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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 239. 



not to multiply passages, we may merely cite 

 Tyndal : 



" There is but one mediator, Christ, as saith St. Paul, 

 1 Tim. ii., and by that word understand an atone- 

 maker, a peace-maker, and bringer into grace and 

 favour, having full power so to do." — Expos, of Tracy's 

 Testament, p. 275., Camb. 1850. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



As a contribution towards the solution of J. H. 

 B.'s Query, I send you the following extracts from 

 Richardson's Dictionary : 



" And like as he made the Jewes and the Gentiles 

 at one between themselves, even so he made them both 

 at one with God, that there should be nothing to break 

 the atonement; but that the thynges in heaven and the 

 thynges in earth shoulde be ioyned together as it were 

 into one body." — Udal, Ephesians, c. ii. 



" Paul sayth, 1 Tim. ij., ' One God, one Mediatour 

 (that is to say, aduocate, intercessor, or an atonemaker) 

 betwene God and man : the man Christ Jesus, which 

 gaue himself a raunsom for all men." — Tyndal, Workes, 

 p. 158. 



I am unacquainted with the work referred to 

 in the first extract. The second is from The Whole 

 Works of W. Tindal, John Frith, and Dr. Barnes 

 [edited by Foxe], Lond. 1573. The title of the 

 work which contains the passage is, The Obedience 

 of a Christian Man, set forth by William Tindal, 

 1528, Oct. 2. 'AAjeus. 



Dublin. 



Bible of 1527 (Vol.ix., p. 352.).— In reference 

 to the monogram inquired after in this Query, I 

 think I have seen it, or one very similar, among 

 the "mason marks" on Strasburg Tower, which 

 would seem a place of Freemason pilgrimage : for 

 the soft stone is deeply carved in various places 

 within the tower with such marks as this, together 

 with initials and dates of visit. I have also marks 

 very similar from the stones of the tower of the 

 pretty little cathedral of Freiburg, Briesgau. I 

 should incline to think it a Masonic mark, and not 

 that of an engraver on wood, or of a printer. 



A. B. R. 



Belmont. 



Shrove Tuesday (Vol. ix., p. 324.). — The bell 

 described as rung on Shrove Tuesday at Newbury, 

 was no doubt the old summons which used to call 

 our ancestors to the priest to be shrived, or con- 

 fessed, on that day. It is commonly called the 

 " Pancake Bell," because it was also the signal 

 for the cook to put the pancake on the fire. This 

 savoury couplet occurs in Poor Robin for 1684 : 



" But hark, I hear the pancake bell, 

 And fritters make a gallant smell." 



The custom of ringing this bell has been retained 

 in many parishes. It is orthodoxly rung at Ec- 



clesfield from eleven to twelve a. m. Plenty of 

 information on this subject may be found in 

 Brand's Popular Antiquities. Alfred Gatty. 



Miltoris Correspondence (Vol. viii., p. 640.). — 

 A translation of Milton's Latin familiar corre- 

 spondence, made by John Hall, Esq., of the Phi- 

 ladelphia bar, now a Presbyterian clergyman at 

 Trenton, N. J., was published about eighteen or 

 twenty years ago in this city. Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



" Verbatim et literatim " (Vol. ix., p. 348.). — 

 Your correspondent L. H. J. Tonna, in proposing 

 for the latter part of the above phrase the form 

 ad literam, might as well have extended his amend- 

 ment, and suggested ad verbum et literam ; for I 

 should imagine there is quite as little authority 

 for the word verbatim being used in the Latin 

 language, as for that of literatim. Vossius is an 

 authority for the latter; but can any of your 

 correspondents oblige me by citing one for the 

 former, notwithstanding its frequent adoption in 

 English conversation and writings ? Neither 

 verbatim nor literatim will be found in Riddle. 



N. L. J. 



Epigrams (Vol. vii., p. 175.). — The epigram, 

 " How D.D. swaggers, M.D. rolls," &c, was writ- 

 ten by Horace Smith, and may be found in the 

 New Monthly Magazine for 1823, in the article 

 called " Grimm's Ghost. Letter XII." Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



ffli&ttUmtaufi. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



In days like these, when so many of our new books 

 are but old ones newly dressed up, a work of original 

 research, and for which the materials have been accumu- 

 lated by the writer with great labour and diligence, 

 deserves especial commendation. Of such a character 

 is the Catholic History of England; its Rulers, Clergy, and 

 Poor, before the Reformation, as described by the Monkish 

 Historians, by Bernard William MacCabe, of which the 

 third volume, extending from the reign of Edward Mar- 

 tyr to the Norman Conquest, has just been published. 

 The volumes bear evidence in every page that they are, 

 as the author describes them, "the results of the writing 

 and research of many hours— the only hours for many 

 years that I had to spare from other and harder toils." 

 Himself a zealous and sincere follower of the "ancient 

 faith," Mr. MacCabe's views of the characters and events 

 of which he is treating, naturally assume the colouring 

 of his own mind : many, therefore, will dissent from 

 them. None of his readers will, however, dissent from 

 bestowing upon his work the praise of being carefully 

 compiled and most originally written. None will deny 

 the charm with which Mr. MacCabe has invested his 

 History, by his admirable mode of making the old 

 Monkish writers tell their own story. 



