2 nd S. IX. ApuiL 21. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



509 



" The verses abovo are in the handwriting of John 

 Kirkpatrick, together with the following: — 



«'>{. B. This is printed in said Appendix from a 



printed Copy remaining in the Bodleian Library at Ox- 

 ford, to shew that y e art of printing hath been practised 

 i sooner at Norwich than some imagine. 



« • Anthony de la Solempne, or Solemne, Tipographus, 

 came to England, with his wife and two children, from 

 Brabant, a.d. 1567 ; and Albertus Christianus, Tipogra- 

 phus, from Holland, the same year.' 



" It appears that Anthony Solempne lived, in 1570, in 

 St. Andrew's parish, but after that he must have been 

 an inhabitant of St. John's Maddermarket, as his name 

 frequently occurs in the Overseer's book as a rate-payer 

 in that parish." 



ExTRANECS. 



THOMAS ADY ; BOOKS DEDICATED TO THE 

 DEITY. 



(2 nd S. ix. 180. 2^6.) 



As one who had laboured in the field with a 

 few other courageous men of his time to refute 

 the monstrous infatuation of witchcraft, it might 

 be interesting to gather up some biographical par- 

 ticulars of the author of A Candle in the Dark, of 

 whose history, after some little research, I have 

 been able to find nothing. There are, however, 

 many readers of "N. & Q." with better opportu- 

 nities for investigation than mine to whom the 

 matter may be safely entrusted. 



That Mr. Ady's book had been known, widely 

 circulated, and perhaps appreciated among the 

 more enlightened in his day, may, I think, be in- 

 ferred from the following rather curious notice of 

 it in An Historical Essay conceniing Witchcraft, 

 by Francis Hutchinson, D.D., London, 1718. In 

 " the Dedication," p. xv., he says : — 



" When one Mr. Burroughs, a clergyman, who some 

 few years since was hang'd in New-England as a Wiz- 

 zard, stood upon his Tryal, he pull'd ont of his Pocket a 

 Leaf that he had got of Mr. Adifs Book to prove that 

 the Scripture Witchcrafts were not like ours : And as 

 that Defence was not able to save him, I humbly offer 

 my Hook as an Argument on the behalf of all such miser- 

 able People who may ever in Time to come be drawn 

 into the same Danger in our Nation." 



Dr. Hutchinson had just immediately before, in 

 his Dedication, been referring to such writers as 



" Dr. More (who) brands all those that oppose his Notions 

 with the odious Names of Hag-Advocates, yet I have 

 ventur'd to bear these Reproaches, and run all Hazards, 

 because it is on behalf of those that were drawn to Death, 

 mid were not able to plead their own Cause against He- 

 brew Criticisms, and fallacious tho' deep Keasoning3." 



Any one who lias taken the trouble to look 

 into the vast and voluminous works which have 

 been composed pro and con on the subject of 

 witchcraft, may justly bo convinced of the im- 

 mense^&mount of learning which lias been expen- 

 ded, nay, even wasted. When doctors, divines, 

 judges, and juries differed so exceedingly from. 

 one another," no wonder that the common people, 



in the confusion of opinions, were bewildered and 

 confounded, and often thought themselves privi- 

 leged and important persons, both to believe in, 

 and to die as martyrs in support of the claims of 

 the black art. The simple art of letting it alone 

 at last cured the furor of the whole delusion, and 

 Dr. Hutchinson, at the date he penned his book 

 (wisely timed, good, and judicious as it is), ran 

 small " hazard," if any at all, of being either 

 burned, hanged, strangled, or pilloried for his 

 pains. The last case of judicial proceedings in 

 England was in 1701. 



The tragical New England instance introduced 

 by Dr. Hutchinson in the "Dedication" is farther 

 stated at p. 80. of the Essay under date, Aug. 19, 

 1692: — 



"Five more were executed denying any Guilt in that 

 Matter of Witchcraft. One of them was Mr. Burroughs, 

 a Minister. When he was upon the Ladder he made a 

 Speech for the clearing his Innocency, with such solemn 

 and serious Expressions as were to the Admiration of all 

 present, and drew Tears from many. The Accusers said 

 the black Man dictated to him." 



Alas for the poor minister whom the " leaf" of 

 Mr. Ady's book could not save, nor likely would 

 the whole volume have had any success! It is 

 quoted in various places of Dr. Hutchinson's Es- 

 say as an authority. G. N. 



Some years ago when I was at Rome there was, 

 and for aught I know there still is, for the use of 

 foreigners, a guide-book in two vols., entitled Iti- 

 nerario cli Roma e delle sue Vicinanze, by Sig. 

 Nibby, Professor of Archaeology in the University 

 of Rome. It had then gone through three or four 

 editions. There was said to have been a great 

 singularity about the first edition, namely, that it 

 was dedicated to St. Peter. Can any reader of 

 "N. & Q." inform me if it were so? Oercatore. 



BOLLED. 



Vy:a 



(2 nd S. ix. 28. 251.) 



Although two replies have been given to the 

 question as to the meaning of this word, and the 

 Hebrew for which it is put in Exodus ix. 31., I 

 think more might be said. 



First, therefore, with reference to the word 

 3, Mr. Buckton very unnecessarily assumes 

 that the y in this word was unpronounced, as in 

 all probability it was a strong guttural, and in- 

 deed as such it is often represented by g in the 

 Septuagint version. On this account, therefore, 

 I cannot suppose it was ever written >133, which 

 not idem sonans, the one being giv'ril and the other 

 g'oul. And besides, the mutation of 1 into y is 

 contrary to all precedent and rule. When Mr. 

 Buckton can produce an example of such a 

 change I shall feel obliged to him, and equally 



