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Consecration of Churches, SfC. (2 nd S. i. 172.)
If A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN can procure the " Book
of Common Prayer," printed at Dublin by George
Grierson, at the King's Arms, and two Bibles in
Essex street, 1750, folio, he will there find "A
form of Consecration or Dedication of Churches
and Chappels according to the use of the Church
of Ireland : " the following rubric is prefixed to
this service :
" The Patron or the chief of the Parish when a new church is erected, is to give timely notice to the Bishop of the Dioces, and humbly to desire him to appoint a con- venient time, some Lords- day or other great festival of the church for performance of the solemnity."
" At the day appointed, the Bishop with a convenient number of his clergy (of which the Dean or Archdeacon to be one) and the chancellor of the Dioces, and his Registrar shall come between the hours of eight and ten in the morning, and when they are near, the bell is to ring, till they be entered into the church appointed to be consecrated."
" First the Bishop and his Clergy, togather with the Patron or his Deputy shall go round about the cemetery, or church-yards, which done, the Bishop and his Clergy shall enter'into the church at the west door, the Patron and people standing without, while the Bishop and Priest do vest themselves in their respective ecclesiastick habits.
" When they are vested they shall kneel down in the body of the church with their faces to the east and say togather."
After this ceremony there is the following : " An office to be used in the Restauration of a church." Rubric :
" When the Fabrick of a church is ruined and a new church is built upon the same foundation, the Bishop at- tended by his clergy shall enter into the church-yard, and go in procession round about the church new built, and recite alternately Psalm Ixxiv." Then " A short office for Expiation and Illustration of a church Dese- crated or Prophaned ; !> and lastly, " Instrumentum Pub- licum conficiendum et ad finem Consecrationis publicb legendum et postea in Archivis Episcopalibus repo- nendum."
Much valuable information relative to the con- secration of churches and the ancient constitutions respecting the same will be found in Bulling- brooke's Ecclesiastical Law and of the Church of Ireland, vol. i. p. 253., et seq. R. C.
Cork.
Latitude and Longitude (2 nd S. i. 134.) The etymology of these terms, and the earliest in- stances of their use, will be found in Richardson's Dictionary. W. H. W. T.
Somerset House.
The Divining Rod (1 st S. xii. 226.) The al- leged virtues of this have been quite conclusively settled by M. Chevreul in his recent work, De la Baguette Divinatoire, du Pcndule dit Explorateur et dea Tables tournantes, au point dc vue de Phistoire, de la Critique et de In Methods Experimentale. Paris : Mallet Bachelier, 1854. 8vo. I. H. A.
" History of William III" (1 st S. xii. 267.)
Although the work here referred to was not
written by David Jones, author of The Secret
History of Whitehall, Sfc., there is another his-
torical narrative in the first volume of the Har-
leian Miscellany, which appears to have been
written by that author, the title of which is as
follows :
" The Wars, and Causes of them, between England and France, from William the First to William the Third, with a Treatise of the Salique Law. By D. J., and re- vised by R. C., Esq. 1697."
To the same David Jones, Watt ascribes a Life of James II., illustrated with medals, 1702, 8vo.
BlBLIOTHECAR. ClIETHAM.
Galilee (2 nd S. i. 131.) In the Rev. A. P. Stanley's lately published, and most interesting work, Sinai and Palestine, at p. 355., in speaking of the settlement of the tribes of Ephraim and Judah, is the following passage :
" From a very early period, their joint territory ac- quired the name which it bore under a slightly different form in the distribution of the country into a Roman pro- vince, ' Gain, Galilah, Galilaea.' * It would seem to be merely another mode of expressing what is indicated by the word ' Ciccar,' in the case of the Jordan Valley ' a circle,' or 'region.' and as such implies the separation of the district from the more regularly organised tribes or kingdoms of Samaria and Judaea. Gradually, too, it be- came to be regarded as the frontier between ' the Holy Land ' and the external world ' Galilee of the Gen- tiles,' t a situation curiously illustrating, if it did not suggest, the use of the term in ecclesiastical architecture, ' the Galilee,' or porch of the cathedral of Palestine."
C. DE D.
Dan, Jordan (1 st S. xii. 224. 414.) If MR. BUCKTON forgets that Dan, in the north of Judea, was not so named till 500 years after the time of Abram and Lot, so does his opponent MR. Hus- SEY forget that Abram pursued the four kings as far as Dan, in order to rescue Lot ; and that this southern Dan was evidently not far distant from the river. (See Gen. xiv. 14.) P. P.
Absorbent Paper {1 st S. xii. 87. 133. 175.) Finely powdered pounce, rubbed in lightly with the finger and then burnished with an ivory folder will .cure the most porous paper. But if, as is generally the case with German manufacture, the paper has a tinge, the burnishing whitens it. For such paper (as for all, except that the resort re- quires a poultry-yard) the white of a fresh egg applied lightly with a flat camel's hair pencil pro- duces a sizing like foolscap. It takes but a few minutes to dry, and is perfectly transparent.
I. H. A.
Almanacs (I 5t S. xii. 143.) Under this head a correspondent has referred to the late Mr. Ingra-
- Josh. xx. 7. Heb. " Galil ; " 2 Kings xv. 29., Galilah.
t Isa. ix. 1. ; Matt. iv. 15.
