nd
Seventeenth Centuries_, 3 vols. 8vo. (36s.). He may also consult with
advantage Dr. Maitland's _Dark Ages_, which illustrates the state of
religion and literature from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, 8vo.,
12s. and Berrington's _Literary History of the Middle Ages_, 3s. 6d.]

"_Mrs. Shaw's Tombstone_."--In Leigh's _Observations_ (London, 1660) are
several quotations from a work entitled _Mrs. Shaw's Tombstone_. Where may
a copy of this be seen?

R. C. WARDE.

Kidderminster.

[Mrs. Dorothy Shaw's _Tombstone, or the Saint's Remains_, 1658, may be
seen in the British Museum, Press-mark, 1418. i. 41.]

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Replies.

CRANMER AND CALVIN.

(Vol. viii., p. 182.)

A correspondent who seems to delight in sibilants, signing, himself
S. Z. Z. S., invites me to "_preserve_, in your columns, the letter of
Calvin to Cranmer, of which Dean Jenkyns has only given extracts," as
noticed by me in your Vol. vii., p. 621.

I would not shrink from the trouble of transcribing the whole letter, if a
complete copy were only to be found in the short-lived columns of a
newspaper, as inserted in the _Record_ of May 15, 1843, by Merle d'Aubigne;
but the Dean has given a reference to the volume in which both the letters
he cites are preserved and accessible, viz. _Calvin Epistles_, pp. 134,
135., Genev. 1616. {223}

S. Z. Z. S. justly observes that there are two points to be distinguished:
first, Cranmer's wish that Calvin should assist in a general union of the
churches protesting against Romish errors; second, Calvin's offer to assist
in settling the Church of England. He adds, "The latter was declined; and
the reason is demonstrated in Archbishop Laurence's _Bampton Lectures_." I
neither possess those lectures, nor the volume of Calvin's epistles; but
all I have seen of the correspondence between him and Cranmer, in the
Parker Society's editions of Cranmer, and of original letters between
1537-58, and in Jenkyns' _Remains of Cranmer_, indisposes me to believe
that Calvin made any "offer to assist in settling the Church of England."
It appears from Dean Jenkyns' note, vol. i. p. 346., that Archbishop
Laurence made a mistake in the order of the correspondence, calculated to
mislead himself; and as to Heylyn's assertion, _Eccles. Restaur._, p. 65.,
that Calvin made such an offer and "that the Archbishop (Cranmer) _knew_
the man and refused his offer," the Dean says