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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 66. 



wanting, as is also the first leaf of Genesis. But 

 the title of the New Testament is as follows : — 



" The Newe Testament of ovr Lord Jesus Christ*^* 

 Conferred diligently with the Greke, and best apprcued 

 traiislacions in divers languages. At Geneva : Printed 

 by Rouland Hull, ji.d.lx." 



There is a woodcut of the Eg^'ptians pursuing 

 the Israelites on the shore of the Red Sea, sur- 

 rounded with texts from scripture. It is a small 

 quarto in Eoman type, and divided into verses. 



Echo. 



Separation of Sexes in Church (Vol. ii., p.94.). — 

 This custom appears to be of considerable anti- 

 quity. Sir Thom.is More, in his Utopia (p. 285. 

 of the edition of 1639), says — 



" AVhen they be come thither, the men goe into the 

 right side of the church, and the women into the left 

 side." 



J. Sn. 



Defender of the Faith (Vol. iii., p. 9.). — By a 

 Lasty perusal of the letter of Col. Anstruther in 

 your number of the 4th of January, I jierceive 

 that some doubt has been raised whether any of 

 our sovereigns have used the title of Defender of 

 the Faith, prior to the time of King Henry VIII. 



If vou will I'efor to the fourth part of Prynne's 

 Institutes, pp. 2-29-30, and 295-6-7, you will 

 find set out at full length divers letters close and 

 patent from King Kieliard II. in the 6th, 11th, 

 and 19th years of his reign, for suppressing the 

 heresies of Wickliff and his followers. These 

 letters are addressed to the Chancellor of the 

 University of Oxford, "William Archbishop of 

 Canterbury (Courtney), and toIlalCe Crombewell, 

 Chivalier, and John Lekyll, and the Mayor and 

 Bailifis of jSTottingham, in which King Iliclnird II. 

 styles himself thus — " Xos Zelo Fidei Catholics, 

 Cujus Sumus Et Esse Volumus Defensores," &c. 



II. WlTHAM. 



Lincoln Chambers, Chancery Lane, 

 Jan. U. 1851. 



Epigram on Synod of Dort (Vol. iii., p. 23.). — 

 The statement in the Biographie Universclle, that 

 tliis ejjigram was made in England, is jirobably 

 taken from Mosheim (Eccl. Hist.), who says the 

 same ; but his authority Neal (Hist, of the Pnri- 

 tans) does not say that it was made in England; 

 and one can hardly read the sentence in which he 

 quotes it without feeling satisfied that he did not 

 know who made it. After stating that the pro- 

 ceedings of the sj'nod were much approved of by 

 the English divines, and quoting expressions of 

 Mr. Baxter and the learned Jacobus Capella in 

 its favour, he proceeds — 



" P. du Moulin, Paulus Scrvita, and the author of 

 the life of Waleus, speak the same language. But 

 others poured contempt upon the Synod, or burlesqued 

 their proceedings in the following lines : 



' Dordrechti Synodus, nodus; chorus integer, aeger; 

 Conventus, ventus ; sessio stramen. Amen.' 



Lewis du Moulin, with all the favourers of the 

 Arminian doctrine, as Heylin, Womeck, Brandt, &c., 

 charge them with partiality and unjustifiable severity." 



AVhen a writer, in the midst of a shower of 

 authorities, refers a particular expression to 

 "others," it may almost be laid down as a rule, 

 that he does not know whose property it is. Here, 

 therefore, the inquiry seems brought to a dead 

 stop, in this tract at least. B. Ii. I. 



Parish Register Tax (Vol. ii., p. 10.). — In our 

 register, Hawarden, I find the following entry : 



"October, 178.S. On the 2nd of this month the 

 Act commenced which laycth a duty of threepence 

 upon every Itcgistry of a Burial, except a Pauper's." 

 And again : 



"Oct. 1. 1794. The duty of threepence on each 

 Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, imposed liy 

 Act of Parliament, commencing October 2, 1783, 

 ceased this day." 



During this interval many burials are marked 

 paupers. Waldegrave Brewster. 



Hawarden, Flints. 



Clergy sold for Slaves (Vol. ii., p. 41.). — 

 Walker s.ays : 



" Mr. Dugdale, in relating the same matter, adds> 

 that Iligby not only exposed them to sale, but found 

 pvrcliusers a]so ; and what is more, had actually con- 

 tracted with two merchants for them ; and for tliat 

 reason moved it twice (in the House, as 1 understand 

 him) that they might be disposed of" 



Waldeghave Brewster. 



nSrltsccTIaiicoui?. 



NOTES OX BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



When a work of such general reference as a Peerage, 

 which is wanted upon every library table, and in every 

 club and reading-room "where men do congregate;" 

 which is, at the same time, from its nature, open to the criti- 

 cism of hundreds of critics, — when a work of this nature 

 and of such extent as Bur/ie's Genealogical and Heraldic 

 Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British 

 Empire bears on its title-page the brief but expressive 

 words " Tliirleenth Edition" it has obviously long out- 

 lived the time when any question can exist as to its 

 merits. These have long been recognised by those best 

 able to appreciate them, namely, the noble personages 

 to whose history, and the history of whose descent and 

 collateral branches, it is especially devoted ; and whose 

 personal communications have served to procure for the 

 present work the merit by which it seeks to distinguish 

 itself from all similar productions, namely, by its greater 

 fullness of detail and its extreme accuracy. 



The Rev. A. Hussey, M. A., has in the Press Notes 

 on the Churches in the Counties of Kent, Sussex, and 

 Surrey mentioned in Dcmcsdny Booh. Subscribers 

 names are received by Mr. J. Russell Smith. 



