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more modern Bibles, when compared with those 

 of older date, the references are greatly mul- i 

 tiplied. Take the first chapter of Genesis^ for 

 instance; in a folio Bible printed at Cambridge 

 by John Hayes, printer to the University in 1674, 

 the number of references is twenty-eight; in a 

 modern Bible, 1851, of the Oxford University 

 Press, the number is seventy-sight. Will one of 

 your readers inform us by whom, at whose in- 

 stance, and by whose authority, these large ad- 

 ditions were made ? 



In Dean Trench's admirable work, On some 

 Recent Proposals for the Revision of the New 

 Testament, he has called particular attention to 

 the Translators' Preface, or address to the reader, 

 before alluded to, and which, as he states, is 

 " now seldom or never reprinted." Of this Pre- 

 face he says : 



" It is on many grounds a most interesting study, 

 chiefly indeed as giving at considerable length, and in 

 various aspects, the view of our translators themselves in 

 regard of the work which they have undertaken." — P. 85. 



The Dean adds, that " every true knower of 

 our language will acknowledge it a master- 

 piece of English composition." To the present 

 generation it is almost unknown. Clergymen 

 must oftentimes find some little difficulty in 

 meeting with it. In no Bible which I possess is 

 it to be found but in the folio of 1674. In some 

 reprints of the larger Bibles the whole of this 

 Preface might be given ; in the smaller ones, 

 " such portions as are necessary to the true un- 

 derstanding of the intention of the translators in 

 what they give as our Bible," agreeable to the 

 Bishop of Oxford's resolution in Convocation. 



J. H. Mabkxand. 



Bath. 



f&inax £atc£. 



On the Use of Torture. — A curious letter 

 of the Earl of Dunfermline's is extant, who, in 

 the reijjn of James L, was I believe Chancellor of 

 Scotland. It was written on the occasion of the 

 discovery of a plot against the government ; and 

 beginning with a lengthy Latin quotation, is re- 

 markable for containing, amongst many other 

 matters, some hints and directions for the bene- 

 fit of Sir Robert Cecil, as to the best means of 

 extracting confessions from the conspirators. The 

 Eaii, who was a Scotchman, expresses his opinion 

 in quaint language. The following extract is in- 

 teresting. After alluding to twenty years' experi- 

 ence in such matters, he goes on to say as follows : — 



" I haue found nathing sa profitable as to be cairfull, 

 y»t the offendors be kiepit werye quyett, and at ane 

 werye sobir dyett: That naine haue anye accesse to 

 thame; That thaie gett na notice but yat all thair plotts 

 •re discouered, and all thair associatts apprehendit; and 

 if it ware possible all, at leaste sa monye as is supposed 

 to knaw maist, wold be closed up seuerallie in mirk 



houses whair they nyuer see light, and wolde be maid 

 to misbeknoe the day from the night. This sobors thair 

 mymle, and drawes them to feare and repententance. 



"They sold euir be examined at torch light, the maist 

 simple man meitest first to be dealt with, and sua mekU 

 gotten of them as may be had: out of such grounds, the 

 diepest thoughts and deuyses may be drawn out of the 

 maist craftie. 



" Quhen occasion sail seeme of Torture the slawlier it 

 be used at dyuers tymes and be interwallis, the mair is 

 gotten be it: Heiehe spritts and desperat interprysars 

 if they be suddenlie put to great tormentis in thair rage 

 will suffer all obdurie and Fynes sense, whilk will fall 

 otherwise if they be delt with at lasoure, 



" Your Lordships to comand 



" Dunfermline." * 



w. o. w. 



Drinking Fountains. — The following early 

 notice of public drinking fountains in England 

 appears in Hardyng's Chronicle (ed. by Ellis, p. 

 162.), wherein it is stated that King "Ethelfryde," 

 in the seventh century — 



"... made he wellcs in dyuerse countrees spied 

 By the hye wayes, in cuppes of copper clene, 

 For trauelyng folke, faste chayned as it was sene." 



T. N. Brushfield. 



Chester. 



Babington Family. — In reference to the Bab- 

 ington rooms at Trinity College, Cambridge, to 

 which I referred in my reply on the Macaulay 

 family (2" d S. ix. 152.), I send the following Note 

 as to the origin of the privilege, which may per- 

 haps prove intei-esting to some of your readers. 

 The information is derived from an old pedigree 

 in the possession of a relative of mine, one of the 

 Babington family. 



Humfrey Babington, of Rothley Temple, had 

 four sons : the youngest of whom, Adrian, married 

 Margaret Cave, and had by her two sons ; Hum- 

 frey, the younger of the two, was baptized at 

 Cossington the 5th November, 1615. Having 

 entered at Cambridge, he took his degree of 

 LL.D. ; and in 1669, by virtue of the royal man- 

 date, was made an S.T.P. Eventually Dr. Bab- 

 ington became Vice-Master of Trinity College, 

 and built there two sets of rooms for the family of 

 Babington; he died on the 4th January, 1691, 

 set. seventy-five, and was buried in the chapel of 

 Trinity College. Dr. Babington is also noted as 

 having been the founder of Barrow Hospital. 



J. A. Pn. 



Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress." — Of all the 

 works of an allegorical character catalogued by 

 Mr. Geo. OfTor, in his complete and elaborately- 

 executed edition of the writings of the immortal 

 tinker of Bedford, the translation of the little 

 work entitled The Voyage of the Wandering 

 Knight (originally written in French by John 

 Cartheny), n. d., but dedicated to Sir Francis 

 Drake, would appear the most likely to have 



• " Domestic Series, James I.," vol, xvi. p. 81. 



