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el Rowe to have been Colonel Owen Rowe, the regicide. The same statement is found in Hasted's _History of Kent_ (edit. 1778), vol. i. p. 181. I should be glad of some more certain information on this point; also, what issue Owen Rowe left, if any, besides two daughters, whose marriages are recorded in the Hackney Register. I am likewise anxious to learn whether there exist any lineal descendants of this family of Rowe, which had its origin in Kent; and thence branching off in the sixteenth century, settled and obtained large possessions in Shacklewell, Walthamstow, Low Layton, Higham Hill, and Muswell Hill. Through females, several of our nobility are descended from them. TEE BEE. * * * * * WRITINGS OF THE MARTYR BRADFORD. The second and concluding volume of Bradford's writings, which I am editing for the Parker Society, is about to be concluded. Bradford's _Treatise against the Fear of Death, with Sweet Meditations on the Felicity of the Life to Come and the Kingdom of Christ_, was printed by Powell without a date, by Singleton without a date, and by Wolf 1583,--the last two editions being mentioned by Herbert, the first of Powell by Dibdin from Herbert's MS. additions. If any of your readers could inform me where a copy of any one of these editions is to be found, it would greatly oblige. I have also never met, after some years' inquiry, with the edition of Bradford's _Letter on the Mass_, printed by Waldegrave, Edinburgh. Some of the early editions of Bradford's writings are very rare. I possess his _Examinations_, Griffith, 1561; and _Meditations_, Hall, 1562; both of which are scarce: as also the only copy I have ever seen (though imperfect) of the first edition of his _Sermon on Repentance_, evidently printed in 1553. His _Complaint of Verity_ is of extraordinary rarity. The only copy I am aware of is possessed {450} by the Rev. T. Corser, of Stand, Manchester; and was purchased (I believe) at Mr. Bright's sale for 17l. I should be obliged to any one who would supply me with any information about early editions of Bradford's writings. Every one is familiar with the story that Bradford, on seeing a criminal pass to execution, said, "There goes John Bradford but for the grace of God." Can any one inform me of any early printed authority for that story? A. TOWNSEND. Weston Lane, Bath. [In the British Museum are the following works by John Bradford, bou
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