Cuthbert Bede, B.A.
Tanner's MSS.—In a collection of MSS. relative to Eton College, in Birch and Sloane Collection, British Museum, mention is made of Tanner's MSS., which, at the time these MSS. on Eton were collected (1736), were in the Picture Gallery at Oxford. Are these the MSS. inquired for by your correspondent in Vol. vi., p. 434.?
E. G. B.
The Westminster Assembly of Divines.—On the cover of A Collection of Confessions of Faith, &c., of the Church of Scotland, in my possession, is the following memorandum:
"The minutes of the Westminster Assembly are yet reserved in private hands."—Calamy's Abridgment of Baxter's Life, p. 85.
In Dr. Williams's Library, Redcross Street, there is part of a journal; but Neal, in his History of the Puritans (preface), tells us—
"The records of this Assembly were burnt in the Fire of London."
Strype, preface to Lightfoot's Remains, says:
"A journal of the various debates among the learned men in the Westminster Assembly, was diligently kept by Dr. Lightfoot."
And Strype tells us he had seen it.