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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



t2MS. VI. 150., Nov. 13. '58. 



Cawood's Bible (2°'^ S. vi. 30. 380.) —The title- 

 page to my copy of Cawood's Bible, small 4to., 

 1561, has a border with Cawood's mark, the same 

 as to the third part and to the Apocrypha, The 

 date is also at the end of the table. Mr. Harris 

 called on me some years ago with the first sheets 

 of a Bible which he was anxious to identify. The 

 Bible was I believe imperfect, and the property 

 of a nobleman, sent to him to be completed for 

 the binder ; but we were unable to identify the 

 edition. I hope that our friend Francis Fry will 

 carry his researches much farther than " in un- 

 ravelling mixed editions" and enlighten the public 

 by tracing the progressive improvements in the 

 translation of the inspired volume into English. 



GEORaE Offor. 



Hackney. 



Remains of Wimbledon and the Story of a Ro- 

 mayicer (2°'' S. v. 235.) — I cannot at present say 

 who was the person satirised, or what gave rise to 

 the publication, but I may be permitted to state 

 that the author of the same was Benjamin Bell, 

 surgeon in this city, and that the etchings which 

 embellish the volume were done by himself. Mr. 

 C. K. Sharpe had no hand in the matter. Dr. 

 Bell, if I mistake not, died many years ago. 



T. G. S. 



Edinburgh. 



Wesley's Hymns set to Music by Handel (2"^ S. 

 vi. 373.) — I have a copy of the music referred 

 to in this Query. It was published in 1826 by 

 Samuel Wesley, the great organist, son of the 

 Rev. Charles Wesley. The title-page is as fol- 

 lows : — 



" The Fitzwilliam Music never published. Tliree Hymns, 

 the words by the late Rev. Charles Wesley, A.M., of 

 Christ Church College, Oxon., and set to music by George 

 Frederick Handel, faithfullj'^ transcribed from his autogra- 

 phy in the Library' of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 

 by Samuel Wesley, and now very respectfully presented 

 to the Weslevan Society at large. [Signed] S. Wesley. 

 Ent. at Sta. Hall, Price Is. 6d. To be had of Mr. S. Wesley, 

 No. 16. Euston Street, Euston Square, and at the Royal 

 Harmonic Institution, Regent Street." 



In the Wesley an Magazine for 1826, p. 817. 

 there is a letter from Mr. Samuel Wesley con- 

 taining an account of the discovery of the MS., and 

 there is also given the substance of a note from 

 Miss Wesley as to the intimacy between Handel 

 and Mr. and Mrs. Rich, and between the latter 

 and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wesley. 



The hymns set are " Sinners obey the gospel 

 word," " O Love divine, how sweet thou art," and 

 "Rejoice, the Lord is King;" and the form of the 

 music is that of an air with accompaniment for the 

 pianoforte or organ. The first and third will be 

 ifound in Mercer's Hymn Book, arranged in short- 

 score for four voices ; the one being called Can- 

 nons, and the other Handel's lASth, The harmonics 



of both, and the melody of the latter, are slightly 

 altered. Mr. Mercer appears to have got them 

 from Havergal's Collection. David Gam. 



Plato on Spirits (2"'^ S. v. 148.) — 



" BfiATtov oZv ot tA wept toi' Tm^wva Kat "Offtptv koX ^1<tlv toro- 

 povjaeva, jLL^T€ Beiiyv jra^^^ara, iiyjre avOfttJintav, aAXa Satjaoi'wi/ 

 fieyaXitiV cTi/at vofii^ocres, ouj koX TlXdrtau (cat TlvBayopa';, Kal 

 SevoKpaTTjs Kal XpvutTjros, cTToju.ei'Ot Toi? TTctAat BeoKoyoi?, eppw- 

 jLLCi'eo'Tepous t^ev av9pu}lT0iv yeyovevai Xeyovtri, Ka't. iroA.X^ T77 6u- 

 fafiet Tqy (pvaiv vn"ep(^€poVTas TjixCtv, to 6e Oelov ovk a/xtve? ovS' 

 ajcparov e^ovTa?, aWa. Koi \^vxv^ (|)ua"et Kal <Ta>/AaTOS aiffd^cret 

 trvvei\rixo^ rfSov-qu fiexop-eVj;, xat ttoi/oi' Kal iicra raurat? eyyet'o- 

 Heva Tai? jU.era)3oAats irdOri, tov? fJ.ep ^dWov, tovs 5e yjTTOV errt- 

 rapdrret' yivofrai ydp tus ev avBpunrOL^, Kal Saiixotriv, aperrj^ 

 Sia(}iopal Kal Kaxtas." — Plutarchus, Z>e Iside et Osiride, c. 

 XV., ed. Wyttenbach, Oxon, 1796, iii. 478. See also xiii. 

 205. u. D., and 208. n. B. 



FiTZHOPKINS. 



Garrick Club. 



Guercino's Aurora (2"* S. vi. 287.) — about the 

 original of which Mr. Gdtch would be glad to 

 know, is not an oil-painting, but a large fresco, at 

 Rome, done on the ceiling of one of the halls in 

 the casino standing in the Villa Ludovisi. The 

 owners of this beautiful place, the Princes of 

 Piombino, have for many years formed the un- 

 enviable sole exception to that Roman, or, to speak 

 more truly, that Italian kindness which, with such 

 graceful readiness, throws wide open to all comers 

 the door of every room or garden that holds a work 

 of art : thousands have there been, as well inhabi- 

 tants of Rome as travellers thither, who never 

 could catch a glimpse of any of those many art- 

 treasures churlishly imprisoned within the gates of 

 the ungenlal Piombino Villa Ludovisi. D. Rock. 



Perham, Sussex (2"* S. vi. 69.) — No doubt this 

 is Parham, near Arundel. R. C. W. 



Age of Tropical Trees (2"'> S. vi. 325.) — Only 

 one ring of ligneous matter is deposited each year, 

 even in tropical climates, there being only one 

 period of rest analogous to our winter. The num- 

 ber of concentric rings which appear when the 

 tree is cut across is not a sure criterion of age 

 under all circumstances. In endogens the rings 

 are altogether wanting. J. M. B. 



" Gallowes taken doune aboute London, 1554." 

 (2°* S. vi. 314. 465.) — Verily " N. & Q." not only 

 furnish much valuable information in answer to lite- 

 rary inquiries, but revive reminiscences of " auld 

 lang syne," and bring together forgotten friends. A 

 gentleman at Cork, who, forty years ago, was on 

 pleasant friendly terms with me, has sent a satis- 

 factory answer to the Query, Why, on " the iiij 

 dale of June, 1554, was taken doune all the Gal- 

 lowes that were aboute London ?" He refers me 

 to the Diary of Henry Machin, printed for the 

 Camden Society, who states that forty-six poor 

 creatures implicated in Wyatt's rebellion were 

 hanged upon twenty-four gallows ; ten upon the 

 gates, and fourteen in the city and borough. 



