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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. m. MAY 13, 1905.

usage (Smith's ' Diet, of Christian Anti- quities,' s.v. ' Stole').

The "apron or sheet in which are small figures," and which St. Raphael the Arch- angel holds in both hands, probably repre- sents the fish captured when, as a companion of Tobias, St. Raphael, by means of them, performed the miraculous cure of the sight of Tobias's father.

At the beginning of last century a niche on each side of the north door of Southwold Church contained an angel in the attitude of prayer, and the porch was decorated with Gothic letters, similar to those of an inscrip- tion over the great west window, which ran thus :

SAT. EDMUND. ORA. P. NOBIS.

Every letter was adorned with a crown, and the whole was skilfully executed. The fronts of the pews in the interior of this highly orna- mented church were decorated with repre- sentations of birds, beasts, satyrs, and human figures ; the ceiling was finely painted ; and on a screen, in the north aisle, were por- trayed various figures emblematical of the Holy Trinity and the Hierarchy, with the twelve Apostles, and figurative representa- tions of various subjects in Holy Writ (Dug- dale's 'British Traveller').

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

The "crossed stole" is at the present day worn by the officiating priest at the celebra- tion of the Holy Eucharist in many churches of the Anglican communion, and in all of the Roman. By a bishop of either communion the stole is worn over the alb, but not crossed. The "crossed stole" would be worn over the alb by the officiating priest at a wedding, should a Nuptial Mass be following the marriage service. (See rubric at end of Book of Common Prayer.)
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In the Greek communion the epitachelion, corresponding to the stole in the West, is never crossed, being merely a broad strip of silk with an aperture at the top to pass the head through, but it is kept in place by means of the girdle, as in the West. Whether it is used or not in the marriage service I am unable to say. JOHN SYDNEY HANS.

Priests wear the stole between the alb (surplice) and the chasuble, crossed over the breast, and secured in that position by the girdle of the alb nowadays only when officiating at Mass, formerly on all occasions on which the stole was worn. This vestment as touching the mystery,

" signifieth the ropes or bands that Christ wa bound with to the pillar when He was scourged

nd as touching the minister, it signifieth the roke of patience, which he must bear as the servant of God.' r

A. R. BAYLEY.

The late Dr. F. G. Lee, in his ' Glossary of Liiturgical Terms,' p. 385, speaking of the stole, says :

In the Western Church it is the custom for ,he priest when ministering at the altar to cross the stole on his breast, and put the ends through the girdle of the alb. Although this might have been done in early times, it did not become a general "ustom until about the thirteenth century."

WM. NORMAN.

6, St. James' Place, Plumstead.

[MR. E. H. COLEMAN also quotes Dr. F. G. Lee.]

EPIGRAM ON A ROSE (10 th S. iii. 309, 354). Forty years ago I noted in my commonplace book that the four lines about which F. W. inquires are followed by :

But if thy ruby lip it spy,

To kiss it shouldst thou deign, With envy pale 'twill lose its dye, And Yorkist turn again.

The first four lines (mine begin "If this pale rose ") are by Somerville (1692-1742), one stanza of several on ' Presenting a Rose to a Lady on the 10th June.' The second stanza was added by Congreve (see Sir H. Halford's ' Nugae Metrics,' 1842). Somerville probably adopted the idea from Herrick, viz. : Roses at first were white

Till they could not agree Whether my Sappho's breast Or they more white should be.

But being vanquish'd quite, A blush their cheeks bespread,

Since when, believe the rest, The roses first came red.

The above, together with other epigrams relating to the 'Origin of the Red Rose,' will be found in Dodd's ' Epigrammatists.'

H. S. MUIR, Surgeon-General (Ret.). 149, Oakwood Court, W.

REV. EDW. WM. GRINFIELD (10 th S. iii. 330) was minister of Laura Chapel, Bath, in 1820, according to Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses,' second series, part ii. p. 572. G. F. R. B.

HAMLET WATLING (10 th S. ii. 488 ; iii. 154, 272). MR. CANN HUGHES may like to know- that my collections relating to East Anglia are still with me, and are now for sale.

HAMLET WATLING.

Derby Villa, 41, Pearce Road, Ipswich.

' LOVE'S LABOUR 's LOST' : ITS DATE (10 th S. iii. 265). MR. PITT-LEWIS says that I have not quoted him quite fairly in my extract