9«. s. vi. OCT. 27, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 335 handwriting, in the document from whic. the information was first taken ] ARTHUR MAYALL. The little distich is quoted in 'Arundine Cami' (editio quarta, 1851) as follows :— PUlycotk. Old Pillycock sat on a grassy hill, And if ho's not gone he sits there still. Gammer (iurton. It is thus translated into Latin verse :— Pillicorcius. Lacerpicifero jugo sedebat, Et, si non abeat, diu sedebit, Spes ille ultima Pillicocciorum. H. I). All the nursery rimes in the book—anc purely idiomatic they are—are assigned to Gammer Gurton. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE (9th S. vi. 249).—MR. PICKFORD may like to be referred to the Provost's book on King's College, published in the " Cambridge Uni- versity College Histories Series" by F. E. Robinson. ST. SWITHIN. ORIENTATION IN INTERMENTS (9th S. vi. 167, 276).—As a humble member of " the Roman Mission in this country," I think that MR. S. ARNOTT is hardly justified in assuming that the " Roman communion is a foreign one," simply because our churches are not always builteastand west. Pre-Reformation churches built so were erected by people who were in communion with Rrtme, as we are now. I write from the historical, not the controversial, point of view. In London the Catholic church of St. Mary of the Angels, Bayswater, lies east and west, the high altar being at the east end. Our temporary iron church here, in St. Andrews, does likewise. That many of our churches do not is due to want of money. We must take ground as and when we can get it, and have to pay a very high price for it, and we must suit the lie of the buildings to the lie of the ground. We do not, of course, make it an article ttantis vel cadentis ecclesice to orientate churches. Orientation is not a universal custom, however sentimentally beautiful and, I think, desirable. I have read somewhere that Pugin intended to orientate St. George's, Southwark, but forgot all about it until one day, on a scaffolding, he happened to look over the river at Westminster Abbey, and found out, too late, his sin of carelessness. Is there any rule in the Greek Church about such matters ? I ask for information. Does MR. ARNOTT think that a " dirge" is the burial service used at the grave? A "dirge" is simply the Mattins of the Dead, from "dirige," the first word of the first antiphon. And homo natus de muliere" comes in the Roman as well as in the Sarum office, being the opening words of the fifth lesson in the Mattins of the former rite, of which the Sarum Use was simply an edition. GEORGE ANGUS. St. Andrews, N.B. THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A., FL. 1685 (9th S. vL 268).—Is it not probable that his work was either another edition, or possibly an abridg- ment, of Reynolds's well-known volume ? The title bears a close similarity to that of the latter, e.g.,' The Triumphs of God's Revenge against the Crying and Execrable Sinne of Murder, Expressed in Thirty Several! Tragi- call Histories,' «fec. (Reynolds), compared with '.The Glory of Gods Revenge against the Bloody and Detestable Sins of Murther ind Adultery, Express'd in Thirty Modern Tragical Histories, <fec. (Wright). Moreover, while the former was published in 1635, and other editions in 1639 and 1640, the latter did not appear until 1685. A collation of
- he two works in the B.M. Library would
determine the correctness or the reverse of this view. T. N. BRUSHFIELD, M.D. ENGLISH ACCENT v. ETYMOLOGY (9th S. vi. 267).—I do not presume to cross swords with "EOF. SKEAT. As more becoming, I wish to earn from him. Though in my seventy- ourth year I am still in everything learning, ^.f ter the vacation of death I hope to go on or ever learning. Were we to reach a "Thus ar and no farther," eternity would become nonotony. I ask PROF. SKEAT whether it is not the fact hat, while in syllabication in writing we lotoriously ignore etymology, in pronuncia- ion we often show a lingering respect for it. I take one of PROF. SKEAT'S own examples : he word do-m&tic. According to rule the in do, as an open syllable, should be long ; t we pronounce it short, as in d&m-us, its oot. In " domestic" (and words similarly yllabled), where a syllable ending with a dort vowel is followed by an accented yllable commencing with a consonant, they o run together, without the shadow of a ause corresponding to the hyphen in writing, tiat it would need a much finer ear than mine to detect in sound any difference etween dfm-dstic and do-mtstic. As I wish to be quite fair, I acknowledge tie existence of " astounding " (PROF. SKEAT'S wn expression) forms such asc«-/>«We, where, X)th in syllabication and pronunciation, ety-
