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(2"4 §, No 12., Man. 22. 56. 
Burkin Burroughes, Esq., of Hoverton Hall 
(father of the present Member for Norfolk) ? 
And 3rd, When and where the said Thomas Har- 
rison and his wife died, and were buried ? and 
whether all, or any of their said children, were 
married, the dates of their deaths, and places of 
their interment ? Avex. Hue Fastorr. 
Michael Servetus.—I have before me An Im- 
partial History of Michael Servetus, burnt alive at 
Geneva for Heresie, 8vo. London, 1724. On the 
title-page of my copy the credit of authorship has 
been given by some one to Aaron Ward, for 
whom the book was printed; but on a fly-leaf is 
the following note: ““By —— Benson.* See 
Beauclerk’s Cat. No. 873.” Who was the au- 
thor? Lowndes mentions the work, but without 
any comment. ABHBA. 
Sunday Schools first established by San Carlo 
Borromeo. — It is stated in the Catholic Institute 
Magazine for October 1855, that Sunday Schools 
were first founded by Saint Charles Borromeo of 
Milan ; and that there are several Sunday Schools 
in Rome at the present time, known by the name 
of Adunanze, where apprentices and poor children 
engaged during the week in labour are instructed. 
Where shall I find information concerning these 
establishments ? KP. DB. 
Count Vilain- Quatorze, or Vilain-XIV.—-What 
is the rationale of this diplomatist’s singular name 
or title ? J.C. BR. 
Villemain on Gregory VII.— Will some cor- 
respondent have the kindness to inform me 
whether M. Villemain has published a book on 
the subject of Gregory VII.? Orif not, in which 
of his works he has discussed the character of 
Gregory ? J.C.R. 
Old printed Editions of St. Augustine’s “ De 
Civitate Dei.” — What is the date of the oldest 
printed edition of this work? Ihave a quarto 
copy in black letter in my possession, printed at 
Venice in 1486, and I should be glad to know if 
there is an earlier printed edition than this.f On 
the last leaf the following words are printed: 
“ Aurelii Augustini opus de Civitate Dei. Feliciter ex- 
plicit cofectum Venetiis per Bonetti Locatellum, impendio 
et sumptibus Octaviani Scoti Modoetiensis. Anno a na- 
tivitate domini millesimo quadringentesimo octuagesimo 
sexto, quinto idus Februarii.” 
On the fly-leaf at the beginning is written with 
ink, in rather a crabbed hand: “ Divi Augustini 
de Civittate Dei. Josephi Merendi Foroliniensis 
[* Dr. George Benson’s work is entitled 4 Brief Ac- 
count of Calvin’s burning Servetus for an Heretic. 8vyo., 
Lond., 1743. ] 
{+ The following earlier editions are in the British Mu- 
seum, in folio, 1467, 1468, 1470, 1473, 1474, 1476, 1479.] 
(here follows a word of seemingly six letters, 
which I cannot decipher) Hierosolimarii.” Was 
there ever a man of any note of this name living 
at Jerusalem ? Aurrep T, Lug. 
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, 
The Crafty Innkeeper at Grantham. — On 
March 19, 1765, four bucks assembled at an inn 
at Grantham, to drink a glass and play at ecards. 
In the course of the evening they got excessively 
drunk, quarrelled among themselves, cursed the 
waiter, and were very noisy and blasphemous ; 
and as they refused to depart at three in the 
morning, the landlord employed a chimney-sweep 
to go down the flue, into the rioters’ room, and call 
out, “My father has sent me for you; infamous 
reprobates !” whereupon they all, in the greatest 
fright, flew out of the room, without staying to 
take their hats, in broken accents confessing their 
sins, and begging for mercy. : 
Can any of your Grantham readers inform me 
at what inn this took place, and who was the 
landlord? As the date has been so accurately 
preserved, and as the device, and its success, 
would make a considerable sensation, it is not un- 
likely that the name of its cunning contriver has 
been handed down to his admiring descendants. 
Where was the fashionable “ Greens,” or “ Sar- 
desons,” or ‘“ Wakefields,” of. that day? The 
“ George,” I think, was not then built ; it became, 
in its day, one of the crack provincial hotels of 
the kingdom; but it has never prospered since 
the owner of the property insisted on irreverently 
coupling the patron saint of England with a 
“Blue Boar.” The bucks might perhaps have 
had their revel at the “ Angel,” which since that 
day has gone to its opposite, but which, resusci- 
tated by the immortal Sibthorpe, I am happy to 
hear is now “bright and fair” under the vivacious 
gubernation of its present “ angelic host,” 
Henry KenstncTon. 
Thumb Bible. — 
“ Thumb Bible.— Can any of your readers tell me the 
history of the Thumb Bible, reprinted by Longmans 
in 18502 Who was J. Taylor, who seems to have been 
the author? He has strangely spoilt Bishop Ken’s 
morning and evening hymns at the conclusion of the 
book. HERMEs.” 
The above appeared in “N. & Q.” (1* S, iv. 
484., but has not been replied to. Perhaps it 
may now come under the observation of a corre- 
spondent who can supply the information sought 
by “ Hermes.” Wu11aM Broop. 
9, William Street, Dublin, 
Catherine Grey’s Marriage with Lord Beau- 
champ.—Mr. Hallam, in a note in p. 292. of vol. i. 
of the Constitutional History of England, quotes a 
passage from Dugdale’s Baronage of England, 
in which the latter asserts, that the validity of the 
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