Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850

and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850, by Various

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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
Release Date: July 24, 2007 [EBook #22127]
Language: English
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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 34.] SATURDAY, JUNE 22. 1850. [Price Threepence. Stamped Edition 4d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page The Agapemone of the Sixteenth Century, by E. F. Rimbault, LL.D. 49 Punishment of Death by Burning, by C. Ross and Rev. A. Gatty 50 Folk Lore:--Death-bed Mystery--Easter Eggs--May Marriages--"Trash" or "Skriker" 51 Notes on Milton 53 Colvil's Whigg's Supplication 53
QUERIES:-- Hubert le Soeur's Six Brass Statues by E. F. Rimbault, LL.D. 54 Bishop Jewell's Library 54 The Low Window 55 Minor Queries:--North Sides of Churchyards--Hatfield--Ulrich von Hutten--Simon of Ghent--Boetius--Gloucestershire Gospel Tree--Churchyards--Epitaphs--Anthony Warton--Cardinal's Hat--Maps of London--Griffith of Penrhyn--Mariner's Compass--Pontefract on the Thames 55
REPLIES:-- Study of Geometry in Lancashire by T. T. Wilkinson 57 Queries Answered, No. 8., by Bolton Corney 60 Meaning of Bawn 60 Replies to Minor Queries:--Births, Marriages, &c.--M. or N.--Arabic Numerals--Comment in Apocalypsin--Robert Deverell--Hippopotamus--Ashes to Ashes--Dr. Maginn's Miscellanies--Living Dog better than a Dead Lion--Gaol Chaplains--Rome, Ancient and Modern--Trianon 60
MISCELLANIES:-- Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury--Mistake in Conybeare and Howson's Life of St. Paul 62
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 63 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 63 Notices to Correspondents 63 Advertisements 64
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Notes.
THE "AGAPEMONE" OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
As it is not generally known that the "Agapemone" had a prototype in the celebrated Family of Love, some account of this "wicked sect" may not at this moment be without interest to your readers:--
"Henry Nicholas, a Westphalian, born at Munster, but who had lived a great while at Amsterdam, and some time likewise at Embden, was the father of this family. He appeared upon the stage about the year 1540, styled himself the deified man, boasted of great matters, and seemed to exalt himself above the condition of a human creature. He was, as he pretended, greater than Moses and Christ, because Moses had taught mankind to hope, Christ to believe, but he to love; which last being of more worth than both the former, he was consequently greater than both those prophets."--See Brandt's Hist. of the Reform, &c., in the Low Countries, vol. i. p. 105, ed. 1720.
According to some writers, however, the sect was not founded by Henry Nicholas, but by David George, an Anabaptist enthusiast of Delft, who died in 1556; and indeed there is some reason to believe that the Family of Love grew out of the heresies of the said George, with whom Nicholas had been on friendly terms.
"'Not content,' says Fuller, speaking of Nicholas, 'to confine his errors to his own country, over he comes into England, and in the latter end of the reign of Edward the Sixth, joyned himself to the Dutch congregation in London, where he seduced a number of artificers and silly women.'"--Church. Hist., p. 112, ed. 1655.
On the 12th of June, 1575, according to the historian Hollinshed,
"Stood at Paule's Crosse five persons, Englishmen, of the sect termed the Familie of Love, who there confessed themselves utterlie to detest as well the author of that sect, H. N., as all his damnable errors and heresies."
A curious little volume on the history and doctrines of this sect appeared in the year 1572, from the pen of John Rogers, entitled The Displaying of an horrible Secte of grosse and wicked Heretiques, naming themselves the Family of Love, with the Lives of their Authors, and what Doctrine they teach in Corners. Imprinted at London for George Bishop. 1579. 12mo. Christopher Vittall, a joiner of Southwark, who had been infected with the doctrine of Arius some twenty years before, and whose credit was great amongst the Family of Love, was at this period actively engaged in teaching their doctrines. He travelled about the country to disseminate them; and was likewise author of a little book, in reply to Roger's Displaying of the sect, printed in the