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them. It is not clearly apparent by what authority, or when, these were first set up in our churches, probably, however, by some royal injunction or order of Council in the reign of Henry VIII. or Edward VI."

The writer then gives quotations from several documents of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries referring to royal arms in churches. He also states, inter alia, that the arms of Elizabeth are, or were, existing in the churches of St. Martin and St. Thomas, Salisbury ; St. Michael's, Coventry; and Sandford Church, Oxford- shire ; the remains of those of James I. in Brixton Church, Isle of Wight; and those of the Commonwealth at Anstey, in Warwick- shire.

I understand that the arms of James I. may still be seen in the churches of Holy Trinity and All Saints, Marham, Norfolk.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

PAGING PROFESSOR" (10 th S. iv. 188, 273, 351). Perhaps a few more words (final on my own part) may be allowed on this subject. A private communication from a friend at Oxford, an expert on these topics, informs me that there is no ground for believing that this title was ever conferred as a degree in any university. It may be considered as an ornamental or rhetorical equivalent of "Sacrae Theologize Professor" (Doctor of Divinity). So, with regard to the portrait of Bishop Fitz James in Chichester Cathedral, its occurrence must be to vary the monotony of S.T.P. applied to his pre- decessors. After the Reformation the title is dropped.

Parallel instances of rhetorical titles may be noted not uncommonly in sixteenth- century epitaphs. Thus F. Adam Sasbout (1553) is described as "Sacraruru Litterarum Pnelector " at Louvain ; Peter Lupin at Wittenberg (1521), " Philosophise et Sacrarum Litterarum Doctor"; Philip Melanchthon (1560), '' Sacrarum Litterarum Solertissimus et Fidelissimus Explicator"; George Major (1574), "Sacrae Theologise Doctor et Pro- fessor," at Wittenberg. These are drawn from *Bibliotheca Belgica' and 'Freheri Thesaurus.'

In the edition of John Nider's great work on the Decalogue, printed by Husner at Strassburg in 1476, the author is described at the beginning of the work as *' Frater Johannes Nider Sacre theologie professor, ordinis predicatorum." The colophon at the end runs : ** Johannis Nyder Sacre paginate] egregii doctoris preclarissimum opus.

This instance clearly proves that the two titles connote a single degree.

Again, the identity of "Sacra Scriptura" and ** Sacra Pagina " is proved by a passage in Titulus I. of the Statutes 9f the Theo- logical Faculty in the University of Vienna of the year 1389 :

" Complete Evangelic, vel post prandium, vel alia hora competent!, fiat Sermo devotus de illo altissimee speculations Theologo [i.e., St. John the Evangelist] introducendo commendationem Sacne Scripturae, et depurationem conscientiarum deben- tium in Sacra Pagina studere, legere, vel dpcere."

'Chronologia Diplomatica Universitatis Vindo-

bonensis ab anno 1385 ad annum 1399,' Jac. Zeisl, Viennae, 1755, p. 9.

These statutes are particularly interesting to a student of universities in the Middle Ages. In my copy they are appended to Schlikenrieder's * Chronologia Diplomatica

Universitatis Vindobonensis ab. anna

1237 ad annum 1384,' 1753, which contains the foundation diplomas in Latin and the vernacular German, with fine engravings of the seals of Rudolph IV. and other Dukes of Austria. C. DEEDES.

Chichester.

CHEMISTS' COLOURED GLASS BOTTLES (10 tb S. v. 168). This custom appears to be traceable to the first lighting of the streets of London with oil lamps, when the apothecary and the quack, as well as the physician and the surgeon, to facilitate the recognition of their abode by the public, displayed a lamp with round bull's-eye glass of the same colour as that of the ball accompanying it red, green, or blue, as the case might be. In the Bag- ford Bills the quack advertisements always terminate with some sly allusion to this distinguishing feature of their premises. But when the chemist actually adopted, as a sort of sign, the white glass vessels filled with coloured water, one cannot say, although it is worthy of note that the three or four colours generally used (i.e., yellow, red, blue, and green) correspond to the signs and coloured lamps of the old-time surgeon and physician, whether quack or otherwise, namely, the Golden Ball and the Blue, Green, or Red Ball. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

GRANTHAM OF GOLTHO FAMILY (10 th S. v. 70). Some time ago, in the course of an ex- cursion to some old Sussex churches, I acci- dentally learnt some facts which perhaps upply the information sought by ROUGE DRAGON.

In 1889 Mr. William Grantham, Q.C.,M.P. (now Mr. Justice Grantham), obtained posses- sion, without a faculty, of a large alabaster altar - tomb, dated 1619, with recumbent