May 4. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
433 
BP. COSIN'’S MSS. — INDEX TO BAKER'S MSS. 
Your correspondent “J. Sansom” (No. 19. 
p- 303.) may perhaps find some unpublished re- 
mains of Bp. Cosin in Baker’s MSS8.; from the 
excellent index to which (Cambridge, 1848, p. 57.) 
I transcribe the following notices, premising that 
of the volumes of the MSS. the first twenty-three 
are in the British Museum, and the remainder in 
the University Library, (not, as Mr. Carlyle says 
in a note in, I think, the 3d vol. of his Letters, Sc. 
of Cromwell in the library of Trin. Coll.). 
“ Cosin, Bp. — 
Notes of, in his Common Prayer, edit. 1636, xx. 175. 
Benefactions to See of Durham, xxx. 377—380, 
Conference with Abp. of Trebisond, xx. 178. 
Diary in Paris, 1651, xxxvi. 929. 
Intended donation for a Senate-House, xxx. 454. 
Letters to Peter Gunning, principally concerning 
the authority of the Apocrypha, vi. 174—180. 
230—238. 
Manual of Devotion, xxxvi. 338.” 
As the editors of the Index to Baker’s MSS. in- 
vite corrections from those who use the MSS., you 
will perhaps be willing to print the following ad- 
ditions and corrections, which may be of use in case 
a new edition of the Index should be required :— 
Preface, p. vii. add, in Thoresby Correspondence, 
one or two of Baker’s Letters have been printed, others 
have appeared in Nichols’s Literary Anecdotes. 
Index, p. 2. Altars, suppression of, in Ely Diocese, 
1550, xxx. 213. Printed inthe British 
Magazine, Oct. 1849, p. 401. 
Babraham, Hullier Vicar of, burnt for heresy. 
Brit. Mag. Nov. 1849, p. 543. 
Bucer incepts as Dr. of Divinity, 1549, xxiv. 
114. See Dr. Lamb’s Documents from MSS. 
Cr C.'C..Gyp, 53; 
Appointed to lecture by Edw, VI., 1549, xxx. 
$70. See Dr. Lamb, p. 152. 
Letter of University to Edw., recommending 
his family to care, x.396. Dr. Lamb, p.154. 
. Buckingham, Dr. Eglisham’s account of his 
poisoning James I., xxxii. 149—153. See 
Harl. Mise. 
Buckmaster’s Letter concerning the King’s 
Divorce, x. 243. ‘This is printed in Burnet, 
vol. iii. lib. 1. collect. No. 16., from a copy 
sent by Baker, but more fully in Dr, Lamb, 
p- 23., and in Cooper's Annals. 
Renunciation of the Pope, 1535. 
Harmer, Specimen, p. 163. 
Cowel, Dr., charge against, and defence of his 
Antisanderus. Brit. Mag. Ang. 1849, p. 184. 
Cranmer, extract from C.C.C. MS. concerning. 
Brit. Mag, Aug. 1849, p. 169, seq. 
Cranmer, life of, xxxi. 1—38. Brit. Mag. Aug. 
1849, p. 165. 
Convocation, subscribers to the judgment of, 
Xxxi. 9. British Magazine, Sept. 1849, p. $17. 
Ely, Altars, suppression of, 1550, xxx. 213. 
Brit, Mag, Oct. 1849, p. 401. 
B. 5. 
Pirs. 
PP, 25. See Ant. 
PST. 
P. 77. Several of the papers relating to Bishop Fisher 
will be found in Dr. Hymers’ edition of The 
Funeral Sermon on Lady Margaret. 
Gloucester, Abbey of, &c., a Poem by Malvern, 
v. 285-7. Brit. Mag. xxi. 377.; Caius Coll. 
MSS. No. 391. art. 13. 
Goodman, Declaration concerning the articles 
in his book. Strype’s Annals, I. i. 184. 
Henry VJI., Letter to Lady Margaret, xix. 
262. See Dr. Hymers, as above, p. 160. 
P. 91. Henry VIII., Letter to, giving an account of 
the death of Wyngfield, &e. See Sir H. 
Ellis, Ser. 77. No. 134. 
. Humphrey, Bishop, Account, &c., xxxv. 1—19. 
Read xxvi. 1— 19. 
Humphrey, Bishcp, Images and Relics, &c., 
xxx. 183-4. Brit. Mug. Sept. 1849, p. 300. 
P. 121-2. Lady Margaret. Several of the articles re~ 
lating to Lady Margaret have been printed 
by Dr. Hymers (ut sup.). 
Pole Card. Oratio Johannis Stoyks, &c., 
vy. 310—312. Dr. Lamb, p. 177. 
Redman, Dr., Particulars of, xxxii. 495.— 
Brit. Mag. Oct. 1849, p. 402. 
Spelman’s Proposition concerning the Saxon 
Lecture, &c. Sir LH. Ellis Letters of Emi- 
nent Literary Men, Camd. Soc. No. 59. 
P. 169. Noy’s Will, xxxvi. 375., read 379. 
Many of the articles relating to Cambridge in 
the MSS. have been printed by Mr. Cooper in his 
Annals of Cambridge: some relating to Cromwell 
are to be found in Mr. Carlyle’s work ; and several, 
besides those which I have named, are contained 
in Dr. Lamb's Documents. J. E B. Mayor. 
Marlborough Coll., March 30. 
P. 80. 
P. 89, 
BR: 187. 
P. 143. 
Prot: 
ARABIC NUMERALS AND CIPHER. 
Will you suffer me to add some further re- 
marks on the subject of the Arabic numerals 
and cipher; as neither the querists nor respon- 
dents seem to have duly appreciated the immense 
importance of the step taken by introducing the 
use of a cipher. I would commence with obsery- 
ing, that we know of no people tolerably advanced 
in civilisation, whose system of notation had made 
such little progress, beyond that of the mere savage, 
as the Romans. ‘Ihe rudest savages could make 
upright scratches on the face of a rock, and set 
them in arow, to signify units; and as the cireum- 
stance of having ten fingers has led the people of 
every nation to give a distinct name to the number 
ten and its multiples, the savage would have taken 
but a little step when he invented such a mode of 
expressing tens as crossing his scratches, thus X. 
His ideas, however, enlarge, and he makes three 
scratches, thus ©, to express 100. Generations of 
such vagabonds as founded Rome pass away, and 
at length some one discovers that, by using but 
half the figure for ™., the number 5 may be con- 
jectured to be meant, Another calculator follows 
