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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 198. 



" Pi'eparation for Martyrdom." — Can any of 

 your correspondents discover for me the author of 

 the following work ? — 



" A Preparation for Martyrdom ; a Discourse about 

 the Cause, the Temper, the Assistances, and Rewards 

 of a Martyr of Jesus Christ : in Dialogue betwixt a 

 Mi^nister and a Gentleman his Parishioner. Lond. 

 1681, 4to." 



In order to afford somewhat of a clue to this 

 discovery, I send a few extracts from another 

 anonymous work : A Letter to the late Author of 

 the '■'• Preparation for Martyrdom" alluding to va- 

 rious circumstances relating to the author : 



" I must confess that I had once as great a vene- 

 ration for you as for any one [of] your figure in the 

 church ; but then you preach'd honestly, and liv'd 

 peaceably ; but since pride or ambitious discontent, 

 or some particular respects to some special friends of 

 the adverse party, or something I know not what else, 

 has thrust you upon scribbling, and a design of being 

 popular ; since you had forsaken your first love (if 

 ever you had any) to our church and establishment, 

 and appear to be running over ad partem Donati, to 

 the disturbers of our church and peace, you must needs 

 pardon this short reflection, though from an old friend, 

 and sometimes a great admirer of you. 



" As for the present establishment, you have (you 

 conclude) as much already from that as you are likely 

 to have, but you claw the deraocratical party, hoping 

 at long run to see an (^English) Parliament ; that is, 

 ■we must know, one that has no French pensioners 

 shuflSed into it to blast the whole business, such as will 

 be govern'd by your instructions ; and then Presbytery 

 (you trust) will be turn'd up Trump, the Directory 

 once more take place of the Liturgy, and God knows 

 ■what become of the Monarchy, and Mr. C. be made a 

 great man, 



" What an excellent design was that of your Stipu- 

 lation, which I heard one say was like a new modell'd 

 Independency. 'Twas intended, I suppose, as an ex- 

 pedient to reduce the sheep of your own flock, which 

 through your default chiefly (as is commonly reported) 

 were gone astray ; but because this tool could not 

 work, without the force of a law to move it, therefore 

 by law it must have been establisht, and the whole 

 nation forsooth comprehended under it, and all must 

 have set their instruments to your key, and their voices 

 to the tune of B — ley. Oh ! had this engine but met 

 ■with firm footings in Parliament, as was hoped, our 

 English world had been lifted off its pillars long before 

 this day ; it had gone round, and in the church all old 

 things had been done away, and everything had ap- 

 peared new. But, Sir, I trust the foundations of our 

 church stand more sure than to need such silly props as 

 your Catholicon (as you vainly call it) to support 'em. 



" What an excellent thing too is your book of Pa- 

 tronage? 'Twere no living for Simon Magus, or any 

 of his disciples here, if those rules you there lay down 

 were but duly attended to. 



" But in those two books you showed yourself prag- 

 matical only ; but in this of Martyrdom not a little 



impious, in your unworthy reflections upon almost all 

 the honest people of England since the beginning of 

 the reign of Oliver the First, and some time before ; 

 not sparing many loyal worthies' memory who held up 

 a good cause upon their sword points (as you express 

 it) as long as they could ; and when they could do so 

 no longer, either dy'd for't, or deliver'd themselves up 

 to the will of the conqueror, yet never (as you) abjur'd 

 the cause. Our rulers you suppose are ill affected 

 (otherwise your talk of Popery at your rate is like 

 that of one that were desirous and in conspiracy to 

 bring in Popery) : and, undoubtedly, it had been in 

 already, had not the prayers of Mr. C, and the fifty 

 righteous Non- Cons in every city, prevented it." 



'AXjeuy. 

 Dublin. 



[The Preparation for Martyrdom is not to be found 

 either in the Bodleian or British Museum Catalogues. 

 The author of the Letter in reply to it, however, has 

 afforded a clue to its authorship. Zachary Cawdrey, 

 who appears to have been an admirer of the Vicar of 

 Bray, was Rector of Barthomley in Clieshire during 

 the Commonwealth, and for fourteen years after the 

 Restoration ; this explains the hint in the Letter, of 

 " setting their voices to the tune of B — ley." Cawdrey, 

 moreover, was the author of Discourse of Patronage ; 

 being a Modest Inquiry into the Original of it, and a 

 farther Prosecution of the History of it : which is also 

 noticed in the Letter. Zachary Cawdrey was born at 

 Melton Mowbray about 1616; at the age of sixteen 

 he entered St. John's College, Cambridge; and in 

 1649 became Rector of Barthomley, where he died 

 Dec. 24, 1684. His brother David was one of th« 

 ejected, and the author of several works.] 



Reference wanted. — I find, in Blackwood, 

 No. XXXVI. p. 43'2., a reference to an article in 

 the Edinburgh Review, by Sir D. K. Sandford, on 

 Greek banquets. As I cannot find the article 

 itself, may 1 ask your assistance ? 



P. J. r. Gantillon. 



N. B. — In the article in Blackwood, p. 441., for 

 " HegesancZer " read Hegesippus ; p. 444., for 

 " DemgZe " read Demglrw ,• p. 450., for "Nausif//ce" 

 read Nausinicjw ; p. 455., for " Hesperides " read 

 Hi/perides. 



[The article will be found in the Edinburgh Iteviewy 

 vol. Ivi. p. 350. January, 1833.] 



Speaker of the House of Commons in 1697. — 

 Who was the Speaker who succeeded Sir John 

 Trevor, and was Speaker of the House of Com- 

 mons in 1697 ? W. Fraser. 



Tor-Mohun. 



[Peter Foley, Esq., succeeded Sir John Trevor, 

 March 14, 1694. Sir Thomas Littleton, Bart., was 

 chosen the next Speaker, December 3, 1 698.] 



