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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«* S. IX. April 21. '60. 



his appointment as Christian Advocate in the University of 

 Cambridge, published Remarks on Scepticism, especially as 

 it is connected with the Subjects of Organization and IJ/e ; 

 bfiut) an Answer to the Views of M. Bichut, Sir T. C. 

 Morgan, and Mr. Lawrence, upon those points, <Svo. 1819. 

 This valuable work passed through six editions. When 

 Mr. Beanell saw in the schools, both of Paris and Lon- 

 don, medical science made the handmaid of irreligion, 

 and observed in particular "a considerable advance of 

 sceptical principle upon the subjects of organisation and 

 life," the doctrine of materialism paving the way for 

 infidelity and atheism, he thought that he could not 

 better discharge the duty which from " the office he held 

 in the University," he owed to it and the world, than "to 

 call the attention of the public to the mischievous ten- 

 dency of such opinions." This able work foils the sceptic 

 with his own weapons, and makes him feel that reason 

 and philosophy are not for him, but against him, in the 

 great question of Natural and Revealed Religion.] 



ANTHONY DE SOLEMNE. 

 (•2" d S. ix. 245.) 



As I am sure that you would not intentionally do 

 an injustice to any one, I must bog you to correct 

 an error which has crept into your last number, 

 where my excellent friend Archdeacon Cotton is 

 represented to have mentioned Norwich in Con- 

 necticut, but to have omitted all notice of the 

 City of Norwich in England, in his Typographical 

 Gazetteer. 



I have not the first edition of the work in ques- 

 tion at hand, and therefore am unable to say how 

 far the remark may be true as applied to that ; 

 but the second (1831) now lies before me, and if 

 your correspondent Mr. Van Lennep will be so 

 good as to refer to it, under the title Nordovicttm, 

 p. 195., he will find, not indeed an account of 

 Dutch Bibles printed at Norwich, copies of which 

 would probably only be found in Holland, but of 

 a Dutch metrical version of the Psalms, 156S, and 

 a small calendar, 1570, which are both dated at 

 Norwich, and of a Dutch version of the New 

 Testament, with the annotations of Marloratus, 

 and some Dutch sermons of Cornelis Adriaenssen 

 van Dordrecht, which two latter are supposed to 

 have issued from the same press. These four rare 

 works are found in the library of Trinity College, 

 Dublin ; and in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, is 

 a most curious broadside, probably unique, con- 

 taining Certayne Versis writtene by Thomas Brooke, 

 gedeman, SfC S,-c. Imprynted at Norwich, in the 

 pary&he of Saynct Andrewe, by Anthony tie So- 

 lempne, 1570. So that we have here the origin 

 of the error : De Solempne's name was Anthony, 

 but he lived in the parish of St. Andrew. 



I have to apologise for saying so much on this 

 Flemish printer's Norwich publications, but many 

 of your readers may not have an opportunity of 

 referring to the Typographical Gazetteer in ques- 

 tion for a fuller and better account ; and by de- 



scribing, however briefly, the titles of works, 

 copies of which we are known to possess, we may 

 perhaps arrive, by means of your pages, at notices 

 of others which have hitherto laid neglected and 

 unknown. I. "W. 



Oxford. 



On the title-page of the Dutch Psalter, contain- 

 ing also the Catechism, Commandments, &c, now 

 lying before me, the printer's name is given as 

 above, the imprint being as follows : — " Tot Noor- 

 witz, gheprint by Anthonium de Solemne, anno 

 mdlxviii.," and the same imprint occurs on the 

 title of the Calendar (the date of which k is, how- 

 ever, Mru.xx.) which is bound up at the end of the 

 volume. 



This affords satisfactory evidence as to the 

 printer's Christian name of Anthony, and not An- 

 drew. Moreover, I have seen in the Guildhall 

 at Norwich the original record of his being en- 

 rolled in the list of freemen, where he is called 

 Anthony Solen. Blomefield, who probably never 

 saw any of the books printed by this worthy old 

 citizen, follows the spelling which he found in the 

 city records — Solen. Mr. van Lennep says that 

 he has been told that at least five editions of the 

 Bible in Dutch were printed at Norwich. Will 

 he favour us with some information as to his 

 authority for this statement, the accuracy of which 

 he very justly doubts? They surely cannot all 

 have been required for the use of the residents 

 there ; and Mr. van Lennep has himself, I think, 

 shown that there is but little probability of their 

 having been printed for exportation. Any at- 

 tempt to obtain information on the subject in 

 Norwich, except from the city records, and these 

 unfortunately in bygone years were pretty freely 

 used for lighting fires in the hall ! would be hope- 

 less, I fear, as the congregation has now so 

 dwindled away that, out of the twenty or thirty 

 persons who attend -the Dutch service still per- 

 formed there once a year (in July), I much doubt 

 whether there is one remaining who is able to 

 follow the minister through the Lord's Prayer. 



Q. 



At p. 74. of the fifth volume of Norfolk Archae- 

 ology (Cundall & Co., Norwich, 1859), is a short 

 paper by W. C. Ewing, Esq., on " The Norwich 

 Conspiracy of 1570 ;" towards the end of which is 

 printed the following : — 



" Append, ad J.Leland's Collectanea, p. 1, 2 a . Certayne 

 versis. writtene by Thom. Brooke, Gentleman, in ' the 

 tyme of his imprysonment, the daye before his deathe, 

 who sufferyd at Norwich the 30 of August, 1570." 



I omit the verses, but transcribe from the im- 

 print of them to the end of the paper : — 



" tSST Imprynted at Norwich, in the Paryshe of Saynct 

 Andrewe, by Anthony dc Solempne, 1570." 



