_The Family of Love._--In addition to the work of John Rogers, referred
to by DR. RIMBAULT (Vol. ii., p. 49.), the two following treatises,
which were also published in the year 1579, will present your readers
with much curious information respecting the "Family of Love." The first
is entitled,--

"A Confutation of certaine Articles delivered unto the Familye
of Loue, with the exposition of Theophilus, a supposed elder in
the sayd Familye, upon the same Articles, by William Wilkinson,
Maister of Artes, and student of Divinitye, &c. &c. At London:
Printed by John Daye, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, Au. 1579."

In the _Epistle Dedicatorie_, dated Cambridge, September 30, 1579, and
addressed to Richard (Cox), Bishop of Ely, the author describes the new
doctrine as,--

"The most pestiferous and deadly Heresie of all others, because
there is not almost any one particular erroneous and
schismaticall phantasie, whereof the _Familie of Loue_ hath not
borrowed one braunche or other thereof, to peece vnto themselves
this their Religion."

A passage is then added which may serve in some measure as a reply to
N.B. (Vol. ii., p. 89.) It seems to slow that, however vile might be the
theology of this sect, their morals were not at least publicly
offensive.

"The encrease of this _Familie_ is great, and that dayly,
because the withstanders are not many; the defenders are wily as