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markable Passages in the Life of a Private Gen- 
tleman (1715); which, upon the warranty of 
the auctioneer’s catalogue, I bought as an auto- 
biographical piece by Daniel Defoe; but which, 
I need hardly say, proved on examination a sell. 
This book is but An Account of some Remark- 
able Passages in the Life, §c. (2nd edit., 1711), 
melted down to half its size; and, as I find the 
larger book, in its turn, now offered to the public 
by a respectable bookseller as Defoe’s, it will not 
be ill-timed to explode the belief, even at the ex- 
pence of Lowndes’ accuracy, that this writer ever 
did publish such a work. ‘The Spiritual Diary of 
this unknown gentleman (who long lived under 
the belief that God had marked him out as a 
Second Spira), displays nothing of the healthy tone 
of the practical Daniel; the author, indeed, is 
expressly said to be defunct before 1708, when 
the first edition was published. 
Perhaps some of your readers may clinch my 
view of this matter, by showing us who this 
“Private Gentleman” really was. F.S., the editor, 
vouches for the book being the genuine produc- 
tion of “a person of an estate, generous and cha- 
ritable, liberally educated in a celebrated academy 
abroad ;” while the Rey. R. Mayo endorses the 
same by an attestation that F. S. being an “ emi- 
nent physician,” the work is entitled to all credit. 
The book, I may add, is sometimes confounded 
with a contemporary one: Some Remarkable Pas- 
sages in the Holy Life and Death of Gervase 
Disney, Esq. (1692). J. O. 
Minar Queries. 
Magdalen College, Oxford.— At the time of 
the “Troubles” in 1688, the president received 
the following on the 30th of March: 
“James R. Trusty and well-beloved, we greet you 
well. Whereas there are several Demys’ places now voyd 
in your College of St. Mary Magdalen, we have thought 
fit hereby to signify our will and pleasure to you, that you 
forthwith admit our trusty and well-beloved John Hud- 
dleston, John Berington, John Eales, William Hungate, 
Charles Lavery, Edward Casey, Samuel Cox, Thomas 
Blunt, John Digby, Thomas Seymore, Henry Colgrave, 
Thomas Ashwell, James Eden, John Duddell, and Robert 
Stafford, to be Demys of the said College, with all the 
Rights, Priviledges, Profits, Perquisites, and advantages 
to the same belonging or appertaining, without adminis- 
tering to them, or any of them, any oath or oaths but that 
of a Demy, any law, statute, custome, or constitution to 
the contrary in any wise notwithstanding, with which we 
are graciously pleased to dispense in this behalfe, and for 
so gong this shall be your warrant. And so we bid you 
farewell. Given at our Court at Whitehall the 25th day 
of March, 1688, in the fourth year of our Reigne.” 
I should be exceedingly obliged for any account 
of the persons here mentioned. Many of them 
are names of the most respectable Roman Catholic 
families of the time. MacpA.eEnNEnsIs. 
Wine at the Celebration of the Holy Communion. 
—Is the hind of wine to be used at this feast any- 
where specified P P. J. F. Ganritton. 
Dramatie Works. —Is anything known of the 
authors of the following dramatic pieces, which 
are not mentioned in the Biographia Dramatica 2. 
1. Folly, a Farce, Newcastle, 4to., 1736. 2. West- 
meon Village, an Opera in three acts, 1780. 
3. The Patriot Prince, a Tragedy, printed at Cal- 
cutta, 1809. In the Gentleman’s Magazine, 
July, 1821 (vol. xci. part 11.), there is an epilogue 
to Durand; or, Jacobinism Displayed, a ‘Tragedy, 
published in 1816. Who is the author of this 
tragedy ? X. (1.) 
MS. Plays. —The following MS. plays were 
formerly in the possession of Mr. Jones, editor of 
the Biographia Dramatica. Is anything known 
regarding the authors? 1. Evanthe, a Tragedy, 
altered from Beaumont and Fletcher's Wife for a 
Month. 2. The Lucky Hit; gr, Love ata Venture, 
a Farce. 3. The Royal Draiven) a Tragedy. 
4. Tamerlane, Part Second, a Tragedy. 5. Vul- 
can’s Wedding ; or the Lovers Surprised, a bur- 
lesque opera. X. (1.) 
“ Psalmi et Confessiones.” —In p.17. part ii. of 
the Moravian Hymn Book, 1754, reference is 
made to a hymn from Psalmi et Confessiones. 
Can any of your readers give an account of this 
work ? Jno, C. Horren. 
Critical New Testament. — Bagster’s Critical 
New Testament, Greek and English, 16mo. London, 
no date. Can any of your correspondents tell me 
if the English version in this elegant little volume 
is a “reprint of the edition of 1611,” given with 
Chinese exactness, mistakes and all? Ihave ob- 
served that it frequently differs somewhat from 
the ordinary text, and do not know whether this 
is to be set down to the above cause, or to mere 
carelessness. Here are some examples from a 
single epistle. 
Hebrews, v. 7. A full stop at end, making non- 
sense apparently. 
Heb. xi. 88. After a full stop at end of v.37., 
thus printed: “Of whom the world was not 
worthy: they wandered in deserts,” &c. This 
gives a fair sense, g. d. They of whom the world 
was not worthy wandered in deserts, but it differs 
from the common construction, in which “ of 
whom the world was not worthy ” is parenthetical. 
Heb. xii. 1. “Let us run with patience unto 
[sic] the race that is set before us.” : 
Heb. xiii, 7, 8. Full stop at end of v. 7., 
leaving v. 8. without any construction. As usually 
punctuated, the words “ Jesus Christ” are in ap- 
position to “ the end of their conversation,” a de- 
cided mistranslation, but still sense. 
Other variations might be added, but these are 
enough to illustrate my Query. A.A. D. 
