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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[20d S, No2,, Jan, 12.756. 
Temple, who by will, Nov. 24, 1684, gave lands to 
Sion College. Also those of the Rev. Edw. Waple, 
D.D., vicar of St. Sepulchre, resident of the said 
college, 1704. W. Denron. 
Minar Queries With Answers. 
LAbbé Primi.— Lord Preston, the English 
ambassador, in letters to Secretary Jenkins (Dal- 
rymple, vol. 1. Appendix), speaks of an “ insolent 
book” just published in Paris (1682) by L’Abbé 
Primi, in which reference is made to the secret 
negociations between Louis and Charles If. The 
author, he says, has been sent to the Bastile, and 
the work so rigidly suppressed, that he can only 
obtain a copy of the French translation, which “is 
not near so full as the original.” What work was 
referred to? and was it ever translated into En- 
glish? If so, when, and under what title was it 
published ? Lik. 
{The French translation of this work is entitled Histoire 
de la Guerre de Hollande, Paris, 1682,12mo. A bibliogra- 
phical notice of it is given by the continuators of Le Long, 
Bibliotheque Historique, de la France, tom. ii. No. 23,996., 
who state, that it was translated into English in Recueil 
des Traités de Politique; London, 1705, tom. i. fol. An 
edition containing Part 1, & La Haye, 1689, is in the 
British Museum. It may be well to add that, according 
to the title-page of the work as published in the State 
Tracts, 1705, it professes to have been “written originally 
in Italian by the Count de Maiolo;” but the writer of 
another tract on the same subject in the same collection 
(p. 32.) says, “I do judge that the name of Count 
*St Maiolo was a kind of trick of the Abbé Primi;” and 
he adds, that but for the interference of the English mi- 
nister, “we might, without question, have had several 
other important secrets published in the following books 
(for we have only two Looks of ten printed), which now we 
can only conjecture at.” 
Publication of Banns. —In an Oxford edition 
of the Book of Common Prayer, published in 
1745, I find it states in the Communion Service, 
immediately after the Belief: 
“The curate shall declare unto the people what holy- 
days, or fasting-days are in the week following to be ob- 
served; and then also (if occasion be) shall notice ~be 
given of the Communion; and the Banns of Matrimony 
published,” &c. 
In the modern editions of the Prayer Book, the six 
last words relating to the publication of banns are 
omitted in this portion of the service, directions 
given at the beginning of the marriage service that 
the banns should be published “ immediately after 
the second lesson.” Can any one state when this 
alteration was made, by what authority, and for 
what professed reason ? VINTOR. 
(The alteration was made by the royal printers from 
the dubious reading of sect. 1., in 26 George II. cap. 33., 
1753, commonly called the Marriage Act, in which it 
is provided, that “banns of marriage be published upon 
three Sundays preceding the solemnization of marriage, 
during the time of morning service, or of the evening 
service, if there be no morning service, in the proper 
church or chapel on any of those Sundays, immediately 
after the second lesson.” It is questionable whether this 
Act intended to direct the publication of the banns to 
take place after the second lesson in the Morning Service, 
It is read by several persons thus: “during the time of 
morning service, or of evening service (if there be no morn= 
ing service) immediately after the second lesson.” As this 
Act was intended to prevent clandestine marriages, it 
was necessary to provide for these cases when there was 
no morning service. We have consulted several Prayer 
Books hereafter named, and give the results. The rubric 
in the boeks published at Oxford, 1753, 1760, 1762, 1801; 
Cambridge, 1770, 1815 ; Edinburgh (king’s printer), 
1812; all direct the banns to be read in the Communion 
Service. The rubric in the books published at Oxford, 
1807 (8vo. and 4to.), 1816, 1821, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1831, 
1836, 1838; Cambridge (folio), 1825; London, 1845; 
direct the banns to be published after the second 
lesson. The alteration appears to have been made 
without authority, or any great regard to uniformity ; 
and seeing that Convocation has never sanctioned the 
alteration, we must hand over the following Query 
to the doctors and proctors of our courts ecclesiastical 
for their solution: namely, Whether the publication 
of the banns, after the second lesson in the morning, 
is perfectly legal? The Prayer Book of the American 
Church directs the banns to be read in the Communion 
Service. ] 
Dr. Butts. — Where can I find any particulars 
about Robert Butts, D.D., Lord Bishop of Ely ? 
Whom did he marry? &e. . K. H.S. 
[William Cole, in his MS. Cambridge Collections, 
vol, xviii. (Additional MS. 5819., British Museum) has 
given a long account of Bishop Butts, so very disparag- 
ing, that the less said about his many short-comings the 
better. Cole’s sketch reminds us of the sarcastic legacy to 
this prelate in the Political Will and Testament of Robert 
Walpole, Earl of Orford :** My eloquence I leave to that 
good shepherd, the Bishop of Ely, to persuade the sheep 
to leave off their profaneness, to turn from the evil of 
their ways, and to follow the pious example of their 
leader.” Cole informs us, that “whilst he was Bishop of 
Norwich, he Jost his first wife in 1734, who was sister, I 
think, to Dr. Robert Eyton, of Shropshire. ‘This lady he 
buried under the communion-table of the chapel in his 
palace, at Norwich [the inscription, with some account 
of the bishop, is given in Blomefield’s Worfolk, edit. 1806. 
vol. iii. p. 597.] Who would have suspected (continues 
Cole) that his right reverend lordship would ever have 
thought of taking another bedfellow, after such warm 
sentiments as these for his first wife? But this was the 
overflowings of a tender and amorous constitution; and 
it is often observed that the greater the excess of grief 
upon these occasions at first, the sooner it is forgotten. 
It proved so in the instance before us, for at a very un- 
reasonable age for one of his character and profession, 
being then about sixty years old, at which time he had 
two sons, and two or three daughters, all of them of men’s 
and women’s estate, he took a fancy to a young wife, and 
married the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Reynolds, of Bury, 
After the death of the bishop, his widow married Mr. 
Green, of Stoke Newington; but things went so wrong 
between her and her husband, that a separation was 
agreed on, and they lived asunder, he at Stoke Newington, 
and she at Bath.) 
Harris's “ Ware :” Carte’s “ Life of Ormonde.” 
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