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Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 by Various
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regular retainers, &c.

3. Hazlewood Chapel was _the only Roman Catholic parish church_ in England
which did not become a Protestant church at the Reformation.

CHAS. D. MARKHAM.

Jan. 10. 1851.

_"Breeches" Bible_ (Vol. iii., p. 17.).--In quoting from specimens of early
printing, correctness of orthography, even in trivial matters, is
desirable, and therefore I venture, in allusion to the interesting
communication from [Curly-pi] on the subject of the Geneva or "_Breeches_"
Bible, to state that the edition of 1576, in my possession, is "Imprinted
by _Christopher Barkar_" (not Barker), "dwelling in Paternoster Rowe, at
the signe of the Tygres Head."

The text quoted varies also in two or three words from my copy, and it is
probably from the Geneva edition. The English edition of 1576 runs thus,
(Gen. iii. 7.): "Then the eyes of them _both_ were opened, and they _knew_
that they were naked, and they sewed _figge_ tree _leaves_ together, and
made them _selves_ breeches." I am, sir, yours truly,

S.H.H.

_Histoire des Sévarambes_ (Vol. iii., p. 4.).--On the subject of the
authorship of this work I will transcribe a note which I subjoined to a
short account of Isaac Vossius (Worthington's _Diary_, p. 125):--

"Whether the History of the Sevarites, of Sevarambi by Captains Thomas
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