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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