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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



Proclamation of Henry VIII. against the Fotsession of 



Religious Books, by Joseph Burtt - - - 421 



l,atin : Latiner ..---. 423 



Inedited Poems, by W. Honeycombe - - . 424 



Round Towers of the Cyclades - - - - 425 

 Shakspeare Correspondence, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, 



&c. 426 



/' General Monk and the University of Cambridge - 427 



Minor Notes: — Curiosities of Railway Literature — 

 Cromwell's Seal— Rhymes upon Places — Tom Track's 

 Ghost 427 



QuEniES : — 



Jacob Bobart and his Dragon, Sec, by H. T. Bobart - 428 

 Bishop Berkeley's Portrait, by Dr. J. H. Todd - - 428 



Mi.voR Queries : — Life—" The Boy of Heaven "—Bells 



Captain Ayloff— Robert Johnson— Selling a Wife — 



Jock of Arden — Inigo Jones — Dean Boyle — Eu- 

 phormio — Optical Query — Archbishop King — Neal's 

 JVIanuscripts — Whence the Word " Cossack ?" — Picts' 

 Houses and Argils— The Drummer's Letter — The Car- 

 dinal Spider — New England Genealogical Society, &c. 429 



Minor Queries with Answers : — Dr. John HartcIiflFe, 

 Dr. Wm. Cokayne, Dr. Samuel Kettilby — " Haulf 

 Naked" 431 



Replies : — 



The Legend of Lamech : Hebrew Etymology, by H. 



Walter, T. J. Buckton, and Joseph Rix - - 432 



Lord Coke's Charge to the Jury - . - - 433 



White Roses, by James Crossley . - - - 434 



Burial of Unclaimed Corpse . - - . 435 



Psalmanazar, by James Crossley - - . - 435 



Grafts and the Parent Tree - - - - 436 



Photographic Correspondence : — Glass Baths— Secur- 

 ing Calotype Negatives ----- 437 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Wood of the Cross — 

 Bishops' Lawn Sleeves — Inscriptions in Books — 

 Lines quoted by Charles Lamb — Parochial Libraries 

 — Huet's Navigations of Solomon — Derby Municipal 

 Seal — Annueller — Rev. Richard Midgley, Vicar of 

 Rochdale — Nose of Wax — Canongate Marriages — 

 Sculptured Emaciated Figures — Do the Sun's Rays 

 put out the Fire? — Spontaneous Combustion — Ecclesia 

 Anglicana — W}'le Cop — Chaucer — Campvere, Privi- 

 leges of — Sir Gilbert Gerard — Mistletoe — Wild 

 Plants and their Names — Coninger or Coningry - 437 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. '- . . . - 441 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - . • - 442 



Notices to Correspondents - . - - 442 



Advertisements ---..- 442 



VouVn. — No. 183. 



PROCLAMATIOX OF HENRY VIIL AGAINST THE 

 POSSESSION OF RELIGIOUS BOOKS. 



The progress of the Reformation in England 

 must have been greatly affected by the extent to 

 which the art of printing was brought to bear 

 upon the popular mind. Before the charms of 

 Anne Boleyn could have had much effect, or 

 " doubts " had troubled the royal conscience, 

 Wolsey had been compelled to forbid the intro- 

 duction or printing of books and tracts calculated 

 to increase the unsettled condition of the faith. 



The following proclamation, now for the first 

 time printed, may have originated in the in- 

 effectual result of the cardinal's directions. The 

 readers of Strype and Fox will see that the 

 threats which both contain were no idle ones, and 

 that men were indeed " corrected and punisshed 

 for theyr contempte and disobedience, to the ter- 

 rible example of other lyke transgressours." 



The list of books prohibited by the order of 

 1526 contains all those mentioned by name in the 

 present proclamation, except the Summary of 

 Scripture ; and it will be seen that such full, 

 general terms are used that no obnoxious pro- 

 duction could escape, if brought to light. The 

 Revelation of Antichrist was written by Luther. 



Strype does not seem to have been aware of the 

 existence of this particular proclamation, which 

 was issued in the year 1530. Under the year 

 1534 (^Ecclesiastical Memorials, ^c, Oxford, 1822, 

 vol. i. part i. p. 253.), he thus refers to what he 

 thought to be the first royal proclamation upon 

 the subject : 



" Much light was let in among the common people 

 by the New Testament and other good books in En- 

 glish, which, for the most part being printed beyond 

 sea, were by stealth brought into England, and dis- 

 persed here by well-disposed men. For the preventing 

 the importation and using of these books, the king this 

 year issued out a strict proclamation, by the petition 

 of the clergy now met in Convocation, in the month of 

 December. 



" Nor was this the first time such books were pro- 

 hibited to be brought in : for us small quantities 

 of them were secretly conveyed into these parts from 

 time to time, for the discovering, in that dark age, the 



