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your readers illustrate this, by informiDg us when 

 coal began to be universally used, and wood fell 

 into (comparative) disuse ? M. D. 



Penance in the Kirk of Scotland. — Can any of 

 your correspondents inform me what is the date 

 of the latest instance of a party being compelled 

 to do penauce in sackcloth before the congrega- 

 tion ? W. 



Sledby Wodhouse and GrengJiam. — What is the 

 locality of Sledby Wodhouse in Bollond, and also 

 that of Greugham ? I have consulted five different 

 gazetteers without success. M. D. 



industrj' end here ; for tUey buy cotton wool in London, 

 and work the same, and perfect it into stuffs." 



Who was the author ? and what the title and 

 date of his publication ? Abhba. 



Diary of Gaffe the Regicide. — The following 

 Query appeared in the October number of the 

 American Historical Magazine and Notes and 

 Queries. It is worth making a Note of in your 

 pages. If such a document exists it must be of 

 some interest, and may be of the greatest his- 

 torical value. The lives of the regicides have yet 

 to be written : — 



" Diary of Goffe. — The following extract, relating to 

 the English regicides, is taken from Hutchinson's ' His- 

 tory of Massachusetts ' (Salem, 1795), vol. i. p. 197. : 



" ' Goffe kept a journal or diary from the day he left 

 Westminster, May 4, until the year 1G67, which, together 

 with several other papers belonging to him, I have in 

 my possession. Almost the whole is in characters or 

 short hand, not very difiBcult to decypher. The story of 

 these persons has never yet been published to the world. 

 It has never been known in Xew-England. These papers, 

 after their death, were collected, and have remained near 

 a hundred j-ears in a librarj^ in Boston. It must give 

 some entertainment to the curious.' 



"Is it known to what library allusion is here made? 

 Or can an}' one inform me if this Diary is still in exist- 

 ence .' 



•' Boston. S. A. G." 



Edwakd Pbacock. 



Bottesford Manor. 



Cromwell's List of Officers. — Among some notes 

 in my possession, I find the following : — 



" Cromwell's funeral was magnificent in Westminster 

 Abbey, but was not paid for at the Restoration. It does 

 not appear that he made any will. His appointments of 

 oiHcers and the fees of his courts were met with by Mr. 

 Astle in a book of parchement ^vith brass clasps at Mr. 

 Baldwin's in the Hall (Westminster), which had been 

 made use of for directions for game for many 3'ears. For- 

 tunately only two of the written leaves were gone ; the 

 plain ones being taken first. The list of officers began 

 with Cromwell and his Council, under the name of the 

 Keepers of the Liberties of England, who were in reality 

 the administrators for nine or ten months of this country'. 

 The establishment of the fees were very minute and judi- 

 cious." 



My inquiry is, what has become of this parch- 

 ment book with the brass clasps thus found by Mr. 

 Astle, and probably rescued from farther destruc- 

 tion ? Cl. Hopper. 



Mince Pies. — When did they first come into 

 fashion in England, and are they of English in- 

 vention, or not ? A. M. W. 



Coal Fires and Wood Fires in the Seventeenth 

 Century. — In Lord Brandon's letter to his wife 

 ("N. & Q." 2'-'' S. vi. 362.), he accuses her of 

 " sitting in another room to entertain company by 

 a coal fire, as if he refused her ivood" Hence it 

 would appear that in 168^ a coal fire was con- 

 sidered much inferior to a wood fire. Can any of I 



Otko Wermidlenis. — I have noticed in the Gen- 

 tleman's Magazine (January, 1814, p. 33.), in an 

 article upon the various causes of the rarity of 

 books, that reference is made to a small work 

 intituled A spiritual and most precious Perle, 

 written by Otho Wermullerus, and translated by 

 Miles Coverdale ; and the writer, after describing 

 its size, &c. says, — 



"The diminutive size of this book fitted it to be carried 

 secretly about the persons of Protestants in the persecuting 

 days of bloody Queen Mary : I suspect some error in the 

 date (1550) assigned to the first English edition of this 

 booK^ because it is 3 years before the death of Edward the 

 Sixth," &c. 



Can any of the readers of " IT. & Q." explain 

 why the date assigned should be considered an 

 error because it was three years before the death 

 of Edward VI. 



I have seen, in the possession of one of my 

 friends, an edition in black letter of the size de- 

 scribed in the Gentleman s Magazine, three inches 

 long by two inches broad, intituled A spiritual and 

 most precious Perle, &c., written by Otho AYer- 

 mullerus, and translated by Miles Coverdale, 

 "printed at London by Robert Robinson, 1593, 

 dedicated to Edward, Duke of Somerset, uncle 

 to Edward the Sixth." This edition was therefore 

 printed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The 

 book has been in the possession of my friend's 

 family for many generations, and it is in good 

 preservation. Can any of your readers inform 

 me what number of editions have been published 

 of this interesting work ? H. S. 



[This work certainly appeared in 1550, as the date is 

 printed on tlie last page. It is entitled " A Spyrytuall 

 and nioost precj-ouse Pearle. Teachyng all men to loue 

 and irabrace the crosse, as a mooste swete and necessary 

 thyng, vnto the sowle, and what comfort is to be taken 

 thereof, and also where and howe, both cousolacyoa and 

 ayde in all manor of aillyccyons is to be soughte. And 

 agayne, howe all men should behaue them selues therein, 

 accordynge to the word of God. Sett forth by the 

 moste honorable Lorde, the duke hys grace of Somerset, 

 as appeareth by hys ICpystle set before the same. Iesvs. 

 Verely verely, I say vnto you, " Whosoeucr beleueth on 



