2«* s. VI. 132., Jaw 10. '68.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 



1747; the tenth in 1751. Now there were edi- 

 tions in 1744, 1745, 1755, 1762, 1771. Query, 

 Can any of your correspondents point out the par- 

 ticular dates of the seventh, eighth, and eleventh, 

 &c., editions ; or any other editions, down to the 

 termination of the last century, J. Gibson. 



Maidstone. 



Ahp. Craiimer, " De von ducenda Fratria." — 

 In Bale's list of Arclibishop Cranmer's writings 

 occurs, " De non ducenda Fratria, lib. II." This 

 refers of course to the book composed by Cran- 

 mer at Henry's command, and afterwards pre- 

 sented to the pope, as related in Strype, Burnet, 

 &c. Was this book printed? if so, when and by 

 whom ? What is the title-page, and the first sen- 

 tence or two, and where is it to be seen ? 



W. H. C. 



[The Rev. H. Jenkyns, editor of Cranmer's Remains, 

 4 vols. 8vo. 1833, has the following note on this work, 

 vol. i. p. vi. : — ^"Cranmer is recorded to have first em- 

 ploj'ed his pen on the memorable question respecting the 

 validity of King Henrj' Vlll.'s marriage with Catharine 

 of Arragon. According to the well-known narrative of 

 Foxe, he was the person at whose suggestion the King 

 appealed to the universities, when indignant at the un- 

 expected adjournment of the trial by Cardinal Campegio, 

 and the subsequent removal of the cause to Rome. But 

 this statement has with reason been disputed : there can 

 be no doubt, however, of his having expressed an opinion 

 on the case at a very early stage of the proceedings, and 

 of his having afterwards been specially commissioned by 

 Henry to explain his views in writing. This was the 

 origin of his Book on Divorce. The points which it was 

 his chief object to establish in it were, that marriage 

 with a brother's widow was contrary to the law of God, 

 and was consequently incapable of being legalised by a 

 papal dispensation .... The work is said to have been 

 executed with ability, and seems at the time to have ex- 

 cited much attention. It was not only laid before the 

 two English Universities and the House of Commons, but 

 was presented by its author at a formal embassy to the 

 Pope, with a profession of his readiness to defend it in 

 open disputation against all impugners. Yet it appears, 

 notwithstanding the publication thus acquired, to be now 

 lost : and it happens singularly enough, that his only 

 extant composition on the question is of a directlj' oppo- 

 site tendency, being a long Letter to the Earl of VVilt- 

 shire, in which he details, with much commendation, 

 the arguments used by Reginald Pole in support of 

 tiucen Catharine's marriage, and brings nothing against 

 them on his own side, beyond a brief expression of dis- 

 sent."] 



London Taverns. — In the biographical notices 

 of the wits of the reign of Queen Anne frequent 

 mention is made of Heycock's Ordinary and Sa- 

 lutation Tavern. Can you inform me of their 

 locality, as they seem to have escaped the notice 

 of our London topographers ? W. H. B. 



\_Heycock's Ordinary was near the Palsgrave's Head 

 tavern by Temple Bar, and was much frequented by 

 members of parliament. Here Andrew Marvell uttered 

 the severe caatigatioii to certain members of the House, 



known to be in the pay of the Crown, for ensuring the 

 subservienc3' of their votes. Marvell dined usually at 

 this ordinary, and on one occasion, having eaten heartily 

 of boiled beef with some roasted pigeons and asparagus, 

 he drank his pint of port. On settling the reckoning, he 

 took a piece of money out of his pocket, and holdhig it 

 between his finger and thumb, thus addressed his venal 

 associates : " Gentlemen, who would let himself out for 

 hire, while he can have such a dinner for half-a-crown ? " 

 (Beaufoy's London Tokens, p. 225.) 



Salutation Tavern was in Newgate Street, as we learn 

 from the following poetical invitation to a social feast 

 held there on June 19, 1735-G, issued by the two stewards, 

 Edward Cave and William Bowyer: — 



"Saturday, Jan. 17, 1735-6. 

 « Sib, 



" You're desir'd on Monday next to meet 

 At Salutation Tavern, Newgate Street, 

 Supper will be on table just at eight, 

 IStewards'} One of St. John's [Bow3-er] t'other of St. 

 John's Gate [Cave]." 



This summons elicited a poetical answer from Samuel 

 Richardson the novelist, printed in extenso in Bowyer's 

 Anecdotes, p. IGO. : — 



" For me, I'm much concern'd I cannot meet 

 ' At Salutation Tavern, Newgate Street.' 

 Your notice, like your verse (so sweet and short !), 

 If longer, I'd sincerely thank'd you for it. 

 Howe'er, receive my wishes, sons of verse ! 

 May every man who meets, your praise rehearse ! 

 May mirth, as plenty, crown j'our cheerful board, 

 And ev'ry one part happy — as a lord ! 

 That when at home (by such sweet verses fir'd) 

 Your families may think you all inspir'd ! 

 So wishes he, who, pre-engag'd, can't know 

 The pleasures that would from your meeting fiow."] 



Peter Charron, " Of Wisdome." — I have In 

 my possession a book, the date of whose publica- 

 tion I wish to ascertain. It has an engraved 

 title-page, and this title : — 



" Of Wisdome, three bookes written in French by Peter 

 Charro, Doof of Lawe in Paris, Translated by Sampson 

 Lennard ; At London, printed for Edward Blount and 

 Will Aspley." 



There is no clue to the date, except its dedi- 

 cation to " Prince Henry, Prince of Great Britain, 

 Sonne and Heire Apparent to our Sovereigne 

 Lord the King." Watt mentions an edition 

 of this work published in 1630; but as Prince 

 Henry died in 1612, mine must have been an 

 earlier one, and I can find no information re- 

 lating to it. The original was published at Bor- 

 deaux, 1601. Clement. 



Cambridge, Mass. U. S. 



[We have before us an edition translated by Sampson 

 Lennard, containing the engraved title-page as described 

 by our correspondent, without the Dedication to Prince 

 Henry, but with a prefatory advertisement of two pages 

 " To the Reader." The last page of the volume contains 

 the following imprint: — "London, Printed by George 

 Miller for William Aspley, at the signe of the Parot in 

 Pauls Churchyard. 1G30." As this appears to be the 

 earliest English edition, it is probable that Lennard's 

 Dedication of Du Plessis Mornay's History of the Papacie 

 to Prince Henry may have been inserted iu our cor- 

 respondent's copy of Charron.] 



