Rationes,' of which an edition was published 15. The reformed protestant, by John Brereley, in 1606. 3. The converted Jew. 1630.-Published in the name of John Clare, but, according to Mr. Gillow, not written by him. 4. The English nunne: being a treatise, wherein (by way of dialogue) the author endeavoureth to draw young and unmarried Catholike gentlewomen to imbrace a votary, and religious life; written by N. N.; hereunto is annexed a short discourse to the abbesses and religious women of all the English monasteries in the Low Countreys and France. 1642. 5. Keepe your text. 6. The life of Luther, collected from the writings of himselfe and other learned Protestants; together with a further discourse touching Melancton, Bucer, Ochine, Calvine, Beza, &c., the late pretended reformers of religion, by John Brereley, priest. 1610.-Another edition was issued at St. Omers in 1624. 7. Luther's Alcoran. 8. The lyturgie of the Masse, concerning the sacrifice, real presence, and service in Latin. [1610 ?]—Another edition was printed at Colen, 1620. 9. Maria Triumphans: being a discourse, wherein, by way of dialogue (between Mariadulus and Mariamastix), the B. Virgin Mary, Mother of God, is defended and vindicated from all such dishonours and indignities with which the precisians of these our dayes are accustomed unjustly to charge her. [Dedication signed N. N.] 1635. 10. Miscellanea, by N. N., P. [i.e., John Brereley, Priest]. 1625. This was printed by Roger Anderton at the secret press at Birchley Hall. 11. One God, one faith. 16. 17. 18. priest. [Before 1624.]-Printed at one of the secret presses at Lostock or Birchley. Sainct Austines religion, collected from his owne writinges and from the confessions of the learned protestants; whereby is sufficiently proved and made knowen, the like answerable doctrine of the other more auncient fathers of the primitive church; written by John Brereley. 1620. The triple cord; or, A treatise proving the truth of the Roman religion, by sacred scriptures, taken in the literall sense, expounded by ancient fathers, interpreted by protestant writers; with a discovery of sundry subtill sleights used by protestants, for evading the force of strongest arguments, taken from the cleerest texts of the foresaid scriptures. If a man prevayle agaynst one, two resist him: a triple cord is hardly broken, 1634.-Reprinted in 1651. Virginalia; or, Spiritual sonnets in prayse of the most glorious Virgin Marie, upon everie severall title of her Litanies of Lareto; all or most part of the principall passages therein confirmed by the evident testimonies of the ancient fathers, to prevent the objections of such as usually detract from her deserved prayses, by I. B. Printed with license. 1632.-Only one copy of this book is known to exist. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L. THE LITERARY FRAUDS OF HENRY 12. The progenie of catholiks and protestants. Roven, 1632.-Second edition, 1634; third 11. edition, 1663. 13. The Protestants apologie for the Roman church, divided into three severall tractes, wherof the first concerneth the antiquity & continuance of the Roman church & religion, ever since the Apostles times; that the Protestants religion was not so much as in being, at, or before Luthers first appearing; the second, that the marks of the true church are apperteyning to the Roman, and wholy wanting to the severall churches, begun by Luther & Calvin; the third, that Catholicks are no lesse loyall, and dutifull to their soveraigne, than Protestants; all which is undertaken, & proved by testimonies of the learned Protestants themselves, with a conclusion to the reverend judges, and other the grave and learned sages of the law, by John Brereley, Priest, &c. The first edition was probably printed at the Andertons' secret press at Lostock in 1604, before the author became a Jesuit. A second edition was issued in 1608, and a translation into Latin was made by William Reyner in 1615. 14. Rawleigh, his ghost; or, a feigned apparition of Sir Walter Rawleigh; translated by A. B. 1631. HUBERT Languet. WALKER's translation of this book-or rather his publication of the translation of it in 1648 (1 March), since I am positive he understood neither French nor Latin-was discussed in N. & Q.,' 11 S. vi. 452, in an 'Charles I.'s Executioner,' by article on the present writer. Tracts by Sir Roger L'Estrange assure us that the editions both of this book and of the Conference about the Next Succession to the Crown,' which were published in 1680 and 1681 respectively, were then reAssociators printed by Sidney and the in order to help on their plots, first to murder Charles II. and secondly to exclude James II. Algernon Sidney was the great-nephew of the celebrated Sir Philip Sidney, who was one of Languet's friends. Probably, therefore, Algernon Sidney is the member of Parliament alluded to in the Presbyterian Ministers' Vindication as having placed this book in Walker's hands. In 1912 Mr. W. A. Bradley edited and published the Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney with Hubert Languet.' 12. 66 A COLLECTION OF SEVERAL PASSAGES CONCERNING HIS LATE HIGHNESSE, OLIVER CROMWELL, IN THE TIME OF HIS SICKNESS. ....WRITTEN BY ONE THAT WAS THEN GROOM OF HIS BED-CHAMBER. This tract is of considerable importance, because it has been the sole source of the descriptions of Cromwell's death by all his modern biographers, Thomas Carlyle was the first to quote it at length, ascribing it to Charles Harvey; and Carlyle's work (now very much damaged and discredited) was at first unquestioningly accepted by the historian Samuel Rawson Gardiner. Lord Morley, Lord Rosebery, and many minor writers have naturally accepted a tract which came to them on such authority, and have drawn heavily upon this pamphlet. Everywhere this document is to be found credited to Charles Harvey-in the British Museum as in other libraries; and it never seems to have dawned upon any one that it was a work of fiction, written with a very definite political motive, at a time of political crisis, and that there exists no evidence whatever justifying its ascription to Charles Harvey. "This bearer [of the letter], Mr. Underwood, is a very sober gentleman, was of the bed-chamber to his late highness and attended him in all his sickness, and can give your excellency a full account of all that past in this sadd occasion."— 'Thurloe State Papers,' vii. 374. said for Lingard's view that Underwood There was, therefore, everything to be wrote the tract, while there was not a shadow of justification for that of Carlyle attributing it to Harvey. author's the after the year 1648, up to 1660, in the case But, as I have repeatedly shown, in and of Robert Ibbitson appears as publisher, of every tract or book upon which the name without the express mention of any other writer of the tract in question. I made the name, Henry Walker was assertion after repeatedly inspecting all the documents known to have been printed by Ibbitson (many hundreds in number), and after weighing and noting all the evidence available. One result of this inspection has been this present list of literary frauds by What, therefore, were Carlyle's reasons for Walker. the attribution to Harvey? The following passage in the Journal' of George Fox, the Quaker, is the answer. Fox states of Harvey as follows: "Hee [Cromwell] was then [at Hampton Court, a month before he died] very sicke, and Harvey told mee, which was on [sic] of his men yt waited upon him, yt ye Doctors was not willinge I should come in to speake with him." 66 Fox several times alludes to Harvey as either a Quaker or well disposed to Quakers, but this is the only clue he gives to Harvey's cccupation. The passage does not justify the assumption that Harvey was groom of the bed-chamber "; though I suspect that " groom of the bed-chamber" would be best rendered nowadays by "gentleman in waiting. Moreover, the ract I am describing conta'ns a very bitter attack upon the Quakers (which I set out below), and thus is in itself evidence that Harvey had nothing to do with it. Charles Harvey appears also rs the writer of a letter among the State Papers (Cal. S.P. Dom. 1654,' p. 33), and I At 11 S. iv. 262 I first attributed the tract I am now discussing to Walker and gave my evidence, both showing the origin of the tract and proving that the date of its entry in the Stationers' Registers was 7 June, 1659, nine months after Cromwell's death, and a few days after his monument in Westminster Abbey had been destroyed by order of the Rump. It was this part cular act which caused the conspicuous insertion of the bogus "Prayer in the tract. And at 11 S. iii. 342 I gave an original and much different prayer, which may probably be genuine, since there is a known witness to its accuracy in Butler, one of Cromwell's " Major-Generals." No one has yet disputed my facts, and therefore I propose now merely to add some slight corroboration of my ascription of this tract to Walker. The title-page of the tract has an unimportant variation in a second edition, preceded by a portrait of Cromwell (copy at the British Museum), but I think the example in the Thomason Collection is the first edition, because Thomason has dated it "9 June." Its title-page runs as follows: 6 c. 1675, when Robert Johnson advertises from there offering a reward for the recovery of plate stolen from "Mrs. Gwin's [Nell A Collection of several passages concerning Gwynne] in Pell Mell" (Price, The Signs of his late highness Oliver Cromwell in the time of the Strand,' p. 20). We may assume that his sickness. Wherein is related many of his ex- the "Heathcock," deprived of its courtyard, pressions upon his deathbed. Together with his was then only a tavern or a tradesman's Prayer within two or three dayes before his death. Written by one that was then Groom of his bed-warehouse and residence, occupied by those London. who sought the custom of the frequenters of chamber. Entred according to Order. Printed for Robert Ibbitson, dwelling in Smith- the New Exchange opposite. field neer Hosier Lane end. 1659." 66 From October, 1655, to September, 1657, Menassah ben Israel stayed here, probably as a guest of De Oliveyra, a Portuguese and crypto-Jew. Mr. Lucien Wolf (Transactions of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Society) points out that Menassah dates his Declaration from over against the New Exchange"; but research in the rate-books, while identifying De Oliveyra, leaves the location of his house undefined between Nos. 413 and 418. Mr. Wolf seems to incline to No. 413, but leaves the matter open. The style of the buildings recently demolished belonged to the commencement, not the middle, of the seventeenth century. We may suppose, therefore, that on their erection the sign previously described was provided or re-erected as a place identification. There is every probability that the inn was of much earlier date, possibly the early fifteenth century, and there was occasion for it amidst the palaces of the Strand-much as "The Red Lion Inn" in Fleet Street served as a supplementary place of entertainment to the palaces of the bishops. ALECK ABRAHAMS. BRITISH ISLES. Obviously the two houses formed one building, with a large entrance gate or doorway, and the passage or road leading STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE to the outbuildings and stables ultimately opened into Maiden Lane. The fine eave cornice was common to both buildings; but, although the triangular and circular pediments above the windows remained on No. 413, they had been removed from No. 414, and the sashes entirely replaced. Another difference was the removal from the latter of two pilasters running the whole height of the building. The principal feature illustrating the position of the main entrance was a handsome shell canopy supporting a heathcock, which stood above the entrance of the court or passage-way until July, 1844 (Wheatley and Cunningham, ii. 201). This sign gave its name to the court, which was known as Heathcock Alley (See 10 S. xi. 441; xii. 51, 114, 181, 401; 11 S. i. 282; ii. 42, 381; iii. 22, 222, 421; iv. 181, 361; v. 62, 143, 481; vi. 4, 284, 343; vii. 64, 144, 175, 263, 343, 442; viii. 4, 82, 183, 285, 382, 444; ix. 65, 164, 384, 464; x. 103, 226, 303, 405.) MARTYRS (continued). PEKE, KERBY, &C. Ipswich.-On 16 Dec., 1903, the Dean of Canterbury (Dr. Wace) unveiled a memorial to the Ipswich martyrs which had been erected in Christchurch Park. It consists of a cube-shaped pedestal from which rises a graceful shaft surmounted by a pinnacle. LAURENCE SAUNDERS AND OTHERS. Coventry.-A Runic cross erected to the memory of the Coventry martyrs was erected in the Square, Quinton Road, in 1910, and unveiled by the Mayor (Alderman W. Lee) on 15 Sept. It stands 20 ft. high, and is executed in silver-grey Cornish granite. On the front of the base are inserted gun-metal representations of a laurel wreath and the Coventry arms. The back and sides contain the following inscriptions:: Near this spot eleven persons, whose names are subjoined, suffered death for conscience' sake, in the reigns of King Henry VIII. and Queen Mary, namely: Ward. In 1510, John On April 4th, 1519, Mistress Landsdail (or Smith); Thomas Landsdail, hosier; Master Hawkins, skinner; Master Wrigsham, glover; Master Hochett, shoemaker; Master Bond, shoemaker. In January, 1521, Robert Selkeb (or Skilsby). On February 8th, 1555, Laurence Saunders. On September 20th, 1555, Robert Glover and Cornelius Bongey. in the Little Park, the same place where the It is recorded that the Martyrs were burned Lollards suffered. The Martyrs' Field (now built upon) was situated 200 yards from this spot in an easterly direction. Welcome, the Cross of Christ; welcome, Laurence Saunders' last words. Everlasting Life! This memorial was erected by public subscription in the year 1910: William Lee, Mayor. JAMES CHALMERS. Ardrishaig, Argyllshire, N.B.—A column erected near the beach of Loch Fyne to the memory of the Rev. James Chalmers, the martyred missionary, was unveiled by Sir Donald MacAlister, Principal of Glasgow University, on 14 May, 1912. Chalmers was the son of a stonemason, and born in the village of Ardrishaig. I shall be glad to obtain a copy of the inscription on the memorial. Quetta, India.-A font was presented to the Cathedral in memory of James Chalmers, by friends, in 1902. It bears the following inscription: To the Glory of God and in memory of the Rev: James Chalmers (Tamate) of the London Missionary Society who together with the Rev: 0. F. Tomkins was killed by the natives of Goarabari, British New Guinea, on the 8th April 1901, after a life of devoted service. Erected by his friends at Thursday Island, October 1902. Dirick Carver of Brighton Thomas Harland and John Oswald, Thomas Myles of Hellingly Dates of About “GAZING-ROOM."-In the survey of Winchester House, the palace in Southwark of the Bishops of Winchester, made by direction of the Parliamentary Commissioners in 1647, occurs this passage: "On the North side of the said Inner Court is a Passage leading into the Celler with a paire of Stone Staires turning Eastward and leading up into the great Hall, the great Dyning room, and another room called the Gazinge-room reaching to the East end of the Pallace, all on a flower [floor], which Hall, Dyninge room and Gazing room are covered with Lead, and all vaulted underneath, and on the Southeast side of those rooms is another dining room, and divers other fine lodgings, all on a flower." 66 Gazing-room" is not to be found in the Oxford' or in the Century' Dictionary. The term, therefore, must be unusual. It seems to suggest a room commanding a good view, and, from its situation as described in the survey, a window opening northward would have faced the Thames and London Bridge a little to the right. One looking east would have given a full view of St. Mary Overies, separated only from the Winchester manor by a wharf belonging to the Bishop; and, supposing the gazing-room to have occupied the whole width of the east end of the palace, the window southward would have overlooked the garden, which was noted as one of the finest in London and its suburbs. This beautiful mansion, which had been embellished by Bishop Montague in 1616, was pulled down after its sale in 1649; and after the Restoration the Bishops of Winchester had their London house at Chelsea. C. DEEDES. "TILL."-The 'N.E.D.' defines this word as a small box or casket within a larger one, June 6, 1556 and says that the word is obsolete except in the special sense of a box or drawer for cash in a shop or bank. The earliest quotation :: June 20, 1556 is (1452) in Munimenta Academica: "positis in le tylle' in studio meo. The origin is stated to be obscure. The fact that till is the name of the small locker or cupboard at the end of a punt is ignored. The late Royal Academician G. D. Leslie, in Our River' (p. 44), after describing a punt in which there were no hinges, says: The little door in the till merely takes out of its hole "; and this word till is not obsolete, and is not confined to the upper reaches of the Thames, for I heard a Teddington man use it recently. Stevens, both of Warbleton Alexander Hosman, William Mainard and Thomasina Wood, all of Mayfield Margery Morris and James Morris Mary Groves, of Lewes June 22,1557 And they overcame, because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death."-Rev. xii. 11 (R.V.). JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire. (To be continued.) 6 If till, the locker for cash, is the same word as till, a punt's locker-and I assume it isthe derivation from the French seems to be clear. Littré has the word tille, formerly a little bridge or cover at the stern of an |