ApRIL 20. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
399 
This passage accords with the entries in Mon- 
mouth’s pocket-book under the dates of Jan. 5. 
and Feb. 3. If the unfortunate Monmouth could 
have foreseen the miserable end, with all its ac- 
companying humiliations and horrors, to which a 
‘ew months were destined to bring him, his excla- | 
nation, “ O cruel fate!” would have acquired ad- 
Citional bitterness. C. Ross. 
[We insert the foregoing as serving to complete the 
seiies of interesting notices connected with the capture 
of Monmouth which have appeared in our columns, 
rather than from an agreement with the views of our 
valied correspondent. Dr. Anster states, that in the 
poctet-bock in his possession, the Duke’s movements 
up t> the 14th March, 1684-5, are given. Would he 
kindly settle the question by stating whether the pas- 
sagesquoted by Weldon are to be found among them ?] 
QUERIES, 
WOOLTON’S CHRISTIAN MANUAL. 
One important use, I conceive, of the “ Notrs 
AND Querigs” is, the opportunity it presents of 
ascertaining the existence of rare editions of early 
printed books. Can any of your readers state | 
where a copy or copies of the following may be — 
found ? 
“ Tur Curist1an Manuell, or the life and maners of | 
true Christians, A Treatise, wherein is plentifully de- 
clarec how needefull it is for the seruaunts of God to 
manifest and declare to the world: their faith by their 
deedes, their words by their work, and their profession 
by their conuersation, Written by Ihon Woolton, | 
Minister of the Gospel, in the cathedral church of 
Excetor, Imprinted at London by I. C. for Tho. 
Sturruppe, in Paules Church yarde, at the George, 
1576. Dedicated to Sir William Cordell knight, | 
Maister of the Rolles.— At Whymple 20 Nouember | 
1676.’ N 7, in eights.” — Copy formerly in the pos- 
session of Herbert. (Herbert, Typographical An- 
tiquities, vol. ii. p. 1094. ) 
There is an imperfect copy, I understand, in the 
Bodleian. Access to another copy has been needed 
for an important public object, in order to tran- 
scribe the leaf or leaves wanting in the Bodleian 
copy; and the book, so far as I am aware, does 
not occur in any other public libraries. 
Woolton was nephew to Nowell, author of the 
Catechisms. He wrote several other pieces, and 
was Bishop of Exeter 1579—1593. (Wood, Athen. 
Oxon. ed. Bliss, vol. i. pp. 600, 601.) “ 
Bath, April 9. 1850. 
'in the two earliest. 
LUTHER'S TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT :— 
1 JouN, v. 7. 
In_an article of the Quarterly Review (vol. 
Xxxiii. p. 78.) on this controverted passage of 
St. John’s Epistles, generally attributed to the 
present learned Bishop of Ely, the following state- 
ment is made respecting Luther :— 
“ Let it also be recollected, to the honour of Luther, 
Bugenhagius, and other leaders of the Reformation, 
that in this contest they magnanimously stood by the 
decision of Erasmus. Luther, in his translation of the 
New Testament, omitted the passage; and, in the pre- 
| face to the last edition (in 1546) revised ty himself, he 
solemnly requested that his translation should on no 
| account be altered.” 
Since such was the injunction of Luther, how 
does it happen that this verse appears in the later 
editions of his Testament? I have looked into 
five or six editions, and have not found the verse 
These bear the following 
titles : — 
“ Biblia dat ys, de gantze hillige Schrifft verdii- 
deschet dorch Doct. Mart. Luth. Wittemberch. Hans 
Lufft. 1579.” (in folio.) “Dat Neu Testamente 
verdiideschet doreh D. Mart. Luth. mit den korten 
Summarien L. Leonharti Hutteri. Gosslar. In Iahre 
1619.” 
The verse appears in an edition of his Bible 
printed at Halle in 1719; in his New Testament, 
Tubingen, 1793; in one printed at Basel in 1821; 
and is also to be found in that printed by the 
| Christian Knowledge Society. In the Basel edi- 
tion the verse is thus given : — 
«“ Denn Drey sind, die da zeugen im Himmel : der 
Vater, das Wort, und der heilige Geist; und diese 
Drey sind Eins,” 
Perhaps some of your learned readers can ex- 
plain when, and by whose authority, the verse 
was inserted in Luther’s Testament. E. M. B. 
We may add, that the verse also appears in the 
ui P 
| stereotype edition of Luther’s Bible, published by 
Tauchnitz, at Leipsig, in 1819. — Ep.] 
MINOR QUERIES. 
Medical Symbols.—“ A Patrent” inquires re- 
specting the origin and date of the marks used to 
designate weights in medical prescriptions. 
Charles IT. and Lord R.’s Daughter.—Can 
any of your readers inform me who was the lady 
that is referred to in the following passage, from 
Henry Sidney’s Diary, edited by Mr. Blencowe 
(March 9. 1610, vol. i. p. 298) :— 
“The King hath a new mistress, Lord R ’s 
daughter: she brought the Duke of Monmouth to the 
King.” 
C. 
