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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 80. 



acquainted with the Rev. W. Gilpin, vicar of 

 Bolih-e, and author of Forest Scenery, &c. Mr. 

 Gilpin's custom was to receive morning visitors, 

 who sat and enjoyed his agreeable conversation ; 

 and Warren Hastings, when staying in the neigh- 

 bourhood, often resorted to the IJoldrc Parsonage. 

 It happened, one Sunday, that Mr. Gilpin preached 

 a sermon on the character of Felix, which com- 

 menced in words like these : 



" Fe]ix was a bad man, and a bad governor. He 

 took away another man's wife and lived with her ; and 

 he behaved with extortion and cruelty in the province 

 over which he ruled." 



Other particulars followed equally in accord- 

 ance with the popidar charges against the late 

 Governor-General of India, who, to the preacher's 

 dismay, was unexpectedly discovered sitting in the 

 D'Oyley pew. Mr. Gilpin concluded that he then 

 saw the" last of his " great" friend. But, not so : 

 on the following morning Warren Hastings came, 

 with his usual pleasant manner, for a chat with 

 the vicar, and of course made no allusion to the 

 sermon. 



This was told me by a late valued friend, who 

 was a nephew and curate of JMr. Gilpin ; and I am 

 not aware that the anecdote has been put on 

 record. Alfred Gatty. 



Ecclesfield. 



Richard Baxter. — In the long list of Richard 

 Baxter's works, one is entitled, An unsuvoiiry 

 Volume of Mr. Jo. Crmvford's anatomized : or, 

 a Noaegay of the choicest Floivers in that Garden, 

 presented to Mr. Joseph Ca7-yl, by Richard Baxter. 

 8vo., Lond. 16.54. 



At the end of a posteript to this tract, the fol- 

 lowing sentence is subjoined : 



" Whatsoever hath escaped me in these writings that 

 is against meekness, peace, and brotherly love, let it be 

 all unsaid, and hereby revoked ; and I desire the pardon 

 of it from God and Man. Richard Baxteu." 



Baxter's literary career was not the least extra- 

 ordinary part of his history. Orme's life of him 

 says, that the catalogue of his works contains 

 nearly a hundred and sixty-eight distinct publica- 

 tions. A list of no less than one hundred and 

 seven is given at the end of his Compassionate 

 Counsel to all Young Men, 8vo., Lond. 1682. 



Baxter's most popular treatises, as the world 

 knows, were his Call to the Unconverted, and his 

 SainCs Everlasting Rest. H. E. 



Registry of Dissenting Baptisms in Churches. — 

 A fact came to my knowledge some time since, 

 which seems worthy of having a note of it made, and 

 recorded in your journal. On looking over the 

 registry of baptisms administered in the meeting- 

 house of an ancient city, I was struck by the 

 occurrence of four names, which I had seen entered 

 in a genealogy .as from the baptismal registry of 

 one of its parish churches. This aj^peared to me 



so strange, that I examined the parish registry in 

 order to verify it ; and I found that the baptisms 

 were actually recorded as on the same days in 

 both registries. Of course, the father, having had 

 his child baptized by the dissenting minister, pre- 

 vailed on the clergyman of his parish church to 

 register it. 



AVhether this was a common custom at the time 

 when it took place (1715-21) I have no means of 

 knowing. As a fee was probably charged for the 

 registration, it was not likely to be asked for in 

 .all instances ; and, no doubt, when it was asked 

 for, many clergymen would consider it inconsistent 

 with their duty to grant it. D. X. 



caucvic^. 



NOTES AND QUERIES RELATING TO SGANDINAVIA. 



Can any of your readers furnish a list of the dif- 

 ferent editions of Olaus Magnus f I have lately 

 met with a curious one entitled Historia delle 

 Gente et delta Natura delle Cose Settenirionali, da 

 Olao Magna Gotho Arcivescovo di Vpsala nel Regno 

 di Suezia e Gozia, descrilta in XXII Libri. 

 Tradotta in Lingiia Toscana. In Vinegia, 1565. 

 This edition, in folio, contains a very interesting 

 old map of Scandinavia, and a profusion of little 

 cuts or engravings, representing men, animals, 

 gods, mountains, weapons, religious rites, natural 

 wonders, and everything relating to the people 

 and the country that could be conceived or 

 gathered together. Is there any English transla- 

 tion of Olaus Magnus ? 



Is there any English translation of Jornandes' 

 Histoire Generate des Goths ? It is full of curi- 

 ous matter. The French edition of 1(303 gives 

 the following accounts of the midnight sun : — 



" Diver.ses nations ne laissent pas d'habiter ces eon- 

 tr^es "(Scanzia or Scandinavia). "Ptolomee en nomme 

 sept prlnclpales. Celle qui s'appelle Adogit, et qui 

 est la plus reculee vers le Nord, volt (dit on) durant 

 I'Este le Soleil rouler I'horlzon quarante jours sans se 

 coucher ; mals aussi pendant ITIyver, elle est prlvee 

 de sa lumlere un pared espace de temps, payant alnsi 

 par le long ennui que lul cause I'absence de cet Astre, 

 la joye que sa longue presence lui avoit fait ressentir." 



There is a little old book called Histoire des In- 

 trigues Galantes de la Reine Christine de Suede et 

 de sa Cour, pendant son sejour a Rome. A Amster- 

 dam, 1697. It opens thus : 



" Rome, qui est le centre de la religion, est aussi le 

 Theatre des plus belles Comedies du Monde: " 



and after giving various accounts, personal and 

 incidental, of her mercurial majesty, and of her 

 pilgrimage to Rome, recites the following epigram 

 on her first intrigue there, which, to give due 

 precedence to the church, happened to be with a 

 Cardinal, named Azolin : — 



