An erroneous date, resting on such authorities as Mr. Hallam and Mr. J. Payne Collier, deserves a note.  The former in his Const.  Hist. (ii. 275. note, second edition), and the latter in the Egerton Papers, printed for the Camden Society (p. 446.), assigns the date 1614 to the death of Bartholomew Legate at Smithfield.  The latter also gives the date March 13.  Now the true date is March 18, 1611-12, as will appear by consulting—­1.  The commissions and warrants for the burning of Legate and Wightman, inserted in Truth brought to Light, or the Narrative History of King James for the first Fourteen Years, 4to. 1651; 2.  Chamberlain’s Letters to Sir Dudley Carleton, dated Feb. 26, 1611 (1611-12), and March 25, 1612, printed in The Court and Times of James I., vol. i. pp. 136. 164.; and 3.  Wallace’s Antitrinitarian Biography, vol. ii. p. 534.  Fuller, in his Church History, gives the correct date, and states that his “burning of heretics much startled common people;” “wherefore King James politicly preferred that heretics hereafter, though condemned, should silently and privately waste themselves away in the prison.”

Legate and Wightman were, in fact, the last martyrs burnt at the stake in England for their religious opinions.

A.B.R.

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BOHN’S EDITION OF MILTON’S PROSE WORKS.

Three volumes of this edition have already appeared, the last bearing the date of 1848, and concluding thus:—­“End of Vol.  III.”  In the latest Catalogue, which Mr. Bohn has appended to his publications, appears a notice of “Milton’s Prose Works, complete in 3 vols.”  This word complete is not consistent with the words terminating the last volume, nor with the exact truth.  For instance, the History of Britain does not find a place in this edition; and I can hardly believe that Mr. Bohn originally intended that the Prose Works of Milton should be issued from his press without a full index.  Without such an index, this edition is comparatively worthless to the investigator of history.  I would therefore suggest to Mr. Bohn (whose services to literature I most gratefully acknowledge), that he should render his edition of Milton’s Prose Works really complete, by issuing a fourth volume, which inter alia, might contain the Latin prose works of Milton, reprinted in Fletcher’s edition of 1834, together with any omitted English prose work of the author, and be terminated, as is usual in Mr. Bohn’s publications, with a full alphabetical index, embracing both persons and things.  The lover of historical pursuits would then have fresh reason to thank Mr. Bohn.

N.

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REPRINT OF JEREMY TAYLOR’S WORKS.

A reprint being called for of vol. iv. of Bishop Jeremy Taylor’s Works, now in course of publication, I would beg permission to make it known to your readers, that assistance in regard to any references which were not verified in the former edition of that volume would be very acceptable to me.  They should be sent within the next fortnight.