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Prebendary of Durham, then Bishop of Bristol and afterwards of this See. He conquered the violence of the fanatical parties, he repaired the cloisters and restored its privileges. Celebrated for his learning, magnanimity, and piety, noted for his charities toward the destitute, and for hospitality to all, and an unconquered champion for the English Church, and now triumphing as its most excellent ornament, he departed this life the 6th of July in the year of salvation 1685, aged 89."

Arms, Ermine, on a bend sable three pheons or.

Dallaway, ' History of South- West Sussex,' states : " Born in Cumberland at Bramston- foot in Gillesland." SACRISTAN.

WART-CURING AS AN OCCULT SCIENCE (8 th S. xi. 165, 278 ; xii. 77). The experience of Francis Bacon in this matter may not be known to all readers of ' N. & Q.,' although doubtless familiar to nmny. A copy of his ' Naturall Historie ' (with which is bound the ' New Atlantis ') in my possession has suffered the loss of a leaf, long ago replaced in MS. by some former owner ; on this, cen- tury X., p. 256, occurs the following :

" The Sympathye of Individualls y* have beene entire, or have Touched, is of all others, y e most Incredible : yet accordinge to our faithfull examina- tion of Nature, we will make some little mention of it. The takinge away of Warts, by Rubbinge them w th some what y* afterwards is put to wast, and consume, is a com'on exp'iment : And 1 doe appre- hende it the rather because of mine owne exp'ience. I had from my Childhood a wart uppon one of my Fingers : Af terwardes when I was about 16 years old, being at Paris, there grew upon both my handes a number of Warts (at y least 100) in a Moneths space. The English Embassadours Lady, who was a woman free from sup'stition, told me, one day ; she would helpe me away w th them. Whereupon shee got a peiceof Larde, w th y e Skin on, and rubbed y e Warts all over, w th y e fat side ; and amongst y c rest y* Wart w ch I had had from my Childhood ; Then she nayled the Peice of Lard w th y e fat towards y e Sunne upon a Poast of her Chamber window w ch was to y e south. The Successe was, that w th in 5 weekes space, all the Warts went quite away : And y e Wart w ch I had soe Ipnge endured for Company. But at y e rest 1 did little marvaile, because they came in a shorte time, and might goe away in a short time againe. But y goinge away of y* w ch had staid soe longe doth sticke w th me yet. They say y like is done by rubbinge of Warts w th a greene Elder sticke, and then buryinge the sticke to rot in mucke."

I assume this kindly believer in the efficacy of charms was the wife of Sir Amias Paulet, upon whom Bacon was in attendance at the age he names. CHAS. GILLMAN.

Salisbury.

MARTIN LUTHER : LUTHER OF MYLES, IN ESSEX (8 th S. xii. 127, 250). In the registers of Stapleford Tawney, co. Essex, the name Luther frequently occurs. The registers of this church from 1558 to 1752 have been pub-

lished by Mr. F. Arthur Crisp. Your corre- spondent will also find entries of the Luther family in ' Sepulchral Memorials of Bobbing- vvorth,' printed by Mr. Crisp in 1884.

C. H. C. South Hackney.

BRUMMELL (9 th S. i. 248). Perhaps the following may help Miss THOYTS. It is taken from Catalogue XX. issued from Jaggard's Bookshop, 39, Renshaw Street, Liverpool :

" Brummell. Jesse (Capt.), Life of Beau Brum- mell. Revised and annotated edition, from the author's own interleaved copy, 1886, with 40 coloured portraits of Brummell and his contemporaries, 2 vols., roy. 8vo., gilt tops."

There is another memoir of Brummell by

Ainslie, published 1897.

HARRY SIRE.

"HORSE-CHESTNUT" (9 th S. ii. 46). I believe I have seen the statement referred to in Evelyn's 'Sylva,'but it did not originate with Evelyn. Gerard says, s.v. 'Chestnut':

"The Horse Chestnut is called in Latine, Equlna Catanea : in English, Horse Chestnut, for that the people of the East countries do with the fruit thereof cure their horses of the cough, shortnesse of breath, and such like diseases."

C. C. B.

MARGINAL REFERENCES IN THE BIBLE (9 th S. i. 446 ; ii. 54). On reviewing the notes of W. E. B. and MR. E. L. GARBETT, I perceive that my explanation will not meet the whole case ; at least, not further on than from 1769 to 1840. I have an Oxford Bible of this year which contains the Apocrypha references. It is later than the Oxford and Cambridge agreement in 1834, so that, unless it is post- dated, it will not explain itself. I have also another in 1850, which has not got them. Previously to this there was, in 1846, an edition for the S.P.C.K. which also is with- out them. The Bible of 1850 is for the common press sale. It seems, therefore, that the return to the smaller number of refer- ences, without those from the Apocrypha/ took place at the Oxford University Press between 1840 and 1850. What is the explana- tion? Is it an actual return to the A.V. of 1611 1

Two Queen's Printers' Bibles which I have are without the Apocrypha references. But possibly the London printers have always kept to the 1611 references. An interesting question is raised. ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A.

I was misled by Franklin's letter on im- proving the English language to think the fashion of giving every substantive a capital had been applied to the Bible in Queen Anne's time. But it seems that though many books were so printed (the Philosophical