[Accepted Frewen, Archbishop of York, was the eldest son of John Frewen, "the puritanical Rector of Northiam," as Wood calls him, and indeed his name carries a symbol of his father's sanctity. Wood has given a few particulars of John, who, he says, "was a learned divine, and frequent preacher of the time, and wrote, 1. _Fruitful Instructions and Necessary Doctrine, to edify in the Fear of God, &c_., 1587. 2. _Fruitful Instructions for the General Cause of Reformation, against the Slanders of the Pope and League, &c_., 1589. 3. _Certain Choice Grounds and Principles of our Christian Religion, with their several Expositions, by Way of Questions and Answers, &c_., 1621, and other things. He died in 1627 (about the latter end), and was buried in Northiam Church, leaving then behind these sons, viz. Accepted, Thankful, Stephen, Joseph, Benjamin, Thomas, Samuel, John, &c., which John seems to have succeeded his father in the Rectory of Northiam; but whether the said father was educated at Oxford, I cannot tell."] _Histories of Literature_.--Can any correspondent inform me of the best, or one or two principal Histories of Literature, published in the English language, with the names of the author and publisher; as well as, if possible, the size and price? ILMONASTERIENSIS. [Our correspondent cannot do better than procure Hallam's _Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries_, 3 vols. 8vo. (36s.). He may also consult with advantage Dr. Maitland's _Dark Ages_, which illustrates the state of religion and literature from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, 8vo., 12s. and Berrington's _Literary History of the Middle Ages_, 3s. 6d.] "_Mrs. Shaw's Tombstone_."--In Leigh's _Observations_ (London, 1660) are several quotations from a work entitled _Mrs. Shaw's Tombstone_. Where may a copy of this be seen? R. C. WARDE. Kidderminster. [Mrs. Dorothy Shaw's _Tombstone, or the Saint's Remains_, 1658, may be seen in the British Museum, Press-mark, 1418. i. 41.] * * * * * Replies. CRANMER AND CALVIN. (Vol. viii., p. 182.) A correspondent who seems to delight in sibilants, signing, himself S. Z. Z. S., invites me to "_preserve_, in your columns, the letter of Calvin to Cranmer, of which Dean Jenkyns has only given extracts," as noticed by me in your Vol. vii., p. 621. I would not shrink from the trouble of transcribing the whole letter, if a complete copy were only to be found in the short-lived columns of a newspaper, as inserted in the _Record_ of May 15, 1843, by Merle d'Aubigne; but the Dean has given a reference to the volume in which both the letters he cites are preserved and accessible, viz. _Calvin Epistles_, pp. 134, 135., Genev. 1616. {223}