JAN, 26, 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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lessons are appointed in the Book of Common 
Prayer for the Festival of St. Michael and All 
Angels? First, among the “lessons proper for 
Holy-days,” we have, at Matins, Acts xii. to 
vy. 20.; and, at Evensong, Jude, v. 6. to v. 16.: 
and then in the Calendar, coming in ordinary 
course, we have, at Morning Prayer, Mark ii. ; 
and at evening, 1 Cor. xiv. In every other case, 
where the second lessons are proper, there are 
none appointed in the Calendar in ordinary 
course. K. M. P. 
Wood-cut Likenesses of Luther and Erasmus. — 
Perhaps you will permit me to inquire what are 
the earliest wood-cut likenesses of Luther and 
Erasmus. Am I right in supposing that the image 
of the great Reformer is found for the first time 
on the verso of the title-page of his treatise De 
Captivitate Babylonica Ecclesia, 4to., s. 1. v. a.; 
and that the wished-for representation of Erasmus 
may be seen in the small octavo volume, entitled 
Bellaria Epistolarum Erasmi Rot. et Ambrosti Pe- 
largi vicissim missarum, Colon. 1539? Some of 
your readers will doubtless be acquainted with 
what seems to be a very accurate and complete 
performance, the Vita D. Martini Lutheri Nummis 
atque Iconibus illustrata, studio M. Christiani 
Juncker, 8vo., Francof.1699. In this work (p. 129.) 
there is an impression of a medal on which was 
exhibited the Imago ad vivam effigiem expressa 
of Erasmus, anno 1531. R. 
Anglo-Saxon “ Lay of the Phenix.” — Has any 
edition of the Lay of the Phenix been published, 
besides the English version in the Archeologia, 
yol. 30., and«that which bears the date, ‘“‘ Copen- 
hagen, Grundtyig, 1840, 8vo”? Can any light be 
thrown on the doubts respecting the era of the 
author of this lay? And is there any published 
edition of the hexameter poem by Lactantius, 
which is said by Stephens to have suggested the 
first idea of this beautiful Anglo-Saxon poem ? 
SELEUCUS. 
C. Agricola, Propugnaculum Anti-Pistorianum. 
— Could any of your readers direct me to an ac- 
cessible library which possesses a copy of Christian 
Agricola’s Propugnaculum Anti-Pistorianum, or 
otherwise give me any account of that treatise ? 
J. Sansom. 
The Liturgy Version of the Psalms. — In Beloe’s 
Anecdotes of Literature (edition 1807), vol. i. p. 
181. and vol. ii. p. 316. are notices of Zhe Bishops’ 
Bible, where mention is made of one edition of it 
containing two different versions of the Psalms. 
‘The two statements, however, differ, making it 
| doubtful of what is intended ; the first speaking 
of one edition and the second of another. 
Vol. i. p. 181. says — 
“The first edition of this Bible was published in 
1568, In this the new translation of the Psalms was 
inserted alone. In the second edition the translation 
of the Great Bible was added in opposite columns, and 
in a different character.” 
Vol. i. p.316.: — 
“ Bishops’ Bible, first edition, 1568. There is also 
a double translation of the Psalms, one from what is 
called the Great Bible, the other entirely a new one.” 
Will any of your correspondents be so obliging 
as to state what is the additional version — new 
or other — there alluded to, other than the present 
Liturgy version ? X. X. 
MISCELLANIES. 
Sir William Rider.—“P.C.S. 8.” is happy to be 
able to answer one of the questions of “ H. F.” (at 
p- 186. No. 12.), by referring him to the Extracts 
rom the Parish Registers of St. Olave's, which were 
published in vol. ii. of the Collectanea Topogra- 
phica et Genealogica. At p.316., of that volume, 
he will find the following entry, which pretty 
nearly determines the date of Sir William Rider’s 
death : — “1611, November 19. Sir William Ri- 
der diing at Leyton, had his funerale solemnized 
in our Church, the hearss being brought from 
Clothworkers’ Hall.” In a note to the above en- 
try a further reference is made to Lyson’s Envi- 
rons, vol.iv. pp. 160, 161. 165. 
SONNET. 
Written on the opening of the Session, 1847. 
“ For him was lever han at his beddes hed 
Twenty bokes clothed in black or red, 
Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, 
Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.” 
Cuaucer. 
«“ Me, poor man! my library 
Was dukedom large enough.”— SuaxksrEare. 
Farewell, my trusty leathern-coated friends ! 
Tis fitting, for a while, that we should part ; 
For I, as duty points, must shape my ends, 
Obey what reason bids, and not my heart. 
What though ’tis mine to listen in that Hall 
Where England’s peers, “ grave, rev’rend, po- 
tent,” sit, 
To hear the classic words from Stan.ey fall, 
Broveuan’s biting sarcasm, LynpuuRst’s po- 
lished wit, 
The measur’d sentence of Tur Great Catm 
DuKe— 
Tt is not mine to commune with the men. 
Not so when I unfold some favorite book, 
Cuavcer and I grow boon companions then ; 
And SuaxspEare, deigning at my hearth to sit, 
Charms me with mingled love, philosophy, and wit. 
Wirtiam J. THoms. 
Pilgrimage of Princes — Bernard Calver — 
Passage from Hudibras.— In reply to Mr. Beau- 
