Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 | Page 4

to its importance.
I take this opportunity of noticing the different dates given of Myles
Coverdale's death.
Strype says he died 20th May, 1565, (Annals of Reformation, vol. i. pt.
ii. p. 43., Oxf. ed.), although elsewhere he speaks of his as being alive
in 1566. Neale (_Hist of Pur._, vol. i. p. 185.) says, the 20th May, 1567.
Fuller (_Church Hist._, p. 65. ed. 1655) says he died on the 20th of
January, 1568, and "Anno 1588," in his Worthies of England, p. 198.,
ed. 1662.
The following extract from "The Register of Burials in the Parish
Church of St. Bartholomew's by the Exchange" sets the matter at rest.
"Miles Coverdall, doctor of divinity, was buried anno 1568., the 19th of
February."

That the person thus mentioned in the register is Miles Coverdale,
Bishop of Exeter, there can be no doubt, since the epitaph inscribed on
the tomb-stone, copied in _Stow's Survey_, clearly states him to be so.
It is, perhaps, unnecessary to observe that the date mentioned in the
extract is the old style, and, therefore, according to our present
computation, he was buried the 19th of February, 1569.
Can any of your correspondents throw any light upon the authorship of
a work frequently attributed to Myles Coverdale, and thus entitled, "A
Brieff discours off the Troubles begonne at Frankford in Germany,
Anno Domini, 1554. Abowte the Booke off common prayer and
Ceremonies, and continued by the Englishe Men theyre, to the ende off
Q. Maries Raigne, in the which discours, the gentle reader shall see the
verry originall and beginninge off all the contention that hathe byn, and
what was the cause off the same?" A text from "Marc 4." with the date
MDLXXV. Some copies are said to have the initials "M.C." on the
title-page, and the name in full, "Myles Coverdale," at the end of the
preface; but no notice is taken of this impression in the excellent
introductory remarks prefixed by Mr. Petheram to the reprint of 1846.
If the valuable work was really written by Myles Coverdale (and it is
much in his style), it must have been interspersed with remarks by
another party, for in the preface, signed, as it is said by Coverdale,
allusion is made to things occuring in 1573, four years after his death.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
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QUERIES.
SPECULUM EXEMPLORUM:--EPISTOLA DE MISERIA
CURATORUM.
Who was the compiler of the Speculum Exemplorum, printed for the
first time at Deventer, in 1481? A copy of the fourth edition, Argent,
1490, does not afford any information about this matter; and I think

that Panzer (v. 195.) will be consulted in vain. Agreeing in opinion
with your correspondent "GASTROS" (No. 21. p. 338.) that a querist
should invariably give an idea of the extent of his acquaintance with the
subject proposed, I think it right to say, that I have examined the list of
authors of Exempla, which is to be found in the appendix to Possevin's
Apparatus Sacer, tom. i. sig. [Greek: b] 2., and that I have read
Ribadeneira's notice of the improvements made in this Speculum by the
Jesuit Joannes Major.
Who was the writer of the _Epistola de Miseria Curatorum?_ My copy
consists of eight leaves, and a large bird's-cage on the verse of the last
leaf is evidently the printer's device. Seemiller makes mention of an
Augsburg edition of this curious tract. (_Biblioth. Acad. Ingolstad.
Incunab. typog._ Fascic. ii. p. 142. Ingolst. 1788.)
R.G.
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THE SECOND DUKE OF ORMONDE.
The review of Mr. Wright's _England under the House of Hanover,
illustrated by the Caricatures and Satires of the Day_, given in the
_Athenæum_ (No. 1090.), cites a popular ballad on the flight and
attainder of the second Duke of Ormonde, as taken down from the
mouth of an Isle of Wight fishmonger. This review elicited from a
correspondent (_Athenæum_, No. 1092.) another version of the same
ballad as prevalent in Northumberland. I made a note of these at the
time; and was lately much interested at receiving from an esteemed
correspondent (the Rev. P. Moore, Rochenon, co. Kilkenny), a
fragment of another version of the same ballad, which he (being at the
time ignorant of the existence of any other version of the song) had
taken down from the lips of a very old man of the neighbourhood,
viz.:--
"My name is Ormond; have you not heard of me? For I have lately
forsaken my own counterie; I fought for my life, and they plundered
my estate, For being so loyal to Queen Anne the great. Queen Anne's

darling, and cavalier's delight, And the Presbyterian crew, they shall
never have their flight. I am afraid of my calendry; my monasteries are
all sold, And my subjects are bartered for the