"In 1641 appeared the _Haleluiah, or Britain's Second Remembrancer_ ... which book, now as scarce as the first _Remembrancer_ is common, I have not seen."
It is therefore very probable that the work is seldom to be met with. I have a copy, but it is unfortunately imperfect; wanting a few leaves (only a few I imagine) at the end. There is no index, nor table of contents, by which I might ascertain the extent of the deficiency. The last page is 478, and contains a portion of Hymn 60, part iii. If any reader of "NOTES AND QUERIES" would kindly inform me what is the number of pages of the work, and where a copy may be seen, he will oblige
[The work consists of 487 pages, with an index of twelve more. A copy of it in in the Library of the British Museum.]
_Voltaire's Henriade._--Is it known who is the author of the English translation of this poem into blank verse, published in 1732. The preface and the notes create a desire to know the author. In one of the notes (17) he speaks of something as being "proved at large in my _History of Christianity_ now ready for the press." I am not aware that any such work exists. Was it ever published? If not what became of the manuscript?
[Voltaire's _Henriade_ was translated by John Lockman, a gentleman of great literary industry, who died Feb. 2, 1771. See Nichols's _Bowyer_, and Chalmers's _Biographical Dictionary_. A list of his published works will be found in Watt's _Bibliotheca Britan_.]
_Christ-Crosse A._--In Tatham's _Fancie's Theater_, 12mo., 1640, is a poem in praise of sack, wherein the following lines occur:
"The very children, ere they scarce can say Their Pater Noster, or their _Christ-crosse A_, Will to their Parents prattle, and desire To taste that Drinke which Gods doe so admire."
Can any of your readers inform me the meaning of "_Christ-Crosse A_" here mentioned? Does it allude to some alphabet then in use?
[The alphabet was so designated, because in the old primers a cross was prefixed to it. Nares tells us that in French it was called _Croix de par Dieu_; and upon reference to Cotgrave for an expression of that term we find, "The Christ's-cross-row; or the hornbook wherein a child learns it."]
_Apple-pie Order._--_Spick and Span new._--My wife very much grudges my spending threepence a week for the "NOTES AND QUERIES", and threatens me with stopping the allowance unless I obtain from some of your correspondents answers to the two following Queries:--