Calvin's Correspondence (Vol. vii., pp. 501. 621.).—It may be well to mention that all the letters of Calvin which Mr. Walter quotes, are to be found in the old collection of his correspondence; perhaps, however, the latter copies may be fuller or more correct in some parts.
The original French of the lone letter to Protector Somerset is printed by Henry in his Life of Calvin; but, like the other documents of that laborious work, it is omitted without notice in the English travestie which bears the name of Dr. Stebbing.
Heylyn's mis-statement as to Calvin and Cranmer is exposed, and the ground of it is pointed out, in the late edition of the Ecclesia Restaurata, vol. i. p. 134.
J. C. R.
Old Booty's Case (Vol. vii., p. 634.).—A friend, on whose accuracy I can rely, has examined the London Gazettes for 1687 and 1688, in the British Museum: they do not contain any report of Booty's case. I thought I had laid Booty's ghost in Vol. iii., p. 170., by showing that the facts of the case were unlikely and the law impossible.
H. B. C.
U. U. Club.
Chatterton (Vol. vii., p. 267.).—We are all very curious in Bristol to know what evidence or light J. M. G. of Worcester can bring to bear upon the Rowley Poems from the researches (as he states) of an individual here to prove not only that Chatteron was not their author, but that probably the "Venerable Rowley" himself was.
I had thought in 1853 no one doubted their authorship. There is abundance of proof to show Rowley could not have written them, and that only Chatterton could have done so.