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 138 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» s. iv. AC«. 12,1905. mentioned in Southern's ' Liverpool, its Com- merce,' <fec., 1825, as the author of twoanti- Copernican pamphlets, and in De Morgan's 'Budget of Paradoxes.' See also references to him in the memoirs of Richard Brothers, the prophet, and John Finlayson, his disciple, in the ' D.N.B.,' vi. 444, xix. 33. Finlayson, at Brpthers's request, wrote against Prescot, describing his ' System of the Universe' as a " misapprehended, mistaken, elaborate per- formance or book." The title of Samuel Hood's book is ' Ana- lytic Physiology,' Liverpool, 1822; second edition, London, 1829. C. W. SUTTON. ' THE MISSAL ' (10th S. iii. 469 ; iv. 34, 75).— In times when the Mass was penalized, and when consequently Catholics could very seldom be present at it, pious people fre- quently read the Ordo Missae every day, as an act of devotion. This was particularly the case in Ireland, where, Sunday by Sunday, a few of the faithful gathered together while one of their number read aloud the Divine Liturgy for the benefit of the rest. An old •woman told me she could well remember this being done fifty or sixty years ago in parts of Norfolk where the ancient religion still lingered on. I think this custom would probably account in some measure for the word " Missal" being applied to all Catholic books of devotion. I remember joining in this act of piety with some half dozen Catholics in a village in Pennsylvania many miles from a church some twenty years ago. when the Missal was the only prayer- book any of us possessed. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. The passage to which your correspondent refers is that in which the midnight funeral of Lady Glenallan is described. The Funeral Office ('Exsequiarum Ordo') itself is not contained in the Breviary. But at a certain point in this office the rubric directs that (" nisi quid impediat") the ' Officium De- functorum ' shall be said or sung, after which the 'Exsequiarum Ordo' is resumed in the church and finished at the grave-side. Scott was probably misled by the title ' Officium Defunctorum' to suppose that this was the actual Funeral Office ; whereas it is really the Breviary office appointed to be said on All Souls' Day and some other days. But his mistake, in default of precise information, was a natural one. As for the " Alleluia," he certainly would not find that in either of the offices, but it might perhaps have been the conclusion of a hymn sung l>y the assemblage after the ceremony was concluded. C. S. JERRAM. NOTES ON BOOKS, Ac. The Plcutfagenet Roll of the Blood Royal. By the Marquis of Ruvigny and Kaineval. (T. C. & E. C. Jack.) HAVING posed for a time aa the historian of Jaco- bite rights and claims, the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval now constitutes himself that of the Blood Royal of England, and is supplying, in a series of handsome and richly illustrated volumes, a full list of all those in whose veins runs the august strain of English royalty. Each volume is distinct and separate from its companions. The first (for which see 10th S. i. 19) supplied a roll of the living descendants of Edward IV. and Henry VII. of England and James III. of Scotland : that which now appears is called the Clarence volume, and contains the descendants of George, Duke of Cla- rence. Nothing has to be added to what has been Raid in defence of works of the clans. Genealogy, family history, and ''pedigree-lore" are no longer on their trial, and the importance of the present experiment, and its success, so far as it has pro- gressed, are abundantly attested in the popularity of the opening volume and the rapidity with which it has been followed by a second, no less ambitious in scope and thoroughpaced and conscientious in workmanship. Little perceptible departure has been made from the plan adopted in the previous volume, now, for the sake of convenience and dis- tinction, spoken of as the Tudor Roll of the " Blood Royal of Great Britain." In a series of some eighty or so tables the lines from Dnke George are traced until the middle of the nineteenth century or some- what later, the descendants of the various persons Jast named being given in the order of primogeniture in the body of the work. George, Duke of Clarence, is, of course, Shakespeare's " False, fleeting, per- jured Clarence," associated in tradition, as in •Richard III..' with the butt of Malmsey, mur- dered in the Tower 18 Feb., 1478. His wife Isabel was the eldest daughter, and in her issue sole heir, of Richard (Nevill), Earl of Warwick and Salisbury, and his wife Anne, sister and sole heir of Henry (Beauchamp), King of the Isle of Wight and Dnke of Warwick ; so, as is pointed out, all those named in the volume are not only descended from Ed- ward III., but are equally descended from the famous King-Maker, while those entitled to quarter the arms of George of Clarence are also entitled to quarter those of the Nevills and the Beauchamps. Two hundred and ten peers are descended from Clarence, Lord Granard coming first with eleven descents, and Lord Petre second with ten. Some 17,625 living, or very lately living, descendants of Clarence are given in the volume. These have among them 31,936 lines of descent, being an average of a little under two descents each. Four hundred and twenty-seven years after Clarence's, death a descendant is, for the first time, reigning in Europe, "King Charles of Roumania being de- scended from Lady Ursula Pole." It appears that the Roumanian royal house has much interest for British genealogists, since " not only are the chil- dren of the Crown Prince the only three persons in whose veins is united the blood of Charles I. and Queen Victoria, but they are also the only descend- ants of the Duke of Clarence who are descended aa well from Queen Victoria." By the marriage of