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day, at Colleges and Halls of Oxford, the list of bachelors is given as Dr. [i.e. Dominus or Sir] Williams; Dr. or Sir Jones; Dr. or Sir Warren, &c., &c. The Masters are entered as Mr. [i.e. Magister] A. B. C. D., &c. Both titles are strictly academical; they have no reference to ordination.
Replies to Minor Queries.
"Catechism for the Swinish Multitude" (2 nd S. i. 254.)—I have in manuscript "A Catechism for the Use of the Natives of Hampshire, necessary to be had in all Sties," and in a note, in my father's handwriting, " Never printed, but copied from a manuscript lent me by Mr. Porson," and in an- other note, " Advertized in the Morning Chronicle, Dec. 1, 1792." I have heard my father say it was written by Porson, with whom he was intimate. The " Orgies of Bacchus " is also in manuscript, bound up in same volume with the " Hymn to the Creator, by a New-made Peer," and " Imitations from Horace," with a note of my father's, " all the above, Mr. Porson told me, were written by him."
" The Death of Agricola," and " Boxing Intel- ligence," are in the same volume, with a note by my father, from copies "lent me by a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who was well ac- quainted with him [Porson]."
ALGERNON HOLT WHITE.
The "Public Advertiser": "The Gazetteer" (!* S. xii. 509.) Files of both these papers of the dates mentioned, I have no doubt could be procured at Pailthorpe's, 19. Red Lion Passage, Red Lion Square. ALEXANDER ANDREWS.
Pope Martin V. After citing from England and France tinder the House of Lancaster this passage :
" He (Pope Martin V. ) actually conferred the Arch- bishopric of Canterbury on his nephew, a boy of fourteen years, who also held by his uncle's appointment fourteen benefices in England,"
MR. DENTON (2 nd S. i. 113.) asks: "What does this refer to ? What foundation has it in fact ? And what preferments did this Pope's nephew hold ?"
As my Lord Brougham would say, the writer of England, Sfc., has shown very crass ignorance in this matter. Chicheley sat in the primatial chair of England from A.D. 1414 1443; Martin in the chair of Peter from A.D. 14171431 : so that Chicheley was Archbishop of Canterbury three years before, and twelve years after Martin was Supreme Pontiff. Our good primate was never suspended from his episcopacy, nor saw an intruder of any age, much less a beardless boy of fourteen, pushed into the throne of St. Dunstan and St. Thomas a Becket.
Collier says : "He (Martin V.) made his nephew,
Prosper Colonna, a youth of but fourteen years of
age, Archdeacon of Canterbury" (vol. iii. p. 327.) ;
but mentions nothing of the fourteen benefices.
Between an archbishop and primate of all Eng-
hind and an archdeacon, there is the widest dif-
ference. CEPHAS.
"Mart-Tax" (2 nd S. i. 192.) A mortuary? an oblation made at the time of a person's death. In Saxon times there was a funeral duty to be paid, called " pecunia sepulchralis," and " sym- bolum animse," or the " soulshot," which was re- quired by the Council of ^Enham, and enforced by the laws of King Canutus ; and was due to the church which the party deceased belonged to, whether he was buried there or no. (Stilling fleet, i. 171.) See also the curious cases mentioned in Jacob's Law Die., sub voc. " mortuario." R. C.
Cork.
Cutting Teeth in advanced Age (1 st S. xii. 25.). Some years ago, at a place called Ardnamul- logh, about* four miles from Castlerea, in the co. Roscommon, I met with a case somewhat similar to those already mentioned. I was sent for to see a woman named Dillon, ast. seventy-five years, who was labouring under a singular form of mental aberration ; her husband^ had died about six months previously, and she firmly maintained the belief that she herself was dead also for the same period. I shall transcribe a portion of the notes which I made of her case at the time, June 28, 1843:
" A remarkable circumstance in this case is, that she has cut an incisive tooth in the lower jaw within the last few weeks, arid is now cutting another, which fact con- firms her in the strange belief that she is leading a post mortem existence, and has commenced at infancy again ; for upon one of her daughters asking me if 1 thought it probable she would die, she exclaimed angrily, ' How can I die twice ? I am only a child ; see, I have not cut all my teeth yet.' "
H. M.
Tau Cross (2 ud S. i. 211.) The Tau Cross is tha* of St. Anthony, as the Saltire was that of St. Andrew and St. Patrick ; the cross humettee of St. Thomas, the cross moline of St. Stephen, &c.
The Trinitarians wore a cross moline az. and gu.
The crouched Friars a cross gu.
A canon of St. John Baptist a cross of Calvary sa.
A canon regular of the Holy Sepulchre a cross patriarchal, arg.
A Knight Hospitaller a cross pattee ; a Knight Templar "the same, gu.
MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.
The Doldrums (2 nd S. i. 231.) MR. W. FRA- ZER is perfectly right about their locality. He will find " a full, true, and particular account" of them, and a " plain why and because " of their
