May 25. 1850.] 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
the darkness was impenetrable, and he gazed up- 
wards in vain. The noises, meanwhile, were pre- 
cisely those which he had heard ascribed to the 
Cwn Wybir, and would have been truly appalling 
to a superstitious imagination. His quick ear at 
length caught the rush of pinions, and, in a short 
time, a large flight of curlews came sweeping down 
to the heather, so near his head, that some of their 
wings brushed his hat. They were no sooner 
settled, than the Cwn Wybir ceased to be heard. 
Mr. Young then recollected having noticed similar 
nocturnal cries from the curlew, but had never 
before encountered such a formidable flying legion 
of those birds, screaming in a great variety of 
keys, amidst mountain echoes. Miisan Warine. 
BARTHOLOMEW LEGATE, THE MARTYR. 
An erroneous date, resting on such authorities 
as Mr. Hallam and Mr. J. Payne Collier, deserves 
a note. The former in his Const. Hist. (ii. 275. 
note, second edition), and the latter in the Hgerton 
Papers, printed for the Camden Society (p. 446.), 
assigns the date 1614 to the death of Bartholomew 
Legate at Smithfield. The latter also gives the 
date March 13. Now the true date is March 18. 
1611-12, as will appear by consulting—1. The com- 
missions and warrants for the burning of Legate 
and Wichtman, inserted in Truth brought to Light, 
or the Narrative History of King James for the 
Jirst Fourteen Years, 4to. 1651; 2. Chamberlain’s 
Letters to Sir Dudley Carleton, dated Feb. 26.1611 
(1611-12), and March 25. 1612, printed in The 
Court and Times of James I., vol.i. pp. 136. 164. ; 
and 3. Wallace’s Antitrinitarian Biography, vol. ii. 
p- 534. Fuller, in his Church History, gives the 
correct date, and states that this “burning of 
heretics much startled common people ;” “ where- 
fore King James politicly preferred that heretics 
hereafter, though condemned, should silently and 
privately waste themselves away in the prison.” 
Legate and Wightman were, in fact, the last 
martyrs burnt at the stake in England for their 
religious opinions. A. B.R. 
BOHN’S EDITION OF MILTON'S PROSE WORKS. 
| ‘Three volumes of this edition have already ap- 
peared, the last bearing the date of 1848, and con- 
} cluding thus :—‘“ End of Vol. III.” In the latest 
} Catalogue, which Mr. Bohn has appended to his 
} publications, appears a notice of “ Milton’s Prose 
}] Works, complete in 3 vols.” ‘This word complete 
} is not consistent with the words terminating the 
last volume, nor with the exact truth. For in- 
stance, the History of Britain does not find a place 
| in this edition; and I can hardly believe that Mr. 
Bohn originally intended that the Prose Works of 
_ Milton should be issued from his press without a 
| full index, Without such an index, this edition is 
comparatively worthless to the investigator of 
history. I would therefore suggest to Mr. Bohn 
(whose services to literature T most gratefully 
acknowledge), that he should render his edition of 
Milton’s Prose Works really complete, by issuing 
a fourth volume, which, inter alia, might contain 
the Latin, prose works of Milton, reprinted in 
Fletcher’s edition of 1834, together with any 
omitted English prose work of the author, and 
be terminated, as is usual in Mr. Bohn’s publica- 
tions, with, a full alphabetical index, embracing 
both persons and things. The lover of historical 
pursuits would then have fresh reason to thank 
Mr. Bohn. N. 
REPRINE. OF JEREMY TAYLOR'S WORKS. 
A reprint being called for of vol. iv. of Bishop 
Jeremy Taylor's Works, now in course of publica- 
tion, 1 would beg permission to.make it known to 
your readers, that assistance in regard to any 
references which were not verified in the former 
edition of that volume would be very acceptable 
tome. They should be sent within the next fort- 
night., C. Pacr Epen, 
DR. THOMAS BEVER’S LEGAL POLITY OF GREAT 
BRITAIN, 
I do not know if such a notice as this is in- 
tended to be, is admissible into your publication. 
Many years ago, I bought of a bookseller a MS. 
intituled “ A Short History of the Legal and 
Judicial Polity of Great Britain, attempted by 
Thos. Bever, LL.D., Advocate in Doctor's Com- 
mons, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 
1759.” It is presented to Richard Pennant, Esq.; 
and there is a letter from Mr. Bever to Mr. Pen- 
nant wafered to: the fly-leaf. At the close of the 
“ Advertisement,” the author ‘ earnestly requests 
that it [the work] may not be suffered to fall into 
the hands of a bookseller, or be copied, without 
his consent: and whenever it shall become use- 
less, and lose its value (if any it ever had) with 
the present owner, that he will be kind enough to 
return it to the author if living, or if dead, to any 
of his surviving family at Mortimer near Reading, 
Berks.” 
In pious sympathy with this wish, I more than 
thirty years since wrote a letter, addressed to 
ag Bever, Esq., Mortimer, near Reading, 
Berks,” offering to give up the volume to any one 
entitled to it under the above description ; but my 
letter was returned from the post office with the 
announcement “ Not found” upon it. I make 
this other attempt, if you are pleased to admit it, 
through you; and immediate attention will be 
paid to any claim which may appear in your pages. 
