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cup of fornication, and have drunke of the cup of indignation, but now drinkes the cup of salvation, where sorrow and tears is fled away; and yet am a man of sorrows and well acquainted with griefe, and suffers with the seed, and travels that it may be brought forth of captivity; called by the world F.H." Who is F.H.? 4. Sundry poems on husbandry, housewifery, and the like, by Thomas Tusser; but as the tract is mutilated up to cap. 3., "I have been prayde, To shew mine aide," &c., I am not book-learned enough to know whether it be the same as Tusser's _Five Hundred Poynts of Good Husbandry_. Information on any of the above points would oblige. J.E. _Prebendaries._--When were prebendaries first appointed, and what the nature of their duties generally? What is the rank of a prebendary of a cathedral or other church, whether as a layman or a clerk in orders? Would a vicar, being a prebendary, take precedence as such of a rector not being one? Where is the best account of prebends to be found? S.S.S. _Luther's Portrait at Warwick Castle._--There is at Warwick Castle a fine half-length portrait of Luther by Holbein, very unlike the ordinary portraits of the great reformer. Is this portrait a genuine one? Has it been engraved? E.M.B. _Rawdon Papers._--The Rev. Mr. Berwick, in introducing to the public, in 1819, the interesting volume known by the name of _Rawdon Papers_, says,-- "They are a small part of a correspondence which was left in the Editor's hands after the greater portion had been sent several years before to the Marquis of Hastings, whose absence at this time prevents the Editor's making such additions to his stock as might render it more interesting to the public." Do these papers still exist in the possession of {401} the Hastings family, and is there any chance of a further publication? The volume published by Mr. Berwick contains some very interesting incidental illustrations of the politics, literature, and society of the seventeenth century, and much might be expected from the remaining papers. I may add, that this volume has not been so much used by historians as it should be; but, as was to be expected, it has not escaped Mr. Macaulay. It is not not well edited. C. _Wellington, Wyrwast, Cokam._--In a MS. letter which I have relating to the siege of Taunton in the Civil war, is the following sentence, describing the mov
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