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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCIOBEE 10, 1903.

CONTENTS. No. 302.

NOTES : Dr. Scattergood's Bible, 281 Dibdin Biblio- graphy, 283 Translations Mrs. Jordan in Dublin Heuskarian Bibliography, 285 Caryll Pedigree Sir Eoger Wilbraham's Journal Bath and Buxton "Operator" Quality Court, Chancery Lane, 286.

QUERIES : Lope Ae Vega Fore steal : Forestall Gary, Carew, Cory Cunningham Leland's 'Itinerary' Elizabeth Andrews, Printer, 287 Epitaph at Doncaster Wolfram von Eschenbach " Palo de cobra " Mercer Family "Silver taster," " Poider," &c. Lasham Family

Folk-lore of Childbirth, 288 " Macaroni fiddle" Band : Waldron French Quotation M.P.s for Norwich Lewis Carroll's Pedigree, 289.

REPLIES : The 'United States and St. Margaret's, West- minster, 289 "Cyclopaedia" Ash : Place-name "Eout" Infant Saviour at the Breast, 291 Maltese Language and History Midland Registers Farthings, 292 Don- head St. Mary " Catherine Wheel " Inn Marat in London, 293 " All over " Upright Burial, 294 Shops in Cheapside Oranges " Policy of pin-pricks," 295 " Accorder " Pews annexed to Houses Birch-sap Wine

General Nicholson, 296 Evil Spirits and Inkbottles "Killen," a Barn Elizabeth Gunning Immurement Alive, 297.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Fisher's ' Studies in Napoleonic Statesmanship' Lord Belmore's ' History of Two Ulster Manors 'Baker's 'Guide to the Best Fiction' ' Selec- tions from Crabbe ' ' The Scottish Historical Review ' Magazines and Reviews.

Notices to Correspondents.

DR. ANTHONY SCATTERGOOD'S BIBLE.

DR. ANTHONY SCATTERGOOD (1611-1687, rector of Win wick and Yelvertoft, co. Northants, and Prebendary of Lichfield and Lincoln) was an eminent scholar and divine, and associated with many notable men of his day by the ties of friendship and literary work. He was chaplain to Archbishop Williams and later to Bishop Racket, who speaks of him* in terms of the warmest admiration, and he collaborated with Bishop Pearson, his brother Richard Pearson, and Francis Gouldman in the compilation of ' Critici Sacri,'t the bulk of the work apparently

f. 72; 131, f. 36 (in Bod. Lib.).
 * See Tanner MSS. 44, ff. 121, 127; 46, f. 12 ; 130,

f it is said that the idea of ' Critici Sacri was suggested to the bookseller Cornelius Bee and his literary friends by the former having purchased, about 1652, the valuable and almost unique library of John Hales, or that he had bought it for the express purpose of utilizing it for that work. Hales fellow of Eton, Canon of Windsor, and formerly Lecturer on Greek at Oxford" the ever- memorable," the friend of Farindon, Bp. Pearson, Sir Henry Saville, Sir Henry Wotton, Suckling, and Lord Falkland had spent above 2,5001. upon the library which he sold to Bee for 1001. The first edition of 'Critici Sacri' was issued in 9 folio volumes in 1660. The paper for this edition was

falling to his share. He also, together with Bancroft (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury) and Dillingham, saw through the press the revised Prayer Book of 1661 ; and besides a few sermons he published ' Annotationes in Vetus Testamentum et in Epistolam ad Ephesios,' editions of Thomas's Latin Dictionary, and, it is said, of Schreve- lius's Greek Lexicon, and an edition of the Bible. The following article dealing with Scattergood's Bible is taken, with slight alterations and additions, from a MS. written by my father, the late Thomas Scattergood, of Leeds, who also wrote the article in ' D.N.B.' on Dr. Anthony and his son, Samuel Scattergood. It appeared to me that it might be found of general interest on account of the mystery in which the subject is involved. The fact that no contemporary reference to any Bible published by Dr. Scattergood has yet come to light, and that no edition has ever been met with bearing internal evidence of its being his handiwork, might make one doubtful whether, indeed, such a Bible ever existed. If we exclude the allusions to Bibles "with Dr. Scattergood's notes" found in advertisements in the London Gazette in 1696, 1701, and 1703, the first direct reference which I have found to a Bible published by him is in 1709, thirty years after the edition in question is said to have been issued. But the references to it, both in this case and in the many instances which are found in later years, are so circum- stantial as to make it difficult to believe that the writers had not actually seen the book ; and from the interval which had elapsed between the date of publication and the first known reference one seems almost driven to

imported free of duty by Oliver Cromwell, who, on more occasions than one, had shown himself the patron and protector of Biblical literature. A large part of the impression of 1660 was destroyed by the Great Fire, and two other editions were subse- quently published, one at Frankfort in 1696, and another at Amsterdam in 1698. The work was intended as a companion to the English Polyglot Bible of Bp. Walton ; Calmet calls it The Great Criticks 01 England.' It is in allusion to his connexion with "this stupendous undertaking" that Dr. Duport, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge ('Musse Subsecivae,' ii. p. 174), refers to Scattergood thus :

Spargibonum quisquis meum Non novit, ille totius fere Anglise 'EA.Ar^viKtuTo.TOi' profecto nee virum Kprn/cwraTOv nee novit, aut ' Criticos Sacros ' : Quos tu revisos (quantum opus ! ) mundo dabas. Hac unica in re fallit et npmen tuum, Quod nempe Libros colligis simul bonos. Scattergood's library came eventually into the possession of White Kennett, Bp. of Peterborough.