e by several
persons that the clock actually did strike thirteen instead of twelve;
whereupon he received his majesty's pardon. The above his friends
caused to be engraved upon his plate, to satisfy the world of the truth
of a story which has been much doubted, though he had often confirmed
it to many gentlemen, and a few days before his death told it to
several of his neighbours. He enjoyed his sight and memory to the day
of his death."]

_Defence of the Execution of Mary Queen of Scots_ (Vol. iii., p.
113.).--Among the benefits conferred by "NOTES AND QUERIES" upon the
literary world, is the information occasionally afforded, in what
libraries, public and private, very rare books are deposited. MR. COLLIER
expresses his thanks to MR. LAING for sending to him a very rare volume by
Kyffin. Had I seen his "Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers'
Company," I should have had much pleasure in furnishing him with extracts,
from another copy in the Chetham Library, of the tract he has described.
The Rev. T. Corser possesses the same author's _Blessedness of Britain_.
His other works are enumerated by Watt, and should be transferred to a
Bibliotheca Cambrensis.

T. J.

_Metrical Psalms, &c._ (Vol. iii., p. 119.).--ARUN may find all the
information he seeks by consulting a treatise of _Heylin's_ on the subject
of the metrical version of the Psalms, published by Dr. Rich. Watson, under
the title of _The Deduction_, 8vo. Lond. 1685.

Together with this treatise, two letters from Bishop _Cosin_ to Watson are
published; in the latter of which, towards the end, the following paragraph
occurs:--

"The singing Psalms are not adjoined to our Bibles, or to our Liturgy,
by any other authority than what the Company of Stationers for their
own gain have procured, either by their own private ordinances among
themselves, or by some order from the Privy Council in Queen
Elizabeth's time. Authority of convocation, or of Parliament, such as
our Liturgy had, never had they any: only the Queen, by her Letters
Patent to the Stationers, gave leave to have them printed, and allowed
them (did not command them) to be sung in churches or private houses by
the people. When the Liturgy was set forth, and commanded to be used,
these psalms were not half of them composed: no bishop ever inquired of
their observance, nor did ever any judge at an assize deliver them in
h