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a cloude, which Cloude os it marchd forward 

 would cast forth and dispearse water uppon the 

 people as it had beene lightning ; when the Cloude 

 came neare unto the Kinge, it opend itself all 

 abrode, and within it there were bothe men, wo- 

 men, and children, verie costlie apparelled ; yet 

 this is not all, for afterward my Lorde Compton 

 descended from his Sheepcote, and mounted him- 

 selfe uppon a loftie steede, both himselfe and his 

 horse being richlie and siiraptuouslie apparelled 

 and furnished ; his men also attendinge uppon 

 him on horsebacke in verie brave attyre, howbeit 

 everie wearinge a hat of strawe, and having theyer 

 faces paynted as black as the Devill ; and my 

 Lorde Compton behaved himselfe valiantlie, also 

 runninge at the Tilt with some of the noblemen, 

 and so shewed the Kinges majestic more pleasure 

 and delectation than any of the noblemen besides. 

 Yet there was triumph uppon the Temmes in the 

 evening uppon Wensdaye night ; there was built 

 a castle uppon two boats fastened together, which 

 cost a great deale of monie ; this castle was fur- 

 nished both with men, munition, with great canons, 

 and other guns charged onlie with gunpowder, 

 and two pinisses were also furnished with men 

 and the like munition, which beseeched (sic) the 

 said castle, and they incountred one another a 

 longe time with manie an idle shot without any 

 hurt at all ; till at length the warriours in the 

 two pinisses found the meanes to set the castle on 

 fyre, and so burnt it down to the water; but ye 

 must imagine that the souldiers in the Castle were 

 first escaped out of the castle, or els you know 

 there would have been waste. Yet this was not 

 all the sport as they say that saw it, for some of 

 them were so cunning that they could make fyre- 

 works to mount and flee up into the ayre twise as 

 high as S' Paul's tower ; and when it was at the 

 highest, it would streame downe againe as long as 

 bell ropes, and the fyres did seeme to fight and 

 to skirmishe one with another in the skies, which 

 was very pleasant to behold in the dark Evening ; 

 and at length they would descend again, buck- 

 linge as it were and strivinge together till they 

 were extinguished in the water. These thinges 1 

 receaved by hearsay, for I sawe them not, and 

 therefor, if I have fayled in any thing, it is because 

 I have been misinformed myselfe, not because I 

 delight to forge any Lies. 



" Youre lovinge husbande 



" unto the end, 

 "John Notes." 

 Qy. Who was the Duke of Lineage ? * 



AtTUOEISED VERSION. 



Dr. Trench has pointed out the solecism of the 

 term cherubims (lleb. ix. 5.), observing that " che- 



[* Most probably the Duke of Lenox.— Ed.] 



rubim being already plural, it is excess of expres- 

 sion to add another, an English plural, to the 

 Hebrew." But he adds : " Cherubiws of glory, as 

 it is in the Geneva and Kheims versions, is intel- 

 ligible and quite unobjectionable!" for he sup- 

 poses cherubijj to be the singular of cherubim 

 (^Authorised Version, p. 30.). This is an error, 

 for cherub is the singular, and cherubiwj is the 

 Hebrew plural, as cherubiw is the Chaldee plural. 

 (Compare the Heb. text with Onkelos, Exod. xxv. 

 18 , xxvi. 1. 31., xxxvii. 7.) The Geneva and 

 Rheims versions are therefore quite as unintelli- 

 gible and objectionable with "cherubi/is" as the 

 authorised one is with " cherubims." 



Dr. Trench objects (p. 31.) to the use of adjec- 

 tives ending in " ly" as though they were ad- 

 verbs ; and although it is desirable that another 

 adverb, if it can be found, should be used to pre- 

 vent the confusion of adjective and adverb, still 

 the fact is certain that the same word is used in 

 both these parts of speech occasionally in English, 

 {e. g. deadly, worldly, friendly, kindly, unkindly, 

 godly, niggardly, cowardly, untowardly, princely, 

 likely, untimely, comely, homely, leisurely, stately, 

 lively, kingly, loathly, sickly, weekly, seemly, un- 

 seemly, cleanly, uncleanly, heavenly, only, orderly, 

 disorderly, motherly, brotherly, mannerly, unman- 

 nerly, masterly, unneighbourly, hourly, lowly) ; 

 and often in German.* To avoid the supposed 

 grammatical solecism, some persons may write 

 godlily and orderlily, as the Doctor appears to 

 sanction ; but no German would write gottseliglich 

 and ordentlichig, analogous to the barbarisms god- 

 lily and orderlily. The Doctor seems to think that 

 grammar rules the language ; whereas, on the 

 contrary, the grammar consists of instructions to 

 write according to the "usus et norma loquendi" 

 of any given language. The strongest objection 

 to the Doctor's word "unseemlily," is, that it is 

 not English. When by use it becomes such, it 

 will be time enough to employ it ; meantime, 

 "unbecomingly, improperly, unfitly, or inde- 

 cently," are suflicient to keep out that barbarism, 

 should the adverb " unseemly " displease the ear. 



Dr. Trench prefers "poenitentia" to Beza's 

 "resipiscentia" (p. 36.), but he overlooks the 

 reason of Beza's preference for the latter, which 

 was, that the word "poenitentia" had acquired, 

 by erroneous teaching, a moaning at variance with 

 the fierdyota of the New Testament : for Peter 

 Lombard (^Liber Senten., iv. 14.) had pronounced 

 that " poenitentia dicitur a puniendo," — an ety- 

 mological notion which caused Luther to think 

 wrongly of the nature of repentance, till he learnt 

 the meaning of the Greek word, which he received 

 with joy as a solution of one of his greatest 



* In the following te.xts cited by Dr. Trench, 1 Cor. 

 xiii. 5., 2 Tim. iii. 12., and Titus ii. 12., Luther uses the 

 adjectives as acU'erbs : ungeherdic/, gottselig, z'ueluig. (See 

 Boileau's Germ. Lang., p." 61.) 



