—If T. S. will refer to Wood's Athenæ Oxon., vol. iii. col. 698. edit. 4to., he will find all account of the author of God's Love. Wood records an edition of 1659. In the Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica, No. 594., was one dated 1679; but I have now before me the first, which neither Wood nor his editor appear to have heard of. The title:
"God's Love and Man's Vnworthiness: whereunto is annexed a Discourse between the Soul and Satan. With several Divine Ejaculations. Written by John Quarles. London: Printed for John Stafford, and are to be sold at his house in S. Bride's Church-yard; and by Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince's Armes, in St. Paul's Church-yard; and John Holder, at the Blue Anchor, in the New Exchange. 1651."
Collation: the minde of the frontispiece: 8 lines verse. The frontispiece, or engraved title: God's Loue, Man's Vnworthiness, by Io. Qu. "Lord, what is man," &c. Ps. viii. 4. An engraved portrait of the author, kneeling and saying, "O giue salvation vnto Israell out of Sion!" (this unknown to Granger or Bromley: the latter records three other portraits of the author.) Then the title, as given before. The dedication: "To my much honoured and esteemed Friend, Edward Benlowes, Esq." To the Reader. To my Muse: "Tel me, presumptuous Muse, how dar'st thou treat." God's Love, &c., pp. 1. to 66. A Dialogue, &c., pp. 67. to 108. Pp. 109, 110. wanting in my copy, but probably blank, as the catch-word "Divine" agrees with "Divine Ejaculations," which commence on p. 111. and end at p. 160., thus concluding the volume.
P. B.
Plague Stones (Vol. v., p. 226.).
—One of these stones is (I believe) still standing at Bury Saint Edmunds. In a paper read to the Bury and West Suffolk Arch. Inst. (vide vol. i. p. 42. of the Society's Proceedings) Mr. S. Tymms says:
"The small-pox has been a frequent visitor of Bury in its most terrible forms. In 1677, says Gillingwater (Hist. Bury, 226.), it was so prevalent that the people resorting to the market by the Rislygate Road, were accustomed to dip their money in water (tradition says vinegar) which had been placed in the cavity of the ruined base of the boundary cross situate at the bottom of Chalk Lane, with the view of preventing any infection being conveyed to the neighbouring towns and villages."
My attention has been frequently called to a stone of similar description standing in the parish of Stuston in this county, by the side of the Ipswich and Norwich turnpike; it is called in Kirby's Suffolk Traveller, 1st ed. pp. 52-3., a "Stuston Stone" and "The White Stone," and is nearly equidistant from Diss and Eye, between two and three miles.
J. B. COLMAN.