OFFICE, BREAM'S BUILDINGS, CHANCERY LANE, E.C.
BY JOHN C. FRANCIS AND J. EDWARD FRANCIS.

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NOTES AND QUERIES.

LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1911.

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CONTENTS.-No. 54. NOTES:-Milton Bibles, 1-Bishopsgate Street Without, 2 -Chamney Family, 3-Anglo-American Mail Service: its Bicentenary-South African Bibliography-Samuel Richardson and the English Philosophers, 5-Bells and Bell-Founders, 1560-Legal Macaronics, 6. QUERIES:-"Terse" Claret-The Black Prince's Language "Die in beauty"-Roger Greatorex-Bibliography of Folk-lore, 7-Thread-Papers-Pitt and Wilkes on Disfranchisement - Prebendary Gabriel Grant Militia Claims, 1716-Anne Boleyn: Bulley Family-Lacy as a Place-Name, 8- John Hudson- Pilgrim's Progress' Imitated Oundle -"Ennomic' Caeqehouias "Carent":"Patricksmas" : "Lukesmas "-" Instant" or "Current"- -Rev. J. Samwell: Rev. J. Peacock Roeites of Calverton, 9-Andrew Arter's MemorialChurch with Wooden Bell-Turret-"God moves in a mysterious way," 10. REPLIES:-Motto of 1851 Exhibition, 10-Lord Mayor Trecothick, 11-Turcopolier-Corn and Dishonesty, 12Eminent Librarians-Great Snow in 1614, 13-Christmas Mummers - Christmas Bough or Bush-Owls called "Cherubims"-Authors Wanted-John Bright's Quotations, 15-Gentleman's Magazine' Danes'- Blood, a Flower, 16-High Stewards and Recorders-Dante and a Font-Miss Sumner, 17-Elizabeth Woodville and the Kings of Cologne-Babies and Kittens-Lowthers v. Howards, 18.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
SANTA BARBARA

John Phillips is a year younger, about Octob. My daughter Anne was born July the 29th on the fast at eevning about half an houre after six 1646.

"My daughter Mary was born on Wedensday, Octob. 25th, on the fast day in the morning about 6 a clock, 1648.

My son John was born on Sunday, March the 16th about half an hower past nine at night, 1650. May, being Sunday, somwhat before 3 of the "My daughter Deborah was born the 24 of clock in the morning, 1652.

[His] My wife hir mother dyed about 3 days after. And my son about six weeks after his mother.

Katherin my daughter, by Katherin my
second wife, was borne y 19th of October, between
5 and 6 in y° morning, and dyed ye 17th of March
following, 6 weeks after hir mother, who dyed
y° 3rd of Feb., 1657."

The Bible-an octavo edition of 1636
printed by Young-which Dr. Birch saw and
examined in 1749-50,
Milton's granddaughter Mrs. Foster in Cock
when he visited
Lane, near Shoreditch Church, also contains
entries of births and deaths of Milton's chil-
dren. Dr. Birch's own account is as follows:
She show'd me her Grand Mother's Bible in
8vo printed by Young in 1636, in a Blank Leafe
upon which Milton had enter'd in his own Hands
the Births of his Children, as follows:-

"Anne my Daughter was born July the 29th the day of the Monthly Fast between six and seven, or about half an hour after six the Ev'ning 1646.

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Mary my Daughter was born on Wednesday Octob. 25 on the Fast Day in the morning about six o'clock 1645.

My Son John was born on Sunday March
the 16th halfe an houre past nine at night 1650.
'My Daughter Deborah was born the 24 of

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A BIBLE in the British Museum (Add. MS.
32, 310) is thus described in "Facsimiles of
Royal, Historical, Literary, and other Auto-May, being Sunday somewhat before 3 of the Clock
graphs in the Department of Manuscripts,
British Museum. Edited by George F.
Warner, M.A., Assistant Keeper of Manu-
scripts. Series I.-V." :-

:

"The Holy Bible printed by Robert Barker, London, 1612: a copy which belonged to John Milton, who on the page here reproduced [facing the beginning of Genesis] entered memoranda of the dates of the birth, &c., of himself and members of his family, including his brother Christopher Milton [baptized 3 Dec., 1615] and his nephews Edward and John Phillips. The first five entries appear to have been made together in 1646 the last two, written in 1657/8, after Milton had become totally blind, were added under his direction by another hand.-Add. MS. 32, 310."

The entries are as follows:

"John Milton was born the 9th of December, 1608, die Veneris half an howr after in the

MS. 4244.
the morning 1652.'"-Birch Autograph

Mrs. Foster, daughter of Deborah, third
daughter of Milton, of whom a long account
is given in vol. vi. p. 751 ff. of Masson's
'Life of Milton,' married Abraham Clarke,
who died some time after 1688. She
afterwards married Thomas Foster,
weaver in Spitalfields," and died in 1727.

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All Milton's children are mentioned excepting Katherin. Masson gives the following entries from the burial registers of St. Margaret's, Westminster, "Feb. 10, 1657/8, Mrs. Katherin Milton," and again, "March 20, 1657/8, Mrs. Katherin Milton," and remarks that from these entries we should not know which designated the mother and which the child. He quotes, however, a sentence in Phillips's memoir of his uncle

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