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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[2nd §, No 5., Fen. 2, 56, 
not desired. In discharging the prisoners, how- 
ever, the judge expatiated on the enormity of the 
crime, as superior to that of murder; and declared 
that if they had been convicted he would have 
ordered them to be taken from the dock to the 
place of execution! 
Correspondents of “ N. & Q,” having from time 
to time expressed doubts as to practices having 
prevailed, which were at that period common and 
notorious ; such as the burial of suicides at cross 
roads, with stakes through their hearts, and the 
smothering of persons afflicted with hydrophobia, 
Ihave thought it might be well to make a Note 
of this, which even in those days must have been 
considered strange, and which, on looking back to 
it after this interval, appears almost incredible. 
ONE WHO WAS PRESENT AT THE TRIAL, 
PHinor Queries With Auswers. 
Mason's “ History of St. Patrick's Cathedral.” — 
Can any one tell me what constitutes a perfect 
copy of the late Mr. Monek Mason's History and 
Antiquities of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin ? 
My copy comprises 478 pages, with ‘ Appendix, 
and additional Notes and Illustrations,” extend- 
ing to 97 pages more; but I am informed that 
the work, in its complete form, ought to contain a 
larger amount of matter; and yet I cannot ascer- 
tain whether such is the case or not. LI have col- 
lated several copies of the publication. Asuna. 
[We have before us a beautiful large-paper copy, edit. 
1820, the paginal figures of which agree with those col- 
lated by our correspondent. ] 
Old Bible. — The Vulgate text; title-page 
wanting; Preface addressed, “Domino Joanni 
Schwickardo sancte sedis Mogvntine Archiepis- 
copo,” &e., by “Joannes Theobaldus Schzenveet- 
terus, Moguntinus Civis et Bibliopola Francofurt- 
ensis;” the imprimatur dated, “ Mogvntia, anno 
1609, xvi. Augusti,” &e. It contains many small 
engravings, which are spirited in design, and ex- 
tremely well executed for the time. I shall be 
obliged to any one of your numerous readers who 
will inform me who was the artist, and whether 
the edition be a valuable one. W.S. 
Hastings. 
[This Bible is entitled “ Biblia Sacra Vulgate Editionis 
Sixti V Pont. Max. jussu recognita et Clementis VIII. 
auctoritate edita. Nune autem cxxxx. figuris noviter 
inventis et in As incisis illustrata a De Bry. Ad reve- 
rendiss. et illustriss. Archiepis. Moguntinensem princi- 
pem Electorem ac archicancellarium. Moguntie, apud 
Jo. Albinum, impensis Joannis Theobaldi Schonwetteri et 
Jacobi Fischeri, 1609, 4to.” The following notice of this 
Bible is given in Bibliotheca Susseviana, vol. i. pt. ii. 
p. 475.:—-“ This edition is highly esteemed on account 
of the very able engravings by Theodore De Bry, with 
which the volume is ijlustrated. It is inscribed to the 
Abp. of Mentz; and following the dedication is the 
permission for printing the edition, signed by Stephen 
Weber, suffragan of Mentz, The preface of Bellarmin, 
and the decree of the Council of Trent, precede the ad- 
dress of Francis Lucas, of Bruges, to the following collec- 
tion; ‘Romans Correctionis, in Latinis Bibliis Editionis 
Vulgate, jussu Sixti V. Pont. Max. recognitis, Loca 
Insigniora.’ This portion occupies eighty-seven closely- 
printed pages, disposed in three columns. ‘The volume is 
divided into three parts, to each of which there is an 
engraved title. The first part terminates with Ecclesi- 
asticus; the second with the II. Maccabees; the third 
contains the New Testament; the Prayer of Manasseh; 
the III. and IV. Esdras; the Prologues of St. Jerome; 
the Index Testimonium, &c., and the interpretations of 
Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek names.” 
Latin Translation of the New Testament. —I 
have a 12mo. copy of a Latin New Testament, of 
which the title is gone. It consists of 647 pages. 
In place of a preface, we have Matth. vii. 24—27., 
headed “ Dicit Veritas.” After a page of errata, 
we have on the last leaf this inscription or colo- 
phon: “ Basilie, ex officina Ludouici Lucii, Anno 
Salutis humane, m.p.Lv1. mense Septembris.” I 
have looked into the Vulgate, Beza, Erasmus, 
Calvin, Vatablus (?), &c., and find none like it. 
It is not divided into verses. Query, When and 
where was this version made ? B. H.C. 
[According to Panzer, tom. iii. pt. ii. p. 672., this ver- 
sion is by Sebastian Castalio, who began his translation 
of the Old and New Testaments at Geneva in 1542, and 
finished it at Basil in 1550. It was printed at Basil 
in 1551, and dedicated by the author to Edward VI. 
King of England.’ He published a second edition in 1554, 
and another in 1556. ] 
Head of Oliver Cromwell.—At a meeting of 
the Walworth Working Men’s Institution, Oct. 3, 
1855, W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., M.P., surprised the 
people by telling them that he possessed a greater 
curiosity than any in the room; namely, the head 
of Oliver Cromwell, which has been in possession 
of his family for very many years, and whose his- 
tory was well “ authenticated.” B. H.C. 
[This memorable Commonwealth relic has been fre~ 
quently noticed in our First Series, especially in Vol. v. 
pp: 275. 304. 354.382. A correspondent at p. 382. stated, 
“that the skull of Cromwell was then (1852) in the pos- 
session of W. A. Wilkinson, of Beckenham, Kent, at whose 
house a relation of mine saw it.” He further added, “I 
have no doubt that Mr. Wilkinson would feel pleasure in 
stating the arguments on which the genuineness of the 
interesting relic is based.” See also Vol. xi. 496.; xii. 
75. ] 
Wolves.—In Edwards’s Cork Remembrancer 
(p. 131.), the following entry appears : 
“This year [1710], the last presentment for killing 
wolves was made in the county of Cork.” 
Can any one furnish me with a later instance ? 
ABHBA. 
[ The last wolf that roamed in Scotland was slain by Sir 
Ewen Cameron, in the reign of Charles II., about the 
year 1680; and most writers notice the presentment at 
Cork, in 1710, as the last known case upon record of their 
existence in Ireland. | 
