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n him ; consequently may be said to maintain the ndwelline scheme. They assert that God cannot >e divided into distinct persons : so far they agree ,vith the Unitarians. They deny the doctrine of )riginal sin; yet assert that no man will savingly >eheve the Gospel, unless brought by the special nfluence of the Spirit to receive it. They deny the latural immortality of the soul, and contend that he whole of man is at present mortal ; yet main- ain the separate existence of the soul between leath and the resurrection. They believe that God olected Christ, and his people in him, from ever- lasting; that for Christ and his church all things ^vere created; that Christ would have been mani- Jested, his people born again and exalted to glory, though sin had never existed ; that in that case the rest of mankind would all have been happy in an inferior capacity, as the servants of Christ, and his bride the church. Against the decree of sin and reprobation they are zealous. Faith they suppose to be a divine communication, the life of God in the soul. They contend that it is impossible for a real Christian to have any doubts or fears respecting his interest in Christ, or acceptance with God. Respecting the atonement and perseverance of the saints they agree with the Calvinists, and with other Baptists as to the mode and subject of bap- tism. Those passages of Scripture which relate to the future restoration of the Jews they suppose to have a spiritual meaning, and they deny that pro- phecy authorizes our expectation of their being restored to their own land. Those who die in infancy they say will be raised in a pure state, not to inherit the heavenly kingdom, but to inhabit the new earth which will be formed after the conflagration, on which, say they, Christ and his church will reign a thousand years, and then be removed to some more glorious region. They con- tend for the restitution of all animal creation ; but believe that the wicked will be endlessly miserable. Positive punishment, as inflicted by God, they deny, and hold the language of Scripture respecting the future punishment of the wicked to be figurative, and that their torment will naturally arise from their state, and exist in their minds."

It would be interesting to know the sub- sequent history of this sect if it is still in existence. WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Moss Side, Manchester.

PORTRAIT OF TOM PAINE. The Carlton House^ Magazine of August, 1792 (facing p. 376), contains an interesting full-length portrait of Tom Paine, holding in his left hand a book 'nscribed ' Rights of Man.' It is apparently i steel or copper engraving, without name of either artist or engraver. The portrait is fanciful rather than authentic, I imagine; but as it is not referred to by Mr. Leslie Stephen n the 'D.N.B.,' I think its existence may je noted in 'N. & Q.' There is a copy of he Carlton House Magazine in the British (Museum. W. ROBERTS.

j Carlton Villa, Klea Avenue, Clapham.

"HiLL ME UP !" One of the pleasantest things in the daily life of a Derbyshire child lalf a century ago was the bedtime "Hill

me up ! " Every child that I knew was each night " hilled up " after getting into bed, and every child looked forward to the process which went by the term " Hill me up ! " This was always done by mothers or elder sisters. I remember an amusing incident in connexion with " Hill me up ! " which will serve as an illustration. A noted toper was found one night asleep in a snowdrift, and when roused he called out, thinking that his wife was near, " Hill me up, Meary ! hill me up, good lass ! As "Hill me up, Mary," he was known for the rest of his days. " To hill," in the sense of raising a mound or ridge, is, or was, common in Derbyshire. Hence "hill" potatoes, "hill" celery, " hill the earth on a grave."

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

POLITICAL GOUT. Anthony Wood notices an instance of this :

"It is said that one Mrs. Catherine Johnson, a pretender to prophecy, did some time before tell W. Lenthall that the oath of abjuration against the royal family should be endeavoured to pass in Parliament, which, if he would deny, he should afterwards be forgiven for what he had done against the King. So that upon her warning he (upon the proposal of that oath) absented himself from the House for about ten days, under pretence of the gout. See more in a book entit. ' The Mystery and Method of his Majesty's Happy Restauration,' &c., by J. Price, Lond., 1680, p. 40." ' Athense Oxon.,' 1692, vol. ii. col. 206, note.

ED. MARSHALL.

PATRICK COPLAND (D. 1651 1). No notice of this somewhat remarkable man is given in the * Diet, of Nat. Biog.,' nor does it appear from the list published in the Athenceum last year that the editor intends to supply this omission in the supplementary volumes. Yet surely this Patrick Copland deserves a notice as much as his modern namesake who is favoured with a half column in the 'Diet, of Nat. Biog.' An American writer, Mr. Edward D. Neill, in 1871 published in New York a 'Memoir of Patrick Copland, Rector elect of the first projected College in the United States : a Chapter of the English Colonization of America,' which con tains many interesting facts regarding Copland, gleaned from the latter's sermon 'Virginia's God be thanked' (London, 1622); Noel Sainsbury's ' Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, East Indies, 1513-1616 '; the Court Book of the E.I.C. ; and the manuscript Transactions of the Virginia Company. Further information, however, is to be found in the ' Calendar of State Papers, East Indies,' 1617-1621 and 1622- 1624. I may also point out that in torn. iii. of the ' Documentos remettidos da India,' which the Lisbon Academy of Sciences is