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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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BISHOP COSIN’S FORM OF CONSECRATION OF 
CHURCHES. 
We learn from Wilkins (Concilia, tom. iv. p. 
566, ed. Lond. 1737), also from Cardwell (Sy- 
nodal. pp. 668. 677. 820. ed. Oxon. 1842), and 
from some other writers, that the care of drawing 
up a Form of Consecration of Churches, Chapels, 
and Burial-places, was committed to Bishop Cosin 
by the Convocation of 1661; which form, when 
complete, is stated to have been put into the hands 
of Robert, Bishop of Oxon, Humphrey, Bishop of 
Sarum, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and John, 
Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, for revision. 
Ishould feel much obliged if (when you can find 
space) you would kindly put the query to your 
correspondents — “ What has become of this 
Form ?” 
There is at Durham a Form of Consecration of 
Churches, said to be in the hand-writing of Basire ; 
at the end of which the following notes are 
written : — 
“ This forme was used at the consecration of Christ’s 
Church, neare Tinmouth, by the Right Rev. Father in 
God, John, Lord Bishop of Duresme, on Sunday, the 
5th of July, 1668. 
“Hee forma Conseerationis consonat eum forma 
Reverendi in Christo Patris Lanceloti Andrewes, edit. 
anno 1659. 
“ Deest Anathema, Signaculum in antiquis dedicatio- 
nibus. 
- Nuptiarum. 
inate De nHC ; Pubifieationis Mulierum.” 
As this, however, can hardly be the missing 
Form of Consecration of Churches, &e, which 
Cosin himself seems to have drawn up for the 
Convocation of 1661, but which appears to have 
been no more heard of from the time when it was 
referred to the four bishops for revision, the ques- 
tion still remains to be answered — What has be- 
come of that Form? Can the MS. by any chance 
haye found its way into the Library of Peterhouse, 
Cambridge, or into the Chapter Library at Peter- 
borough ? — or is any other unpublished MS. of 
Bishop Cosin’s known to exist in either of these, 
or in any other library ? J. SANsom. 
8. Park Place, Oxford, Feb. 18. 1850. 
PORTRAITS OF LUTHER, ERASMUS, AND ULRIC 
VON HUTTEN. 
I am very much indebted to “S. W.S.” for the 
information which he has supplied (No. 15. p. 
232.) relative to ancient wood-cut representations 
of Luther and Erasmus. As he has mentioned 
Ulric von Hutten also (for whom I have an 
especial veneration, on account of his having pub- 
lished Valla’s famous Declamatio so early as 1517), 
erhaps he would have the kindness to state which 
is supposed to be the best wood-cut likeness of 
this resolute (“ Jacta est alea”) man. “§.W.S.” 
speaks of a portrait of him which belongs to the 
year 1523. I have before me another, which 
forms the title-page of the Huttenica, issued “ ex 
Ebernburgo,” in 1521. ‘This was, I believe, his 
place of refuge from the consequences which re- 
sulted from his annexation of marginal notes to 
Pope Leo's Bull of the preceding year. In the 
remarkable wood-cut with which “ Or’TIS, NEMO” 
commences, the object of which is not immediately 
apparent, it would seem that “VL.” implies a 
play upon the initial letters of Ulysses and U1- 
ricus. This syllable is put over the head of a 
person whose neck looks as if it were already the 
worse from unfortunate proximity to the terrible 
rock wielded by Polyphemus. I should be glad 
that “S. W.S.” could see some manuscript verses 
in German, which are at the end of my copy of De 
Hutten’s Conquestio ad Germanos. ‘They appear 
to have been written by the anthor in 1520; and, 
at the conclusion, he has added, “ Vale ingrata 
patria.” ht. G. 
QUERIES CONCERNING CHAUCER. 
Lollius. —Who was the Lollius spoken of by 
Chaucer in the following passages ? — 
“ As write mine authour Lolius.” 
Troilus and Cresseide, b. i. 
«“ The Whichecote as telleth Lollius.” 
Ib. b. v. 
« And eke he Lollius.” — House of Fame, b. iii. 
Trophee.— Who or what was “Trophee ?” 
“Saith Trophee” occurs in the Monkes Tule. I 
believe some MSS. read “for Trophee;” but 
“saith ‘Trophee” would appear to be the correct 
rendering ; for Lydgate, in the Prologue to his 
Translation of Boccaccio’s Fall of Princes, when 
enumerating the writings of his “ maister Chau- 
cer,” tells us, that 
“Tn youth he made a translacion 
Of a boke which called is Truphe 
In Lumbarde tonge, as men may rede and se, 
And in our vulgar, long or that he deyde, 
Gave it the name of Troylous and Cresseyde.” 
Corinna, — Chaucer says somewhere, “ I follow 
Statius first, and then Corinna.” Was Corinna in 
mistake put for Colonna? ‘The 
* Guido eke the Colempnis,” 
whom Chaucer numbers with “ great Omer” and 
others as bearing up the fame of Troy (House of 
Fame, b. iii). 
Friday Weather.— The following meteorological 
proverb is frequently repeated in Devonshire, to 
denote the variability of the weather on Fridays: — 
“ Fridays in the week 
Are never alech.” 
* Aleek” for “alike,” a common Devonianism. 
