Aug. 2. 1851.] 



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of the earliest edition in wliicli tlie latter form of 

 the prediction occurs. Speriend. 



52. Quaker Expurgated Bihle. — In an extremely 

 curious and interesting volume entitled Quakerism, 

 or the Story of my Life, I meet with the following 

 passage, p. 386. : 



" About four years ago, an English Friend waited 

 on me, to request me to enter my name as a subscriber 

 to an edition of the Bible, which a Committee of 

 Friends were intending to publish. The printed pro- 

 spectus stated that the work was designed to I)e one 

 suited for daily perusal in Friends' families; that from 

 it would be carefully excluded every passage that was 

 indelicate, and unfit for reading aloud ; and also those 

 portions which might be called dangerous, which it 

 was possible the unlearned and unstable might wrest to 

 their own destruction." 



Can any of your readers tell whether this ex- 

 purgated Bible was ever published, and where it 

 is to be procured ? 



A copy of the prospectus alluded to would also 

 be very acceptable. T. 



53. Salmon Fishery in the Thames. — This was 

 once of great importance to the inhabitants of the 

 villages upon the banks of the Thames, who appear 

 to have had each their assigned bounds for their 

 fishery. In the Churchwardens' Book of Wands- 

 worth, under date 1580, is the following entry : 



"M. D. that this yere in soiTier the fishinge Rome 

 of Wandesworthe was by certen of Putney denyod, and 

 long sute before my L. Mayor of London continued, 

 and at the last, accordinge to Right, restored by the 

 Lord Mayor and the Councell of London. And in 

 this soniier the fysshers of Wandesworthe tooke betiveene 

 Monday and Saturday seven score salmons in the same 

 fishinge, to the gret honor of God." 



I have heard my mother say, that Thames salmon 

 was plentiful when she was a young woman, and 

 that it was the most esteemed of any. She died 

 recently, aged eighty-nine. 



Shall we ever have Thames salmon again ? 



E. J. R. 



54. Cromwell Grants of Land in Monaghan. — 

 Are there any records, and where, of grants of land 

 in the county of Monaghan, Ireland, as made by 

 Cromwell ? E. A. 



55. Siege of Londonderry . — Are there any details 

 of the siege of Londonderry, particularly as to the 

 names of officers engaged on the Protestant side, 

 other than those to be found in Walker, Mackensie, 

 or Graham's account of it ? E. A. 



The Twentieth of the Thirty-nine Articles.— 

 In a note to a work entitled Sketches of the His- 

 tory of Man, Dublin, 1779, at vol. i. p. 104. I 

 observe the following statement : 



" In the Act 13th of Elizabeth, anno 1571, con- 



firming the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of 

 England, these Articles are not engrossed, but referred 

 to as comprised in a printed book, intitled ' Articles 

 agreed to by the whole Clergy in Convocation liolden 

 at London, 1562.' The forged clause is, ' The Church 

 has power to decree Rites and Ceremonies, and autho- 

 rity in Controversies of Faith.' That clause is not in 

 the Articles referred to ; nor the slightest hint of any 

 authority with respect to matters of faith. In the 

 same year, 1571, the Articles were printed both in 

 Latin and English, precisely as in the year 1562. But 

 soon after came out spurious editions, in which the 

 said clause was foisted into the Twentieth Article, and 

 continues so to this day," &c. 



This is a grave charge. Is it a true one ? I 

 have not at hand the authorities by which to 

 examine it, and therefore seek an answer from 

 some of your readers who may be able to give it. 

 My question refers to the imputation of a clause 

 having been foisted into our Articles of Faith by a 

 forgery, and still continuing in them ; not to the 

 truth of any part of our Articles as they now stand. 

 To this there is sufficient testimony. Cm. 



London, July 25. 1851. 



[The following note from p. 131. of Mr. Hardwick's 

 recently published History of the Articles will furnish a 

 reply to this Query : — 



" He (Laud) was accused of forging the contested 

 clause in Art. XX. And after appealing to four 

 printed copies of the Articles, one of them as early as 

 1563, and all containing the passage which the Puri- 

 tans disliked, he added, ' I shall make it yet plainer : 

 for it is not fit concerning an Article of Religion, and 

 an Article of such consequence for the order, truth, 

 and peace of the Church, you should rely upon my 

 copies, be they never so many or never so ancient. 

 Therefore I sent to the public records in my office, and 

 here wider my'officer's hand, who is a public notary, is 

 returned to me the Twentieth Article with t/iis affirmative 

 clause in it, and there is also the whole body of the Articles 

 to be seen.' — Remains, ii. 83. (quoted by Bennet, 166.) 

 The copy thus taken before the destruction of the re- 

 cords is said to be still extant ; Bennet made use of 

 it, and has printed it in his Essay, 167 — 169."] 



Exons of the Guard. — Can any of your 

 readers inform me what are the duties of these 

 officers, and the derivation of their title ? I find, 

 in the papers describing her Majesty's state ball, 

 the following : " the exons or capitaines exempts 

 de la garde du corps;" but that does not throw 

 much light upon the subject. E. N. AV. 



Southwark. 



[The name of Exempts or Exons is manifestly bor- 

 rowed from that of the officers in the old French Garde 

 da Corps, who were styled in their commissions Capi- 

 taines Exempts des Gardes du Corps. Richelet de- 

 scribes the Exempt as the officer who commanded in 

 the absence of the Lieutenant or Ensign, and who had 

 charge of the night watch. In both cases, the duties 

 of the English and French officers are coraplrtely 

 parallel.] 



