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قراءة كتاب Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
"When found, make a note of."—CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 34. |
SATURDAY, JUNE 22. 1850. |
Price Threepence. |
CONTENTS.
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Notes:— |
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The Agapemone of the Sixteenth Century, by E. F. Rimbault, LL.D. |
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Punishment of Death by Burning, by C. Ross and Rev. A. Gatty |
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Folk Lore:—Death-bed Mystery—Easter Eggs—May Marriages—"Trash" or "Skriker" |
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Notes on Milton |
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Colvil's Whigg's Supplication |
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Queries:— |
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Hubert le Sœur's Six Brass Statues by E. F. Rimbault, LL.D. |
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Bishop Jewell's Library |
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The Low Window |
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Minor Queries:—North Sides of Churchyards—Hatfield—Ulrich von Hutten—Simon of Ghent—Boetius—Gloucestershire Gospel Tree—Churchyards—Epitaphs—Anthony Warton—Cardinal's Hat—Maps of London—Griffith of Penrhyn—Mariner's Compass—Pontefract on the Thames |
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Replies:— |
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Study of Geometry in Lancashire by T. T. Wilkinson |
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Queries Answered, No. 8., by Bolton Corney |
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Meaning of Bawn |
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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 |
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Miscellanies:— |
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Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury—Mistake in Conybeare and Howson's Life of St. Paul |
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Miscellaneous:— |
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Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. |
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Books and Odd Volumes Wanted |
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Notices to Correspondents |
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Advertisements |
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.
"'Not content,' says Fuller, speaking of Nicholas, 'to confine his errors to his own country, over he comes into England, and in the latter end of the reign of Edward the Sixth, joyned himself to the Dutch congregation in London, where he seduced a number of artificers and silly women.'"—Church. Hist., p. 112, ed. 1655.
On the 12th of June, 1575, according to the historian