Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 — John Shaqi
Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850Various
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Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
Various
Questions and answers -- Periodicals
In "A Catalogue of MSS. (once) at Gidding," Peckard, p. 306., the third
article is "Lives, Characters, Histories, and Tales for moral and
religious Instruction, in five volumes folio, neatly bound and gilt, by
Mary Collet." This work, with five others, "undoubtedly were all written
by N. Ferrar, Sen.," says Dr. Peckard; and in the Memoir, at page 191.,
he gives a list of these "short histories," ninety-eight in number,
"which are still remaining in my possession;" and adds further, at p.
194.,
"These lives, characters, and moral essays would, I think, fill
two or three volumes in 8vo., but _they are written in so
minute_ a character, that I cannot form any conjecture to be
depended upon."
I have been thus particular in describing these "histories", because the
subjects of them are identical with those in Fuller's _Holy and Profane
State_, the first edition of which was published at Cambridge, in 1642.
"The characters I have conformed," says Fuller in his Preface, "to the
then standing laws of the realm (a twelvemonth ago were they sent to the
press), since which time the wisdom of the King and state hath" altered
many things. Nicholas Ferrar died December 2, 1637, and the Query I wish
to ask is, Did Fuller compose them (for that he was really the author of
them can hardly be doubted) at the suggestion and for the benefit of the
community at Gidding, some years before he published them; and is it
possible to ascertain and determine if the MS. is in the handwriting of
Ferrar or Fuller?
Is there any print or view in existence of the "Nunnery," at Little
Gidding?
In the _Life of Dr. Thomas Fuller_, published anonymously in 1661, it is
stated, that at his funeral a customary sermon was preached by Dr.
Hardy, Dean of Rochester, "which hath not yet (though it is hoped and
much desired may) passe the presse," p. 63.
Query. Was this sermon ever published? and secondly, who was the author
of the _Life_ from which the above passage is quoted?
John Miland.
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STUKELEY'S "STONEHENGE."
May I request a space in your periodical for the following Queries,
drawn from Dr. Stukeley's _Stonehenge and Abury_, p. 31.?
1st. "But eternally to be lamented is the loss of that tablet of
tin, which was found at this place (Stonehenge) in the time of
King Henry VIII., inscribed with many letters, but in so strange
a character that neither Sir Thomas Elliott, a learned
antiquary, nor Mr. Lilly, master of St. Paul's school, could
make any thing out of it. Mr. Sammes may be right, who judges it
to have been _Punic_. I imagine if we call it Irish we shall not
err much. No doubt but what it was a memorial of the founders,
wrote by the Druids and had it been preserved till now, would
have been an invaluable curiosity."
Can you or any of your contributors give me any further information
about this inscription?
2. The Doctor continues,
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