volumes or collected works, on nearly all heads of divinity. 



which that plan places at once before the reader, — so that, 

 to use Mr. Darling's own words, the work forms " an 

 Index to the contents of Libraries both public and private, 

 and a Cyclopaedia of the Sources of Information and Dis- 

 cussion in Theology, as well as in most branches of know- 

 ledge." 



The Committee appointed by the Society of Antiqua- 

 ries upon the subject of the Preservation of Monumental 

 Inscriptions is actively engaged in considering the best 

 means of accomplishing that desirable object. As soon 

 as the plan proposed by the Committee has been submitted 

 to the Council, it will, we trust, be circulated throughout 

 the length and breadth of the land: and we shall be 

 greatly disappointed if it is not attended with the best re- 

 sults. In the meanwhile the Committee, it is understood, 

 are desirous to receive information as to the existence of 

 Collections of Monumental Inscriptions — whether printed 

 or manuscript — of annotated copies of Weever's Fimeral 

 Monuments, Le Neve's Monumenta Anglicana, or other 

 works of similar character — orof copies of County Histories 

 in which any such Records are preserved, so as to enable 

 them to form an Index of Monumental Inscriptions. 

 Communications on this subject are to be addressed to 

 The Society of Antiquaries, Somerset JIause, London. 



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Mrs. Opie's New Talks. 4 Vols. 

 London Magazine foF 1773, 1774, 177S, 1780, and 1783. 

 Parentis Poetical Anthology. 12mo. 1832. 



Catechism ov Health, &o. By B. 0. Faust, translated from the Ger- 

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Dr. ^yATTs' Last Thodohts on Trinity. 



Rammohun Roy's Vei>s. 



Pictorial England (No. 57.) of the shilling weekly numbers. 



Wanted by Thos. Millard, 70. Newgate Street. 



Morton's Synopsis of Organic Remains of Cretagkous Rucks of the 

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Replies to other coi'respondents in our next. 



A. S. A. I'tol'mj/'s Geography, fol. 1535; Ebert says, " This scarce 

 edition is remarkable, and souglit after on account of its having afforded 

 one of the pretexts for the condemnation of Servetus." The words erased 



in the title-page are " Ex BilibaWi yirckeyntheri." Suetonina de vita 



XII. CiEsarum libri XIL/oi. 1480, is loithoutplar^ or theprinter's name. 



This ef/ition appears to have nothing peculiar to itself. JPetrarch^s 



Poems, 4<o. 1660. £bertsays," This edition by Vine. Vqlgrisi wit/i Vel- 



lutdlo's commentary, is fine, and well dime. King Janes's Bible, 



1622, ito.,is one of the numerous editions of the present authorised version, 

 and mere v a reprint of the first edition, 161 1. We have tto published list 

 of these editions; those only are noticed by bibliographers which are re- 

 markable either for gross errors, alterations in the text, or additions of 

 marginal notes or readings. 



Errata. — 2nd S. V. 453. col. i. lines 37-44., for "Wanton" read 

 " Wauion ; " and p. 466. col. i. 1. 53., for " Sergeant " read" Serjeant." 



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