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 not desired. In discharging the prisoners, however, the judge expatiated on the enormity of the crime, as superior to that of murder; and declared that if they had been convicted he would have ordered them to be taken from the dock to the place of execution!

Correspondents of " N. & Q" having from time to time expressed doubts as to practices having prevailed, which were at that period common and notorious; such as the burial of suicides at crossroads, with stakes through their hearts, and the smothering of persons afflicted with hydrophobia, I have thought it might be well to make a Note of this, which even in those days must have been considered strange, and which, on looking back to it after this interval, appears almost incredible. stidos

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Mason's "History of St. Patrick's Cathedral."- Can any one tell me what constitutes a perfect copy of the late Mr. Monck Mason's History and Antiquities of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin? My copy comprises 478 pages, with "Appendix, and additional Notes and Illustrations," extending to 97 pages more; but I am informed that the work, in its complete form, ought to contain a larger amount of matter; and yet I cannot ascertain whether such is the case or not. I have collated several copies of the publication.

[We have before us a beautiful large-paper copy, edit. 1820, the paginal figures of which agree with those collated by our correspondent.]

Old Bible.—The Vulgate text; title-page wanting; Preface addressed, "Domino Joanni Schwickardo sanctæ sedis Moguntina Archiepiscopo," &c., by "Joannes Theobaldus Schænvætterus, Moguntinus Civis et Bibliopola Francofurtensis;" the imprimatur dated, "Mogvntiæ, anno 1609, xvi. Augusti," &c. It contains many small engravings, which are spirited in design, and extremely well executed for the time. I shall be obliged to any one of your numerous readers who will inform me who was the artist, and whether the edition be a valuable one.

Hastings.

[This Bible is entitled "Biblia Sacra Vulgata Editionis Sixti V Pont. Max. jussu recognita et Clementis VIII. auctoritate edita. Nunc autem exxxx. figuris noviter inventis et in Es incisis illustrata a . Ad reverendiss, et illustriss. Archiepis. Moguntinensem principem Electorem ac archicancellarium. Moguntis, apud Jo. Albinum, impensis Joannis Theobaldi Schonwetteri et Jacobi Fischeri, 1609, 4to." The following notice of this Bible is given in Bibliotheca Susseriana, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 475.:This edition is highly esteemed on account of the very able engravings by Theodore De Bry, with which the volume is illustrated. It is inscribed to the Abp. of Mentz; and following the dedication is the permission for printing the edition, signed by Stephen Weber, suffragan of Mentz. The preface of Bellarmin, and the decree of the Council of Trent, precede the address of Francis Lucas, of Bruges, to the following collection: Romanæ Correctionis, in Latinis Bibliis Editionis Vulgatæ, jussu Sixti V. Pont. Max. recognitis, Loca Insigniora. This portion occupies eighty-seven closely-printed pages, disposed in three columns. The volume 1s divided into three parts, to each of which there is an engraved title. The first part terminates with Ecclesiasticus; the second with the II. Maccabees; the third contains the New Testament; the Prayer of Manasseh; the III, and IV. Esdras; the Prologues of St. Jerome: the Index Testimonium, &c., and the interpretations of Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek names."]

Latin Translation of the New Testament.—I have a 12mo. copy of a Latin New Testament, of which the title is gone. It consists of 647 pages. In place of a preface, we have Matth. vii. 24-27., headed" Dicit Veritas." After a page of errata, we have on the last leaf this inscription or colophon: "Basiliæ, ex officina Ludouici Lucii, Anno Salutis humans, M.D.LVI. mense Septembris." I have looked into the Vulgate, Beza, Erasmus, Calvin, Vatablus (?), &c., and find none like it. It is not divided into verses. Query, When and where was this version made?

[According to Panzer, tom. iii. pt. il. p. 672., this version is by Sebastian Castalio, who began his translation of the Old and New Testaments at Geneva in 1542, and finished it at Basil in 1550. It was printed at Basil in 1551, and dedicated by the author to Edward VI. King of England. He published a second edition in 1554, and another in 1556.]

Head of Oliver Cromwell.—At a meeting of the Walworth Working Men's Institution, Oct. 3, 1855, W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., M.P., surprised the people by telling them that he possessed a greater curiosity than any in the room; namely, the head of Oliver Cromwell, which has been in possession of his family for very many years, and whose history was well "authenticated."

[This memorable Commonwealth relic has been frequently noticed in our First Series, especially in Vol. v. pp. 275. 304. 354. 382. A correspondent at p. 382. stated, that the skull of Cromwell was then (1852) in the possession of W. A. Wilkinson, of Beckenhant, Kent, at whose house a relation of mine saw it." He further added, "I have no doubt that Mr. Wilkinson would feel pleasure in stating the arguments on which the genuineness of the interesting relic is based." See also Vol. xi. 496.;' xii. 75.]

Wolves.—In Edwards's Cork Remembrancer (p. 131.), the following entry appears:

This year [1710], the last presentment for killing wolves was made in the county of Cork."

Can any one furnish me with a later instance?

[The last wolf that roamed in Scotland was slain by Sir Ewen Cameron, in the reign of Charles II., about the year 1680; and most writers notice the presentment at Cork, in 1710, as the last known case upon record of their existence in Ireland.]