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in 1535 ; and F. DE H. L. (10 S. x. 412) says Barlow was elected Bishop of St. Asaph 16 Jan., 1535/6, but never took possession of the see. Dr. Stubbs, in the second edition of his ' Registrum Sacrum Angli- canum,' not only does not include him in his list of St. Asaph bishops, but puts his consecration some time in June, 1536, very shortly before the consecration of another man as Bishop of St. Asaph. No record of the consecration of Barlow is forth- coming, but the date is fixed by collateral proof as June 11, 18, or 26, his precedence being between William Rugge or Repps, Bishop of Norwich (consecrated 11 June), and Robert Parfew or Wharton, Bishop of St. Asaph (consecrated 2 July).

My second question relates to the last- named bishop. Was his name Parfew or Wharton ? His predecessor at St. Asaph (according to Dr. Stubbs) was Henry Standish, consecrated 11 July, 1518 ; died 9 July, 1535. JOHN COLES, Jun.

Frome.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Whence does the following quotation come ? It has been stated to be from Shakespeare, but cannot be verified : Men are not worthy of the honeycomb Who shun the hives because the bees have stings.

J. S. MORGAN.

[It does not appear in Bartlett's large ' Con- cordance to Shakespeare.']

The following, with a second verse, heads chap. x. of ' Doctor Cupid,' by Rhoda Broughton (1886). The last two lines appear to form the refrain to -whatever other verses there may be. I should be glad to know- the author, and where the complete poem may be found : Our Master hath a garden which fair flowers adorn; There will I go and gather, both at eve and morn : Naught 's heard therein but angel hymns with

harp and lute, Loud trumpets and bright clarions, and the gentle

soothing flute.

W. B. H.

[The verse forms part of a Christmas carol, published probably by Messrs. Novello.]

Who wrote the following ?

The more they 're burthened better do they thrive, Like depress'd Virtue better kept alive.

EMERITUS.

" THE ANGEL or MERIDIAN." In The Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury of Friday, 22 January, there is an account of an applica- tion to the Chester Consistory Court for permission to erect a reredos in St. Saviour's

Church, Oxton, the cost to be defrayed by a gentleman who wished to make a thank- offering for his recovery from illness. The figures on the reredos were those of four angels, one being described as the Angel of Meridian. Neither the Chancellor nor the Registrar was able to explain the refer- ence ; and I have not been able to discover what is meant.

The ' Oxford English Dictionary ' gives " Meredian devil : transl. of Vulg. dce- monium meridianum," Psalm xci. 6, " the destruction that wasteth at noonday." It has been suggested that the Angel of Meridian is the power of good of the noonday, as opposed to the devil of the noonday ; and in support of this theory reference is made to verse 11 of the same Psalm : " For he shall give his angels charge over thee." The ' O.E.D.' gives also, " 1673, ' Lady's Call.' i. v. 39, ' Are God's safeguards to be only meridional ? ' '

According to Larousse, " Demon Meri- dien " is a demon who appears at harvest time, according to the Russian peasants.

E. S. B.

HAGGARD : O GARDE. Is there any his- torical fact underlying the alleged descent of the Haggards of Norfolk from a member of the ancient Danish noble family of Gylden- stjerne ( " Guildenstern " ), i.e. Goldenstar, who settled in England during the reign of Henry V. ?

Sir Andrew de Ogarde, as he seems to have been called, was a younger son of Peter Nielsen of Aagaard in North Jutland, the family name of Gyldenstjerne only coming into use a generation later, when this now extinct noble family a branch line is said still to be found in Sweden rose to the height of its power and political influence.

Sir Andrew seems to have served in the war in France after Agincourt, being second chamberlain to the Duke of Bedford. In 1433 he became naturalized according to Act of Parliament, and died about 1460.

Bockenham Hall (?) in Norfolk has been mentioned as the estate he acquired in England, probably through marrying an heiress. W. R. PRIOR.

" ARTAHSHASHTE." The above is the rendering of Artaxerxes in Barker's Bible (1614), in Ezra passim. Not seeing therein other abnormalities in proper names, as compared with the A.V., I ask if this is explicable by a deficiency of x*s in the fount, or otherwise. H. P. L.