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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1911.

CONTENTS.-No. 59.

NOTES : The English Bible, 1611, 101 Crabb Robinson and De Quincey, 102 Pensioners in the Long Parliament, 103 Sheridan and Bishop Hall Chateaubriand and Madame Lieven Michael Bruce, Logan, and 'The Ode to the Cuckoo,' 104 Mew or Mewes Families Temple Bar in 1851, 105 Brechin Lowe Family Conscience- Stricken : Tardy Advertisements, 106.

QUERIES : St. William's Day at York Dom Francisco Manuel de Mello Pitt's Letter on Superstition Aristotle on Education Marine Insurance Sir Robert Peel and his Speeches Court Life " Bezant "Mother's Maiden Name as Children's Surname, 107 Leader of the House of Commons Lady O'Looney's Epitaph " Strike of Saunsons " S. G. Sloraan " -de- " : " -ty-" Aislabie Family, 108 Cecil Howard J. Arbuthnot C. Barbour Dr. J. Drake R. Heath Elizabeth Dixon, Quaker " Ware " Potatoes" The Almighty Dollar," 109.

REPLIES : Milton Bibles, 109 Newenham Abbey Lady Conyngham, 110 Hoi well Family Thackeray and Pugilism Dickens : " Shallabalah " " Elze "^Already "Puckled," 111 "Die in beauty "Barbara de Bierle Geoffrey Pole 'Tit for Tat,' 112 Early Ships named Victory" Love me, love my dog," 113 Wet Hay Irish Book of Remembrance Belfast Registers Archbishop Cleaver Rogerson Cotter 'A Voice from the Bush,' 114 Jeremy Smith Chertsey Cartularies Sir John Chandos The Black Prince's Language-Sybil, Queen of Scotland "Woodyer" " Terse" Claret, 116 Adders' Fat and Deafness Early Beefsteak Club, 117 Grange Courty- Owls called " Cherubims "Quaker Oats Ship lost in the Fifties Pauper's Badge, 118.

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OBITUARY : W. L. Rutton T. Forster.

THE ENGLISH BIBLE, 1611.

IN the prologue to his English Bible, 1539, Cranmer repeated the rule of St. Gregory Nazianzen, " I forbid not to read, but I forbid to reason " (Strype's ' Cranmer,' 1694, ii. 247). Doubtless he feared for the result when the book should come into the hands of such as disregarded the ancient safeguards. A century later Chillingworth in his ' Religion of Protestants,' 1637, wrote the sentence which has become the watchword of many : " The Bible, I say, the Bible only, is the religion of Protestants " (1846, p. 463). But these memorable words have been unfairly used, for their author again and again guards himself by acknow- ledging the authoritative interpretation of " the consent and testimony of the ancient and primitive church " (p. 105) ; and declares his meaning to be " Scripture inter- preted by catholic written tradition" (p. 362). By the middle of that century a host of sects
 * the catholic church of all ages " (p. 16),

had arisen which had hardly anything in common with Chillingworth but the word Protestant. We have to keep these things in mind in estimating the importance of the widespread distribution of an authorized version.

Whatever effect the book of 1611 had upon the people at large, it is certain that scholars and clergy were not unanimous in the approval or adoption of it.

Among those who continued more or less to use the old version were John Denison, chaplain to James I., in his ' Heavenly Banquet,' 1619, 1631 ; Dr. John Donne, Dean of St. Paul's, in ' Six Sermons,' 1634, iii. 1, v. 11, who prefers " our former trans- lation" ; and Dr. William Brough, Dean of Gloucester, in a * Preservative against Schism,' at the end of his ' Manual of Devotions,' 1659, pp. 516, 517. Bishop Pearson often chose to make independent renderings for himself in his book on the ' Creed,' 1659 ; see the ed. by James Nichols, 1844, pref.

Moreover the new book did not find its way into all parish churches for more than a century. Bishop Beveridge, writing in 1710, says that the Bishops' Bible "hath been read in several churches instead of the New, ever since, to our days " ; and in defence of the retention of " old words now grown obsolete " he adds :

" The vulgar still use those words, or at least understand them as well as any that are in common use. It is among the common people that the language of every nation is best pre- served." ' Works,' viii. 619, 631, " Ang.-Cath. Lib.," 1846.

There is an excellent article by Dean Plumptre, afterwards one of the Revisers, in Smith's ' Dictionary of the Bible,' 1863, iii. 1675-83. G. G. Perry, 'History of the Church of England,' 1861, i. 200, contrasts the statements of Hallam and Trench on the language of the A.V. The list in Lowndes's 174-200, is worth consulting.
 * Bibliographer's Manual,' Bohn, 1857, i.

Some of the books mentioned below are well known, but a few of them may not be obvious. Others are noticed by Lowndes and by Plumptre.

Leigh, Edward, M.A., Oxon. Annotations

imperfections in our Translation discovered. Folio, 1650.

Kilburne, William. Dangerous Errors in several late printed Bibles to the great scandal and corruption of sound and true Religion. 4to, pp. 15, Finsbury, 1659.

Cell, Robert, D.D. Essay towards the amend- ment of the last English Translation of the Bible ; or, a proof, by many instances, that the last trans- lation of the Bible into English may be improved. Folio, 1659.