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And the first division ends--
"This have I written in love to all your soules, who am one who
did drinke of the cup of fornication, and have drunke of the cup
of indignation, but now drinkes the cup of salvation, where
sorrow and tears is fled away; and yet am a man of sorrows and
well acquainted with griefe, and suffers with the seed, and
travels that it may be brought forth of captivity; called by the
world F.H."
Who is F.H.?
4. Sundry poems on husbandry, housewifery, and the like, by Thomas
Tusser; but as the tract is mutilated up to cap. 3.,
"I have been prayde,
To shew mine aide," &c.,
I am not book-learned enough to know whether it be the same as Tusser's
_Five Hundred Poynts of Good Husbandry_. Information on any of the above
points would oblige.
J.E.
_Prebendaries._--When were prebendaries first appointed, and what the
nature of their duties generally? What is the rank of a prebendary of a
cathedral or other church, whether as a layman or a clerk in orders?
Would a vicar, being a prebendary, take precedence as such of a rector
not being one? Where is the best account of prebends to be found?
S.S.S.
_Luther's Portrait at Warwick Castle._--There is at Warwick Castle a
fine half-length portrait of Luther by Holbein, very unlike the ordinary
portraits of the great reformer. Is this portrait a genuine one? Has it
been engraved?
E.M.B.
_Rawdon Papers.
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