EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

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BISHOP COSIN’S FORM OF CONSECRATION OF CHURCHES.

We learn from Wilkins (Concilia, tom. iv. p. 566, ed.  Lond. 1737), also from Cardwell (Synodal. pp. 668. 677. 820. ed.  Oxon. 1842), and from some other writers, that the care of drawing up a Form of Consecration of Churches, Chapels, and Burial-places, was committed to Bishop Cosin by the Convocation of 1661; which form, when complete, is stated to have been put into the hands of Robert, Bishop of Oxon, Humphrey, Bishop of Sarum, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and John, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, for revision.

I should feel much obliged if (when you can find space) you would kindly put the query to your correspondents—­“What has become of this Form?”

There is at Durham a Form of Consecration of Churches, said to be in the hand-writing of Basire; at the end of which the following notes are written: 

“This forme was used at the consecration of Christ’s Church,
neare Tinmouth, by the Right Rev. Father in God, John, Lord
Bishop of Duresme, on Sunday, the 5th of July, 1668.

“Haec forma Consecrationis consonant cum forma Reverendi in
Christo Patris Lanceloti Andewes, edit. anno 1659.

“Deest Anathema, Signaculum in antiquis dedicationibus.

“Deest mentio (Nuptiarum. 
(Purificationis Mulierum.”

As this, however, can hardly be the missing Form of Consecration of Churches, &c., which Cosin himself seems to have drawn up for the Convocation of 1661, but which appears to have been no more heard of from the time when it was referred to the four bishops for revision, the question still remains to be answered—­What has become of that Form?  Can the MS. by any chance have found its way into the Library of Peterhouse, Cambridge, or into the Chapter Library at Peterborough—­or is any other unpublished MS. of Bishop Cosin’s known to exist in either of these, or in any other library?

J. Sansom.

8.  Park Place, Oxford, Feb. 18, 1850.

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PORTRAITS OF LUTHER, ERASMUS, AND ULRIC VON HUTTEN.

I am very much indebted to “S.W.S.” for the information which he has supplied (No. 15. p. 232.) relative to ancient wood-cut representations of Luther and Erasmus.  As he has mentioned Ulric von Hutten also (for whom I have an especial veneration, on account of his having published Valla’s famous Declamatio so early as 1517), perhaps he would have the kindness to state which is supposed to be the best wood-cut likeness of this resolute ("Jacta est alea”) man.  “S.W.S.” speaks of a portrait of him which belongs to the year 1523.  I have before me another, which forms the title-page of the Huttenica, issued “ex Ebernburgo,” in 1521.  This was, I believe, his place of refuge from the consequences which resulted from his annexation