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have been remotely, for legal inquiries under 
Martin’s will did not begin till "ig Sag cas 
Kennington. 
Life Peerages.—'The recent elevation to the 
peerage of an eminent judge, threatens to give 
rise to much discussion. It was advanced on the 
opening of parliament, by a noble lord, that the 
prerogative had not been thus exercised for 200 
or 300 years. If during that period no peer for 
life has been created, a peeress has; for, according 
to N, Harris Nicolas (Synopsis of the Peerage, 
p- 349.) — 
“ Erengard de Schulemberg, Duchess of Munster, in 
Treland, was created, April 30, 1719, Baroness Glaston- 
bury, Countess of Faversham, and Difchess of Kendal, for 
life.” 
Trr Bes. 
Pimlico. 
Woollett. — Extempore on reading the humble 
gravestone of Woollett in St. Pancras church- 
yard : 
“ Here Woollett rests, contented to be saved ; 
Who engraved well — but is not well en-graved. 
Bec. 1791.7 
R. W. Hacxwoon. 
Curious Epitaph. — On passing through the 
churchyard of Dinton, Wilts, I was struck with 
the following epitaph, to the meaning of which, on 
inquiry, I could obtain no clue: 
“ Here lyes dear John, his parents’ love and joy, 
That most pretty and ingenious boy. 
His matchless soul is not yet forgotten, 
Though here the lovely body dead and rotten. 
Ages to come may wonder at his fame, 
And here his death by shameful malice came, 
How spiteful some did use him, and how rude, 
Grief will not let me write: but now conclude, 
To God for ever all praise be given, 
Since we hope he is with Him in Heayen, 
J. A. ob. 23 Dec,, 1716,” 
There is also an inscription to James Ashe, who 
died 28 April, 1728, zt. 61. MacpALEnensis. 
Muoerices. 
KING EDWARD YI.'S TREATISE AGAINST THE POPE'S 
SUPREMACY. 
In the Public Library at Cambridge (Dd. 12, 
59.) is preserved a small volume of fifty paper 
leaves, containing a “ Petit Traité 4 l’encontre de 
la primauté du Pape,” prefaced by a letter, in 
which King Edward VI. addresses the work to his 
uncle, the Duke of Somerset. This letter is dated 
“De mon palais de Ouestmester lez Londres, ce 
penultime jour d’Aoust, 1549.” In the British 
Museum (MS. Addit. 5664.) is a book wholly in 
the handwriting of the same royal penman, of 
which the first page is headed, “ Alencontre leg 
abus du monde, 13 De, 1548 ;” and the last page 
is dated, also by his own hand, “14 Mars, 1549.” 
Having procured a transcript of the former volume, 
for the purpose of including it in the collection 
of the Literary Remains of King Edward VI, 
which I am now editing for the Roxburghe Club, 
I find that the contents of both these books are 
alike; that the copy in the British Museum is the 
king’s manuscript, corrected throughout by the 
hand of his French master, Belmaine; and that 
the copy in the Public Library at Cambridge is 
the fair transcript made for presentation to his 
uncle, the Duke of Somerset. It is one of three 
books of the same description, which are all still 
preserved. The first being a collection of pas- 
sages of Scripture against Idolatry, which is in 
Trinity College library at Cambridge ; the second, 
a similar collection upon Faith, which is in the 
British Museum (MS. Addit. 9000.); and the 
third, this upon the Supremacy of the Pope, 
When the essay was first commenced, in Dec. 
1548, it appears that the king proposed to himself 
another subject, “Les abus du monde.” And 
from that title having remained upon his manu- 
script, it has been so described in the Catalogues 
of the Museum ; and it has happened that I have 
been the first to discover that this book is really 
the original of his essay against the Pope’s Supre- 
macy. 
In the year 1682 was published, in a small 
octavo volume: 
“ King Edward the VIt®, his own Arguments against 
the Pope’s Supremacy, translated out of the Original 
written with the King’s own Hand in French, and still 
preserved.” es 
It is stated, in the preparatory address of the 
publisher to the reader, that the — 
“ Autographon of the Treatise against the Papacy now 
published, was found in the French tongue, in the library 
of one of the most eminently learned men of the Jast age ; 
and is here presented as ’twas faithfully translated by a 
person of very great quality in this,” 
Iam anxious to ascertain who this “ person of 
very great quality” may have been. The book 
also contains ‘‘ Some remarks upon King Edward's 
life and reign, in vindication of his memory from 
Dr. Heylin’s severe and unjust censure.” These 
were written by the translator of the treatise, but 
he gives no intimation of his own identity, He 
quoted Burnet, and Stillingfleet on the Zdolatry of 
the Church of Rome. I do not find the book men- 
tioned in the Rev. J. C. Robertson’s edition of 
Heylin’s History, printed for the Ecclesiastical 
History Society, in 1849. In Lowndes’s Biblio- 
grapher’s Manual, is mentioned a book entitled : 
“ Declaration against the Pope’s Supremacy. Wrote 
by his Majesty Edward VI. in the year 1549, Repub- 
lished and dedicated to his Majesty George III, By the 
Rey. John Duncan, LL.D., F,8.A,, 1811,” 
