Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 | Page 8

thought, to send the Duke to Scotland, to
recall Monmouth, to summon a parliament, to dismiss all his unpopular
ministers, and to throw himself entirely upon the good will and
affections of his subjects." {399}
This passage accords with the entries in Monmouth's pocket-book
under the dates of Jan. 5. and Feb. 3. If the unfortunate Monmouth
could have foreseen the miserable end, with all its accompanying
humiliations and horrors, to which a few months were destined to bring
him, his exclamation, "O cruel fate!" would have acquired additional
bitterness.
C. ROSS.

[We insert the foregoing as serving to complete the series of interesting
notices connected with the capture of Monmouth which have appeared
in our columns, rather than from an agreement with the views of our
valued correspondent. Dr. Anster states, that in the pocket-book in his
possession, the Duke's movements up to the 14th March, 1684-5, are
given. Would he kindly settle the question by stating whether the
passages quoted by Weldon are to be found among them?]
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QUERIES.
WOOLTON'S CHRISTIAN MANUAL.
One important use, I conceive, of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" is, the
opportunity it presents of ascertaining the existence of rare editions of
early printed books. Can any of your readers state where a copy or
copies of the following may be found?
"The Christian Manuell, or the life and maners of true Christians. A
Treatise, wherein is plentifully declared how needeful it is for the
servaunts of God to manifest and declare to the world: their faith by
their deedes, their words by their work, and their profession by their
conversation. Written by Jhon Woolton, Minister of the Gospel, in the
cathedral church of Exetor. Imprinted at London by J.C. for Tho.
Sturruppe, in Paules Church yarde, at the George, 1576. Dedicated to
Sir William Cordell knight, Maister of the Rolles.--At Whymple 20
Nouember 1676. N 7, in eights."--Copy formerly in the possession of
Herbert. (Herbert, _Typographical Antiquities_, vol. ii. p. 1094.)
There is an imperfect copy, I understand, in the Bodleian. Access to
another copy has been needed for an important public object, in order
to transcribe the leaf or leaves wanting in the Bodleian copy; and the
book, so far as I am aware, does not occur in any other public libraries.
Woolton was nephew to Nowell, author of the Catechisms. He wrote
several other pieces, and was Bishop of Exeter 1579-1593. (Wood,
_Athen. Oxon._ ed. Bliss, vol. i. pp. 600, 601.)

T. Bath, April 9. 1850.
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LUTHER'S TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT:--1 JOHN,
v. 7.
In an article of the Quarterly Review (vol. xxxiii. p. 78.) on this
controverted passage of St. John's Epistles, generally attributed to the
present learned Bishop of Ely, the following statement is made
respecting Luther:--
"Let it also be recollected, to the honour of Luther, Bugenhagius, and
other leaders of the Reformation, that in this contest they
magnanimously stood by the decision of Erasmus. Luther, in his
translation of the New Testament, omitted the passage; and, in the
preface to the last edition (in 1546) revised by himself, he solemnly
requested that his translation should on no account be altered."
Since such was the injunction of Luther, how does it happen that this
verse appears in the later editions of his Testament? I have looked into
five or six editions, and have not found the verse in the two earliest.
These bear the following titles:--
"Biblia dat ys. de gantze hillige Schrifft verdüdeschet dorch Doct. Mart.
Luth. Wittemberch. Hans Lufft. 1579." (in folio.) "Dat Neu Testamente
verdüdeschet dörch D. Mart. Luth. mit den korten Summarien L.
Leonharti Hutteri. Gosslar. In Iahre 1619."
The verse appears in an edition of his Bible printed at Halle in 1719; in
his New Testament, Tubingen, 1793; in one printed at Basel in 1821;
and is also to be found in that printed by the Christian Knowledge
Society. In the Basel edition the verse is thus given;--
"Denn Drey sind, die de zeugen im Himmel; der Vater, das Wort, und
der beilige Geist; und diese Drey sind Eins."
Perhaps some of your learned readers can explain when, and by whose

authority, the verse was inserted in Luther's Testament.
E.M.B.
[We may add, that the verse also appears in the stereotype edition of
Luther's Bible, published by Tauchnitz, at Leipsig, in 1819.--ED.]
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MINOR QUERIES.
_Medical Symbols._--"A PATIENT" inquires respecting the origin and
date of the marks used to designate weights in medical prescriptions.
_Charles II. and Lord R.'s Daughter._--Can any of your readers inform
me who was the lady that is referred to in the following passage, from
Henry Sidney's _Diary_, edited by Mr. Blencowe (March 9. 1610, vol. i.
p. 298.):--
"The King hath a new mistress, Lord R----'s daughter: