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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2na S. No 107., Jan. 16. '68. 



durst but Whisper their Consciences and Thoughts: He 

 oliose Texts on purpose to shew the Unlawfulness of great 

 Sin of matching with Idolators, being often committed to 

 prison for it, when he was preacher at Martins in the 

 Fields ; and then by the next Sabbath day one Lord or 

 other would beg his Liberty of the King, and presently 

 no sooner out but he would go on and mannage the same 

 3Iore Fully, Notwithstanding all the Power of tlie 

 Bishops, being committed Again and Again: being as 

 I heard him say Six or Seven limes in Prison, insomuch 

 they coming so oft to King James about him he began to 

 take more notice of him, asking What is this Dr. Everout 

 yoH come so oft about? his Name hence forth on my Soul 

 (^Saith he) shall be Dr. Neverout and not Dr. Everout." 



He was soon after arraigned before the "Bishops' 

 High Commission," and deprived of his " benefice, 

 being four hundred pounds a year." During the 

 reign of Charles I., he was frequently summoned 

 for doctrine and conventicles. He prophesied the 

 entire downfall of the bishops the year before the 

 rising of the Scots. " He lived to see Strafford 

 and Canterbury put under the black rod, and then 

 He was gathered to his fathers." 



Many of the sermons were preached at private 

 meetings, the rest at public meeting places. There 

 are no dates given. I should be glad to learn 

 whether these public meeting places were au- 

 thorised, and when that authority was first given. 



If the address to the reader, and one or two of 

 the sermons, would be of- any service to the 

 Messrs. Cooper, it will give me pleasure to for- 

 ward them on the receipt of their address. 



C. D. H. 



College Street, Keighley, Yorkshire, 



P. S. In the extracts the words in italics and 

 those beginning with capitals are so in the ori- 

 ginal. 



"ENDEAVOUR USED AS A KEFLECTIVE VERB. 



(2°'i S. iv. 490.) 



Since attention was drawn in your first volume 

 to this usage, I have met with so many instances 

 as to have long ceased to "make a note of" them. 

 Subjoined are a few of these instances: the first four 

 of which, by the way, clearly do not bear out the 

 suggestion of C. I. E. (P' S. i.285.), that the verb 

 is used in its ordinary neuter sense. " I endea- 

 vour myself," might be for " I myself endeavour ;" 

 but " I endeavour me" could not be so transposed. 



" That euery man in his partye endeuoyre them vnto 

 the resistence a forsa}'d." — Caxton, "Prol. to Godf. of 

 Boloyne." (Ames's Typog. Diet., i. 37.) 



" I haue endeuoyred me to make an ende, and fjTiyshe 

 thvs sayd translacion." — Id., " Prol. to Golden Legend." 

 (/i. 47.) 



" I haue endeuoyred me to obey her noble desj're and 

 request." — icZ., "Prol. to Knyght of the Toure." (76., 



" Whyche booke accordynge to hys request I haua 

 endeuorde me to accomplyshe and to reduce into our 

 Englyshe."— Wynken de'Worde, "Prol. to Les Quarte 

 filzAymon." (76.140.) 



Foxe uses the phrase constantly, e. g. — 



" To the which we doe endeuour our selfe to the best of 

 our power." — ♦' Letter of Ld. Protector to Bp. Gardiner." 

 (Foxe, ii. 718.) 



So also in Udal's translation of Erasmus's Pa- 

 raphrase (1548), the same occurs frequently, 

 e.g.— 



" Those seruauntes ... do still endeuoyre Ihemsehies to 

 do theyr office." — Mark, fol. 87. rev. 



" Endeuour your selfes earnestly to bee suche as ye 

 would be taken for." — Luke, fol. 112. rev. 



So also in Latimer's Sermons, and the Homilies 

 as quoted in your first volume. J. Eastwood. 



I was induced some half-dozen years ago to in- 

 sert in the Hereford Times a paragraph upon the 

 reflective use of the verb endeavour, because in 

 reading the Preface (their appointed task) to the 

 " Order for Confirmation," which contains the 

 fourth instance of such use occurring in the 

 Prayer-Book, whereof the other three are cited 

 by j. C. R. (2°"^ S. iv. 489.), all bishops' chaplains 

 that I ever heard, in their zeal to display before 

 their patron a judicious elocution, so emphasised 

 the words as to evince how little knowledge an 

 educated clergyman, prelate, or priest, possesses 

 of his native tongue. 



The clause in the preface is as follows : 



" And also promise that by the grace of God they will 

 evermore endeavour themselves faithfully to observe such 

 thinnjs, as they bj-- their own confession have assented 

 unto." 



On the illiterate assumption that, some how or 

 other, they wot not wherefore, by " themselves " 

 the catechumens are meant to be contradistin- 

 guished from their sponsors, a pause is made at 

 endeavour, and the pronoun is enunciated empha- 

 tically, as though it were in apposition to they, 

 and not as it is the objective case after endeavour. 



J. C. R. inquires, can any correspondent pro- 

 duce a parallel example from secular literature ? 

 Yes, I ref)ly, as many as would fill a number of 

 "N. & Q." from title-page to colophon. They 

 abound everywhere in the pages of our divines : 

 those, I mean, whose writings have outlived a 

 century. Five, however, may suflSce : 



" And that he endeauour himselfe by all meanes, with- 

 out any respect of danger, to preserue and recouer the 

 same."— The Art of War, by Edw. Davies, Gentleman, 

 p. 22. London, 1619. 



" Those that be ordinarie shall endeuour themselues to 

 take the word of those that be extraordinarie." — Ibid. 

 p. 106. 



" We oughte not onely to do for our frendes, but also 

 sometimes to dooe for strangers, and to endeuer our selues 

 to get their beneuolence." — The Preceptes of Cato, the ii. 

 booke. London, 1550. 



"And notwithstanding all this the Pope made of his 

 Sonne as his deare darlinge, and whollj'e endeuored him- 

 selfe to aduaunce him to honour ; and when any made 



