June 3. 1854.] 



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but into a happier world), cannot surely be now 

 deemed unsuitable to a Gothic church. C. T. 



QUERIES OX SOUTH S SERMONS. 



I should be glad to know the authority for the 

 following statement in South's sermon, Against 

 long Extempore Prayers, vol. i. p. 251., Tegg's 

 edition, 1843 : 



" These two things are certain, and I do particularly 

 recommend them to your observation : One, that this 

 way of praying by the Spirit, as they call it, was begun, 

 and first brought into use here in England, in Queen 

 Elizabeth's days, by a Popish priest and Dominican 

 friar, one Faithful Commin by name. Who, counter- 

 feiting himself a Protestant, and a zealot of the highest 

 form, set up this new spiritual way of praying, with a 

 design to bring the people first to a contempt, and from 

 thence to an utter hatred and disuse of our Common 

 Prayer; which he still reviled as only a translation of 

 the mass, thereby to distract men's iniiids, and to divide 

 our Church. And this he did with such success, that 

 we have lived to see the effects of his labours in the 

 utter subversion of Church and State ; which hellish 

 negociation, when this malicious hypocrite came to 

 Rome to give the Pope an account of, he received of 

 him, as so notable a service well deserved, besides a 

 thousand thanks, two thousand ducats for his pains." 



Also, who was W. W., the author of " a viru- 

 lent and insulting pamphlet, entitled, A Letter to 

 a Member of Parliament, printed in the year 1697, 

 and as like the author himself, W. W., as malice 

 can make it," referred to in a note by South at 

 the end of his sermon on The Recompence of the 

 Reward, vol. ii. p. 152. Is this pamphlet still in 

 ■existence ? W. H. Gunner. 



Winchester. 



ffiinat «aucrictf. 



Norwich, Kirkpatrick Collection of MSS. for the 

 History of. — Mr. Simon Wilkin, in the preface to 

 the Repertorium, contained in his fourth volume 

 of his valuable edition of the works of Sir Thomas 

 Browne, p. 4., having spoken of the large collections 

 for the History of Norwich made by Mr. John 

 Kirkpatrick, who died in 1728, and gave the said 

 collections by will to the mayor, sheriffs, citizens, 

 and commonalty of the city of Norwich, in order 

 that "some citizen hereafter, being a skilful anti- 

 quary, may, from the same, have an opportunity 

 of completing and publishing the said history," 

 &c, goes on to say, "the MSS. referred to were 

 some years ago in the possession of the corporation, 

 but we fear the original intention of the donor has 

 been lost sight of, and that these valuable MSS. 

 are for ever lost to the lover of local antiquities." 

 This was printed in 1835. But the subject ought 

 not to be permitted to drop and rest there. Up to 



that date, can it be ascertained that the papers re- 

 mained in the keeping of the Corporation ? Are 

 they still in their hands, though inaccessible ? Can 

 any information be obtained as to the ivhen and the 

 how they passed out of their possession ? Or, above 

 all, can any clue be found to their subsequent 

 history and present resting-place ? It may be 

 suggested to any patriotic citizen and antiquary 

 of the fair city of Norwich, that, inasmuch as the 

 Corporation, by the terms of the will, are only 

 trustees for the property, the Court of Chancery 

 might be moved to assist in the recovery thereof. 



T. A. T. 



Florence, March, 1854. 



Corbet. — Can any of your readers furnish in- 

 formation relative to the Scottish family of Corbet, 

 one member of whom emigrated to America, 

 about the year 1 705, from the neighbourhood of 

 Dumfries? Corbie. 



Philadelphia. 



Initials in Glass Quarries. — In St. Clement's 

 Church, Norwich, are some diamond-shaped panes 

 of glass, or quarries, containing initial letters, &c. 



1. The letters I. V. beneath a mitre. (Glass 

 probably about a.d. 1600.) Do these belong to 

 any Bishop of Norwich ? 



2. A. A. 3. A. I. Glass and style probably 

 give 1500 — 1550 for the date. 



At St. Neots' parish church, Huntingdonshire, 

 the initials W. and M. interlaced, G., and C, 

 occur on several quarries. 



At Puttenham, Hertfordshire, is a broken quarry 

 bearing a shield, charged with a ship in full sail ; 

 on a chief, the arms of King's Coll. Cambridge. 

 The living belongs to that college, I believe. 



Can any of your correspondents assist in assign- 

 ing these initials and arms to their respective 

 owners ? The date of the glass in the two last- 

 named cases is probably the end of the seventeenth 

 century. G. R. York. 



Church Service : Preliminary Texts. — Among 

 the texts with which the Church of England 

 Service commences, is one with two references ; 

 the former of these is the correct index to the 

 words, the latter points to a kindred text. At 

 Jer. x. 24. we find the passage ; then why is 

 Ps. vi. 1. added, no parallel text being indicated 

 to any of the other ten ? Has this always so 

 stood ? W. T. M. 



Hong Kong. 



The Spinning-machine of the Ancients. • — Can 

 any of your readers give a satisfactory explanation 

 of the difficult passage which occurs at the end of 

 Catullus' Epithalamium, containing the description 

 of the spinning-wheel of the Fates ? As this has 

 been such a perplexing subject hitherto to com- 

 mentators, a solution of the terms there employed, 



