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near Landaff, called " The Cow and Snuffers." A cow is represented standing near a ditch full of reeds, &c., into which is falling a pair of snuffers, as if from the cow's mouth (though this is closed), being mid-way between it and the reeds. What could be the origin of such a sign ? I cannot tell whether it still exists, not having seen it since 1832, when I was last at Landaff as a child, and I remember puzzling my head then as to its mean- ing. E. E. BYNG.

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PURITAN TRACTS QUOTED BY PATRICK.

Those whose literary researches have lain to any considerable extent among the pamphlets connected with the Puritan controversy of the seventeenth century, well know the difficulty that exists in meeting with such as are anonymous, or designated by initials or fanciful names, as well as in determining their authorship with any de- gree of authority. There are few works of that period which contain more copious allusions and references to publications of that character than Bishop Patrick's Friendly Debate, consisting of three parts and an appendix, written in rather a bitter spirit, to expose the extravagancies and un- reasonable pretensions of the several nonconform- ing bodies, in the years 1668-70.

The extensive collections of tracts of this nature preserved in the Bodleian, British Museum, Sion College, Dr. Williams's, and the Middle Temple libraries, have placed within my reach by far the greater proportion of the long series made use of by Patrick. There are still, however, several which have hitherto baffled my inquiries, besides many whose authorship I still feel at a loss to verify. On these points I am consequently soli- citous of inviting the assistance of those who have toiled successfully in the same field. I wish to learn :

I. Who wrote the following tracts ? and where can copies of them be found ?

1. " Medicine for Malignants." (No date mentioned.)

2. " Dialogue between a Loyalist and a timid Ro3 r alist. 1644."

3. "Dialogue of White Devils" (prior to 1638, and of course a different work from a revolutionary libel of the same name published by Bailey in 1795).

4. " Mournfull Complaint to the Knights and Burgesses of Suffolk, by an honest man of that Countv." 1656. '

6. " Some Flashes of Lightning, &c. A Sermon upon 1 Cor. xi. 1012." 1G48.

6. " Short Discourse concerning the Work of God in this Nation." 1659.

7. Sermon of the Two Witnesses Death and Resur- rection." 1G48.

8. " Dialogue between an Englishman and a Nether- lander, written in Low Dutch, and translated into Eng- lish." 1643.

II. Among the King's pamphlets in the British

Museum (252) is a violent antinomian or inde- pendent tract, The last Warning to all the In- habitants of London. It has neither title-page, name, nor date, but is entered in the catalogue under March 20, 164|. Can the author of it be ascertained ?

A reply to it appeared in May, 1646, entitled, An Alarum : to the last warning Peece to London, &c. Printed for L. Chapman. It is subscribed by _" George Smith, gent." Is this the George Smith who published a vehement and adulatory defence of Cromwell, with the title God's Un- changeableness, &c., 1655, and England's Presures, &c., 1644 ? and what more is known of him ? Can he be the George Smith who was one of the counsel for Archbishop Laud? (Wood, Athen. Oxon., iii. 128.) The tract seems to be the work of a moderate presbyterian. (A copy is among the King's pamphlets, 263.)

III. Where can copies of these works be found?

1. "Antidote against Antisobrius." By Cornelius Burges.

2. " Featley's Consecration Sermon." March 23, 1622.

3. " Eaton's Sermon at Knutsford " (No date given).

IV. In the pictorial frontispiece to the sixth edition of the Friendly Debate, 1684, is a female figure in the dress of a religieuse, reclining on the ground at the steps of a church, and supporting a cross. On the cross is engraved transversely, or across the arms, the device 'o p&>? /J.QV IffTa&purai, and longitudinally along the stem, 'Eyk 5e o-u/t- /j.opov/j.at. The former clause is evidently derived from the well-known passage of Ignatius (ad Rom. 7-) 'O t^bs epias faruvpoiTat, the latter apparently a paraphrase upon Phil. iii. 10. Are they to be found together in any ecclesiastical writer, or did the composition of the device originate with Pat- rick himself? Several of a similar description may be seen in the Hortus S. Crucis of Gretser, 4to., Ingoldst. 1610.

At the foot of the same frontispiece occurs the sentence " Nunquam Christo carior quain sub cruce gemens ecclesia." Whence is this derived ? I have met with numberless approximations to it in Bonaventure, [a Kempis, the Summa Prcedica- torum, and other writers of the contemplative and devotional class, but nowhere with the exact words.* A. TAYLOR.

In The Times of the 6th of last February, the following quotation was given:

" The undersigned, after having paraphed it (Draft of Preliminaries) conformably to authorization received to that effect," &c.

[* The same figure, with the exact words, forms the frontispiece to Dr. Gauden's Ecclesice Anglicana Suspiria, fol. 1659.]