Notes and Queries, Number 226, February 25, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 226, February 25, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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_Lives of English Bishops: Bishop Burnet._--I should be glad to know who is
the author of _The Lives of the English Bishops, from the Restauration to
the Revolution_; Fit to be opposed to the Aspersions of some late Writers
of Secret History: London, printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown
in St. Paul's Churchyard, MDCCXXXI? The name of "Nath. Salmon, LL.B. CCCC,"
is written on the title-page; but it does not appear whether this is
intended to indicate the author, or merely a former possessor of the copy
now lying before me. From this work, in which Burnet, Kennett, and others
are very severely criticised, I send a curious extract relating to Burnet:
"He puts me in mind of a petty canon of Exeter, to whom he used
military force upon refusal to alter the prayers at his command until
he should receive the proper instructions. He brought a file of
musqueteers upon him, and crammed his amendments down his throat. This
man, in a journey to London, visited the musical part of the Church of
Salisbury, and was as usual asked to sing an anthem at evening service.
He was a lover of humour, and singing the 137th Psalm, threw out his
right hand towards the bishop's stall, and with great emphasis
pronounced the words, 'If I forget thee--if I forget thee,' repeating
it so often that the whole congregation inquired after the meaning of
it. It was from that time ordered that no strange songster should come
up more."--P. 229.
E. H. A.
[This work was written by Nathaniel Salmon, who was deprived of his
curacy for being a Nonjuror. He afterwards settled as a physician at
Bishop-Stortford in Hertfordshire, where he died in 1742. See a notice
of him, and his other works, in Bowyer's _Anecdotes_, p. 638.]
_Eden Pedigree and Arms._--I find in Gough Nicholl's _Topographer and
Genealogist_, vol. i. p. 173., mention of a monument in All Saints' Church,
Sudbury, to one of the Eden family; and a pedigree painted on the east wall
of Eden, much defaced, with numerous arms, date 1615. Would any of your
correspondents kindly give me particulars of this monument, pedigree, and
arms?
ELFFIN AP GWYDDNO.
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