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is to discover whether the above is identical with "Bridges, son of Capt. Bridges, of Court House, Overton," who became a Com- moner at Winchester in Short Half, 1837. If not, who was the latter 1 ?

JOIIN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED. I am anxious to learn the author of the following :

Be sure that Love ordained for souls more meek His roadside dells of rest.

Also

As in a gravegarth count to see The monuments of memory.

A. M. T.

ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA. The cult of this saint is often referred to as a recent development in the Roman Catholic Church, notably in France and in Ireland. But in ' Lavengro ' (vol. i. chap, ix., edition 1851) George Borrow makes an Orangeman of Clonmel in the year 1815 drink "to Boyne water and to the speedy downfall of the Pope and St. Anthony of Padua." Can any one furnish information as to the nature of the cult of the saint at that period? Was his invocation then used, as now, as a means of recovering lost property 1 and why did an Orangeman nearly ninety years ago single him out for execration, together with the Pope ? B.

COUNT A. DE PANIGNANO : HOLLOWAY. On 15 and 16 December, 1853, a collection of autographs and MSS. belonging to the former was sold by Messrs. Puttick & Simpson at their Great Room, 191, Piccadilly. In the catalogue is " Lot 94, Letters of Charles I." They were bought by a person named Hol- loway. Who was this count, and where did he live in 1853? Also, who was Holloway, the purchaser? what were his initials? is he alive now ? and, if so, where does he live?

C. MASON. 29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.

COMET c. 1580. In the registers of the French Church in Southampton is mentioned a public fast, 6 April, 1581, to deprecate the Divine wrath " threatened in the appearance of the Comet which began to show itself on the 8th of October and which lasted until the 12th of December" ('Relics of Old South- ampton,' 1904, p. 75). Has this comet been identified ? C. S. WARD.

EARL OF MONTROSE. Mr. Andrew Lang, in his 'St. Andrews' (London, 1893), mentions (p. 228) an account-book kept by the tutors of the youngEarl of Montrose while he was study- ing there in 1627 to 1629. Have these accounts

ever been published ? and, if not, where can the originals be consulted 1 L. L. K.

STATUE IN A CIRCLE OF BOOKS. A new edition of Thomas Hey wood's ' Pleasant Dialogues and Drammas' (1637) appeared in 1903 at Louvain, under the careful editorship of Prof. W. Bang, as one of the series of "Materialen zur Kunde desalteren Englischen Dramas." This very miscellaneous volume includes an epitaph on Mrs. Katharine Skip, who died in 1630, and also the following :

" Of Mr. Thomas Skipp her husband, since de- ceased, and buried in the same Tombe, whose Statue is plac'fc in a circle of Bookes, for the great love he bore to learning.

What stronger circle can Art-magick find Wherein a Scholers spirit can be confind, Than this of Bookes? next how he spent his time, Scorning earths drosse to look on things sublime.

So long thy love to learning shall be read,

Whilst fame shall last, or Statues for the dead."

This verse naturally provokes the inquiry if this statue "in a circle of books" is still extant ; if so, where?

WILLIAM E. A. AXON. Manchester.

WALKER FAMILY. Peter Walker married Rebecca Woolner, in Suffolk (probably at Ipswich), about 1770. He held some scholastic- appointment at Oxford or Cambridge. Their daughter Charlotte married Lieut. Francis McLean, R.N., at St. George's, Hanover Square, 25 December, 1802.

John Walker, vicar of Bawdsley, Suffolk, and a minor canon of Norwich Cathedral, died at Norwich in 1807, aged fifty-two.

I shall be very glad if any reader will kindly give me information regarding the parentage of either Peter or John.

ALASDAIR MACLEAN.

2, Willow Mansions, Fortune Green, Hampstead.

SOLITARY MASS. The Roman Church, I understand, does not permit a priest to say Mass without at least the attendance of a server. Is this rule ever relaxed ? or has it ever been ? For instance, if a priest is alone in a heathen land can he celebrate quite alone ? I read somewhere that Dr. Pusey used to celebrate every morning in his college rooms at Oxford. If this is true, did he always have a server ?

FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

Libau, Russia.

STATUTES OF MERTON. Which is the correct version of the famous saying in connexion with the above : " Nolumus leges Anglise mutare," or " Nolumus leges Angliae- mutari" ? I have seen both, in my numerous, references.. The first mentioned would seem