PAGE III PAN would not have been a god under certain circumstances, PHILOSOPHERS, the great things they are to accomplish according to Mill, PIG, the, a great enemy to snakes, How it fights the rattlesnake, PLATO, his prayer to Pan, On future punishment, . PLINY, the Consul, on the contemplation of death, PLUTARCH on the idea of kissing a Pagan emperor's foot, On the pleasant associations connected with the religion of Pagans, PONS ASINORUM, the, of the Gipsy question, PROTESTANTS, the religion of, . The power they have to encounter in Romanism, QUAKERS, how they keep themselves distinct from others, REES' CYCLOPÆDIA on the rattlesnake swallowing her young, 26 RITUALISTS in the English Church, 51, 258 ROEBUCK, Mill's quarrel with, . 96 ROMANISM :-The natural adherence of mankind to the religion of their an- cestors, 49 Though springing from Christianity, a religion of corrupt human nature, 49 4p 4p 49 50 The miracles of the Apostles not attempted by the priests, The fountain for the washing away of sins claimed by a priest, The scorn of St. Peter when refusing money to confer a Christian grace, 55 Peter as a foundation, His character, The aversion of Romanists to hear the Greek Church mentioned, . The light in which priests regard themselves and those around them, ROMANISM :-The natural perpetuation of a religion that has been established, 56 The rearing of priests, Sceptical and atheistical priests, PAGE 56 Peculiarities of priests, The power of the priests of modern and ancient Rome compared, A coalition formed, Romanism borrowed most of its peculiarities from Paganism, The despotism of its priesthood, The historical foundation on which Romanism rests, The foundation of corrupt Christianity like that of a human religion, The gradual growth of Romanism and the powers claimed by it, . The sincerity of the priests, 59 60 The peculiar training of Roman priests, The influence of the Romanist system over its votaries, . 65, ngo 65 Its effects resemble, in some respects, those of the goddess Diana, The extent to which Christianity has been corrupted by Romanism, The right of private judgment among Romanists, . 67 68 68 68 68 Passages in Scripture which the Pope should be called upon to interpret; SATURDAY REVIEW, THE, on the disappearance of the Gipsies, SCOTT, SIR WALTER, his opinion on the disappearance of the Gipsies, Swallowing of their young, 7-9,11,13,15,16,18,19, 23, 24, 26, 27, 34, 35, 37, n39 St. Andrews, Mill's legacy to the students of, ST. PAUL on the laws of nature in the propagation of animals, 66 On people who are ever learning," The sacrifices of the Gentiles, and the religion of nature, Taken for a god at Lystra, and in the Island of Malta, On the delusion sent to the ungodly, His horror at having the divine honours of Pagans offered him, PAGE 7, 14 10, 27, 29 29 29, 38 18 19 10, 16, 25 9, 15 27 51 76 79 n48 158 His opposition to St. Peter, 55 On the religion of the Athenians, 58, 79, 82 On speaking in an unknown tongue, as applicable to the Pope's infalli- bility, . On the teaching and influence of the Holy Scriptures, On the coming of Antichrist, On the fear of death and future punishment, . On the Epicurean creed, ST. PETER Scorned to accept money to confer a Christian grace, He commands people to pray to GOD for forgiveness, and raises Corne- STANLEY, DEAN, on the confessional and the Eastern Churches, 54 61 . n161 SUNSTROKE illustrated, SURNAMES among the Gipsies, TOAD, the, eaten by snakes, TORTOISES AND TURTLES, how they are generated, WATERTON, CHARLES, greatly in error in regard to snakes, On closet naturalists, His character as a naturalist, Some peculiarities in his private character, His eulogium on the Jesuits, by whom he was educated, How he got the better of a Jesuit at Stonyhurst, His complaint on being termed an unscientific naturalist, WESTMINSTER REVIEW, THE, on the Gipsies, 42, 47, 48 WHITE, GILBERT, of Selborne, on the propagation and feeding of snakes, ers, Describes a viper pregnant with eggs, and another with young, On monographers, . On the difficulties attending the formation of a natural history, ΙΟ II II As a man of candour, and open to conviction in regard to natural history, On the variety of the methods of Providence in natural history, 20 20, 21 Was no bird-catcher or tamer, 20 On snakes shedding their skins, Was not fond of analogous reasoning or theories, WOLVES, how they hunt their prey, . APPENDIX. A I. JOHN BUNYAN AND THE GIPSIES.* (1874), we find—" John, son of Jolin and Mary Bunnyon, bap. 16 October, 1679," taken from the register of Christ Church, Barbadoes. In the Sunday Magazine, for January, 1875, I find the following: WORK by myself, entitled Con- | tributions to Natural History and Papers on Other Subjects, now in the hands of Edinburgh publishers, from stereotype plates sent from this side, was set up before I saw Notes and Queries of the 11th July last, which contains an article from Mr. Dudley Cary Elwes, on the parentage of John Bunyan. In that arti-the meeting and the parish, and has cle Mr. Elwes writes: "The Rev. John Brown, of Bunyan meeting, has gone with great care into many of the old registers connected with contrived to throw a good deal of light on several points regarding the Great "As I was (by the courtesy of the Dreamer.' First of all, he finds that vicar of the parish), inspecting the reg- the idea of Bunyan being of Gipsy race, ter of Wootton parish, Co. Bedfordshire, is totally discountenanced, which suppoI came across the following entries, sition might have been encouraged by which evidently allude to some of John the fact of Bunyan's trade being that Bunyan's ancestors, as Wootton is not so of a tinker or travelling brazier, in which very far from Elstow-about five miles-many Gipsies were engaged. He has and they may, perhaps, eventually lead to the discovery of who were his parents; they also do away with the supposition of those who think that John Bunyan may have had Gipsy blood in his veins." And he gives a list of seven baptisms, four marriages, and five burials of people of the names of Bunnion and Bunion, between the years 1581 and 1645. In Notes and Queries for 10th October, 1874, D. C. E. gives a list of many baptisms, marriages, and burials, principally under the name of Bonyon, from Chalgrave register, Co. Beds., between the years 1559 and 1629. And in John Camden Hotten's Original list of Emigrants, etc., to the American Plantations, *This article on "John Bunyan and the Gipsies," was sent to Notes and Queries, on the 3d March, 1875, and printed on the 27th. I have thought it advisable to insert it here, in its original form. discovered that though the name of Bunyan has now died out from Bedfordshire, it is of great antiquity, and was pretty common there under various forms of spelling. It was borne by people of good position." And the writer quotes from The Book of the Bunyan Festival, as fcl lows: "In the original accounts of the real seized by the Parliament of England, and personal estates of delinquents between the years 1642 and 1648, the rent of Sir George Bynnion, delinquent, in the parish of Eaton-Socon, Bedfordshire, is returned at £223, 11s. 4d. From the same account it appears that the land of Mr. Foster, delinquent, in to John Bunnyon, tenant, at a rent of the parish of Stretly, was let by the year £30. It is perhaps worthy of notice, that the farm of this John Bunnyon was not far from that_village of Šamsell, where our John Bunyan was apprehended for preaching. Were they kinsmen, and had the tinker been on a visit |