Hat--Maps of London--Griffith of Penrhyn--Mariner's
Compass--Pontefract on the Thames 55

REPLIES:--
Study of Geometry in Lancashire by T. T. Wilkinson 57
Queries Answered, No. 8., by Bolton Corney 60
Meaning of Bawn 60
Replies to Minor Queries:--Births, Marriages, &c.--M. or
N.--Arabic Numerals--Comment in Apocalypsin--Robert
Deverell--Hippopotamus--Ashes to Ashes--Dr. Maginn's
Miscellanies--Living Dog better than a Dead Lion--Gaol
Chaplains--Rome, Ancient and Modern--Trianon 60

MISCELLANIES:--
Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury--Mistake in Conybeare and
Howson's Life of St. Paul 62

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 63
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 63
Notices to Correspondents 63
Advertisements 64

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Notes.

THE "AGAPEMONE" OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

As it is not generally known that the "Agapemone" had a prototype in the
celebrated _Family of Love_, some account of this "wicked sect" may not at
this moment be without interest to your readers:--

"Henry Nicholas, a Westphalian, born at Munster, but who had lived a
great while at Amsterdam, and some time likewise at Embden, was the
father of this family. He appeared upon the stage about the year 1540,
styled himself the _deified man_, boasted of great matters, and seemed
to exalt himself above the condition of a human creature. He was, as he
pretended, greater than Moses and Christ, because Moses had taught
mankind to _hope_, Christ to _believe_, but he to _love_; which last
being of more worth than both the former, he was consequently greater
than both those prophets."--See Brandt's _Hist. of the Reform, &c., in
the Low Countries_, vol. i. p. 105, ed. 1720.

According to some writers, however, the sect was not founded by Henry
Nicholas, but by David George, an Anabaptist enthusiast of Delft, who died
in 1556; and indeed there is some reason to believe that the _Family of
Love_ grew out of the heresies of the said George, with whom Nicholas had
been on friendly terms.