_Prior's Posthumous Works._--Among the curiosities collected by the Duchess of Portland, was a volume containing some prose treatises in MS. of the poet Prior. Forbes, in his _Life of Beattie_ (Vol. ii. p. 160.), speaking of this interesting volume, says:-- "Her Grace was so good as to let me read them, and I read them with great pleasure. One of them, a dialogue between Locke and Montaigne, is all admirable piece of ridicule on the subject of Locke's philosophy." Have these treatises since been printed? And where now is Prior's original MS.? EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. _Suppressed Chantries._--Does there exist (and if so, where is it to be found) a list of the 2374 chantries suppressed by 37 Henry VIII. and 1 Edward VI.? IGNOBUS. * * * * * REPLIES. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL QUERIES BY R.G. (Vol. ii., p. 422.). _Pagnini's Bible._--I have before me a 12mo. copy of _Liber Psalmorum Davidis. Tralatio Duplex Vetus et Nova_. It contains also the Songs of Moses, Deborah, etc., with annotations. In the title-page, the new translation is said to be that of Pagnini. It was printed by Robert Stephens, and is dated on the title-page "1556," and in the colophon "1557, cal. Jan." In this edition, both the old and new versions have the _verses distinguished by cyphers_ (numerals). I have not the means of knowing whether, in the earlier editions of Pagnini's Bible, the verses are so distinguished; but I gather from R.G. that they are. The writer of the article "BIBLE" in Rees's _Cyclopaedia_, says that R. Stephens reprinted Pagnini's Bible in folio, with the Vulgate, in 1557. And it appears, from my copy of the Psalms of David, that he also printed that part of Pagnini's Bible in 12mo. in the same year, 1557--the colophon probably containing the correct date. Your pages have recommended that communications should be made of MS. notes and remarks found in fly-leaves, margins, etc. of printed books; and the above is written, partly in confirmation of Pagnini's title to the honour of distinguishing the verses of the Bible with cyphers, as suggested by R.G., but chiefly to note that there is written with a pen, in my copy, the word "Vetus" over the column which contains the old, or Vulgate, and the words "Pagnini _sive_ Ariae Montani" over the column containing the new version of the first psalm. The writer in Rees's _Cyclopaedia_, above referred to, says, that "in the number of Latin Bibles is also usually ranked the version of the same Pagninus, corrected, or rather rendered literal by {25} Arias Montanus." But in the title-page of my copy Montanus is not mentioned. My copy belonged to Jo. Sheldrake (who was he?) in 1663; to D. Hughes, of Queen's College, Cambridge, in 1761; and to E. Tymewell Bridges (as the family name was then spelled) in 1777. The latter was a brother of the late Sir S. Egerton Br_y_dges. But the MS. note above mentioned does not seem to be in the handwriting of either of them.