SELEUCUS.

C.  Agricola, Propugnaculum Anti-Pistorianum.—­Could any of your readers direct me to an accessible library which possess a copy of Christian Agricola’s Propugnaculum Anti-Pistorianum, or otherwise give me any account of that treatise?

J. SANSOM.

The Liturgy Version of the Psalms.—­In Beloe’s Anecdotes of Literature (edition 1807), vol. i. p. 181. and vol. ii. p.316. are notices of The Bishops’ Bible, where mention is made of one edition of it containing two different versions of the Psalms.  The two statements, however, differ, making it doubtful of what is intended; the first speaking of one edition and the second of another.

Vol. i. p. 181. says—­

“The first edition of this Bible was published in 1568.  In this the new translation of the Psalms was inserted alone.  In the second edition the translation of the Great Bible was added in opposite columns, and in a different character.”

Vol. ii. p. 316.:—­

     “Bishops’ Bible, first edition, 1568.  There is also a double
     translation of the Psalms, one from what is called the Great Bible,
     the other entirely a new one.”

Will any of your correspondents be so obliging as to state what is the additional version—­new or other—­there alluded to, other than the present Liturgy version?

X.X.

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MISCELLANIES.

Sir William Rider.—­“P.C.S.S.” is happy to be able to answer one of the questions of “H.F.” (at p. 186.  No. 12.), by referring him to the Extracts from the Parish Registers of St. Olave’s, which were published in vol. ii. of the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica.  At p. 316., of that volume, he will find the following entry, which pretty nearly determines the date of Sir William Rider’s death:—­“1611, November 19.  Sir William Rider diing at Leyton, had his funeralle solemnized in our Church, the hearss being brought from Clothworkers’ Hall.”  In a note to the above entry a further reference is made to Lyson’s Environs, vol. iv. pp. 160, 161. 165.

SONNET.

Written on the opening of the Session, 1847.

“For him was lever han at his beddes hed
Twenty bokes clothed in black or red,
Of Aristotle, and his philosophie,
Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie.”

CHAUCER

             “Me, poor man! my library
  Was dukedom large enough.”—­SHAKSPEARE.

Farewell, my trusty leathern-coated friends! 
’Tis fitting, for a while, that we should part;
For I, as duty points, must shape my ends,
Obey what reason bids, and not my heart. 
What though ’tis mine to listen in that Hall
Where England’s peers, “grave, rev’rend, potent,” sit,
To hear the classic words of STANLEY fall,
BROUGHAM’S biting sarcasm, LYNDHURST’S polished wit,
The measur’d sentence of THE GREAT CALM DUKE—­
It is not mine to commune with the men. 
Not so when I unfold some favorite book,
CHAUCER and I grow boon companions then;
And SHAKSPEARE, deigning at my hearth to sit,
Charms me with mingled love, philosophy, and wit.