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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 201. 



collect an allusion to tbe phrase somewliei-e in 

 Miss Mitford's writings, who speaks of it as pecu- 

 liar to Berks; bat as I was then ignorant of 

 Captain Cuttle's maxim, I did not " make a note 

 of it," so that I am unable to lay my hand on the 

 passage. G. T. 



Reading. 



[IMr. Sternberg also found this word in North- 

 amptonshire : for in his valuable work on The Dialect 

 and Folk Lore of that county occurs the following 

 derivation of it: — " Unked, Hunkid, s. lonely, dull, 

 miserable. ' I \vas so united when ye war awaj-.' ' A 

 unked house,' &c. Mr. Bosworth gives, as the deriv- 

 ative, the A.-S. ttncyd, solitary, without speech. In 

 Batchelor's lAat of Bedfordshire JVords, it is spelt 

 ■ujigkid."'\ 



Pilgrhns Progress. — The common editions con- 

 tain a third part, setting forth the life of Tender- 

 conscience : this third part is thought not to have 

 been written by Bunyan, and is omitted from 

 some, at least, of the modern editions. Can any of 

 your readers explain by whom this addition was 

 made, and all about it ? The subject of the Pil- 

 grim^s Progress generally — the stories of a similar 

 kind which are said to have preceded — especially 

 in Catholic times — the history of its editions and 

 annotations, would give some interesting columns. 



M. 



[Mr. George OfTor, in his Introduction to The Pil- 

 grim's Progress, published by the Hanserd Knollys 

 Society in 1847, notices the third part as a forgery : — 

 " In a very few years after Bunyan's death, this third 

 part made its appearance ; and although the title does 

 not directly say that it was written by Bunyan, yet it 

 was at first generally received as such. In 1695, it 

 reached a second edition ; and a sixth in ] 705. In 

 1708, it was denounced in the title to the ninth edition 

 of the second part, by a ' Note, the third part, suggested 

 to be J. Bunyan's, is an imposture.' The author of this 

 forgery is as yet luiknown." Mr. Offor has also de- 

 voted fifty pages of his Introduction to the conjec- 

 tured prototypes of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. He 

 says, " Every assertion or suggestion that came to my 

 knowledge has been investigated, and the works re- 

 ferred to have been analysed. And beyond this, every 

 allegoriciil work that could be found, previous to the 

 eighteenth century, has been examined in all the Euro- 

 pean languages, and the result is a perfect demonstra- 

 tion of the complete originality of Bunyan."] 



John Frewen. — What is known of this divine ? 

 He was minister at Northiam in Sussex in 1611 ; 

 and published, the following year, a small volume 

 of Sermons, bearing reference to some quarrel 

 between himself and parishioners. Are these 

 Sermons rare ? Any particulars would be accept- 

 able. R. C. Wabdk. 



Kidderminster. 



[Accepted Frewen, Archbishop of York, was the 

 eldest son of John Frewen, "the puritanical Rector of 



Northiam," as Wood calls him, and indeed his name 

 carries a symbol of his father's sanctity. Wood has 

 given a few particulars of John, who, he says, " was 

 a learned divine, and a frequent preacher of the time, 

 and v.-rote, 1. Fruitfd Instntctions and N^ecessarg Doc- 

 trine, to edify in the Fear of God, §-c., 1587. 2. Fruit- 

 ful Instructions for the General Cause of Reformation, 

 against the Slanders of the Pope and League, §-c., 1589. 

 3. Certain Choice Grounds and Principles of our 

 j Christian Religion, with their several Expositions, by 

 i JFay of Questions and Answers, Sj'c., 1621, and other 

 things. He died in 1G27 (about the latter end), and 

 was buried in Northiam Church, leaving then behind 

 these sons, viz. Accepted, Thankful, Stephen, Joseph, 

 Benjamin, Tliomas, Samuel, John, &c., which John 

 seems to have succeeded his father in the Rectory of 

 Northiam ; but whether the said father was educated at 

 Oxford, I cannot tell."} 



Histories of Literature. — Can any correspon- 

 dent inform me of the best, or one or two prin- 

 cipal Histories of Literature, published in the 

 English language, with the names of the author 

 and publisher ; as well as, if possible, the size and 

 price ? Ilmonasteriensis. 



[Our corres])ondent cannot do better than procure 

 Hal lam's Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the 

 Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, ?> vols. 

 8vo. (.^6x.). He may also consult with advantage 

 Dr. Maitland's Dark Ages, which illustrates the state 

 of religion and literature in from the ninth to the 

 twelfth centuries, 8vo., 12s. ; and Berrington's Literary 

 History of the Middle Ages, ^s. 6cf.] 



'■'■ Mrs. Shaw's Tombstone." — In Leigh's Observ- 

 ations (London, 1660) are several quotations from 

 a work entitled Mrs. Shaw's Tombstone. Where 

 may a copy of this be seen ? R. C. Warde. 



Kidderminster. 



[Mrs. Dorothy Shaw's Tombstorie, or the Saint's 

 Remains, 1658, may be seen in the British Museum. 

 Press-mark, 1418. i. 41.] 



CRAKMEB AND CALVIN. 



(Vol. viii., p. 182.) 



A correspondent who seems to delight in sibi- 

 lants, signing himself S. Z. Z. S., invites me to 

 " preserve, in your columns, the letter of Calvin to 

 Cranmer, of which Dean Jenkyns has only given 

 extracts," as noticed by me in your Vol. vii., 

 p. 621. 



I would not shrink from the trouble of tran- 

 scribing the whole letter, if a complete copy were 

 only to be found in the short-lived columns of a 

 newspaper, as inserted in the Record of May 15, 

 1 843, by Merle d'Aubigne ; but the Dean has 

 given a reference to the volume in which both the 

 letters he cites are preserved and accessible, viz. 

 Calvin Epistles, pp. 134, 135., Genev. 1616. 



