D. 397. Yet the word in not acknowledged by Bingham.
Is Chapel a _legal_ description of the houses of religious meeting,
which are used by those who dissent from the Church of England?
Was the adoption of the word Chapel by dissenters, or their submission
to it, indicative of an idea of assistance, rather than of rivalry or
opposition, to the Church?
Any answer to these inquiries, which are proposed only for the sake
of information, by one whose means of reference and investigation are
limited, will be very acceptable.
Alfred Gatty.
Ecclesfield, March 5. 1850.
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WHO TRANSLATED THE "TURKISH SPY?"
Is it known who really translated that clever work, _Letters writ by a
Turkish Spy_? The work was originally written in Italian, by John Paul
Marana, a Genoese; but the English translation has been attributed to
several individuals.
Among Dr. Charlett's correspondence, preserved in the Bodleian
Library, is a letter inquiring after a Mr. Bradshaw. The writer says,
"he was servitor or amanuensis to Dr.
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