Notes and Queries, Number 30, May 25, 1850 | Page 3

a short time, a large flight of curlews came
sweeping down to the heather, so near his head, that some of their
wings brushed his hat. They were no sooner settled, than the Cwn
Wybir ceased to be heard. Mr. Young then recollected having noticed
similar nocturnal cries from the curlew, but had never before
encountered such a formidable flying legion of those birds, screaming
in a great variety of keys, amidst mountain echoes.
ELIJAH WARING.
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BARTHOLOMEW LEGATE, THE MARTYR.
An erroneous date, resting on such authorities as Mr. Hallam and Mr. J.
Payne Collier, deserves a note. The former in his _Const. Hist._ (ii. 275.
note, second edition), and the latter in the _Egerton Papers_, printed for
the Camden Society (p. 446.), assigns the date 1614 to the death of
Bartholomew Legate at Smithfield. The latter also gives the date March
13. Now the true date is March 18, 1611-12, as will appear by
consulting--1. The commissions and warrants for the burning of Legate

and Wightman, inserted in _Truth brought to Light, or the Narrative
History of King James for the first Fourteen Years_, 4to. 1651; 2.
Chamberlain's _Letters to Sir Dudley Carleton_, dated Feb. 26, 1611
(1611-12), and March 25, 1612, printed in _The Court and Times of
James I._, vol. i. pp. 136. 164.; and 3. Wallace's _Antitrinitarian
Biography_, vol. ii. p. 534. Fuller, in his _Church History_, gives the
correct date, and states that his "burning of heretics much startled
common people;" "wherefore King James politicly preferred that
heretics hereafter, though condemned, should silently and privately
waste themselves away in the prison."
Legate and Wightman were, in fact, the last martyrs burnt at the stake
in England for their religious opinions.
A.B.R.
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BOHN'S EDITION OF MILTON'S PROSE WORKS.
Three volumes of this edition have already appeared, the last bearing
the date of 1848, and concluding thus:--"End of Vol. III." In the latest
Catalogue, which Mr. Bohn has appended to his publications, appears a
notice of "Milton's Prose Works, complete in 3 vols." This word
complete is not consistent with the words terminating the last volume,
nor with the exact truth. For instance, the History of Britain does not
find a place in this edition; and I can hardly believe that Mr. Bohn
originally intended that the Prose Works of Milton should be issued
from his press without a full index. Without such an index, this edition
is comparatively worthless to the investigator of history. I would
therefore suggest to Mr. Bohn (whose services to literature I most
gratefully acknowledge), that he should render his edition of Milton's
Prose Works _really complete_, by issuing a fourth volume, which
_inter alia_, might contain the Latin prose works of Milton, reprinted in
Fletcher's edition of 1834, together with any omitted English prose
work of the author, and be terminated, as is usual in Mr. Bohn's
publications, with a full alphabetical index, embracing both persons
and things. The lover of historical pursuits would then have fresh

reason to thank Mr. Bohn.
N.
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REPRINT OF JEREMY TAYLOR'S WORKS.
A reprint being called for of vol. iv. of _Bishop Jeremy Taylor's
Works_, now in course of publication, I would beg permission to make
it known to your readers, that assistance in regard to any references
which were not verified in the former edition of that volume would be
very acceptable to me. They should be sent within the next fortnight.
C. PAGE EDEN.
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DR. THOMAS BEVER'S LEGAL POLITY OF GREAT BRITAIN.
I do not know if such a notice as this is intended to be, is admissible
into your publication.
Many years ago, I bought of a bookseller a MS. intitled "A Short
History of the Legal and Judicial Polity of Great Britain, attempted by
Thos. Bever, LL.D., Advocate in Doctor's Commons, and Fellow of All
Souls College, Oxford, 1759." It is presented to Richard Pennant, Esq.;
and there is a letter from Mr. Bever to Mr. Pennant wafered to the
fly-leaf. At the close of the "Advertisement," the author "earnestly
requests that it [the work] may not be suffered to fall into the hands of a
bookseller, or be copied, without his consent: and whenever it shall
become useless, and lose its value (if any it ever had) with the present
owner, that he will be kind enough to return it to the author if living, or
if dead, to any of his surviving family at Mortimer near Reading,
Berks."
In pious sympathy with this wish, I more than thirty years since wrote a
letter, addressed to "---- Bever, Esq., Mortimer, near Reading, Berks,"

offering to give up the volume to any one entitled to it under the above
description; but my letter was