Notes and Queries, Number 242, June 17, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 242, June 17, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 242, June 17, 1854: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Questions and answers -- Periodicals
_Sacheverell's and Charles Lamb's Residences in the Temple._--In which
house in Crown Office Row, Temple, was Charles Lamb born? and which were
the chambers occupied by Dr. Sacheverell, also in the Temple, at the time
of the riots caused by his admirers?
AN ADMIRER OF YOUR PUBLICATION.
_Braddock and Orme._--Can you, or any of your correspondents, furnish me
(in reply to an inquiry made of me by the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania) with any information about the families of Braddock and Orme,
in relation to General Braddock, who commanded and was killed at the battle
of the Monongahela river; and to Orme, who, with Washington and Morris,
were his aides-de-camp in the melancholy and fatal engagement.
F. O. MORRIS.
Nunburnholme Rectory, York.
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Minor Queries with Answers.
_Cromwell's Bible._--I have seen it stated that an edition of the Bible,
"printed by John Field, one of his Highness's Printers, 1658," in 12mo.,
London, was printed by order of Cromwell for distribution to his soldiers.
Can any of your correspondents furnish authority for such tradition? It is
one of the most incorrectly printed books which I ever met with. In
Cotton's list I do not find this edition: he has one in 8vo., 1657,
Cambridge, J. Field.
W. C. TREVELYAN.
[George Offor, Esq., of Hackney, has kindly favoured us with a reply to
this and the following Query: "Eighteen different editions of the
Bible, printed by John Field, are in my collection, published between
the years 1648 and 1666. In some of these he is described as printer to
the University of Cambridge, in others as 'One of His Highness's
Printers;' but in those which _tradition_ says were published for the
army, he is called 'Printer to the Parliament.' They are all as
correctly printed as Bibles were generally published during that time,
excepting that by Giles Calvert the Quaker, published in 1653, which is
singularly correct and beautiful. Field's editions being remarkable for
beauty of typography and smallness, have been much examined, and many
errors detected. That of 1653 is the most beautiful and called genuine,
and is the copy said to have been printed for the use of the army and
navy. Of this I have five different editions, all agreeing in the error
in Matthew, ch. vi. v. 24., 'Ye cannot serve and mammon;' and in having
the first four psalms on one page. But in some the following errors are
corrected, 1 Cor. vi. v. 9., 'The unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom
of God;' Rom. ch. vi. v. 13., 'Neither yield ye your members as
instruments of righteousness unto sin.' The copy of 1658, which SIR. W.
C. TREVELYAN describes, is a counterfeit of the genuine edition of
1653, vulgarly called 'The Bastard Field's Bible.' These were reprinted
many times. I possess four different editions of it, so exactly alike
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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