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ourselves. I remarked that mischievous fingers had been scribbling on the woodwork, -and the priest observed, " Les noms des fous se trouvent partout." My friend replied, " Voila, pere, ce quo vous venez de dire." Another scribe had traced these words in mockery of the rest. As I write, an Oxford B.C.L. tells me of the expression, " Nornina .tultorum parietibus adhaerent."

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. IStreatham Common.

When the late Duke of Clarence and his "brother, the present Prince of Wales, were lads together upon the Britannia at Dart- mouth, they wandered on foot one holiday so far as the picturesquely situated old church of SS. George and Mary at (Jockington (anciently Cockinttonc), near Torquay. Whilst there they cut their initials upon the jamb of the south-west entrance. Should these lines catch the Prince's eye he may possibly recol- lect the circumstance. The then vicar after- wards had the letters effaced.

HARRY HEMS.

JFair Park, Exeter.

I agree in the main with the remarks of MR. JOHN T. PAGE ; but, on the other hand, quite a number of autographs, tkc., of eminent men have been preserved in this way, and are now pointed out by the custodians to the interested sightseer. Wordsworth's name jnay still be seen in the old schoolhouse at tHartshead, covered over with a glass slab, ^lany names of illustrious persons may also 'be seen scratched on the window panes of Shakespeare's birthplace.

One could compile an interesting list of autographs of distinguished people who, after visiting places of historic note, have recorded their signatures on some part of the building.

After all, man is an imitative animal, and the fashion having been set by the upper ten thousand, it is little wonder that Tom, Dick, and Harry follow it.

CHAS. F. FORSIIAW, LL.D.

Baltimore House, Bradford.

MORLAND'S GRAVE (10 th S. ii. 49). There is no memorial at the chapel of St. James, Hampstead, over Morland's grave, or in the graveyard. ANDREW OLIVER.

PASTE (10 th S. i. 447, 477, 510; ii. 19, 72). In "A | Queen's | Delight: | or, | the art of preserving, | conserving, and candying. | As also, | arightknowledgeof | making perfumes and di | stilling the most excellent waters. | London : | Printed in the year 1G96," are .recipes for making the following pastes: of

"apricocks" ; of Genoa citrons: of elecam- pane roots ; of flowers of the colour of marble, tasting of natural Howers ; of oranges and lemons; of "pippings" like leaves, and some like plums, with their stones and stalks in them ; of " rasberries" or English currants.

The book containing these, although con- tinuously paged, is divided into three parts, each having a separate title-page. Of these three parts ' A Queen's Delight ' is the second. The third is " The compleat | Cook: | expertly prescribing | the most ready ways, | whether Italian, Spanish, or French | for J dressing of Flesh and Fish, | ordering of Sauces | or making of | Pastry." In this part "paste 1 ' occurs several times, while "anchoves " enter into the composition of several dishes ; but there is no hint of anchovy paste.

Amongst the various thirst - producing viands sold by the four Dutch innkeepers of London enumerated by John Taylor, the

Water Poet, in his 'Travels through

more then Thirty Times Twelve Signes of the Zodiack,' are

The pickled Herring, and the Anchovea rare :

And (if you please), Potarbo, or Caveare. Was this nothing more than anchovy pickled in a similar manner to the herring, or treated like caviare or botargo (= potarbo, although the 'N.E.D.'does not mention this variant under the main word) ? E. G. B.

ST. NINIAN'S CHURCH (10 th S. ii. 68, 117). Nothing can well be more explicit than Ailred's account of Xinian's first church :

"Ibi igitur jussu viri Dei cementarii, quos secum adduxerat, ecclesiam construunt ; antequatn iiullam in Britannia de lapide dicunt esse constructam." (There, therefore, by command of the man of God, the masons whom he had brought with him [from Tours] built a church, and they say that up to that time none in Britain had been constructed of stone.) 'Vita Niniani,' auctore Ailredo Revallensi, cap. iii.

It is true that Ailred wrote seven centuries after Ninian's death ; but he had material to work from to which we, alas ! have no access. "It happened," says Ailred, in his prologue, " that a barbarous language obscured the life of the

most holy Ninian and the less it gratified the

reader the less it edified him. Accordingly, it pleased thy holy affection [the reference is to Christianus, who was consecrated Bishop of Can- dida Casa at Bermondsey, 19 December, 11JHJ to impose upon mine insignificance the task of rescuing from a rustic style as from darkness, and of bring- ing forth into clear light of Latin diction, the life of this most renowned man, a //Y< >//,<>// had been told &// thaw n-ho camr Ixforc m<, but. in too barbarous a <'//

What can D. C. L. mean by saying that "no satisfactory site has been found for the original church"! Nothing could be more