Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 by Various
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many things. Nicholas Ferrar died December 2, 1637, and the Query I wish
to ask is, Did Fuller compose them (for that he was really the author of them can hardly be doubted) at the suggestion and for the benefit of the community at Gidding, some years before he published them; and is it possible to ascertain and determine if the MS. is in the handwriting of Ferrar or Fuller? Is there any print or view in existence of the "Nunnery," at Little Gidding? In the _Life of Dr. Thomas Fuller_, published anonymously in 1661, it is stated, that at his funeral a customary sermon was preached by Dr. Hardy, Dean of Rochester, "which hath not yet (though it is hoped and much desired may) passe the presse," p. 63. Query. Was this sermon ever published? and secondly, who was the author of the _Life_ from which the above passage is quoted? John Miland. * * * * * STUKELEY'S "STONEHENGE." May I request a space in your periodical for the following Queries, drawn from Dr. Stukeley's _Stonehenge and Abury_, p. 31.? 1st. "But eternally to be lamented is the loss of that tablet of tin, which was found at this place (Stonehenge) in the time of King Henry VIII., inscribed with many letters, but in so strange |
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