ds
respecting the village of Binsey, half-way between Oxford and Godstow.
During the winter and spring months it was nearly all under water, like
Port Meadow, on the opposite side of the river: so if you asked a Binseyite
in winter where he came from, the answer was as above; if in summer,
"Binsey, where else?"

CHAS. PASLAM.

_Midwives Licensed_ (Vol. ii., p. 408.).--On this subject I would refer
S.P.H.T. to Burn's _Ecclesiastical Law_, under the head of "Midwives,"
which is all nearly that can be ascertained at present on that head. Among
other things it says in the oath taken of them,--

"You shall not in anywise use or exercise any manner of witchcraft,
charm, or sorcery, invocation, or other prayers, than may stand with
God's law and the king's."

M.C.R.

_Dr. Timothy Thruscross_ (Vol. ii., p. 441.)--There are frequent notices of
Dr. Thristcross, or Thruscross, in Dr. Worthington's correspondence. (See
Vol. i. of same, edited for the Chetham Society. Index, voc.
"Thristcross.") Dr. Worthington observes, p. 219., "I did love to talk with
worthy Mr. Thirstcross, who knew Mr. Ferrar and Little Gidding."

JAS. CROSSLEY.

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_History of Bohemian Persecution_ (Vol. ii., p. 358.).--See note to
Worthington's _Diary and Correspondence_, vol. i. p. 154., for a notice of
this work of Comenius, and his other publications relating to the Bohemian
church.

JAS. CROSSLEY.

"_Earth has no Rage_" (Vol. iii., p. 23.).--

"Earth has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
And hell no fury like a woman scorn'd."

These are the concluding lines of Act III. of Congreve's _Mourning Bride_.
They stand, however, thus, in the edition to which I have referred:

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd."

JAS. CROSSLEY.

Manchester, 11. Jan. 1851.

_Couplet in De Foe_ (vol. ii., p. 310.).

"Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise,
And good men wicked liberties despise."

The couplet is altered from the following couplet in De Foe's _True Born
Englishman_:--

"Restraint from ill is freedom to the wise,
But Englishmen do all restraint despise."

See collection of his writings, vol. i. p. 20., edit. 1703.

JAS. CROSSLEY.

_Private memoirs of Queen Elizabeth_ (Vol. iii., p. 23.).--"_The Secret
History of the most renowned Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex_. In two
parts. By a person of Quality. Cologne: printed for Will with the Wisp, at