2" d S. IX. June 30. '60.] 



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where there is a chapel and a well called from his name, 

 which by a remain of ancient devotion used to be particu- 

 larly frequented on the Thursdays in May, and more 

 especially on Corpus Christi day. Here, in the year 1640, 

 John Trelille, who had been an absolute cripple for six- 

 teen years, and was obliged to crawl upon his hands, by 

 reason of the close contraction of the sinews of his legs, 

 upon three several admonitions in his dream, washing in 

 St. Madern's well, and sleeping afterwards in what was 

 called St. Madern's bed, was suddenly and perfectly cured : 

 so that ' I saw him,' says Bishop Hall (in his Treatise of 

 the Invisible World, b. i. sect. 8.), ' able to walk and get 

 his own maintenance.' This Protestant prelate, who was 

 at that time the Bishop of the diocese, in his visitation, 

 as he tells us in the same place, 'besides the attestation 

 of mauy hundreds of the neighbours, took a strict and 

 personal examination of the case, and found the whole to 

 be unquestionable.' 'Here was neither art nor collusion,' 

 says he, 'the thing was done — the author invisible.' " 



John Williams. 

 Arno's Court. 



Burial, in a Sitting Postuee (2 nd S. ix. 44.) 

 — A case of interment of this particular kind 

 came under my notice not long ago in the church- 

 yard of S. Leonard's, Shoreditch. A high head- 

 stone, which stands within a few feet of the iron 

 railing bounding this churchyard, has an inscrip- 

 tion which may be read from the public road, and 

 it commences thus: " 1807. Dr. John Gardner's 

 last and best bed-room," &c. This person (so I 

 was informed by the sexton) was buried in an 

 erect posture, at his own desire. W. B. Caparn. 



Mors Mortis Morti (2 nd S. ix. 445.) — These 

 lines are to be met with as an epitaph in the 

 churchyard of Alford, Lincolnshire. I remember 

 to have seen them on a head-stone there some 

 years ago. I will add another translation of 

 these curious lines : — 



" Unless by death, the Death of death, 

 A death to death had given ; 

 For ever had been closed to man 

 The sacred gales of Heaven." 



W. B. Caparn. 



Although not able to give W. B. the author of 

 the above Latin distich, no doubt he will be glad 

 of the following translation : — 



" Had (Christ) the death of death to death 

 Not given death by dying: 

 The gates of Life had never been 

 To mortals open lying." 



Joseph. 

 This distich is cut on the tombstone of Rev. 

 Fyge (?) Jauncey, in the churchyard of Castle- 

 Camps, Cambridgeshire ; but whether by him I 

 am not aware. P. J. P. Gantillon. 



Fan9haw's II Pastor Fido (2 nd S. ix. 464.) — 

 My copy of the 1664 edition of this work has the 

 4to. portrait of Guarini, After the two dedica- 

 tions to Charles Prince of Wales, Denham's verses, 

 and the dramatis persona', 19 a frontispiece of Alfeo, 

 a river of Arcadia, which faces the prologue. II 

 Pastor Fido occupies 207 pages, and on page 209 



(to page 320.) commence " The Additional 

 Poems," which include, among many others, two 

 Odes on the Civil Wars of Rome, the Escurial, 

 the Progress of Learning, Dido and JEneas, &c. 



L. Jewitt. 

 Derby. 



Westminster Hall (2 nd S. ix. 463.) — In 

 Knight's London, at the conclusion of the article 

 on Westminster Hall, occurs the following pas- 

 sage : — 



" Many different accounts have been given of the di- 

 mensions of the Hall, and in consequence we hardly know 

 what authority to trust to. Mr. Barry's, we presume, 

 must be from actual admeasurement ; and the result is, 

 239 feet long, 68 feet wide, and 90 feet high." 



J. H. W. 



" Nobveau Testament par les Theologiens 

 de Louvain. Bourdeaux, 1686 " (2 nd S. ix. 307.) 

 — It may be of interest to Mr. Lloyd to know that 

 a copy of this most rare book was in the collec- 

 tion of the Bishop of Cashel at Waterfbrd, and 

 was sold at the auction of his most rare books by 

 Messrs, Sotheby & Wilkinson, on the 26th of 

 June, 1858. It was purchased for 62Z. by a Mr.. 

 Thompson. I do not know his address, or where 

 it is now deposited. 



The following is the description given of it in 

 the Catalogue, where it was numbered 259. : — 



" This remarkable book consists of two portions, the 

 first containing the Gospel and Acts, pages L.to 414. ; be- 

 sides title, approbation, and names of the books, &c, two 

 leaves-', the second, the Epistle of St. Paul, the Catholic 

 Epistles, and the Apocalypse, followed by a table, pages 

 1. to 352., Title and Abridgement of the Travels and Life 

 of St. Paul, two leaves. 



" The learned Bishop Kidder searched for some years 

 before he could obtain a sight of this edition of the New 

 Testament, so carefully had it been suppressed, and so 

 completely silent are writers (prior to his time) as to 

 its existence. In trnth it is one of the rarest of all modern 

 books. Besides its excessive rarity, it is peculiarly in- 

 . teresting to the Biblical student, on account of the nu- 

 merous deviations from the original text (as to the Mass, 

 Purgatory, &c.) exhibited in it. These attracted notice 

 soon after its publication, and Bishop Kidder published 

 a small tract relative to them in 1690; attention was 

 again called to it by the Rev. Richard Grier, D.D., in 

 his answer to Thomas Ward's Errata of the Proiestant 

 Bible, Dub. 1812, and still later by a reprint of Dr. 

 Kidder's reflections, with a Memoir of the translation by 

 Dr. Henry Cotton, Lond. 1812, to which work the curious 

 reader is referred. Literary history scarcely furnishes a 

 parallel for so gross a fraud as is in this volume perpe- 

 trated. Not more than seven or eight copies are known 

 to exist." 



In an able and interesting work by Joseph 

 Browne, intitled Browne' s Lectures on Ward's Er- 

 rata (J. Nisbet & Co., London. 8vo.) published 

 last year, there are copious extracts piven from 

 it. In his first lecture, at pages 47. and following 

 as far as page 56. the extracts are very full. 



The following is the correct title of the book : 



" Le Nouveau Testament de notre Seigneur Jesus 

 Christ, traduit de Latin en Francois par les Theologiens 



