June 7. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



443 



there oF Persian words, written with Helirew letters, 

 in the notes appended, seem to Indicate tliat the books 

 in question came originrilly from the western part of 

 Asia, perhaps Persia or Arabia. There is no trace 

 whatever of the Chinese character about them, and 

 they must have been manufactured entirely by 

 foreigners residing in China, or who have cotne from 

 a foreign country. llejcarding their age, it would be 

 difficult to hazard even a conjecture." 



The result of this mission has been such that it 

 cannot be doubted another will be sent, and we 

 trust the attempt at least will be made by some 

 discreet foreiiiner — a Jew, or at all events a 

 Hebrew scholar — to penetrate to Kai-fung-fii ; 

 for although the proofs brought away on the 

 present occasion are so far satisfactory, yet in the 

 account given, on the authority of the Chinese 

 emissaries, we presume, there are several things 

 that might otherwise excite incredulity. 



Salopian. 



[The Jewish InlelUgencer for May, 1851, contains a 

 long article on the " Present State of the Jews at 

 Kai-fung-fu ; " also a fac-simile of the Hebrew MS. 

 found in the synagogue at that place, and a map of the 

 eastern coast of China.] 



THE DUTCH MARTYBOLOGT. 



Wall, in his Histoi-y of Infant Baptism, fre- 

 quently mentions a book called The Dutch Mca-- 

 ti/rology as quoted by Danvers. He appears never 

 to have seen it, and if I mistake not (although 

 I cannot just now had the passage) he somewhere 

 throws out a iiint that no such book ever existed. 

 Archdeacon Cotton, in his valuable edition of 

 Wall's book, says (vol. ii. p. 131. note m.) : 



" Danvers cites this work as ' The Dutch Martyrology 

 called The blooily Theatre ; a most elaborate and worthy 

 collection: written in Dutch, by M. J. Van Braght.' 

 1 have never seen it." 



A very fine copy of this curious and very import- 

 ant work is in the Fagel collection in the library 

 of Trinity College, Dublin. It is on large paper, 

 with the exception of some few leaves in different 

 parts of the volume, which have been mounted to 

 match the rest. It is full of beautiful engravings 

 by Jan Luyken, representing the sufferings of the 

 martyrs ; some of them, indeed all, possessing 

 very great artistic merit. The first in the volume, 

 a crucifixion, representing Our Lord in the very 

 act of being nailed to the cross, is a most striking 

 picture : and I may also mention another, at 

 p. 385., representing a party in a boat reading the 

 BiijJe, having put out to sea to escape observation. 



The book is a large folio in 2 vols. : the first 

 consisting (jf 450, the second of 840 pages; and con- 

 tains a most important collection of original docu- 

 ments, whicli arc indispensable to the history of 

 the Reformation, and many of tlicm are iniimately 

 connected wiiii the English Ileformation. Tiie 

 history of the martyrs begins with Our Saviour's 



crucifixion) for He is represented as the first 

 Anabaptist martyr !), and ends with the year 16G0. 

 The Dublin copy is the second edition, and its full 

 title is as follows : — 



" Het Bloedig Tooneel, of Martelaers Spiegel der 

 Doops-gesinde of Weerloose Christenen, die om't 

 getuygenis van Jesus naren Selighniaker, geleden 

 hebben, ende gedood zijn, van Chiusti tijd af tot desen 

 tijd toe. Versamelt uyt vcrscheyde geloofweerdige 

 Chronijken, Memorien, en Getuygenissen. Door 

 T. J. V. Braght [or, as he is called on the engraved 

 title-page, Tileman Van Braght]. Den Tweeden Druk, 

 Bysonder vermeerdert met veele Autentijke Stucken, 

 en over de hondert curieuse Konstplaten. Amsterdam. 

 1685." 



Since writing the above, I see that the Bodleian 

 Library has a copy ; procured, however, it is right 

 (for Dr. Cotton's sake) to say, since the publica- 

 tion of his edition of Wall's History of Infant 

 Baptism. J. H. T. 



Trin. Coll., Dub. 



LADT FLORA HASTINGS BEQUEST. 



All who reverence and love the memory of 

 Lady Flora Hastings, — all who have had the hap- 

 piness of a personal acquaintance with that gentle 

 and gifted being, — who have mourned over her 

 hapless fate, — who have read her poems, so full of 

 beauty and promise, will receive her " Last Be- 

 quest" with feelings of deep interest. 



This poem has never before been published. 



£bza. 

 Oh, let the kindred circle. 



Far in our northern land. 

 From heart to heart draw closer 



Affection's streugth'ning hand : 

 To fill my place long vacant. 



Soon may our loved ones learn ; 

 For to our pleasant dsvelling 



I never shall return. 

 Peace to each heart that troubled 



My course of happy years ; 

 Peace to each angry spirit 



That quench'd my life in tears ! 

 Let not the thought of vengeance 



Be mingled with regret; 

 Forgive my wrongs, dear mother! 

 Seek even to forget. 



Give to the friend, the stranger, 



AVhatcver once was mine ; 

 Nor keep the smallest token 



To wake fresh tears of thine, — 

 Save one, one loved memorial, 



^Vith thee I fain would leave ; 

 'Tis one that will not teach thee 



Yet more for me to grieve. 

 'Twas mine when early childhood 



Turn'd to its sacred page. 

 The gay, the thoughtless glances 



Of almost infant age ; 



