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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1011.

CONTENTS. No. 54.

NOTES : Milton Bibles, 1 Bishopsgate Street Without, 2 Chamney Family, 3 Anglo-American Mail Service: its Bicentenary South African Bibliography Samuel Richardson and the English Philosophers, 5 -Bells and Bell-Founders, 1560 Legal Macaronics, 6.

QUERIES : "Terse" Claret-The Black Prince's Language "Die in beauty "Roger Greatorex Bibliography of Folk-lore, 7 Thread -Papers Pitt and Wilkes on Dis- franchisement Prebendary Gabriel Grant Militia Claims, 1716 Anne Boleyn : Bulley Family Lacy as a Place-Name, 8 John Hudson ' Pilgrim's Progress ' Imitated Oundle " Ennomic " " Caeqehouias " "Carent": " Patricksmas " : "Lukesmas" "Instant" or "Current" Rev. J. Samwell : Rev. J. Peacock Roeites of Calverton, 9 Andrew Arter's Memorial Church with Wooden Bell-Turret " God moves in a mysterious way," 10.

REPLIES rMotto of 1851 Exhibition, 10 -Lord Mayor Trecothick, 11 Turcopolier Corn and Dishonesty, 12 Eminent Librarians Great Snow in 1614, 13 Christmas Mummers Christmas Bough or Bush Owls called "Cherubims" Authors Wanted John Bright's Quota- tions, 15 'Gentleman's Magazine ' Danes'-Blood, a Flower, 16 High Stewards and Recorders Dante and a Font Miss Sumner, 17 Elizabeth Woodville and the Kings of Cologne Babies and Kittens Lowthers v. Howards, 18.

NOTES OX BOOKS :-Leland's ' Itinerary 'Reviews and

Magazines.

Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

JEtrrfes.

MILTON BIBLES.

A BIBLE in the British Museum (Add. MS. 32, 310) is thus described in " Facsimiles of Royal, Historical, Literary, and other Auto- graphs in the Department of Manuscripts, British Museum. Edited by George F. Warner, M.A., Assistant Keeper of Manu- scripts. Series I. V." :

" The Holy Bible printed by Robert Barker, London, 1612 : a copy which belonged to John Milton, who on the page here reproduced [facing the beginning of Genesis] entered memoranda of the dates of the birth, &c., of himself and members of his family, including his brother Christopher Milton [baptized 3 Dec., 1615] and his nephews Kd ward and John Phillips. The first five entries appear to have been made together in 1646 : the last two, written in 1657/8, after Milton had become totally blind, were added under his direction by another hand. Add. MS. 32, 310."

The entries are as follows :

" John Milton was born the 9 th of December, 308, die Veneris half an howr after 6 in the morning.

" Christofer Milton was born on Friday about a month before Christmass at 5 in the morning, 1615.

" Edward Phillips was 15 year old August, 1645.

" John Phillips is a year younger, about Octob.

"My daughter Anne was born July the 29 th on the fast at eevning about half an houre after six 1646.

" My daughter Mary was born on Wedensday, Octob. 25 th, on the fast day in the morning about 6 a clock, 1618.

" My son John was born on Sunday, March the 16 th about half an hower past nine at night, 1650.

" My daughter Deborah was born the 2 d of May, being Sunday, somwhat before 3 of the clock in the morning, 1652.

" [His*] My wife hir mother dyed about 3 days after. And my son about six weeks after his mother.

" Katherin my daughter, by Katherin my second wife, was borne y e 19 th of October, between 5 and 6 in y e morning, and dyed y e 17 th of March following, 6 weeks after hir mother, who dyed y 9 3 rd of Feb., 1657."

The Bible an octavo edition of 1636 printed by Young which Dr. Birch saw and examined in 1749-50, when he visited Milton's granddaughter Mrs. Foster in Cock Lane, near Shoreditch Church, also contains entries of births and deaths of Milton's chil- dren. Dr. Birch's own account is as follows :

" She show'd me her Grand Mother's Bible in 8 VO printed by Young in 1636, in a Blank Leafe upon which Milton had enter'd in his own Hands the Births of his Children, as follows:

" ' Anne my Daughter was born July the 29 th the day of the Monthly Fast between six and seven, or about half an hour after six the Ev'ning 1646.

' ' Mary my Daughter was born on Wednesday Octob. 25 on the Fast Day in the morning about six o'clock 1645.

' My Son John was born on Sunday March the 16 th halfe an houre past nine at night 1650.

" ' My Daughter Deborah was born the 2 d of May, being Sunday somewhat before 3 of the Clock in the morning 1652.' " Birch Autograph MS. 4244.

Mrs. Foster, daughter of Deborah, third daughter of Milton, of whom a long account is given in vol. vi. p. 751 ff. of Masson's ' Life of Milton,' married Abraham Clarke, who died some time after 1688. She afterwards married Thomas Foster, " a weaver in Spitalfields," and died in 1727.

All Milton's children are mentioned except- ing Katherin. Masson gives the following entries from the burial registers of St. Margaret's, Westminster, " Feb. 10, 1657/8, Mrs. Katherin Milton," and again, "March 20, 1657/8, Mrs. Katherin Milton," and remarks that from these entries we should not know which designated the mother and which the child. He quotes, however, a sentence in Phillips' s memoir of his uncle

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