Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850, page 1 by Various Authors
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kriker" 51 Notes on Milton 53 Colvil's Whigg's Supplication 53
QUERIES:-- Hubert le Soeur's Six Brass Statues by E. F. Rimbault, LL.D. 54 Bishop Jewell's Library 54 The Low Window 55 Minor Queries:--North Sides of Churchyards--Hatfield--Ulrich von Hutten--Simon of Ghent--Boetius--Gloucestershire Gospel Tree--Churchyards--Epitaphs--Anthony Warton--Cardinal's Hat--Maps of London--Griffith of Penrhyn--Mariner's Compass--Pontefract on the Thames 55
REPLIES:-- Study of Geometry in Lancashire by T. T. Wilkinson 57 Queries Answered, No. 8., by Bolton Corney 60 Meaning of Bawn 60 Replies to Minor Queries:--Births, Marriages, &c.--M. or N.--Arabic Numerals--Comment in Apocalypsin--Robert Deverell--Hippopotamus--Ashes to Ashes--Dr. Maginn's Miscellanies--Living Dog better than a Dead Lion--Gaol Chaplains--Rome, Ancient and Modern--Trianon 60
MISCELLANIES:-- Aboriginal Chambers near Tilbury--Mistake in Conybeare and Howson's Life of St. Paul 62
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Catalogues, Sales, &c. 63 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 63 Notices to Correspondents 63 Advertisements 64
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Notes.
THE "AGAPEMONE" OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
As it is not generally known that the "Agapemone" had a prototype in the celebrated Family of Love, some account of this "wicked sect" may not at this moment be without interest to your readers:--
"Henry Nicholas, a Westphalian, born at Munster, but who had lived a great while at Amsterdam, and some time likewise at Embden, was the father of this family. He appeared upon the stage about the year 1540, styled himself the deified man, boasted of great matters, and seemed to exalt himself above the condition of a human creature. He was, as he pretended, greater than Moses and Christ, because Moses had taught mankind to hope, Christ to believe, but he to love; which last being of more worth than both the former, he was consequently greater than both those prophets."--See Brandt's