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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»'i S. VI. 144., Oct. 2. '58. 



desired. These noble twaine, as it pleas'd themselves to 

 tell us themselves, could nott make 25 years both toge- 

 ther when first they were marry'd ; that now can make 

 above 140 3'eares, and are very hearty, well, and merry; 

 and long may they continue soc, for soe have they all 

 just cause to pray that live neer them; for their Hospi- 

 tality and free cntertainmen' agrees w* their generous 

 and noble extraction, and their yeares retains the 

 memory of their iion'''° Predecessors' bountiful! House- 

 keeping." 



The Tour is replete with valuable information 

 relative to public edifices, monuments, brasses, 

 crosses, and other mediasval antiquities, either en- 

 tirely lost or defaced by time and personal vio- 

 lence ; together with the characters of eminent 

 iiulividuals of tiie period, all well worlhy of tiie 

 attention of the Archa;ologist. J. M. Gutch. 



Worcester. 



[This curious Itinerary will be found in the Lansdowne 

 MS., No. 213. fols. .519 — 350., and makes sixty-four closely 

 written pages. It is entitled, "A Relation of a Short Sur- 

 vey of Twenty-six Counties, bricii^' describing the'Citties 

 and their Scj'tuation.s, and the Corporate Towns and 

 Castles therein. Observed in a Seven VVeekes Journey 

 begun at the City of Norwich, and from thence into tlie 

 North, on Monday, August 11th, 1034, and ending at the 

 same Place. By a Captaiue, a Lieutenant, and an An- 

 cient: all three of the Military Company in Norwich." 

 At the end are three pages of poetry, entitled, " In Com- 

 mendation of the Gentile Travellers and the .Journal. By 

 a Friend."] 



CHANGE OF STYLK. 



Will you allow me to make a Note on a not 

 unimportant subject? I would call attention to 

 the fact that writers occasionally, not to say fre- ] 

 quently, content themselves with the statement ; 

 that in the calculation of the difference between "< 

 the Old and New Styles twelve days must be al- 

 lowed, and this irrespective of the period at which 

 the occurrence spoken of took place. It is of 

 course correct as to the present century, but not 

 of any other. An instance occurs in 2"'' S. v. 

 501., in CuTHBEET Bede's interesting article on 

 " Orientation," though it would appear to be 

 an oversight of the liev. W. Airy rather than 

 bis own. He says, speaking more particularly of 

 our ancient churches, — 



" The change of style must also be borne in mind, and 

 twelve days allowed in the calculations." 



Another case in point I recently came across in 

 Jesse's Walton's Complete Angler (Bohn, 1856), 

 p. 145., where Piscator is telling his scholar of the 

 twelve artificial flies. To the word "March" this 

 note is appended : — 



" The months are here given according to old style, 

 therefore twelve days earlier than now, which must be 

 taken into consideration in adaptuig flies to seasons." 



Now, it is ten days, and not twelve, that should 

 be reckoned in this case, as that was the difference 

 that had arisen, from the use of the Julian calen- 



dar, in excess of correct time when Walton wrote; 

 and, as we now use the correct computation of 

 time, any specified date can be no more in ad- 

 vance of correct time now than it was then. 



The Julian calendar would appear to have been 

 discovered to be faulty as early as the Council of 

 Nice, in 325, as the ten days which Gregory XIII. 

 retrenched in 1582, are said to have arisen in the 

 computation of time from that event. Besides re- 

 jecting these ten days, the Gregorian calendar 

 " appointed tliat the hundi-edth year of each cen- 

 tury should hiive no Bissextile, excepting each 

 fourth century." (Ghiimbers's Uinversal Die- 

 tionary of the Arts and Sciences, art. " Calendar.") 

 Thus we find the difference of twelve days be- 

 tween the Old Style, as used now by the Rus- 

 sians, and the New, as used by the Western 

 nations, to have accrued between a-d. 325 and 

 the jn'esent time ; and therefore the difference 

 stated in the following table is that which must 

 be allowed in the calculations of dates in the re- 

 spective periods: — 



From 



If I have made any error in the details of the 

 foregoing, I trust some among your numerous 

 correspondents will correct me. I feel sure the 

 subject is worthy their consideration. Tee Bee. 



rRAYER-BOOK OF 1559, AND CRANMER's BIIiLE. 



In consequence of the notice of an "old Bible" 

 in " N. & Q." vol. vi. p. 30., I am induced to re- 

 cord that there is in the library of Lichfield ca- 

 thedral a small quarto volume containing the 

 Prayer-Book of 1559, and Cawood's edition of 

 Craimier's Text of the Bible, but unfortunately it 

 is not perfect. The first remaining page is " A 

 Table for the Order of the Psalmes," and the last 

 is part of " A Table to fynde the Epystles and 

 Ghospells." 



There is no title-page between the Prayer 

 Book and " The fyrste booke of Moyses." No 

 second part of the Bible is marked by title or 

 pagination. "The thirde part of the Byble" be- 

 gins with " The Psalter." The title-page " of the 

 bookes called Hagiogropha" is perfect, but with- 

 out date ; as is also that of the New Testament. 



This last title-page is ornamented at lop with a 

 woodcut representing the Last Supper, and at 



