S. N.'s "Antidote," &c.—I have just purchased an old book, in small quarto, of which the title is—
"An Antidote or Soveraigne Remedie against the pestiferous Writings of all English Sectaries, and in particular against Dr. Whitaker, Dr. Fulke, Dr. Bilson, Dr. Reynolds, Dr. Sparkes, and Dr. Field, the chiefe upholders, some of Protestancy, some of Puritanisme; divided into three Parts, &c., &c., &c. By S. N., doctour of divinity. Permissu superiorum, MDCXV."
Who is the author S. N., and what other particulars are known respecting it?
Lewis Kelly.
Leeds.
[Sylvester Norris is the author. There is an edition published in 1622, 4to.]
Beads.—When was the use of beads, for the purpose of counting prayers, first introduced into Europe?
C. W. G.
[For the repose of a bishop, by Wilfrid's Canons of Cealcythe, A.D. 816, can. X., seven belts of paternosters were to be said; the prayers being numbered probably by studs fixed on the girdle. But St. Dominic invented the rosary, which contains ten lesser beads representing Ave Marias, to one larger standing for a paternoster.]