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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
The bibliography of the English works by Matthew Kellison, set out in the Allison and Rogers Catalogue, has been modified by information subsequently discovered, showing that the important controversial treatise which first appeared under the title The Gagge of the New Gospel should be ascribed to John Heigham.
1 B.S. iii, 3 & 4. No's. 422-431. Kellison is also named as the possible author of the Reply to M. Nicholas Smith, his discussion (Doway, 1630; A&R 710) but the preliminary address to the “gentle and Catholique reader” provides half a dozen reasons why Kellison refused to answer the Discussion, The anonymous author, on the other hand, undertakes the Reply because of the respect and affection which he has for Kellison, care for his good name, and “the obligation … as having lived under his government'. Throughout this preliminary address the author implies that he is on terms of some intimacy with Kellison, while remaining in a subordinate position. Weighing up the evidence, one is inclined to conjecture that this Reply could possibly have been composed by Edmund Lechmere.
2 A&R 422-424. Later named The Touch-stone of the Reformed Gospel; cf. A&R 425, Wing K 240-246.
3 See B.S. iv, 6, 237, 8.
4 Bibliographical Dictionary, III, 685.
5 Wing gives only one copy — that in the Thomason Collection in the British Museum [E 1662 (1)]. The copy described here is at St. Edmund's, Ware (shelf mark A2 c 17).
6 Collation: A4, B-M8, N4. Pp. (8) 184.
7 This comparison has been facilitated by the recent acquisition, for the Library at St. Edmund's, Ware, of a copy of A&R 487. This copy, on permanent loan to Ware, is the property of St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate.
8 According to Gillow (loc. cit., 680) Kellison died on January 21st, 1641-2, This is corrected to 1640-1 by Burton (Cf. C.R.S. 10, xxii). The date of Lechmere's death is apparently unrecorded; Dodd (III, 93) places it about 1640.
9 A&R 485. Dedication, 5. A&R 486 is dedicated to Queen Henrietta Maria, while A&R 487 has no dedication. In November, 1639, when the last of these works was passed by the Censor, Kellison would have been in his 79th year (cf. Liber Ruber, C.R.S. 37, 37).
10 When the Chapter met in 1624, to nominate a successor to William Bishop, Rant said of Kellison, “He was the only one whom all the voters, without a single exception, judged most worthy of the office” (cf. Allison, R.H., 7, 154 and 176).