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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. n. DEC. 3, im.
Evelyn, over which MR. BLACK may also like
to ponder :
Hie rex Richardus requiescit, sceptifer almus.
Rex fuit Anglorum, regnum tenet iste polorum.
Regnum demisit, pro Christo cuncta reliquit:!
Ergo Richardum nobis dedit Anglia sanctum.
Hie genitor sanctse Walburga? Virginia almae,
Et Willibaldi sancti simul et Vinebaldi,
(Suffragium quorum nobis det regna polorum.
In Bray's edition of Evelyn's ' Diary ' occurs the annotation " Who this Richard, King of England, was ; it is impossible to say ; the tomb still exists and has long been a crux to Antiquaries and Travellers." Was it New- man's * Lives ' that first removed it 1
There are many points of interest in this church of S. Frediano or St. Frigidianus. He himself, Bishop of Lucca, came from Ire- land in the sixth century, and is still remem- bered as a worker of wonders. During a flood he turned the course of the Serchio and marked out a new track for it with a narrow.
ST. SWITHIN.
Richard of Scotland has not found a place in the * D.N.B./ but there is a long account of him in the ' Acta Sanctorum ' under the date of 7 February. The details of his life are very vague, and it is by no means clear that he ever was a king. Certainly he was not a Scot ; the principal authority for this state- ment is Thomas Dempster, w'lio in his 'Eccle- siastical History of Scotland' says that Richard and his children, SS. Willibald, Wunibald, and Walburga, who are better known^than their father, were "natione Scotos." But these saints were natives of a southern English kingdom, either Kent, Sussex, or Wessex, and their mother was a sister of St. Boniface, and a relation of Ina, King of Wessex. St. Richard, following the example of Ina and other English kings, went on pilgrimage to Rome, but died on the way and was buried at Lucca about the year 725. Miracles were worked at the tomb of St. Richard, and some relics of him were brought to Canterbury in the reign of Henry VII., who was present to receive them, and claimed the saint as an ancestor. The writer of the article ' Walburga' in * D.N.B ' seems to doubt the existence of St. Richard
? e TJ* i f fy?S> to be distinguished from St. Richard of Chichester.
J. A. J. HOUSDEN. 18, Compton Road, Canonbury.
It will be a service to refer MR. BLACK to the Hodceporicon ' of St. Willibald, trans- lated in 1895 by the late Bishop (then Canon) .Brownlow, and published in the " Library " ot the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, vol. iii. -trom that interesting narrative it will
appear that the subject of the query was a
king, not of Scotland, but of a locality un-
known, and the father of the Anglo-Saxon
pilgrims Willibald, Wunebald, and Walburga.
JEROME POLLARD-URQUHART, O.S.B. The Abbey, Fort- Augustus.
SPELLING REFORM (10 th S. ii. 305). I have
not had the advantage of seeing the 'Rules
for Compositors and Readers at the Uni-
versity Press, Oxford,' but from the REV.
J. B. McGovERN's references to it, I feel sure
it must be an amusing and instructive book.
As a "literary conservative," to borrow
MR. McGovERN's phrase, I am averse from
unnecessary change, and as regards words
ending in -ise and -ize, I think the good old
rule should be adhered to, namely, that
words derived from the Greek should end
in -ize, and all others, such as advertise, in
-ise, although a well-known literary friend
(perhaps a literary radical) does persist in
writing advertizement, in defiance of Dr.
Murray. Analyse, though of Greek origin,
is of different construction, being derived
from the verbal noun analysis, and not from
an imaginary analyzein. But there is a phase
of the question that MR. McGovERN has
overlooked, which is not only of interest to
ourselves, but may be still more interesting
to those of our descendants whose vocation
it may be to study Edwardian manners.
This is the use of spelling as an ecclesiastical
or political symbol. If one receives a letter
from a clergyman asking for subscriptions to
defray the expense of putting a new roof on
his church of "S. Mary's," the mind's eye at
once pictures an M.B. waistcoat, a strait-cut
coat, and. an all-round collar. If, on the
other hand, the money is to be devoted to
" St. Mary's," we feel sure it will go to an
ecclesiastic with a tall silk hat, a loosely tied
white "choker," and a rather fly-away frock
coat. MR. McGovERN draws attention to
the compiler's injunctions against phonetic
spellings, such as program, &c. This enables
us at once to see what the compiler's political
principles are. Many people would say, " If
I write anagram, diagram, telegram, &c., why
may I not write program?" The answer is,
" You may do so if you are a Home Ruler, or
a Little Englander. or a Passive Resister, but
not otherwise. If you follow the gospel of
the Daily News or the Daily Chronicle, you
may write about your program as much as
you like ; but if you prefer the tenets of the
Morning Post or the Standard, you can have
nothing but a programme" I was glad to
observe the other day that the Spectator, with
great ingenuity, had also invented & political
