titled The Scoundrel's Dictionary; or, an Explanation of the Cant Words used by Thieves, Housebreakers, Street Robbers, and Pickpockets. To which are prefixed some Curious Dissertations on the Art of Wheedling; and a Collection of Flash Songs, with a proper Glossary, 8vo., London, 1754.]

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Muggleton and Reeve. -I wish to obtain some accurate information as to John Reeve and Rodowick Muggleton, the founders of the sect called Muggletonians, which appears to have been in existence up to the end of the last century. Mr. Macaulay calls Muggleton a drunken tailor," but gives no reference. The article "Muggletonians" in the Encyclopædia Britannica is extremely meagre, both in matter and length. Is there any authentic portrait of Reeve or Muggleton? Any information on these points, or indication as to where it may be found, will greatly R. S. oblige Highgate.

[Our correspondent will find the information he requires in the following works: "The New Witnesses proved Old Hereticks," by William Penn, 4to. 1672. "A True Representation of the Absurd and Mischievous Principles of the Sect commonly known by the name of Muggletonians," 4to. 1694. Muggleton's Works, with his portrait, 1756. "A Complete Collection of the Works of Reeve and Muggleton, together with other Muggletonian Tracts," 3 vols. 4to. 1832. See also Leslie's Snake in the Grass; Collier's Historical Dictionary, Supplement; and Gentleman's Mag., vol. lxii. pt. i. p. 218.]

Rev. T. Adams.-Can any particulars be noted of the Rev. Thomas Adams, a preacher at Paul's Cross in 1612, besides those mentioned by the editor of a Selection from his Sermons, published in 1847-the Rev. W. H. Stowell. His works were printed in 1630 in a thick folio volume, but some of them had previously appeared in small 4to., one such is in the British Museum, and another I recollect seeing at a bookseller's. I should much like to have a list and some account of these 4to. editions.

S. Fr.

[Thomas Adams, D.D., was minister at Willington, in Bedfordshire, and afterwards rector of St. Bennet's, Paul's Wharf. According to Newcourt (Repertorium, i. 302.), "he was sequestered for his loyalty in the late rebellion, and was esteemed an excellent preacher; but died before the Restoration." The following Sermons by him were all published in 4to.: those distinguished by an asterisk are in the British Museum, the others in the Bodleian. 1. The Gallant's Burden; a Sermon on Isa. xxi. 11, 12., 1612. 2. Heaven and Earth Reconciled: on Dan. xii. 3., preached at Bedford at the Visitation of M. Eland, Archdeacon, 1613. *3. The Diuell's Banquet, described in Six Sermons,

1614. 4. England's Sickness comparatively conferred with Israel's; in Two Sermons on Jer. viii. 22., 1615. 5. The Two Sonnes; or the Dissolute conferred with the Hypocrite; on Matt. xxi. 28., 1615. 6. The Leaven,

or a Direction to Heaven, on Matt. xiii. 33. p. 97. ibid. *7. The Spiritual Navigator bound for the Holy Land, preached at Cripplegate on Trinity Sunday, 1615. 8. The Sacrifice of Thankfulness, on Ps. cxviii. 27., whereunto are annexed five other Sermons never before printed, 1616. 9. Diseases of the Sovle: a Discourse Divine, Morall, and Physicall, 1616. *10. The Happiness of the Church; being the Summe of Diverse Sermons preached at St. Gregorie's, 1618.]

The Archbishop of Spalatro (Vol. iv., pp. 257. 295.).—Who were the English bishops, at whose consecration Antonius de Dominis assisted in AGRIPPA. Lambeth Chapel ?

[On December 14, 1617, Mark Spalatro assisted as a prelate at the consecration of Nicholas Felton, Bishop of Bristol, and George Monteigne, Bishop of Lincoln. See a list of the consecrations from the Lambeth Registers in Perceval's Apology for the Doctrine of Apostolical Succession, Appendix, p. 183.]

Bishop Bridgeman. - Will you direct me to the best means of obtaining answers to the following questions:

John Bridgeman, fellow and tutor of Magdalen Coll. Camb., was admitted ad eundem at Oxford, July 4, 1600; and consecrated Bishop of Chester, May, 1619. The points of inquiry are 1. When was the said John Bridgeman entered at Cambridge?

2. When and where was he born?
3. Who and what were his parents?

His

C. J. CLAY, B. A. (Trin. Coll. Camb.) [Leycester, in his Cheshire, says, Bishop Bridgeman was the son of Thomas Bridgeman of Greenway in Devonshire," but other authorities make him a native of Exeter. Prince (Worthies of Devon, p. 99.) says, "He was born in the city of Exeter, not far from the palacegate there, of honest and gentile parentage. father was Edmund Bridgeman, sometime high-sheriff of that city and county, a. D. 1578. Who his mother was I do not find.' In Wood's Fasti, vol. i. p. 286. Mr. Bliss has the following note: "John Bridgman, natus erat Exoniæ. Vid. Izaak's Antiq. of Exeter, p. 156. S. T. P. Cant. Coll. Magd. an. 1612. Prynne's Antipathy, p. 290., and Worthies of Devon, BAKER." Ormerod (Hist. of Cheshire, i. 79.) says, He was the compiler of a valuable work relating to the ecclesiastical history of the diocese, now deposited in the episcopal registry, and usually denominated Bishop Bridgeman's Leger." For other particulars respecting him, consult Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, Part II. p. 10.; Ackermann's Cambridge, vol. ii. p. 160.; Prynne's New Discovery of the Prelate's Tyranny, pp. 91. 108. 218. ; and Cole's MSS. vol. xxvii. p. 218.]

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Rouse, the Scottish Psalmist. — Can any of your readers favour me with some particulars of the life of Rouse, the author of the Scottish metrical version of the Psalms? His name does not appear in any of the biographical dictionaries I have had an opportunity of consulting. From some historical scraps this version had come into the hands of the West

minster Assembly of Divines-was afterwards transmitted by them to the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, who appointed commissioners, &c., for consideration- and was, on 23rd Nov. 1649, sanctioned by the General Assembly, and any other version discharged from being used in the Kirk or its families. Notwithstanding some doggerel interspersed, the version is allowed to be distinguished for a sweet easy simplicity, and well suited to the devotional purpose intended. Rouse evidently was considerably endowed with the vis poetica; and it is to be regretted, that he who has rendered such important service to our national church, should not be known more than by name; at least, this is the predicament in which I stand, along with a few friends, whose notice has been incidentally drawn to the subject. G. N.

Glasgow, Jan. 9. 1852.

[Our correspondent will find an interesting account of Francis Rouse and his metrical version in Holland's Psalmists of Britain, vol. ii. pp. 31-38.]

"Count Cagliostro, or the Charlatan, a tale of the Reign of Louis XVI."-I remember of having read, somewhere about the year 1838-9, a novel of this name; and having inquired frequently for it since, never heard of one. Can any of your correspondents tell me who wrote it?

S. WMSON. [This work is in three volumes. We have seen it attributed to T. A. James.]

Churchyard Well and Bath.-Whilst making a short antiquarian excursion in the county of Norfolk last autumn, I visited the ancient church at East Dereham. Amongst other features of interest which this fine church displays, may be enumerated its massive bell tower, detached from the sacred edifice, on the S.E. of the chancel; and a rude building, to the west of the building, also detached, on the western front of which is the following inscription:

It is yet used as a bath, both by residents and strangers, the supply of water being very plentiful, and delightfully clear. The water rises under an arch of the Early English, or Early Decorated period. I shall be glad of any notes upon this, or similar baths, in any other churchyards.

W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A.

[This bath appears to have been formerly used as a baptistery, which in the early British churches was erected outside of the western entrance, where it continued until the sixth century, if not later (Bingham, book viii. c. vii.). Blomefield, in his History of Norfolk, vol. v. p. 1190. fol. 1775., has the following notices of this building: "At the west end of the churchyard are the ruins of a very ancient baptistery, over which was formerly a small chapel, dedicated to St. With burga. At the east end of the baptistery there is now remaining a curious old Gothic arch, from which runs a spring of clear water, formerly said to have had many medicinal and healing qualities. The fabulous account is, that this spring took its rise in the churchyard from the place where St. Withburga was first buried. In the year 1752 it was arched over, and converted into a

cold bath."

In the notices of the early churches of Cornwall, Wales, and Ireland, frequent mention is made of these baptisteries or holy wells, which we do not remember to have seen fully discussed in any work, and of which some account would be interesting alike to the divine, the topographer, and the antiquary. The learned Leland, in his Itinerary, iii. 30., in a description of Falmouth harbour, says, "there is a praty village or fishar town with a pere, cawlid S. Maws [Machutus], and there is a chapelle of hym, and his chaire of stone, and his welle." Again, speaking of the church of St. Germochus in Cornwall, he says, "it is. three miles from S. Michael's Mont by est south est, and a mile from the se; his tomb is yet seene ther. S. Germoke ther buried. S. Germoke's chair in the chirch-yard. S. Germoke's welle a little without the chirch-yard." (Itin. iii. 16.) Some further notices of these holy wells will be found in The Chronicles of the Ancient British Church, pp. 136-140.]

Replies.

COLLARS OF SS.

(Vol. iv., pp. 147. 236. 456.)

I communicate the following names and dates of the death, and in some instances bare notices of the monumental effigies, of bearers of the various collars of SS., which may be found in Bloxam's Monumental Architecture, Boutell's Monumental Brasses, Cotman's Sepulchral Brusses, Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, and Hollis's Monumental Effigies.

I trust that the excellent example set by G. J. R. G., in making known the existence of two of these collars on a tomb in his own neighbourhood will be extensively followed by the readers of "N. & Q."

1. An effigy on a tomb in Tanfield church, co.

York, commonly ascribed to Robert of Marmion, who probably died in the time of Henry III. or Edward I.

2. An effigy on a tomb in Gloucester cathedral, vulgarly called that of Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford, who died in 1367.

3. The effigy of William Wilcotes, in Northleigh church, co. Oxon, who died in 1411.

4. and 5. Sir Thomas Peryent and his wife, in Digswell church, co. Herts. He was esquire-atarms to Richard II., Henry IV. and V., and Master of the Horse to Joan of Navarre, 1415. 6. Sir William Calthorpe, in Burnham church, co. Norfolk, 1420.

7. Edwardus de la Hale, in Oakwood chapel, near Shene, in co. Surrey, died in 1421.

8. Sir Humphrey Stafford, at Bromsgrove, co. Worcester. He was slain by Cade, at SevenOaks, 28 Henry VI., 1450.

9. An effigy of a man, in plated armour, in Bakewell church, co. Derby.

10. An effigy of a woman at Dudley, co. Wor

cester.

11. An effigy of a man in Selby abbey, co. York. LLEWELLYN. Collar of SS. (Vol. iv., p. 147.).—In answer to the request of MR. E. Foss, respecting effigies having a collar of SS., I beg to inform you that in the church of St. Lawrence, Isle of Thanet, is a brass of Nicholas Manston, Esq., A.D. 1444, who wears the above decoration. Near St. Lawrence, is the hamlet of Manston, in which is an old farmhouse called Manston Court, attached to which are the ruins of a chapel.

Query: Who was Nicholas Manston? CANTOR.

ON THE FIRST, FINAL, AND SUPPRESSED VOLUME OF THE ONLY EXPURGATORY INDEX OF ROME.

(Vol. iv., p. 440.; Vol. v., p. 33.)

Receiving the "N. & Q." only in monthly parts, I was, till last week, unacquainted with the article of your correspondent U. U., from Baltimore. This ignorance, however, has been attended with the advantage of the very decisive information on the matter of inquiry by B. B., as far as the Bodleian Library, Oxford, is concerned. I am relieved

some cases fas est obrepere somnum. There was, however, and could be, no error as to the meaning of Brasichellen., of which Catalani, besides others, had given me information sufficiently correct in his De Magistro S. Pal.

These observations will not, however, satisfy the want of your transatlantic correspondent so completely as I trust I am enabled, and shall be much pleased to do; for I have likewise the celebrated counterfeit, of which I have given an ample account in my forecited volume; and the difference between it and the original is sensibly evident on a synoptical comparison. But other marks, where this is impracticable, may be adduced; and, in the title itself, without depending upon the minutiae of punctuation, and without any reference to the figures in the frontispiece, which are plainly not the same impression, in both copies, the last line, SVPERIORVM PERMISSV, which, in the genuine book measures 24 inches, in the counterfeit measures 2; therefore, shorter by. In the body of the work, in the counterfeit the letter-press occupies more space than the genuine. Taken at a venture (and a right-hand page is preferred, because the number of the page, and the catchword, come in one perpendicular line), I examined p. 163. The height in the genuine is 5 inches; in the counterfeit, 54; the increase, . The width of the page appears to be in proportion. In the preliminary matter of the genuine copy the De Correctione ends with the line, eos corrigere, atque purgare." The counterfeit varies. The last unnumbered page, indeed, the terminating line, of what is prefatory, is, "Palatio Apostolico anno salutis 1607." The counterfeit here likewise varies. I have another volume closely identical; of which, because it is far from common, I will give the title entire. It is well known, but not easily detected:

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FRANC. JO. MARIAM BRASICHELLEN,

larly the copy of the first, and Roman, Expurgatory of 1607; for the copy in my possession agrees exactly in title with that of the Bodleian. Of the genuineness of the latter, the proof is as demonstrative as anything historical can be. I have the same assurance of the genuineness of mine. It was in the possession of the celebrated and intelligent collector, J. G. Michiels, as his autograph, with the year 1755 attached, testifies. The title, as given in my Literary Policy, has indeed a trifling error in punctuation, whether my own or the printer's, but from simple oversight, as in

redactus,

Previously it may be as well to observe, that Stadt am Hof is a town bordering on the imperial city of Ratisbon, at or near the court, and Latinized Pedepons as being at the foot of the bridge over the Danube at that part. This book is evidently the identical counterfeit before described, with the mask cast aside by a new title-page, and newly printed prefatory matter, in consequence of a proposal fairly and literally to reprint the first genuine Roman edition. I will just mention one proof of the identity of this and the previous copy in the body of the book. It occurs in the last line of p. 239., where the word Iunij has a stroke, by fault of the type, immediately after the word, thus Iunij; and this is found in both. This is an accidental coincidence, not to be classed with the purposed retention of false spelling.

The Bergomi edition of 1608 is not in my possession; but I am well acquainted with it by actual inspection. My first sight of it was afforded by my friend the Rev. Richard Gibbings, who has published a new edition of it, with an elaborate and very finished preface, in 1837.* I have likewise seen it at Mr. Pickering's, a copy which I presume came from the dispersed library of the late Rev. H. F. Lyte. That in the Bodleian I did not feel it necessary to examine. I do, however, possess, though not the original, a very correct, as appears, fac-simile of that volume, whether it was intended as a counterfeit or not. The title, without any addition, agrees exactly with that of the original, as given by your Oxford correspondent. I conclude it to be not the original, from a distinct recollection that the engraving on the title-page there is more rude and broken than in my copy; and, in the body of the work, some parts do not perfectly agree with Mr. Gibbings's reprint, not in the contents of the pages, in some instances in the middle portion, and in the frequent substitution of the m and n for the superscript bar, signifying one or other of those letters. My copy likewise is bound together in vellum, with the Notitia Ind. Lib. Expurg. of Zobelius, Altorfii, 1745. And, by the bye, I should like to know whether, and where, there is another copy of that treatise of eighty pages in England?

I am happy in the present opportunity of recommending to the attention of such students as U. U. in the New World, a work of so much real value and interest as Mr. Gibbings's edition of the Bergomi edition of the Brasichellian Index; and flatter myself that, by their aid and example, an end will be put in the mother country to the incorrigible though simple practice of calling every catalogue of condemned books expurgatory, when the accuracy of the title, as far as Rome is concerned, hangs upon the single thread of one

Copies may be had at Mr. Petheram's, 94. High Holborn, London.

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DR. RIMBAULT, in his Note "On the First Paper-Mill in England," after alluding to the errors of various writers on the subject, adds, "In Bartholomeus de Proprietatibus Rerum, printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495, mention is made of a paper-mill near Stevenage, in the county of Hertford, belonging to John Tate the younger, which was undoubtedly the mylne' visited by Henry VII." Now this statement itself needs correction. The English translation of the work of Bartholomeus (De Glanvilla) informs us merely of the fact of John Tate the younger having lately in England made the paper which was used for the printing of this book. The lines, which occur at the end of the volume, are as follows: "And also of your charyte call to remembraunce

The soule of William Caxton, first prynter of this boke In Laten tonge at Coleyn [Cologne] hysself to

avaunce,

That every well-disposed man may theron loke : And JOHN TATE the younger joye mote [may] he broke,

Which late hathe in Englond doo make this paper thynne,

That now in our Englysshe this boke is printed inne."

A rare poem, an early specimen of blank verse, entitled A Tale of Two Swannes, written by William Vallans (who was, I believe, a native of Ware), and printed in 1590, supplies us with the information that the mill belonging to John Tate was situated at Hertford. One of the notes in the poem states that, "in the time of Henry VIII., viz. 1507, there was a paper-mill at Hertford, and belonged to John Tate, whose father was Mayor of London." The author, however, is here mistaken in his chronology, as Henry VIII. did not begin to reign till 1509. The extract from the privy purse expenses of Henry VII., under the date of May 25, 1498,"for a rewarde geven at the Paper Mylne, 165 84," most clearly has reference to this particular mill, as the entry immediately preceding shows that the king went to

York, commonly ascribed to Robert of Marmion, who probably died in the time of Henry III. or Edward I.

2. An effigy on a tomb in Gloucester cathedral, vulgarly called that of Humphrey Bohun, Earl of Hereford, who died in 1367.

3. The effigy of William Wilcotes, in Northleigh church, co. Oxon, who died in 1411.

some cases fas est obrepere somnum. There was, however, and could be, no error as to the meaning of Brasichellen., of which Catalani, besides others, had given me information sufficiently correct in his De Magistro S. Pal.

7. Edwardus de la Hale, in Oakwood chapel, near Shene, in co. Surrey, died in 1421.

8. Sir Humphrey Stafford, at Bromsgrove, co. Worcester. He was slain by Cade, at SevenOaks, 28 Henry VI., 1450.

9. An effigy of a man, in plated armour, in Bakewell church, co. Derby.

10. An effigy of a woman at Dudley, co. Wor

cester.

11. An effigy of a man in Selby abbey, co. York. LLEWELLYN.

Collar of SS. (Vol. iv., p. 147.).—In answer to the request of MR. E. Foss, respecting effigies having a collar of SS., I beg to inform you that in the church of St. Lawrence, Isle of Thanet, is a brass of Nicholas Manston, Esq., A.D. 1444, who wears the above decoration. Near St. Lawrence, is the hamlet of Manston, in which is an old farmhouse called Manston Court, attached to which are the ruins of a chapel.

Query: Who was Nicholas Manston ? CANTOR.

ON THE FIRST, FINAL, AND SUPPRESSED VOLUME OF THE ONLY EXPURGATORY INDEX OF ROME.

(Vol. iv., p. 440.; Vol. v., p. 33.)

Receiving the "N. & Q." only in monthly parts, I was, till last week, unacquainted with the article of your correspondent U. U., from Baltimore. This ignorance, however, has been attended with the advantage of the very decisive information on the matter of inquiry by B. B., as far as the Bodleian Library, Oxford, is concerned. I am relieved by it from the necessity of describing more particularly the copy of the first, and Roman, Expurgatory of 1607; for the copy in my possession agrees exactly in title with that of the Bodleian. Of the genuineness of the latter, the proof is as demonstrative as anything historical can be. I have the same assurance of the genuineness of mine. It was in the possession of the celebrated and intelligent collector, J. G. Michiels, as his autograph, with the year 1755 attached, testifies. The title, as given in my Literary Policy, has indeed a trifling error in punctuation, whether my own or the printer's, but from simple oversight, as in

account in my forecited volume; and the difference between it and the original is sensibly evident on a synoptical comparison. But other marks, where this is impracticable, may be adduced; and, in the title itself, without depending upon the minutia of punctuation, and without any reference to the figures in the frontispiece, which are plainly not the same impression, in both copies, the last line, SVPERIORVM PERMISSV, which, in the genuine book measures 2 inches, in the counterfeit measures 24; therefore, shorter by. In the body of the work, in the counterfeit the letter-press occupies more space than the genuine. Taken at a venture (and a right-hand page is preferred, because the number of the page, and the catchword, come in one perpendicular line), I examined p. 163. The height in the genuine is 5 inches; in the counterfeit, 54; the increase, . The width of the page appears to be in proportion. In the preliminary matter of the genuine copy the De Correctione ends with the line, eos corrigere, atque purgare." The counterfeit varies. The last unnumbered page, indeed, the terminating line, of what is prefatory, is, "Palatio Apostolico anno salutis 1607." The counterfeit here likewise varies. I have another volume closely identical; of which, because it is far from common, I will give the title entire. It is well known, but not easily detected:

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