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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 67. 



in the possession of a clergyman near Rotherham, 

 in this county, with the following inscription : — 



" VREEST . GODT . ONDEBHOVEDT . 

 SYN . GEBOEDT . ANNO . 1634." 



[Fear God (and?) keep his commandments.] 



Having so lately been so justly reproved by 

 your correspondent, Mr. Janus Dousa, for judg- 

 ing of Vonders Lucifer by an apparently unjust 

 review rather than by perusal, — and his beau- 

 tiful chorus having so fully " established his 

 case," — I am rather shy of making any remarks 

 upon this inscription : otherwise I would venture 

 (errors excepted) to observe that there mat/ be 

 a mistake in the position of the last three letters 

 of the third word. 



If Mr. Dousa would kindly inform a very im- 

 perfect Dutch scholar whether this sentence is 

 intended as a quotation from Ecclesiastes xii., 

 13th verse, — 



" Vreest Godt ende hout syne geboden;" 



or whether the third word is from the verb 

 '■'■ onder hotulen" — as looks probable, I shall be 

 greatly obliged to him. The Bible to which I 

 refer is dated 1644. 



Being neither a scholar nor a critic, but only a 

 lover of books and languages, I hope Mr. Dousa 

 will accept my apology for the affront offered to 

 his countryman, Vondel. Your publication has 

 been a great temptation to people with a few 

 curious books around them to set sari their little 

 boats of inquiry or observation for the mere 

 pleasure of seeing them float down the stream in 

 company with others of more importance and 

 interest. I confess myself to have been one of the 

 injudicious number ; and having made shipwreck 

 of my credit against M. Brellet's Dictionnaire de 

 la Langue Celtique, and also on Vondel's Lucifer, I 

 must here apologise and promise to offend no 

 more. If Mr. Dousa will not be appeased, I have 

 only to add that I " send him my card." As Mrs. 

 Malaprop said to Sir Lucius O'Trigger — 

 " Spare my blushes — / am Delia." 



Hermes. 



P. S. Can Mr. Dousa fix a positive date to my 

 undated History of Dr. John Faustiis? 



Landwade Church. — It appears to me that an 

 important service would be rendered to posterity, 

 if a full account were taken of all the monuments 

 and inscriptions in such deserted churches as 

 Landwade appears to be. Such records may ere 

 long become invaluable, and every day is hasten- 

 ing them to oblivion. Already hundreds of such 

 churches, with the several monuments and inscrip- 

 tions they contained, have entirely passed away. 

 I have been making some investigation into the 

 demolished and desecrated churches of Bucking- 

 hamshire, and am astonished at the number of 

 monumental records which have thus perished. 



Thirty-one churches at least have been lost to the 

 county, and some of them were rich in monu- 

 mental memorials. 



Other counties, doubtless, have equally suffered. 

 Would it not, therefore, be well to collect accounts 

 of the memorials they contained, so far as they 

 can be obtained, and liave them recorded in some 

 publication, that they may be available to future 

 historians, genealogists, and antiquaries? Is there 

 any existing periodical suitable for the purpose ? 



W. Hastings Kelke. 



The First Edition of the Second Book of Hom- 

 ilies, by Queen Elizaheth in 1563. — In the edition 

 of the Homilies at the O.xford University press in 

 1822, and which from inspection, in the portion 

 concerned, appear to be the same in the last, I 

 find in the Advertisement, page iv, note d., that 

 there exist four editions of the date 1563. Of 

 these, I presume, are two in my possession, and I 

 conclude one of them to be the _/??•«< edition on the 

 following grounds:— TAa^ one, pi-inted by Richard 

 Jugge and John Cawood, 1563, has in the last 

 page and a half, " Faultes escaped in the print- 

 yng," which appear to have been corrected in all the 

 subsequent editions, and are as they stand in the 

 subsequent and modern editions, I presume, up 

 to the present time. But the principal proof 

 arises from a cancelled leaf in the Homily, " Of 

 Common Prayer and Sacraments," as it stands in the 

 Oxford edition of 1822, p. 329-331. The passage 

 in question, as it there stands, and stands likewise 

 in another edition of 1563, which I have, begins 

 within three lines of the end of the paragraph, 

 p. 329., — " eth, that common or public prayer," 

 &c., and ends at p. 331. line 13., — " mentof bap- 

 tism and the Lord's supper," &e. In my pre- 

 sumed first edition the original passage has been 

 dismissed, and the substituted passage, being one 

 leaf, in a smaller type, in order plainly to contain 

 more matter, and it is that which appears, as I sup- 

 pose, in all subsequent and the present copies. It 

 would have been a matter of some curiosity, and 

 perhaps of some importance, to have the original 

 cancelled passage. But every intelligent reader 

 will perceive that the subject was one which re- 

 quired both delicacy and judgment. Is any copy 

 existing which has the original passage? My 

 copy unfortunately is imperfect, wanting three 

 leaves ; and I apprehend this is an additional in- 

 stance in which the first edition of an important 

 work has been in a manner thrown aside for its 

 imperfection ; as was the case with the real first 

 edition of the Canons and Decrees of the Council 

 of Trent, and the Execution cf Justice given to 

 Jjurghley. As the Oxford editor wished for in- 

 formation upon this subject, it is hoped that the 

 present communication may not be unacceptable 

 to him. J. M. 



Jan. -23. 1851. 



