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any other evidence to show that old nuns were
ever spoken of in this disrespectful way ?
JOHN J. S. PERONNE. King's College, London.
Sir Charles Sedley (2 nd S. 5. 153.) Noble, in his continuation of Granger's History (vol. i. p. 249., edit. 1806), mentions two engraved por- traits of Sir Charles Sedley, one by Van der Gucht, and the other by Richardson, both 8vo. In the edition of Sir Charles Sedley's Works, two vols. 12mo., 1722, is "his picture curiously engraved from an original painting." W. H. W. T.
Somerset House.
Legal Jeu d" Esprit (2 nd S. i. 171.) To the spe- cimen of legal wit given as above allow me to add the following, which was handed about at the time of the Gorham appeal to the Privy Council, as from the pen of Sir George Rose :
" Argument for :
u Baptiz'd a baby, Fit sine labe ; As the act makes him, So the Church takes him.
u Argument against.
" Unless he be fit We very much doubt it ; And, devil a bit Is it valid without it.
" Judgment.
" Bishop and vicar, Why do you bicker Each with his brother, Since both are right, Or one is quite As wrong as the other?
" Adjudication.
" Bishop nonsuited, Priest unrefuted, To be instituted ; Costs deliberative, Pondering well, Each take a shell, The lawyers THE NATIVE."
Y. B. N. J.
French Protestant Refugees (2 nd S. i. 192.)
Having written a History of the French Protestant
Churches in England, I can give G. R. some in-
formation. I have lists of some thousands of the
refugees, and very many original wills and other
documents relating to them. Is this inquiry con-
nected with the advertisement in The Times of
last week, intituled " Large Estates of Refugees
from France?" JOHN S. BURN.
Grove House, Henley.
Lay Readers (2 nd S. i. 152.) In 1774, ac- cording to some topographers, there was only one ecclesiastical person upon the Scilly Islands whose residence was at St. Mary's, and who visited the
other islands once a year. But Campbell, in his
Political Survey, says that
" Divine service is performed, and sermons preached, or rather read, every Sunday, in the churches of those islands, by an honest layman appointed for that purpose."
Also at Fair Isle :
I' They have a very pretty church but no minister, being annexed to one of the parishes in Shetland, or served by an itinerant minister. A layman reads the scriptures every Sunday in the church."
R. W. HACKWOOD.
Kennerleigh Manor lost by a Game at Cards (1" S. xii. 102.) In Oliver's Monasticon Exo- niensis, I find the following :
"By Indenture enrolled in Chancery, April 26, 1609, between Thomas Dowriche, of Dowriche, and Catherine his wife, of the one part, and John Northcote, of Crediton. The former conveyed to the latter, in consideration of 800/.. the fee of the manor of Kennerleigh alias Kin- wardleigh."
Your correspondent JULIA R. BOCKETT, however, seems to have some authority for her statement, and as I am collecting materials for a history of Crediton, I shall be greatly obliged by any further information on this subject. J. T T.
Wine for Easter Communion (2 nd S. i. 58.) The following extract from a French work may possibly interest your correspondent W. DENTON. The title of the book is Les Raretes qui se voyent dans FEglise Roy ale de S. Denis, Paris, 1762. At p. 5. we have the following information :
" Dans le Sanctuaire du cote de 1'Evangile on voit vis- a-vis 1'Autel funebre du feu Roi, un petit Autel, ou tous les Dimanches de I'anne'e et & toutes les solemnit^s, le Diacre et le Sou Diacre apres avoir recu du Celebrant le pre*cieux Corps de Notre Seigneur ati grand Autel, vien- nent prendre eux-memes avec un chalume.au de vermeil, le Precieux Sang, selon 1'ancien usage de 1'Eglise de Saint Denis, qui se conserve encore."
CLERICUS (D.)
Painting and Inscription found at Shrewsbury (2 nd S. i. 149.) I have no hesitation in classing the interpretation assigned to the supposed initials
" M. M.," viz. " MARINE MATERNITATEM SECO," "I
Peter Roberts decide (the question of) the ma- ternity or legitimacy of Mary" with the more celebrated one that was once decyphered from " Alice Lang's Ladle." And I have not the least doubt that the true reading of the inscription should have been " A. M*. SEC. 1555," or " A.R.M.," &c., i. e. Anno regni Maries, " in se- cond year of Queen Mary," the last figure of the date having been misread. The year 1555, up to the 6th of July, belonged to that year of the queen's reign. JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS.
Pope Martin V. (2 nd S. i. 113.) This pope was elected in November, 1417, and died in Fe- bruary, 1431. Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of
