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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 194. 



Calvin's Correspondence (Vol. vii., pp. 501. 

 621.). — It may be well to mention that all the 

 letters of Calvin which Mr. Walter quotes, are 

 to be found in the old collection of his corre- 

 spondence ; perhaps, however, the latter copies 

 may be fuller or more correct in some parts. 



The original French of the long letter to Pro- 

 tector Somerset is printed by Henry in his Life 

 of Calvin; but, like the other documents of that 

 laborious work, it is omitted without notice in the 

 English travestie which bears the name of Dr. 

 Stebbing. 



Heylyn's mis-statement as to Calvin and Cran- 

 mer is exposed, and the ground of it is pointed 

 out, in the late edition of the Ecclesia Eestaurata, 

 vol. i. p. 134. J. C. R. 



Old Booty's Case (Vol. vii., p. 634.). — A friend, 

 on whose accuracy I can rely, has examined the 

 London Gazettes for 1687 and 1688, in the British 

 Museum : they do not contain any report of 

 Booty's case. I thought I had laid Booty's ghost 

 in Vol. ili., p. 170., by showing that the facts of 

 the case were unlikely and the law impossible. 



H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Chatterton (Vol. vii., p. 267.). — We are all 

 very curious in Bristol to know what evidence 

 or light J. M. G. of Worcester can bring to bear 

 upon the Rowley Poems, from the researches (as 

 he states) of an individual here to prove not only 

 that Chatterton was not their author, but that 

 probably the " Venerable Rowley " himself was. 



I had thought in 1853 no one doubted their 

 authorship. There is abundance of proof to show 

 Rowley could not have written them, and that 

 only Chatterton could have done so. 



Bristouensis. 



House-marks, 8fc. (Vol. vii., p. 594.). — It is 

 very well known that the sign of the " Swan with 

 two Necks," in London, is a corruption of the 

 private mark of the owner of the swans, viz., two 

 nicks made by cutting the neck feathers close in 

 two spaces. It is also a common custom in 

 Devon to mark all cattle, horses, &c. with the 

 owner's mark when sent out on Exmoor, Dart- 

 moor, and other large uninclosed tracts for sum- 

 mering : thus. Sir Thos. Dyke Acland's mark is 

 an anchor on the near side of each of his large 

 herd of ponies, on Exmoor. W. Collyns. 



Harlow. 



Bibliography (Vol. vii., p. 597.). — The follow- 

 ing may assist Mariconda : 



Fischer : Beschreibung einiger Typograpbischer Sel- 

 tenheiten nebst Beytragen zur Erfindungsgeschiehte 

 der Buchdruckerkunst, 8vo. Mainz, 1800-4. 



Origin of Printing, in Two Essays; with Remarks 

 and Appendix, Svo, 1776. 



The Typographical Antiquities of Great Britain, by 

 J. Jobnson, Dr. Dibdin, Dr. Wilkins, and others. 

 Longmans, 1824. 



He will also find a list of works under the head 

 Printing in the Penny Cyclopoedia, Getsrn. 



Parochial Libraj'ies (Vol. vi., p. 432. ; Vol. vii. 

 passim.). — A parochial library was for many 

 years deposited in the room over the south 

 entrance of Beccles Church. The books consist 

 chiefly of old divinity, &c., and appear to have 

 been gifts from various persons; among whom 

 were Bishop Trimnel (of Norwich), Sir Samuel 

 Barnardiston, Sir Edmund Bacon of Gillingham, 

 Sir John Playters, Mrs. Anna North, and Mr. 

 Ridgly of London. There is a copy of Walton's 

 Polyglot Bible, 1655-7, besides an odd volume 

 of the same work (Job to Malachi), 1656, uncut. 

 It is probable that many of the books have been 

 lost, as the room in which they were kept was 

 used as a repository for discarded ecclesiastical 

 appliances, and, latterly, for charity blankets du- 

 ring summer. In 1840, with the consent of the 

 late bishop of Norwich, and of the rector and 

 churchwardens of the parish, the remaining 

 volumes (about 170) were removed to the public 

 library room, and placed under the care of the 

 committee of that Institution. A catalogue of 

 them was then printed. The greater part have 

 been repaired, with the aid of a donation of lOl. 

 from a former inhabitant, who had reason to 

 believe that some of the works had been lost in 

 consequence of their having been in his hands 

 many years ago. Are there not numerous in- 

 stances elsewhere in which this example might be 

 copied with propriety ? S. W. Rix. 



Beccles. 



Faithfull Teate (Vol. y'll, p. 529.).— " Though 

 this author's name be spelt Teate, there is great 

 reason to believe that he was the father of Nahum 

 Tate, translator of the Psalms." — 5iW. Anglo- 

 poetica, p. 361. In the punning copy of verses 

 preceding the " Ter Tria " is this distich : 



" We wish that Teats and Herberts may inspire 

 Randals and Davenants with poetick fire. 



Jo. Chishutt." 



My copy is on miserable paper, yet priced 

 31s. 6(Z., with this remark In MS. by some former 

 possessor: "Very rare: which will not be won- 

 dered at by any one who will read five pages care- 

 fully." E. D. 



Lack-a-daisy (Vol. vi., p. 535.). — Todd had 

 better have allowed Johnson to speak for himself: 

 lack-a-daisy, lack-a-day, alack the day, as Juljet's 

 nurse exclaims, and alas-the-day, are only various 

 readings of the same expression. And of such In- 

 quiries and such solutions as Todd's, I cannot 

 refrain from expressing my sentiments in the 



