Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850

Оглавление

Various. Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850

Notes

THE "AGAPEMONE" OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

PUNISHMENT OF DEATH BY BURNING

FOLK LORE

NOTES ON MILTON

COLVIL'S WHIGG'S SUPPLICATION

Queries

HUBERT LE SŒUR'S SIX BRASS STATUES

BISHOP JEWELL'S LIBRARY

THE LOW WINDOW

Minor Queries

Replies

ON THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE STUDY OF GEOMETRY IN LANCASHIRE

QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 8

MEANING OF "BAWN."

Replies To Minor Queries

Miscellanies

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

Отрывок из книги

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:—

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.

.....

After printing the petition Fuller proceeds—

The Family of Love, after being exposed and ridiculed both in "prose and rime," finally "gave up the ghost," and was succeeded by another "wicked sect" denominated the Ranters.

.....