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2. Legimus in historiis et in chronicis antiquorum Brittonum, et in gestis et annalibus antiquis Scotorum et Pictorum, quod illa regio quæ nunc corrupte vocatur Scotia, antiquitus appellabatur Albania ab Albanacto juniore filio Bruti primi Regis Brittanorum majoris Brittania. Et post multum intervallum temporis a Pictis Pictavia; qui regnaverunt in ea per circulum MLXX. annorum. Secundum quosdam MCCCLX. nunc vero corrupte vocatur Scotia. Scotti vero regnarunt per spatium cccxv. annorum; anno illo quo Vilhelmus Rex Rufus, frater Malcolmi viri honestæ vitæ et virtutis, regnum suscepit.

"3. Regio enim ista formam et figuram hominis in se habet. Pars namque pricipalis ejus, id est, caput est in Arregathel in occidentali parte Scotia supra mare Hybernia; Pedes vero ejus sunt supra mare Northwagia; montes vero et deserta de Arregaithel capiti et collo hominis assimilantur; corpus vero ipsius est mons qui Mound vocatur. Qui a mari occidentali usque ad mare orientale extenditur. Brachia autem ejus sunt ipsi montes, qui dividunt Scotiam ab Arregaithel. Latus dexteræ partis ex Murref et Ros et Mar et Buchan; crura enim illius sunt illa duo principalia et præclara flumina (quæ descendunt de monte prædicto, i.e. Mound) quæ vocantur Tae et Spe. Quorum unum fluit citra montem, alterum vero ultra in mare Norvegale. Inter crura hujus hominis sunt Enegus et Moerne citra montem, et ultra montem aliæ terræ inter Spe et montem.

4. Hæc vero terra a septem fratribus divisa fuit antiquitus in septem partes. Quarum pars principalis est Enegus cum Moerne ab Enegus primogenito fratrum sic nominata. Secunda autem pars est Adthehodle et Gouerin; Pars etiam tertia est Stradeern cum Meneted. Quarta pars partium est Fife cum Foth-reve. Quinta vero pars est Marr cum Buchen. Sexta autem est Murref et Ros. Septima enim pars est Cathanesia citra montem et ultra montem. Quia mons Mound dividit Cathanesiam per medium."

in the first instance it came out in the form of handbills, broadsides, and newspaper articles, but a good deal of it was subsequently reprinted. It would be interesting if Mr. Wing would favour us with a bibliographical note upon these collections. I have the following three, but probably there were more, published in 1753-4:

The Oxfordshire Contest; or, the whole Controversy between the Old and New Interest. Lond., 8vo., 1753 Pp. 64. The Old and New Interest; or, a Sequel to the Oxfordshire Contest. Lond., 8vo., 1753. Pp. 72 Oxfordshire in an Uproar; or, the Election Magazine. Oxford, 8vo., no date. Pp. 78.

Mr. Wing refers to the debates on the Oxfordshire election of 1754 as reported in the London Magazine; he quotes the imaginary Latin names under which the real names of the members were concealed, but does not give the latter. If he has not the key, I shall have much pleasure in sending it to him, for without it it is difficult to find out that L. Tarquinius Collatinus stands for Sir C. Mordaunt (the sixth baronet, 1721-78), and that Mamilius Octavius means Horace Walpole, Esq., not "the Horace," but his uncle, who was created Baron Walpole of Wolterton in 1756.

Sutton, Surrey.

EDWARD SOLLY.

[See "N. & Q.," 5th S. xii. 428; 6th S. i. 22.]

LONDON BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.-I am a little surprised at the omissions in the several lists of London printers and publishers which have In the Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores Veteres appeared in "N. & Q." during the last year or (O'Conor) will be found some interesting notes two, and, though I have long since given up taking of the descent of the kings of Albany in a line from notes of such matters, I think the following supConor II., King of Ireland, and a metrical series plementary list may be of interest to some of your of these kings from an Irish MS. written about readers. My notes, as a rule, never embraced any A.D. 1057, formerly at Stowe, vol. i. p. cxxiv. people who printed or sold books in London before et seqq., entitled Regum Hibernorum Albania series Queen Elizabeth or after Charles I. For the present Metrica. The great mass of evidence on the sub-I can offer you only a list of those whose names ject between pp. cxxii. and cxliii. will repay the begin with A and B. Others may follow as I perusal of the student of history.

Cork.

R. C.

THE OXFORDSHIRE ELECTION OF 1754.-A little tract on the subject of this very remarkable political contest has recently been printed by Mr. William Wing, the active secretary of the North Oxfordshire Archaeological Society, which possesses considerable interest. There is a large amount of ephemeral literature connected with these great elections which it is by no means easy to meet with in after years, but which nevertheless, from the many anecdotes they contain and the many references in them to local characters and customs, are often worthy of being collected and preserved. Mr. Wing observes, with regard to the Oxfordshire election of 1754, that "much of the literature has survived to our own time." Of course,

shall find leisure :

Alsop, Bernard, printer.-Printed for Thomas Jones bookseller, 1621; Richard Fleming, 1618; John Hodget 1619.

Allot, Robert, bookseller.-Had a shop in Paul's
Churchyard called the Black Bear, where Ep. Earle's
will's Apology, 1635.
Microcosmography was sold in 1629; published Hake-

Alchorn, Thomas, bookseller.-At the sign of the
Green Dragon in Paul's Churchyard, 1634; published
Giles Fleming's Paul's Cross Sermon, 1634.
Parrot in Paul's Churchyard. Published Boys's Remains,
Aspley, William, bookseller.-At the sign of the
folio, 1622.

Allde, Edward, printer.-Printed for N. Butter The
Joyful Return of Prince Charles, 1623.
Goldsmith's Row in Cheapside." Published sermons by
Bartlett, John, bookseller.-"The Golden Cup in the
Richard Harris, of Hanwell, 1610. I find him still at
his post in 1640.

Boulton, Robert, bookseller.-Apparently in partner.

ship with one J. Wright. They published together A Commentary on Romans XI., by Thomas Draxe, of Coventry, 1609.

Bladon, William, bookseller. At the sign of the Bible in Paul's Churchyard. Published Sherwood's translation of Bede's Right and Prerogative of Kings, 1612.

Barnes, John, bookseller.-"At his shop in Christ Church Walk." Published A Looking Glass for Petitioners, a sermon by John Newman, of Framlingham, 16mo., Bird, Robert, bookseller.-At the sign of the Bible in Cheapside. Published Edmond Jessop's Discovery of the Errors of the English Anabaptists, 1623.

1619.

Bill, John.-The King's printer.
Badger, Richard, printer.-Printed for Thomas Al-

chorn.

Burby, Cuthbert, bookseller.-Published Sutton's
Disce Vivere, "at his shop at the Exchange,” 1602.
Bradwood, Melchior, printer.-For Felix Norton, Lady
Grimeston's Miscellanies, 1604.
Beale, John, printer. For Henry Featherstone and

John Parker, 1618.

Barret, William.-Published Coke's Censura Quorundam Scriptorum, &c., 4to., 1614.

Burre, Walter, bookseller.-Published The Trade's Increase, 4to., 1615.

Budge, John, bookseller.-Published Sir A. Gorge's True Transcript, &c., "at his shop at Britain Burse," 4to., 1611.

Blount, E.-Printed Bryskett's Discourse of Civil Life, 4to., 1606.

Bourne, Nicholas, bookseller.-Published Explanation of the General Epistle of St. Jude, by Samuel Otes, folio, at his shop at the south entrance of the Royal Ex change, 1633.

AUGUSTUS JESSOPP, D.D.

"THE BLICKLING HOMILIES," E. E. TEXT SOCIETY.-Dr. Morris, in the preface to his edition of these Homilies, writes :

"We find a few Latin words in these Homilies, most of which are to be met with in earlier documents: cantic, templ, p. 5; gigant, p. 9; mynetere, p. 71; ele, p. 73; carcern, p. 85; bisceop, biscep, munec, p. 109; (heah) diacon (archdeacon), subdiacon, p. 109; reliquium, p. 127; munt, p. 137; palm (twig) p. 139; fic (treow), Apostol, p. 155; engle, p. 157; martire, p. 167; caserë, p. 179; tor, p. 187; mile, p. 193; sealm, p. 199; almessan (alms), p. 199; marmanstán, p. 203; papa, p. 205; massepreost, p. 207; gecristnod, p. 215; mynster, p. 217; fefor, p. 217.

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cyrican, pp. 41, 207, fœmne, passim; eosol, pp. 69, 71, also occur. I have not added proper names, but Catacumbe, p. 193, which is used as a proper name, deserves to be inserted.

There are traces of the use of Latin and English words synonymously, as cantice, p. 5, and sange, p. 45; sealm-sange, p. 199, and lof-sangas, p. 201; easter and burh, p. 77, of Jerusalem; heah munt and heáh dune, pp. 33, 93; stræte, p. 189, and wege, p. 193. The Latin words form compounds, as almes-dæædum, p. 37; bisceop-hade, p. 219; heah-diaconas, p. 109; heah-englum, p. 25; massedagum, p. 47; munuc-life, p. 213; non-tide, p. 47; sealm-sceop, p. 55; pap-seld, p. 205; palm-twig, p. 137; ceaster-wic, p. 69; ceasterware, p. 71; fefor-adle, p. 209. I have counted Greek and Hebrew words taken through Latin as Latin words, and I have usually given the I have not added exact form which first occurs. references to Dr. Morris's list, but many of the words occur more than once. O. W. TANCOCK.

OLD SOUTHWARK : THE TAYLOR FAMILY. 1629.-The following notes of an Inquisition in Lunacy may be of interest as giving the names of some of the old inns in Southwark in the early part of the seventeenth century, and as supplying some information relative to the Taylor family of that place.

On Oct. 14, 5 Charles (1629), an Inquisition in Lunacy was taken by which it was returned that John Taylor, gentleman, a lunatic, was seised of a messuage, tenement, or burgage in Shipyorde, in or by Long Southwark, in the county of Surrey, commonly called the sign of the Ship, and of a messuage, tenement, or burgage in or by Shipyorde aforesaid called the sign of the Connye, and all houses, buildings, shops, &c., respectively being in the separate occupations of Robert Chambers, William Radeye, William Monke, Joseph Wall, and Daniel Monster, and of different other messuages, &c., in Shipyorde aforesaid, and that John Taylor, jun., his son, was at the date of taking this inquisition of the age of one year one month and thirteen days. This John Taylor (prior to his lunacy) married Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew Maynwaring, of Nantwich, co. Chester, gent., and by an indenture after marriage, dated Dec. 1, 4 Charles (1628), covenanted with _Roger Wilbraham, of Derfold, co. Chester, Esq., Richard Mynshull, of Nantwich, gent., and Thomas Maynwaring, son and heir apparent of the said Matthew Cherubine, p. 141; deofol, p. 1 (deofollican, Maynwaring, to settle the said premises to the p. 137; deofol-sercum, p. 173; deofol-geldum, following uses, to himself for life, then to Elizabeth, pp. 201, 221); gim, pp. 11, 195; lawere (=laurel, his wife, for her life, remainder to the use of John bay), p. 169; lilian, p. 7; nardus, p. 73; non-Taylor, his son and heir in tail male, with succestide (three o'clock), p. 47; olfenda (of camel's hair), p. 169; porticas, pp. 125, 207; rosan, p. 7; sacerda, pp. 77, 153, 177; spica, p. 73; strate, p. 189; tunecan, p. 169; turturan, p. 23; ymen (=hymns), pp. 147, 151. The more doubtful words

Pegn is the ordinary word for 'disciple,' but discipul for 'discipuli' occurs on p. 277. Ceaster is applied to a city, while the native wic is used with reference to a mean village, see p. 77.”

Such lists are so useful that I hope you will find room for this; and, if so, may I beg space to supply some missing words? My list had been made before the preface, &c., appeared.

sive remainders to his second, third, fourth sons,
&c., in tail male. He was so seised, and on March
20, 4 Charles (1629), became a lunatic.
J. P. EARWAKER.

Pensarn, Abergele, N. Wales,

"MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT," Part II. (Return ordered by House of Commons, March 1, 1878).— Part I. of this interesting Return was noticed at some length in the Athenæum of Nov. 29, 1879, when the hope was expressed that Part II. would contain an alphabetical index of the names of M.P.s, which adds so much to the usefulness and popularity of Cave's Parliamentary Register. It is to be regretted that this suggestion has not been followed, and still more that Part II. should be disfigured by a grievous omission, which has been completely overlooked in the press. The list of Parliaments of the United Kingdom, 1801-1874, really ends with the names of the members returned from Gloucestershire in 1865, for p. 464 is followed by pp. 643-692, containing the names of Irish Members from 1695 to 1800. P. 692 is followed by p. 521, which begins with the Parliament of Scotland of 1462. It was not, as I had hoped at first, that the binder had transposed the pages, for pp. 643-692 appear again in their proper place, whilst pp. 465-520 are missing altogether. This grave omission in a Parliamentary Return of so much historical interest is not creditable, and ought to be promptly remedied.

TEWARS.

A LANCASHIRE CUSTOM.-The following extract from the St. James's Gazette of June 22, 1881, deserves a place in the columns of "N. & Q.":

"A singular case came before the Clitheroe magis. trates yesterday. Once a year the villages of Chipping go through the ceremony of electing, as an imaginary mayor, the man who has distinguished himself by getting 'most drunk.' He is placed upon a chair, and a procession, headed by two intoxicated cornet-players, and carrying mops, firearms, and painted sticks, is formed. The police summoned two men for taking part in the ceremony, as it was likely to create a disturbance. The cases were, however, dismissed, and one of the magistrates remarked that he 'approved of these old customs.'

T. F. THISELTON DYER.

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M. LITTRÉ AND HIS DICTIONARY.-The following paragraph, which I have cut from the Leeds Mercury of June 7, is worth preserving in "N. & Q.":

"The Temps publishes a document written by M. Littré himself, describing the way in which he economized time while working at his dictionary. He rose at eight o'clock, and took some work downstairs with him while his room was being put in order. At nine o'clock he went up again, and corrected proof-sheets till breakfast time. From one o'clock till three he worked for

the Journal des Savants, and from three till six at the dictionary. At six he went down to dinner. It lasted about an hour. He says he constantly violated the principle that one should not recommence work immediately after dinner, and he never suffered from it. From seven till three next morning he worked again at the dictionary, and after work slept at once, and as soundly as man could desire."

ANON.

BOSTON AND ITS PEOPLE.-The following local rhyme occurs in Facts and Remarks relative to the

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Thou hast naught to boast on

But a grand sluice and a high steeple,
A proud, conceited, ignorant people,

And a coast where souls are lost on." "-P. 33.
K. P. D. E.

SEVEN GENERATIONS.-One evening last week I met an old man and a boy returning from their day's work; the man, aged eighty-six, is greatnot let them pass without reminding the old man grandfather to the boy, aged fourteen. I could that few people live to see their great-grandchildren-fewer still live to see them old enough to go to work for their living-but rarely indeed are they spared in strength to go to work beside them. In further conversation my old friend told me that he well remembered his great-grandmother, who was buried in 1802 at the age of ninety-three, when he followed her to the grave, the fact that the service was read by the light of a the funeral being impressed on his recollection by lantern on a dark winter's afternoon. This hale old workman has thus seen seven generations. W. D. PARISH.

Selmeston.

THE KNEBWORTH REGISTERS."Fragments of an ancient original Register of Knebworth, consisting of 36 leaves, found amongst some old waste papers in a private house.' The first leaf is headed, A booke, or registre, conteyninge all Christeninges, Maryages, and Buryalls within the parish of Knebworthe, from 29 Sept., 1598, to 1720, along with the Churchwardens' accounts from 1598 to May, 1609." In looking over the appendix to the Third Report of the Royal Historical Manuscripts Commission, p. 367, I noted the above, being portion of a collection of 178 volumes of MSS. collected by the Rev. Jones, now in London, in the library of the Rev. Dr. Williams, Grafton Street East. A knowledge of the whereabouts of this register may prove serviceable to genealogists; hence I F. A. B. send it for insertion.

WILKIE'S PICTURE OF THE QUEEN'S FIRST COUNCIL.-In this picture, so well known from the engraving, the appearance of the Queen dressed in white must often have caused surprise. In the interesting Life, lately edited by the Hon. Mrs. Hardcastle, Lord Campbell says (vol. ii. p. 100) :

:

"Lest any of my children, from seeing Wilkie's picture, in which I am introduced, should suppose that I attended in a silk robe and full-bottomed wig, let me say The privy councillors and others who were present that the costumes are all the invention of the painter. attended in their usual morning dresses; and the Queen

was in black, instead of wearing a white muslin robe, as, for artistic effect, he has represented her." JAYDEE.

ULTRA-CENTENARIANISM.-It may possibly be a matter of interest to MR. THOMs and other of your readers to learn that there is an old lady residing at Crumpsall, near Manchester, who on the 10th of June reached the extraordinary age of one hundred and seven years. This venerable lady, Mrs. Jane Pinkerton, was born north of the Tweed on the 10th of June, 1774, in very humble circumstances, and migrated to England when a young woman. She has a very vivid recollection of the events that occurred during the memorable period commencing with the French Revolution and terminating with the battle of Waterloo, and it is her chief delight to recount to her many visitors her reminiscences of eighty and ninety years ago. JOSEPH BROWN. Manchester.

APPLE-SCOOPS.-Some fifty or sixty years ago apple-scoops made out of bone were in general use, and were even placed on the dessert table with dishes of apples, as crackers are with nuts. Clare, the Northamptonshire poet, notices this in his Shepherd's Calendar:

"Some spent the hour in leisure's pleasant toil,

Making their apple-scoops of bone the while." But the fashion has changed, and it is now rare to meet with one of the old bone scoops, and still more rare to see any person scooping an apple in the good old-fashioned way that took out the sweet pulp. EDWIN LEES, F.L.S.

Worcester.

Queries.

We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest, to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

ANCIENT KALENDARS.-Can any of your readers explain the meaning of a capital S which is prefixed to seventy-seven minor festivals in the calendar of the Leofric Missal, c. A.D. 970? I append a list of the thirty-four days so marked out of a total of one hundred and thirteen festivals in the first six months :

Jan. 2, Genovefa; 13, Oct. of the Epiphany; 14, Felix; 16, Marcellus; 18, Prisca; 20, Sebastian; 21, Agnes; 22, Vincent; 24, Babillus; 25, Conv. of St. Paul; 28, Oct. of St. Agnes.

February 5, Agatha; 14, Valentine; 22, Cathedra Petri.

March 9, XL Milites.

April 14, Tiburtius; 23, George; 24, Mellitus; 28, Vitalis.

May 6, St. John, ante Port Lat; 10, Gordian; 12; Nereus; 13, Eccles. B.M.V.; 14, Victor; 19, Potentiana; 25, Urban.

Marcus; 19, Gervasius; 23, Etheldreda; 25, John; 23,
Fabian.

June 2, Marcellinus; 9. Primus; 12, Basilides; 18,

In the same perpendicular line with the S a capital F, evidently for Festum, is prefixed to thirty-three festivals, almost exclusively connected with our Lord, the B.V.M., and the apostles. Both the F and the S are ornamented with a middle point on either side (FS). The only other calendar which I have seen where a similar arrangement exists throughout is in Cott. MS., Jul. A. vi., where almost exactly the same days. are selected for both marks as in the Leofric Missal. PICKFORD mentions (6th S. iii. 478) that a school- B. v., but has been carried out for January only. The same arrangement occurs in Tib. boy at Eton in the time of the Plague was whipped for not smoking. Curiously enough, within the last month I heard at Eton that a boy has just been sent away, or rather expelled, from the Charterhouse, his only offence being that he was found smoking.

DIVERSITY OF SCHOOL PUNISHMENTS.-MR.

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F. E. WARREN.

"A CREATURE OF CHRIST."-This epithet occurs frequently in the sixteenth century register of burials of children at Kidderminster. What is its exact meaning? It appears to be added only in those cases in which no Christian name is given; but I will not be certain of this, not having had time to go carefully through the volume.

J. O. H.-P.

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[The following references in Marshall's Genealogist's Guide, s.v. "Conyers," may be of use:-Foster's Visitations of Yorkshire, 71, 164, 244, 508; Surtees Soc., xxxvi. 340, xli. 48; Whitaker's Richmondshire, ii. 42; Graves's Cleveland, 49, 330, 439; Ord's Cleveland, 555; Burke's Landed Gentry, second edit.]

SIR JAMES LUTTRELL OR LOTEREL, died Feb. 2, 39 Hen. VI. (Rot. Pat. 9 Edw. IV., Part 2), leaving his wife Elizabeth surviving, who made affidavit in 1475 that she was not an alien, but born at Exeter, and was wife to the said James

from Dec. 29, 39 Hen. VI., till his death.(b.,
15 Edw. IV., Part 1.) Of what family was Eliza-
beth? and how came Sir James to be in possession
of Dunster Castle, co. Somerset, which
our hands with all lands held by James Loterell,
Knight" (Tb., 9 Edw. IV., Part 2) ?

came to

HERMENTRUDE.

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WAS. LUTHER. HAT. GELEHRT; bust front face;
ex., GEB. 1483. 10. NOV. GEST. 1546. 18. FEBR.
Rev. Leg., DRUM. BLEIBT. ES. FELSEN. GLEICH
AUCH. EWIG. UNVERSEHRT; field, a base of rocks,
on which is a table and on it an open book, in-
scribed BIBLIA : over it an eye in a radiated
triangle, clouds to left with wind, clouds to right
with forked lightning; ex., DAS ANDERE
IUBELFEST. 1717. 31. OCTOB. Edge plain. I
shall be glad of any information respecting this
medal. It is very rudely struck, and the legend
is partly double struck. To what event in Luther's
life does it refer? W. STAVENHAGEN JONES.
79, Carlton Hill, N.W.

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AN EPITAPH.-Who was the author of the following epitaph ?—

"Underneath this stone doth lie
As much virtue as could die,
Which in life did vigour give

To as much beauty as could live."
This beautiful epitaph occurs on several old tombs
near Edinburgh, but I have a strong conviction
that I have read it in some one of the older

English poets. Some persons have attributed it that it formed part of that poet's famous epitaph to Ben Jonson, but they thought, erroneously, R. S. S. on the Countess of Pembroke.

the discrepancy, in the blazoning of the phoenix in the Seymour crest, between the various heralds

THE SEYMOUR CREST.-What is the reason for

and other writers?

Guillim.-Out of a crown a phoenix sacrificing herself, all proper.

Collins. Out of a ducal coronet or a phoenix in flames proper, with wings expanded or.

Debrett. Out of a ducal coronet or a phoenix in flames proper.

Mrs. Bury Pallisser.-On p. 382, Out of a ducal coronet or a phoenix or; on p. 330, a phoenix in flames proper.

Burke. Out of a ducal coronet or a phoenix of the last in flames proper.

Which blazon of the phoenix is correct? Or are they correct in blazoning the phoenix "or" at one date and "proper" at another, and when was the change made? What was the correct blazon of the phoenix in the crest of Sir Edward Seymour, of Berry Pomeroy, Devon, ob. 1613? CHAS. D. PITCHER.

A STONE COFFIN FOUND IN THE MERSEY.Some years ago I read a very interesting account, taken from an English newspaper, of the finding of a stone coffin in the river Mersey, somewhere, I think, near Runcorn. Its discovery was somewhat singular, but I have forgotten the circumstances. Hôtel Vendôme, Boston, U.S. Something was said about presenting it, with its "POMATUM."-When did this Latinized form contents, to the British Museum. I have never seen any notice of it since. Perhaps some of the of pomade or pommade come into use in our lanreaders of "N. & Q." can furnish further informa-guage? I have not found the word in the diction. tionaries of Nares, Halliwell, or Wright. Richardson gives Tatler, No. 246, for the earliest use of it, whilst Johnson quotes only from Wiseman. I

C. W. C.

Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
NUMISMATIC: MEDAL. Martin Luther. AR. have recently met with the word in Decker (1604):
Obv.: Leg.,
Zounds, I looke worse now then I did before,

ES IST DER SCHRIFFT GEMAS

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