June 25. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



621 



is the meaning of this last word, and to whom does 

 it refer ? S. S. S. 



[James Guthrie was chaplain of Newgate in 1731 ; 

 and the phrase Guthryisms, we conjecture, agrees in 

 common parlance with a later saying, that of " stutfing 

 Cotton in the prisoner's ears."] 



EcpItcS. 



COBBESPONDENCE OF CRANMER AND CALVIN. 



(Vol.vii., p. 501.) 



The question put by C. D., respecting the 

 existence of letters said to have passed between 

 Arclabishop Cranmer and Calvin, and to exist in 

 print at Geneva, upon the seeming sanction given 

 by our liturgy to the belief that baptism confers 

 regeneration, is a revival of an inquiry made by 

 several persons about ten years ago. It then in- 

 duced M. Merle d'Aubigne to make the search of 

 which CD. has heard; and the result of that 

 search was given in a communication from the 

 Protestant historian to the editor of the Record, 

 bearing date April 22, 1843. 



I have that communication before me, as a cut- 

 ting from the Record; but have not preserved the 

 date of the number in which it appeared*, though 

 likely to be soon after its receipt by the editor. 

 Merle d'Aubigne says, in his letter, that both the 

 printed and manuscript correspondence of Calvin, 

 in the public library of Geneva, had been examined 

 in vain by himself, and by Professor Diodati the 

 librarian, for any such topic ; but he declares him- 

 self disposed to believe that the assertion, respect- 

 ing which C. D. inquires, arose from the following 

 passnge in a letter from Calvin to the English 

 primate : 



" Sic correctje sunt externae superstitiones, ut residui 

 maneant innumeri surculi, qui assidue puUulent. Imo 

 ex corruptelis papains audio rtlictum esse congeriem, quce 

 non obscurct modo, sed propemodum ohruat purum et 

 geniiinum Dei cultum." 



Part of this letter, but with important omissions, 

 had been published by Dean Jenkyns in 1833. 

 (Cranmers Remains, vol. i. p. 347.) M. d'Aubigne's 

 communication gave the whole of it ; and it 

 ought to have appeared in the Parker Society 

 volume of original letters relative to the English 

 Reformation. That volume contains one of Cal- 

 vin's letters to the Protector Somerset ; but omits 

 another, of which Merle d'Aubigne's communica- 

 tion supplied a portion, containing this important 

 sentence : 



" Quod ad formiilam precum et rituum ecclesiasti- 

 corum, valde proho ut certa ilia extet, a qua pastoribus 

 discedere in functione sua non liceat, tarn ut consulatur 

 quorumdam simplicitati et imperitias, quam ut certius 

 ita constet omnium inter se ecclesiarum consensus." 



[* It appeared in the No. for May \5, 1843. — Ed.] 



Another portion of a letter from Calvin, com- 

 municated by D'Aubigne, is headed in the Record. 

 " Cnoxo et gregalibus, S. D. ;" but seems to be 

 the one cited in the Parker Society, vol ii. of 

 Letters, pp. 755-G, notes 941, as a letter to Richard 

 Cox and others ; so that Cnoxo should have beea 

 Coxo. 



The same valuable communication farther con- 

 tained the letter of Cranmer inviting Calvin to 

 unite with Malancthon and BuUinger in forming- 

 arrangements for holding a Pi-otestant synod in 

 some safe place ; meaning in England, as he states 

 more expressly to Melancthon. This letter, how- 

 ever, had been printed entire by Dean Jenkyns, 

 vol. i. p. 346. ; and it is given, with an English 

 translation, in the Parker Society edition of Craii" 

 mers Works as Letter ccxcvii., p. 431. It is 

 important, as proving that Heylyn stated what 

 was untrue, Eccles. Restaur., p. 65. ; where he has 

 said, " Calvin had offered his assistance to Arch- 

 bishop Cranmer. But the archbishop knew the 

 man, and refused his offer." Instead of such an 

 offer, Calvin replied courteously and affectionately 

 to Cranmer's invitation ; but says, " Tenultatem 

 meam facturam spero, ut mihi parcatur . . . Mihi 

 utinam par studii ardori suppeteret facultas." 

 This reply, the longest letter in their correspon- 

 dence, is printed in the note attached to Cranmer's 

 letter (Park. Soc, as above, p. 432. ; and a trans- 

 lation of it in Park. Soc. Original Letters, vol. ii. 

 p. 711. : and there are extracts from it in Jenkyns, 

 p. 346., n. p.). D'Aubigne gave it entire ; but has 

 placed both Calvin's letters to the archbishop 

 before the latter's epistle to him, to which they 

 both refer, Henry Walter. 



"POPULUS VULT DECIPI. 



(Vol. vii., p. 572.) 



If Mb. Temple will turn to p. 141. of Mathias 

 Prideaux's Easy and Compendious Introduction for 

 reading all Sorts of Histories, 6th edit., Oxford, 

 1682, small 4to., he will find his Query thus an- 

 swered : 



^' It was this Pope's [Paul IV.] Legate, Cardinal 

 Carafa, that gave this blessing to the devout Parisians, 

 Quandoquidem popidus decipi vtdl, dccipiatur. Inas- 

 much as this people will be deceived, let them be de- 

 ceived." 



This book of Prideaux's is full of mottoes, of 

 which I shall give a few instances. Of Frederick 

 Barbarosa " his saying was, Qui nescit dissimularCy 

 nescit imperare :" of Justinian "His word was, 

 Summum jus, summa ijijuria — The rigour of the 

 law may prove injurious to conscience :" of Theo- 

 dosius n. " His motto was, Tempori parendum — 

 We must fit us (as far as it may be done with a 

 good conscience) to the time wherein we live, with 

 Christian prudence :" of Xerva " His motto sums. 



