Chapter C: P. Ph

Oxford, Whit-Monday.

_A Kemble Pipe_ (Vol. iii., p. 425.).--If DR. RIMBAULT will turn to vol. i., p. 10. of Campbell's _Life of Mrs. Siddons_, he will find that the Kemble of smoking notoriety alluded to in the proverb, met his fate at a date long subsequent to the Marian persecution. He was apprehended on a charge of implication in Titus Oates's plot, and executed at Hereford, August 2d, 1679, being one of the last persons who suffered death for their religious opinions in England. He was hung, not burnt, and his hand is still preserved in the Reliquary of the Roman Catholic Chapel at Worcester. "On his way to execution," says Mr. Campbell,

"He smoked his pipe and conversed with his friends; and in that
county it was long usual to call the last pipe that was smoked in
a social company, a Kemble's pipe."

SPERIEND.

_Flemish Work on the Order of St. Franciscus_ (Vol. i., p. 385.).--Your correspondent JARLTZBERG may find a copy of the _Wyngaert_ in the library of the _Maatschappij van Letterkunde_ (Lit. Soc.) in Leyden, and may read an account of the work in vol. ii. pp. 151, 152. of the _Society's Transactions_. The copy in my possession is entitled _Den Wyngaert van Sinte Franciscus vol_ [not _van_] _schoone historien, legenden en deuchdelycke leeringhen allen menschen seer profytelyck_. Like most of the works issued from the press of Eckert van Hombach, it is well printed on good paper; the leaves (not the _pages_) are numbered up to 418, and besides there are six leaves without pagination for the index, as well as three for the prologue, in which we learn why the work was called _Wyngaert_. All the copies I have met with bear the date 1518, though in Hultman's _Catalogue_, p. 20. No. 92., we find 1578, probably an error of the printer. In J. Koning's _Catalogue_, 1833, p. 17. No. 59., we are referred to Bauer, _Bibl. libr. rar._, vol. iv. p. 301.; and to the _Catalogue raisonné_ de Crevenna, vol. v. p. 85., where we read:

"Ce volume contient les vies des Saints de l'ordre de St.
Franciscus, précédées de celle de son instituteur, _et n'est point
une traduction_ du Livre des Conformités (_Liber Conformitatum_),
quoiqu'il est probable qu'on ait pris beaucoup de ce livre."

Van Bleyswijk, in his _Description of Delft_, vol. i. p. 339., says,--

"The Franciscans bought up the work, in order to suppress and
destroy it: it is therefore no wonder that copies of it are
scarce."

Unless you read it, says Professor Ackersdijck, in his _Archief voor Kerk. Gesch._, you will hardly conceive it possible for any one to write such a mass of folly and absurdity.