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 NOTES AND QUERIES. [10* s. in. JAN. 28, 1005.

'London Churches,' says that the church stood at the corner of Fenchurch Street and Gracecharch Street. It was a living united with that of St. Leonard, Eastcheap. The church was curiously planned, like many others of Wren's churches, to fill every inch of an irregular site.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

MARRIAGE SERVICE (10 th S. iii. 7). See the notes on matrimony, by the Rev. F. E. Warren, in the 'Prayer-Book Commentary for Teachers and Students, containing His- torical Introduction, Notes on the Calendar and Services, together with Complete Con- cordances to the Prayer-Book and Psalter' ((Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge). F. E. R. POLLARD-URQUHART.

Castle Pollard. Westmeath.

The Rev. J. H. Blunt, in his ' Annotated Book of Common Prayer,' says (p. 261), "Our English office " (for the solemnization of matrimony) "is substantially the same as the old Latin one "; and he gives, in parallel columns, the present service side by side with the Salisbury "Use," which it closely follows, with a portion here and there from the York "Use": an instance of the careful way in which the Prayer-Book was founded on ancient service books already in use in England. ERNEST B. SAVAGE, F.S.A.

St. Thomas', Douglas.

The greater part of our service of matri- mony is taken from the unreformed service books, Use of Sarum and of York. Part of the opening address and the announcement beginning, "Forasmuch as M. and N. have consented together in holy wedlock," were suggested by words of Hermann's ' Consulta- tions,' mainly compiled by Melanchthon and Bucer, 1543. The Sarum Use was revised by St. Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, about 4085, probably from Anglo-Saxon devotions. F. FABER-BROWNE.

"The service is taken in substance from the old Office in the Sarum Manual, omitting the formal Benediction of the Ring, and the special form of the Nuptial Mass immediately following the service. In the old service the opening exhortation, the questions and answers, the words of betrothal, and the words on putting on the ring were always in English. Some of the hortatory portions are borrowed, as usual, from Hermann's ' Consultatio.' " Bp. Barry's ' Teacher's Prayer-Book.'

See also 'The Old Service Books of the English Church,' by C. Wordsworth and H. Littlehales (Methuen, 1904), chap, ii., where specimens of the English portions of the old service are given.

(Rev.) FRED. G. ACKERLEY. Liban, Russia.

COMET c. 1580 (10 th S. iii. 8). I am obliged to head this reply as MR. WARD has headed his query. But the literal part of the desig- nation is quite unnecessary, as there was only one comet recorded in that year. It was first seen in China on 1 October, and also discovered by Mostlin at Tubingen on the 2nd. Tycho Brahe obtained a series of observations of the comet from 10 October to 12 December, and its orbit was calculated by Halley, and afterwards by others ; no de- viation from a parabola was noticed, and the perihelion passage occurred on 28 November.

W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

In reply to MR. C. S. WARD, I find that this comet was discovered in China. It was visible from 2 October to 12 December, 1580. The orbit was computed by Schjellerup. Perihelion passage, 28 November, 1580. Large eccentricity. Very long period ; perhaps over 9,000 years. But, of course, the orbit may not be elliptical. J. ELLARD GORE.

"AN OLD WOMAN WENT TO MARKET" (10 Ul S.

ii. 502 : iii. 10). This story has been dealt with previously in ' N. & Q.,' and the probable origin from " A kid, a kid ! " in the Jewish service book pointed out in this and other journals. It is upwards of fifty years since I first heard this story of ' The Old Woman and the Pig which wouldn't go o'er th' Brig.' Until reading MR. WATSON'S contribution, I was not aware that it was a stile the pig wouldn't go over ; and, indeed, before a pig could pass over a stile it would be necessary for it to have an acrobatic training.

In the Derbyshire version it was a " brig " which the pig would not go over, and children were told that it was because of the " devil that was in it " ! Indeed, the tale as I heard it when a child had a good deal of the uncanny about it, and I can remember that the folks of the villages in which I first heard the story were of the opinion that evil and good were matched against each other in it ; though this was not said, but implied in their talk about it.

The old woman had duly bought her pig, and had driven it home almost as far as the " brig " near her home, when the pig, piglike, refused to go any further, and began to head backwards. A dog coming near, she appealed to it, " Dog, dog, bite pig ; pig wunner goo o'er th' brig, an' Ah shonner get home to- night ! " Nothing was heard about her old man's supper, either in the first appeal or in any of the following requests to dog, stick, axe, fire, water, ox, butcher, rope, rat, cat, and man. It will be noticed that in the