429

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Dr. John Harcliffe,
Dr. Wm. Cokayne, Dr. Samuel Kettilby--"Haulf Naked" 431

REPLIES:--

The Legend of Lamech: Hebrew Etymology, by H. Walter,
T. J. Buckton, and Joseph Rix 432

Lord Coke's Charge to the Jury 433

White Roses, by James Crossley 434

Burial of Unclaimed Corpse 435

Psalmanazar, by James Crossley 435

Grafts and the Parent Tree 436

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Glass Baths--Securing
Calotype Negatives 437

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Wood of the Cross--Bishops'
Lawn Sleeves--Inscriptions in Books--Lines
quoted by Charles Lamb--Parochial Libraries--Huet's
Navigations of Solomon--Derby Municipal
Seal--Annueller--Rev. Richard Midgley, Vicar of
Rochdale--Nose of Wax--Canongate Marriages--Sculptured
Emaciated Figures--Do the Sun's Rays
put out the Fire?--Spontaneous Combustion--Ecclesia
Anglicana--Wyle Cop--Chaucer--Campvere, Privileges
of--Sir Gilbert Gerard--Mistletoe--Wild
Plants and their Names--Coninger or Coningry 437

MISCELLANEOUS:--

Notes on Books, &c. 441

Books and Odd Volumes wanted 442

Notices to Correspondents 442

Advertisements 442

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Notes.

PROCLAMATION OF HENRY VIII. AGAINST THE POSSESSION OF RELIGIOUS BOOKS.

The progress of the Reformation in England must have been greatly affected
by the extent to which the art of printing was brought to bear upon the
popular mind. Before the charms of Anne Boleyn could have had much effect,
or "doubts" had troubled the royal conscience, Wolsey had been compelled to
forbid the introduction or printing of books and tracts calculated to
increase the unsettled condition of the faith.

The following proclamation, now for the first time printed, may have
originated in the ineffectual result of the cardinal's directions. The
readers of Strype and Fox will see that the threats which both contain were
no idle ones, and that men were indeed "corrected and punisshed for theyr
contempte and disobedience, to the terrible example of other lyke
trangressours."

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