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not desired. In discharging the prisoners, how-
ever, the judge expatiated on the enormity of the
crime, a* superior to that of murder ; and declared
that if they had been convicted he would have
ordered them to be taken from the dock to the
place of execution !
Correspondents of " N. & Q," having from time to t'me expressed doubts as to practices having prevailed, which were at that period common and notorious ; such as the burial of suicides at cross roads, with stakes through their hearts, and the smothering of persons afflicted with hydrophobia, I have thought it might be well to make a Note of this, which even in those days must have been considered strange, and which, on looking back to it after this interval, appears almost incredible.
ONE WHO WAS PRESENT AT THE TRIAL.
Minor CEumtg iottlj
Mason's " History of St. PatricKs Cathedral" Can any one tell me what constitutes a perfect copy of the late Mr. Monck Mason's History and Antiquities of St. PatricKs Cathedral, Dublin f My copy comprises 478 pages, with " Appendix, and additional Notes and Illustrations," extend- ing to 97 pages more ; but I am informed that the work, in its complete form, ought to contain a larger amount of matter ; and yet I cannot ascer- tain whetlier such is the case or not. I have col- lated several copies of the publication. ABHBA.
[We have before us a beautiful large-paper copy, edit. 1820, the paginal figures of which agree with those col- lated by our correspondent.]
Old Bible. The Vulgate text ; title-page wanting ; Preface addressed, " Domino Joanni Schwickardo sanctse sedis Mogvntinae Archiepis- copo," &c., by " Joannes Theobaldus Schsenvcet- terus, Moguntinus Civis et Bibliopola Francofurt- ensis;" the imprimatur dated, " Mogvntiae, anno 1609, xvi. AiiQrusti," &c. It contains many small engravings, which are spirited in design, and ex- tremely well executed for the time. I shall be obliged to any one of your numerous readers who will inform me who was the artist, and whether the edition be a valuable one. W. S.
Hastings.
[This Bible is entitled "S'iblla Sacra Vufc/ate Editionis Sixti V Pont. Max. jussu recognita et Clementis VIII. auctoritate edita. Nunc autem cxxxx. figuris noviter inventis et in JRs incisis illustrata a DE BRY. Ad reve- rendiss. et illustriss. Archiepis. Moguntinensem princi- pem Electorem ac archicancellarium. Moguntue, apud Jo. Albinum, impensis Joannis Theobald! Schonwetteri et Jacobi Fischeri, 1609, 4to." The following notice of this Bible is given in BiMiotheca Susxe.viana, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 475. : " This edition is highly esteemed on account of the very able engravings by Theodore De Bry, with which the volume is illustrated. It is inscribed to the Abp. of Mentz; and following the dedication is the
permission for printing the edition, signed by Stephen
Weber, suffragan of Mentz. The preface of Bellarmin,
and the decree of the Council of Trent, prec-ede the ad-
dress of Francis Lucas, of Bruges, to the following collec-
tion : ' Roinana? Corrections, in Latinis Bibliis Editionis
Vulgatas, jussu Sixti V. Pont. Max. recognitis, Loca
tnsigniora.' This portion occupies eighty-seven closely-
arinted pages, disposed in three columns. The volume is
livided info three parts, to each of which there is an
engraved title. The first part terminates with Ecclesi-
asticus; the second with the II. Maccabees; the third
ontains the New Testament ; the Prayer of Manasseh ;
the III. and IV. Esdras ; the Prologues of St. Jerome ;
the Index Testimonium, &c., and the interpretations of
Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek names."]
Latin Translation of the New Testament. I have a 12mo. copy of a Latin New Testament, of which the title is gone. It consists of 647 pages. In place of a preface, we have Matth. vii. 24 27., headed " Dicit Veritas." After a page of errata, we have on the last leaf this inscription or colo- phon : " Basilia?, ex officina Ludouici Lucii, Anno Salutis humanae, M.D.LVI. mense Septembris." I have looked into the Vulgate, Beza, Erasmus, Calvin, Vatablug (?), &c., and find none like it. It is not divided into verses. Query, When and where was this version made ? B. H. C.
[According to Panzer, torn. iii. pt. ii. p. 672., this ver- sion is by Sebastian Castalio, who began his translation of the Old and New Testaments at Geneva in 1542, and finished it at Basil in 1550. It was printed at Basil in 1551, and dedicated by the author to Edward VI. King of England. He published a second edition in 1564, and another in 1556.]
Head of Oliver Cromwell. At a meeting of the Walworth Working Men's Institution, Oct. 3, 1855, W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., M.P., surprised the people by telling them that he possessed a greater curiosity than any in the room ; namely, the head of Oliver Cromwell, which has been in possession of his family for very many years, and whose his- tory was well " authenticated." B. H. C.
[This memorable Commonwealth relic has been fre- quently noticed in our First Series, especially in Vol. v. pp. 275. 304. 354. 382. A correspondent at p. 382. stated, "that the skull of Cromwell was then (1852) in the pos- session of W. A. Wilkinson, of Beckenhanr, Kent, at whose house a relation of mine saw it." He further added, " I have no doubt that Mr. Wilkinson would feel pleasure in stating the arguments on which the genuineness of the interesting relic is based." See also Vol. xi. 496. ; xii. 75.]
Wolves. In Edwards's Cork Remembrancer (p. 131.), the following entry appears :
" This year [1710], the last presentment for killing wolves was made in the county of Cork."
Can any one furnish me with a later instance ?
ABHBA.
[The last wolf that roamed in Scotland was slain by Sir Ewcn Cameron, in the reign of Charles II., about the year 1680 ; and most writers notice the presentment at Cork, in 1710, as the last known case upon record of their existence in Ireland.]
