Hohj Byhig, " Practice of Repentance in Sickness," 

 Sect. vj. KuleS. Lond. 1808. 



Kt. 

 Warmington. 



W. S. W. (Vol. iv., p. 188.) invites attention to 

 a manuscript note in his valuable copy of Peter 

 Lombard's Sentences (ed. Vien. 1477), by which 

 Lombai-d, Gratian, and Comestor are described 

 as '■^ fratres uterini." 



Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence, wrote about 

 A.D. 1445. His account, therefore, of this clearly 

 fabulous story must be somewhat earlier, as it is 

 (at least in one particulai-) more curiously cir- 

 cumstantial. His words are (^Chronic. Op., 

 cap. vi. p. 65., ed. Lugd. 1586) : 



" A quibusdam prEedicatur in populls, quod fuerunt 

 germani ex adulterio nati. Quorum mater cum in 

 extremis peccatum suum confiteietur, et Confessor 

 redargueret crimen perpetratum adulterii, quia valde 

 grave esset, et ideo multum deberet dolere, et pa-ni- 

 teiitiam agere, respondit ilia ; ' Pater, scio quod adul- 

 terium jKccatum magnnm est ; sed, considerans quantum 

 honuvi secutuni est, cum isti JiUi sint lumina mayna in 

 Ecclesia, ego non valco pcenitere.' " 



Howevei', whilst he records this sinoular story, 

 Antoninus confesses that he gives little credit to 

 it ; for he presently adds : 



" Non enim reperitur authenticum ; imo, nee fuerunt 

 contemporanei, etsi vicini tempore. Gratianus euiin 

 fuit ante alios duos." 



And not only were they not cotemporaries, but 

 also it may be worth observing, that they were 

 not even fellow-countrymen. J. Sansom. 



3^cii\iti to iHinor caucrt'eg. 



Warnings to Scotland (Vo\.iv.,\).23S.). — Thomas 

 Button, Guy Nutt, and John Glover, who pub- 

 lished the Warnings to Scotland, were three of the 

 French prophets who went as missionaries, first to 

 Edinburgh and afterwards to Dublin. I have a 

 continuation in manuscript, in a very thick 4to., of 

 the printed book. They appear to have been 

 succeeded at Edinburgh by James Cunningham 

 and Margai-et Mackenzie. Cunningham was the 

 grandson of the murdered Archbishop of St. 

 Andrews, and prophecied himself into the Tol- 

 bootli, his warnings from which place, with the 

 autograph of the prophet, are contained in a 

 volume entitled. Warnings of the Eternal Spirit 

 pronounced hj the Mouth of James Cunningham 

 during his Imprisonment in the Tolhooth of Edin- 

 burgh, Lond. 1712, 12mo. pp. 547. 131. In the 

 very curious and amusing account of the French 

 prophets given in Keimer's Brand pluclid from 

 the burning, exemplify d in the unpuruWd Case of 

 Samuel Keimer, Lond. printed Ijy \Y . Uoreman, 

 1718, iJutton, Nutt, Glover, and Cunningiiam, are 

 Imiuently mentioned. "Thomas Dutton," he 



says, " was an eminent prophet, a sober ingenious 

 man, by profession a lawyer, who wrote a letter 

 against John Lacy's taking E. Gray." " Guy 

 Nutt, a prophet, a formal whimsical man, who 

 goes in plain habit, but not owned by the people 

 called Quakers." Of Glover he gives an extraor- 

 dinary account, p. 54., but which will scarcely 

 admit of quotation. He observes, p. 115., that 

 Glover acted the Devil " under agitations, five 

 people standing upon him, as commanded by the 

 spirit, he all the while making grimaces mixt with 

 a strange mocking, yanging noise to the affright- 

 ment of the believers." AVhether the prophet 

 produced an abiding impression at Edinburgh by 

 these yanging noises I know not, but in England 

 the sect continued for many years. I have a 

 collection of the manifestations of one of them, 

 Hannah Wharton, published in 1732, 12mo. She 

 appears to have preached and prophecied at Bir- 

 mingham. I may here observe, that Keimer's 

 tract above mentioned contains a very interesting 

 letter from Daniel Defoe, which has not been 

 noticed by his biographers. Keimer was one of 

 the numerous publishers for Defoe. He after- 

 wards went to America, and we find him fre- 

 quently noticed in the autobiography of Dr. 

 Franklin. Jas. Crossley. 



Fides Carhonaria (Vol. iv., p. 233.). — Fides 

 cai-honarii, as it ought to be written, originated in 

 an anecdote told with approbation by Dr. Milner, 

 or some controversial writer on the same side, and 

 ridiculed by Protestants. A coal porter being 

 asked what he believed, replied " What the church 

 believes;" and being asked what the church be- 

 lieved, replied " W^hat I believe." He could give 

 no further information. E. H. D. D. 



Fire Unhnoivn (Vol. iv., p. 209.). — In answer 

 to C. V/. G., I find that Pickering, in his Races of 

 Man, p. 32., states that in Interior Oregon his 

 friends Messrs. Agate and Brackenridge observed 

 " no marks of fire ;" and, p. 61., that m the Ota- 

 fuan group the use of fire was app.arently absent ; 

 and that he docs not remember to have seen any 

 signs of fire at the Disappointment Islands. Per- 

 haps fvirther inquiry, which he suggests, might 

 prove that fire is not really wanting among the 

 inhabitants of these islands. TnEorHYLACT. 



Poj.e and Flutman (Vol. iv., p. 210.). — Flat- 

 man's Poems were first published in the year 1682 

 — his death took place in 1688 : these dates, 

 thcrelbre, supply an answer to E. V., as far as re- 

 gards the question of borrowing. The edition 

 now before me is that of 1686, being the fourth, 

 " with many additions and amendments." It is 

 dedicated to " His Grace the Duke of Ormond, 

 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland," &c., and has twenty- 

 eight [uiges of recommendatory poems prefixed to 

 it ; one of which bears the name of Charles Cotton, 

 the adopted son of honest Izaalc Walton. 



