Sept. 3. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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to four privy councillors, but the same was found to 

 be slanderous, and the parties punished in the court." — 

 State Trials, vol. ii. p. 1029. 



If this petition could be discovered, and it should 

 turn out that the slander complained of in it had 

 reference to this story, the investigation which it 

 then underwent by the four privy councillors, and 

 the chief justice's enjoyment of his high office for 

 so many subsequent years, would go far to prove 

 the utter falsehood of the charge. This is a " con- 

 summation devoutly to be wished " by every one 

 who feels an interest in the purity of the bench, 

 and particularly by the present possessors of the 

 estate, who must be anxious for their ancestor's 

 fame. 



Your useful publication has acted the part of 

 the " detective police " in the elucidation of many 

 points of history less interesting than this, and I 

 trust you will consider the case curious enough to 

 justify a close examination. Edward Foss. 



EARLY EDITION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 



I should be greatly obliged if I could obtain 

 through " N. & Q." when, where, and by whom 

 an imperfect black-letter copy of the New Testa- 

 ment, lately come into my possession, was printed, 

 and also who was the translator of it. 



It is bound in boards, has three thongs round 

 which the sheets are stitched, seems never to have 

 been covered with cloth, leather, or other material 

 like our modern books, has had clasps, and is four 

 inches long and two inches thick. 



The chapters are divided generally into four 

 or five parts by means of the first letters of the 

 alphabet. The letters are neither placed equi- 

 distant, nor do they always mark a fresh para- 

 graph. 



It is not divided into verses. There are a few 

 marginal references, and the chapter and letter of 

 the parallel passages are given. 



Crosses are placed at the heads of most chapters, 

 and also throughout the text, without much ap- 

 parent regularity. It contains a few rude cuts of 

 the Apostles, &c. The Epistles of St. Peter and 

 St. John are placed before that to the Hebrews. 



Letters are frequently omitted in the spelling, 

 and this is indicated by a dash placed over the one 

 preceding the omitted letter. A slanting mark (/) 

 is the most frequent stop used. I will transcribe 

 a few lines exactly as they occur, only not using 

 the black-letter. 



" B. As some spake of the temple/ howe yt was 

 garnesshed with goodly stones and iewels he sayde. 

 The dayes will come/ when of these thyngis which ye 

 se shall not be lefte stone upon stone/ tliat shall not be 

 throwen doune. And they asked hym sayinge/ Master 

 whe shall these thynges be ? And what sygnes wil 

 there be/ when suche thynges shal come to passe." — 

 St. Luke, ch. xxL 



Land is spelt londe ; saints, sainctis : authority, 

 auctorite, &c. A. Boaedman. 



P.S. It commences at the 1 9th chapter of St. 

 Matthew, and seems perfect to the 2ist chapter 

 of Revelation. 



JRavilliac. — I have read that a pyramid was 

 erected at Paris upon the murder of Henry IV. 

 by Ravilliac, and that the inscription represented 

 the Jesuits as men — 



" Maleficae superstitionis, quorum instinctu peculiaris 

 adolescens (Ravilliac) dirum facinus instituerat." — — 

 Thesaiir. Hht., torn. iv. lib. 95, ad ann. 1598. 



We are also informed that he confessed that it 

 was the book of Mariana the Jesuit, and the 

 traitorous positions maintained in it, which in- 

 duced him to murder the king, for which cause 

 the book (condemned by the parliament and the 

 Sorbonne) was publicly burnt in Paris. Is the 

 pyramid still remaining ? If not, when was ife 

 taken down or destroyed, and by whom or by 

 whose authority ? Clericus (D), 



Emblem on a Chimney-piece. — In the com- 

 mittee room of the Church Missionary Society, 

 Nos. 16. and 17. Upper Sackville Street, Dublin, 

 a curious emblem-picture is carved on the centre' 

 of the white marble chimney-piece. An angel or 

 winged youth is sleeping in a recumbent posture; 

 one arm embraces a sleeping lion, in the other 

 hand he holds a number of bell flowers. In the 

 opposite angle the sun shines brightly ; a lizard is 

 biting the heel of the sleeping youth. I shall not 

 offer my own conjectures in explanation of this 

 allegorical sculpture, unless your correspondents 

 fail to give a more satisfactory solution. 



Ath Chliath. 



" To know ourselves diseased" ^'c. — 

 " To know ourselves diseased, is half the cure." 

 Whence ? C. Mansfield Ingleby. 



Birmingham. 



" Pcetus and Arria." — Can you inform me who is 

 the author of Pcetus and Ai-ria, a Tragedy, 8vo., 

 1809 ? 



In Genest's Account of the English Stage, this 

 play is said to be written by a gentleman of the 

 University of Cambridge. Can you tell me whe- 

 ther this is likely to be W. Smyth, the late Pro- 

 fessor of Modern History in that university, who 

 died in June, 1849 ? Gw. 



Heraldic Query. — A. was killed in open re- 

 bellion. His son B. lived in retirement under a 

 fictitious name. The grandson C. retained the 

 assumed name, and obtained new arms. Query, 



