NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS,

BY THE TRANSLATOR.

For your writing and reading, let that appear when there is no need of such vanity-SHAKSPeare.

Will shortly pass to Sion House, the future habitation of the youthful pair.-Page 2.

SION HOUSE." In 1553, on the attainture and execution of the Duke of Somerset, it became the property of the crown, and Queen Mary settled Nuns in it, who were expelled on the accession of Elizabeth, but with this favourable circumstance, that they were permitted to carry their treasures with them. James the First gave it to the Earl of Northumberland and his heirs for ever; and in 1680, Inigo Jones was employed to re-build a great part of it. The house is built on the spot where the church of the monastery stood, on the north side of the Thames; and the ground, where the old garden was, is greatly enlarged. The great gallery extends the whole length of the east front, containing, besides many fine paintings, a vast quantity of

the finest old china, of the most curious patterns, that were ever brought into England."Book's Antiquities, volsinge bas dult staclesooo grad ow doudw to qida It was called also Sion Abbey, and was situated in Warwickshire.

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"Doctor Fagius," exclaimed the innkeeper, in suron of exord hd so prise. p. 8.

master.

Paul Fagius, whose German name was Buchlein, was born at Rheinzabern, in 1504. His father was a schoolHe came over to England with Bucer, and was to have joined with him in a new translation of the Scriptures; Fagius taking the Old Testament, and Bucer the New. But this scheme was defeated by the sudden death of both professors. He died at Cambridge in 1550. Bucer, who is mentioned in a subsequent page, was born in the year 1491 at Schlestadt, and died in the year 1551, at Cambridge, where he was professor of theology. He commenced life as a Dominican monk, but soon became a convert to Luther's doctrines. He then, for some time, occupied the place of preacher to the tecton 39ated 10 psi of Stras the Elector Frederick of the Palatinate; was subsequently Fundum sit years professor at the bold oper for

burgh, till Edward of d till Edward the Sixth invited him over, at the instigation of Archbishop Cranmer. Although he was in the spirit of those times a polemic, yet Cardinal Conyear be tarini called him the most learned theologian amongst the and under the name of Aretius Filimus, he gave a comment on the Psalms. His first wife had

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been a nun; his second, a widow; and after her death he even married a third time. During his life he was an object of great veneration, and it was not the least of his good fortune that he died before Mary came to the throne of England, for it was pretty evident what fate the living man might have expected, when, six years after his death, she caused the body to be disinterred and burnt, to shew her orthodox abhorrence of Protestantism.

In the midst of them they led a woman who had fetters on her hands and feet. p. 16.

"There was a woman accused of heretical pravity, called Joan Bucer, or Joan of Kent, who was so pertinacious, that the commissioners could make no impression upon her. Her doctrine, was That Christ was not truly incarnate of the Virgin, whose flesh, being the outward man, was sinfully begotten, and born in sin; and consequently he could take none of it; but the word, by the consent of the inward man of the Virgin, was made flesh." This opinion, it would seem, is not orthodox; and there was a necessity for delivering the woman to the flames for maintaining it. But the young King, though in such tender years, had, more sense than all his counsellors and preceptors; and he long refused to sign the warrant for her execution. Cranmer was. employed to persuade him to compliance; and he said. there was a great difference between errors in other points of divinity and those which were in direct con

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tradiction to the apostle's creed: these latter were ime pieties against God, which the prince, being God's deputy, ought to repress; in like manner as inferior magistrates were bound to punish offences against the King's person. Edward, overcome by importunity, at last submitted, though with tears in his eyes; and he told Cranmer, that if any wrong were done, the guilt should lie entirely on his head. The primate, after making a new effort to reclaim the woman from her errors, and finding her obstinate against all his arguments, at last committed her to the flames." -HUME, vol. iv. p. 324, de forman un

It is not enough that the tapers are, &c. p. 19. "Orders were issued by council, that candles should no longer be carried about on Candlemas-day; ashes on Ash-Wednesday palms on Palm-Sunday."-HUME, vol. iv. p. 308.

-An order was also issued by council for the removal of all images from the churches; an innovation which was much desired by the reformers. l ar

The preaching of the Pole A-Lasco.-p. 21.

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John A-Lasco was a Polish nobleman, who quittedhis country and titles to take upon himself the office of a reformer. He was invited over to England with his congregation, to the number of five Edward, at the instigation of Cranmer.

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