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

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 returned from the post office with the announcement "Not found" upon it. I make this other attempt, if you are pleased to admit it, through you; and immediate attention will be paid to any claim which may appear in your pages.
J.R.
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QUERIES.
DR. RICHARD HOLSWORTH AND THOS. FULLER.
Can any of your readers inform me who was the author of _The Valley of Vision_, published in 1651 as the work of Dr. Richard Holsworth, the Master of Emmanuel College, and Dean of Worcester. In