Jan. 1. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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he sliall rise again with those whom the Lord 

 raiseth up.) 



Our authorised and truly admirable translation 

 of the Holy Scriptures omits this deeply important 

 conclusion of Job's life, so properly noticed by the 

 learned and excellent I'arkhurst. 



Pray, can you or any of your readers explain 

 the cause of this omission ? As your pages have 

 not been silent on the grand consummation which 

 cannot be too constantly before us, I do not apolo- 

 gise for this very short addition to your Notes. 



Edwin Jones. 



Southsea, Hants. 



Turner's View of Lambeth Palace. — In a news- 

 paper memoir of the late Mr. Turner, R.A., pub- 

 lished shortly after his deatli, it was stated that the 

 first work exhibited by him at Somerset House 

 was a "View of Lambeth Palace," I believe in 

 water colours. I should be glad to ascertain, 

 through your columns, if this picture be still in 

 existence, and in what collection. L. E. X. 



Clarke's Essay on the Usefulness of Mathema- 

 tical Learning. — Can any of the readers of " N. & 

 Q." assist me In obtaining a copy of this work ? 

 In the same author's Rationale of Circulating 

 Numbers (Murray, London, 1778) it is stated that 

 the demonstrations of all the theorems and problems 

 at the end of the Rev. John Lawson's Dissertation 

 on the Geometrical Analysis of the Ancients " will 

 be given at the latter end of An Essay on the 

 Usefulness of Mathematical Learning., which will 

 soon be published." In a subsequent portion of 

 the work, a sketch of the contents of the Essay 

 is given, which include "a Treatise on Magic 

 Squares, translated from the Prench of Frenicle, 

 as published in Les Oum^ages de Muthematique par 

 Messieurs de V Academic Hoyale des Sciences, with 

 several Additions and Remarks." And in a list of 

 " Tracts and Translations written and published by 

 H. Clarke, LL.D.," which occurs at the end of my 

 copy of the first volume of Leybourn's Mathema- 

 tical Repository (London, 1805), the Essay appears 

 as No. 10, and is stated to have been published in 

 8vo. at six shillings. None of my friends are 

 acquainted with the work ; but if the preceding 

 description will enable any reader to help me to a 

 copy, I shall esteem it a great favour. 



T. T. Wilkinson. 



Burnley, Lancaslnre. 



" The General Pardo7i." — An imperfect copy of 

 a small tract (measuring five and a half inches by 

 three and a half inches) has recently come into 

 my hands, of which I much desire to obtain the 

 wanting parts. It is entitled : 



" The general Pardon, geuen longo agone, and sythe 

 newly confyrmed, by our Almightie Father, with many 

 large Priuileges, Grauntes, and Bulles graunted for 

 euer, as is to be seen hereafter : Drawne out of 



Frenche into English. By Wyllyam Hay ward. Im- 

 printed at London, by Wyllyam How, for Wyllyam 

 Pickeringe." 



There is no date, but it is believed to have been 

 printed in or about 1571. It is in black letter, 

 and is an imitation of the Roman Catholic pardons. 

 It consists of twelve leaves. In my copy the last 

 seven of these are torn through their middle ver- 

 tically. 



I have not been able to meet with this tract in 

 the catalogues of any of the great libraries which 

 I have consulted; e.g. the British Museum, Bod- 

 leian, Cambridge University, Lambeth, and several 

 of the college libraries at Cambridge. 



I want any information concerning it, or its 

 original in French, which the readers of " N. & 

 Q." can give : also access to a copy from which to 

 transcribe the parts wanting in mine. 



Charles C. Babington. 



St, John's Coll, Cambridge. 



Edward the Confessor's Ring. — There is an 

 old legend of a ring given to one of our early 

 kings, I think Edward the Confessor, by some 

 saintly or angelic messenger. If any of your 

 readers could give me any of the details of this 

 story, it would very much oblige your constant 

 reader M. J. T. 



[The following extract from Taylor's Glory of Re- 

 gality, pp. 74. ct seq., will give our Correspondent the 

 legend referred to. 



" Tlie ring with which our kings are invested, called 

 by some writers ' the wedding ring of England,' is 

 illustrated, like the Ampulla, by a miraculous history, 

 of which the following are the leading particulars : 

 from the ' Golden Legende' {Julyan Notary, 1503), 

 p. 187. : — ' Edward the Confessor being one day askt 

 for alms by a certain ' fayre olde man,' the king found 

 nothing to give him except his ring, with which the 

 poor man thankfully departed. Some time after, two 

 English pilgrims in the Holy Land having lost their 

 road, as they travelled at the close of the day, ' there 

 came to them a fayre auncyent man wyth whyte heer 

 for age.' Then the olde man axed them what they 

 were and of what regyon. And they answerde that 

 they were Pylgryms of Englond, and hadde lost their 

 felyshyp and way also. Then this olde man comforted 

 theym goodly, and brought theym into a fayre cytee ; 

 and whan they had well refresshyd them, and rested 

 theym alle nyght; on the morne, this fayre olde man 

 wente with theym and brought theym in the ryght 

 waye agayne. And he was gladde to hear theym talke 

 of the welfare and holynesse of theyr Kynge Saynt 

 Edward. And whan he shold departe fro theym thenne 

 he told theym what he was, and sayd I am Johan The- 

 uangelyst, and saye ye unto Edward your king, that I 

 grete hym well by the token that he gaaf to me thys 

 rynge with his one hondes, whych ryngc ye shalle de- 



