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There is an 'almost similar instance in the immediate neighbourhood, now the subject of correspondence between the Islington Borough Council and the Postmaster-General. On a disused burial - ground at Islington Green a stable had been built prior to 1884. At a later date the Post-Office officials occu- pied another part of the ground with wooden buildings, so that two-thirds of it is now covered. It is claimed they are not amen- able to the Acts of 1884 and 1887 preserving these grounds, and, except consideration for the wishes of the Council, there is nothing to prevent the whole space being hidden beneath permanent buildings. Vide Islinr/ton Gazette, 15 February. ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillrnarton Road.

"A SHOULDER OF MUTTON BROUGHT HOME FROM FRANCE" (10 th S. ii. 48, 158, 236, 292, 374 ; iii. 255). In ' A Christmas Carol,' by George Wither, occurs :

The country folk themselves advance, For Crowdy-mutton 's come out of France, And Jack shall pipe and Jill shall dance, And all the town be merry.

The 'N E D.'does not give 'Crowdy-mutton,' but defines ' Crowdie' as a kind of broth or porridge, and gives examples of other com- pounds ' Crowdie-time' (Burns).

H. K. ST. J. S.

BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH, 1660 (10 th "S. iii. 89, 116). A facsimile reproduction of a Baptist Confession of Faitli printed in the year 1651 was executed some twenty five .years ago under the personal supervision of iy friend the late Mr. John Taylor, of Northampton. It was issued in pamphlet form in 1901, a short time after his death. I do not anticipate that this is the confession MR. BRADLEY asks for ; but possibly he may like to know of it. The only original copy yet discovered is bound at the end of a book by Capt. Robert Everard, bearing title 'The Creation and Fall of the First Adam Reviewed,' <fcc. This book is in the possession of the Chilwell College Library, Nottingham. The full title of the confession is :

"The | Faith | and | Practise | Of Thirty | Con- gregations, | Gathered according to the | Primitive Pattern. | Published (in love) by consent of two from I each Congregation, appointed for that pur- pose. | 1. To inform those who have a desire to know what | Religious Duties they hold forth. | 2. To undeceive those that are mis-informed there- of. | 3. To the end the said Congregations may in love, | and the spirit of Meekness, be informed

by any | that conceive they walk amiss. | |

Rom. 12. 18. If it be possible, as much 0,1 in >/ou is,


 * have Peace with all men. \ [ London, Printed

.by /. M. for Will. Larnar, \ at the Blackmore neer Fleet-bridge, 16-31."

Its pagination is viii, 30, the first part being taken up with the address to the reader, followed by " The names of the Sub- scribers, with the places of their Meetings," which are included in the counties of Rutland, Warwick, Northampton, Lincoln, Leicester, Huntingdon, Oxford, and Bedford. The confession itself consists of seventy-five clauses and a postscript.

For the benefit of those interested in this subject I copy the following sentence from the " Introduction " to the reprint :

"This early local confession was to be the chief of an exhaustive collection of Confessions of Faith from all parts of the world, and was to be the basis for biographies of the signatories, and his- tories of the churches they represented. In pursuit of these objects, Mr. Taylor, disregarding expense and trouble, ransacked public and private libraries in both hemispheres. The mass of information collected during a period approaching forty years is so great, that though nearly one hundred pages are in type, it is to be feared that no one will be found with the ability and leisure to prepare the remainder for publication. It has, therefore, been decided to issue ' The Faith and Practise ' without addition, in the hope that at some time in the future a worthy student of Nonconformist history will arise to complete the work so conscientiously begun."

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

MR. BRADLEY will probably find what he seeks, if it be the creed of the General Baptists, pasted inside a large folio Bible in the vestry of the congregation (now non- Trinitarian) meeting in the old refectory of the Black Friars, Canterbury.

T. WILSON.

WACE ON THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS (10^ h S. iii. 407). There are two English translations of Wace : one by Edgar in prose, and one (very free) in " anapaestic " verse by Sir A. Malet. Neither of them makes much of the last four lines, because both of them follow the incorrect old text, as quoted at the above reference. The first eight lines mean : "When it was time to fight the battle, on the previous night, as I hear men tell, the English were extremely hilarious, very full of laughter and very cheerful. The whole night they ate and drank : never throughout the night did they lie in bed. You might have seen them stir about, skip, dance, and sing."

For the rest we must have recourse to the more correct text in the edition by Dr. Hugo Andresen, Heilbronn, 1879, vol. ii. p. 320, lines 7357 - 60. By collating the various readings, we see that Bullie s_tands for Bied blide, the Norman for A.-S. leoth blithe, i.e., be blithe, or be merry. Weissel is an error