QUERIES.

NICHOLAS FERRAR OF LITTLE GIDDING.

Dr. Peckard, in his Preface to the _Life of Nicholas Ferrar of Little
Gidding_, says the memoir he published was edited or compiled by him
from "the original MS. still in my possession" (p. xi.); and in the
Appendix adds, that "Mr. John Ferrar," the elder brother of Nicholas,
was the author of it (p. 279.).

How he compiled or edited "the original MS." he states with much candour
in his Preface (p. xv.):

"The editor's intention," in altering the narrative, "was to
give what is not observed in the original, a regular series of
facts; and through the whole a sort of evenness and simplicity
of stile equally free from meanness and affectation. In short,
to make the old and the new, as far as he could, uniform; that
he might not appear to have sewed a piece of new cloth to an old
garment, and made its condition worse by his endeavours to mend
it."

Again, at page 308., he says,

"There is an antient MS. in folio, giving an account of Mr. N.
Ferrar, which at length, from Gidding, came into the hands of
Mr. Ed. Ferrar of Huntingdon, and is now in the possession of
the editor. Mr. Peck had the use of this MS. as appears by