Do the stanzas “on the Queen’s Return” and the lines on the Death of Sir B. Grenvill exist in any of the various collections of State Poems?

INVESTIGATOR.

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MINOR QUERIES.

Christencat.

In Day’s edition of Tyndale’s Works, Lond. 1573, at p. 476, Tyndale says:—­

“Had he” [Sir Thomas More] “not come begging for the clergy from purgatory, with his supplication of souls—­nor the poor soul and proctor been there with his bloody bishop Christen catte, so far conjured into his own Utopia.”

I take the word to be Christencat; but its two parts are so divided by the position of Christen at the end of one line, and catte at the beginning of the next as to prevent it from being certain that they form one word.  But I would gladly learn from any of your correspondents, whether the name of Christencat, or Christian-cat, is that of any bishop personified in the Old Moralities, or known to have been the satirical sobriquet for any bishop of Henry VIII’s time.  The text would suggest the expectation of its occurring either in More’s Utopia, or in his Supplication of Souls, but I cannot find it in either of them.

HENRY WALTER.

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Hexameter Verses in the Scriptures.

Sir,—­I shall feel obliged to any of your readers who will refer me to an hexameter line in the authorised English version of the Old Testament.

The following are two examples in the New Testament.

_   U   U  |  _     _    |  _   _  | _  _  | _     U  U|_   _   ||
Art thou he | that should | come or | do we | look for a|nother. ||

_  _    |  _    _   |  _     _  | _   _  |  _  U  U| _      _    ||
Husbands | love your | wives and | be not | bitter a|gainst them. ||

W.J.B.R.

NOTES ON BOOKS—­CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.

The extraordinary collection of the works of Daniel Defoe formed by Mr. Walter Wilson, his biographer, which at his sale realised the sum of 50_l_., and which had been rendered still further complete by the addition of upwards of forty pieces by the recent possessor, when sold by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on Wednesday, the 5th instant, produced no less than 71_l_.  Mr. Toovey was the purchaser.

The Shakspeare Society have just issued a very interesting volume, the nature of which is well described by its ample title-page:—­

“Inigo Jones.  A Life of the Architect, by Peter Cunningham, Esq.  Remarks on some of his Sketches for Masques and Dramas, by J.R.  Planche, Esq.; and Five Court Masques.  Edited from the original MSS. of Ben Jonson, John Marston, etc., by John Payne Collier, Esq.; accompanied by Facsimiles of Drawings by Inigo Jones; and by a Portrait from a Painting by Vandyck.”