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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 72. 



Pope reads " returns," Hanmer " replies." My 

 conjecture is "recries." C. B. 



Bishop Frawpton (Vol. iii., p. 61.). — See an 

 interesting notice of his preaching in Pepys' 

 Diarij, Jan. 20, 1G66-7; and wliat is said of liim 

 in Lathbury's Nonjurors^ p. 203. But probably 

 Mr. Evans is already aware of these references 

 to Bishop Frampton, whose life is a desidei-atnni 

 which many will be glad to hear is going to be 

 supplied. E. H. A. 



Old Tract on the Eucharist (Vol. ill., p. 1G9.). — 

 The author of the tract on the Eucharist, re- 

 ferred to by Abiiba, was the Kev. John Patriclr;. 

 The title of the tract, as given in the catalogues of 

 Archbishop AVake, No. 22. ; of Dr. Gee, No. 73. ; 

 and of Peck, No. 286., of the Discourses against 

 Poperij during the Reign of James II., is as 

 follows : — 



" A Full View of the Doctrines and Practices of the 

 Ancient Church relating to the Eucharist, wholly 

 different from those of the present Roman. Church, and 

 inconsistent with the Belief of Transulistantiation ; 

 being a sufficient Confutation of Conaensus Veterum, 

 Nubes Tistium, and other late Collections of the 

 Fathers pretending the contrary. By JoIlh Patrick, 

 Preacher at the Charier-house, 1G8S. 4to." 



E. C. Harrington. 



Exeter, March 3. 18.51. 



This tract is in 4to., and contains pp. xv. 202. 

 It is one of the more valuable of the numerous 

 tracts published on the lloman Catholic contro- 

 versy during the reign of James II. In a col- 

 lection of more than two hundred of these made 

 at the period of publication, and now in my 

 library, the names of the authors are written upon 

 the titles, and this is attributed to Mr. Patrick. 

 In another collection from the library of the late 

 ]\Ir. Walter Wilson, it is stated to be by Bishop 

 Patrick. Bishop Gibson reprinted the tract in 

 his Preservative against Popery, London, 1738, 

 fol. vol. ii. tit. vii. pp. 176 — 252.; and in the table 

 of contents says that it was written by " Mr. 

 Patrick, late preacher of the Charter-house." 

 Not Bishop Patrick tlierefore, but his brother. 

 Dr. John Patrick, who died 1695, aged sixty- 

 three, was the author of this tract. 



John J. Dredge. 



Was Hugh Peters ever on the Stage ? (Vol. iii., 

 p. 166.). — I possess 



" A Dying Father's last Legacy to an Onely Child, 

 or Hugh Peter's Advice to his Daughter. Written 

 by his own Hand during his late Imprisoimient in the 

 Tower of London, and given her a little before his 

 Death. London, 16G0 :" 



which advice he ends, p. 94., with — 



" Tlie Father of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve you 

 to his Heavenly Kingdom, my poor child. 



"To Elizabeth Peters." 



And then, after a poem at p. 97., he commences a 

 short sketch of his life with — 



" I shall give you an account of myself and dealings, 

 that (if possible) you may wipe off" some dirt, or be 

 the more content to carry it." 



That part of his life which would bear upon this 

 subject reads thus, p. 98. : — 



" When (at Cambridge) I spent some years vainly 

 enougli, being but fourteen years old when thither I 

 came, my tutor died, and I was exposed to my shifts. 

 Coming from tlience, at London God struck me with 

 the sense of my sinful estate by a sermon I heard 

 under Paul's." 



The wonderful success of his lecture at Se- 

 pulchre's caused it to be asserted by his enemies, 

 that his enthusiastic style of preaching was but 

 stage buffoonery. (See p. 100.) 



" At this lecture the resort grew so great, that it 

 contracted envie and anger . . . There were six or 

 seven thousand hearers . . . and I went to Holland : " 



thereby leaving his character to be maligned. I 

 do not believe, from the tone of the condemned 

 man's Legacy, that he would purposely avoid any 

 mention of the stage, had he appeared on it, and 

 " usually performed the part of a clown ; " in fact 

 it appears, that immediately on his coming into 

 London he was awakened by the "sermon under 

 Paul's, which stuck fast : " he almost directly left 

 ibr Essex, and was converted by " the love and 

 labours of Mr. Thomas Hooker. I there preacht;" 

 so that he was mostly preaching itinerantly in 

 Essex, when it is asserted that he was " a player 

 in Shakspeare's company." That Legacy \w ques- 

 tion, and a book autograph of Hugh Peters, are at 

 the service of Dr. Rimbault. Bx-gwen. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



All who take an interest in English philology will 

 join in the wish expressed a few pages back by one of 

 the highest authorities on the subject, Rlr. Albert 

 Way— namely, " that the Philological Society has not 

 abandoned their project of compiling a complete Pro- 

 vincial Glossary;" and will greet as a valuable contri- 

 bution towards that great desideratum, every skilful 

 attempt to record a local dialect. As such, i\f r. Stern- 

 berg's valuable little book, The Dialect and Follt Lore 

 of Korthamplonsltire, will meet a hearty welcome from 

 our philological friends; and no less hearty a welcome 

 from those who find in " popular superstitions, fairy- 

 lore, and other traces of Teutonic heathenism," mate- 

 rials ibr profitable speculation on the ancient mythology 

 of these islands. We are bound to speak thus favour- 

 ably of Mr. Sternberg's researches in this department, 

 since some portion of them were first communicated 

 by him to our Folk- Lore columns. 



Booxs Ueckived. — I'estiijes of the Gael in Gwynedd, 

 by the Rev. H'itliani Basil Jones, M. A. A learned 

 essay on a subject of deep interest to the antiquaries 



