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which lies, perhaps, 12 feet below it. Some- what the same sort of arrangement may be seen in the out-of-doors pulpit at Bamberg (Bavaria).

In the interesting old town of Schwabisch- Gmiind (Wiirtemberg) is the Salvator Kirche, the lower part of which is excavated (a kind of grotto) in the actual limestone rock, and probably dates from pagan times. The chapel above appeared to be of fifteenth- century date. Near its altar, a doorway gives access to an external octagonal pulpit, which has figures carved upon each of its cants.

Many will recollect with pleasure the beautiful circular exterior pulpit of marble (with a handsome sounding-board above, taking the same outline), atone corner of the cathedral at Prato, eleven miles from Florence, and the exquisitely carved groups of dancing figures with which the outside of this cleverly designed rostrum is ornamented.

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

There is an external pulpit at the grand cathedral of Seville.

It is perhaps surprising that no one has suggested that low-side windows were to serve as pulpits when an al fresco congrega- tion was to be addressed. I should be sorry, however, to have to maintain the theory.

ST. SWITHIN.

See 9 th S. viii. 325, 394, 489 ; ix. 56, 157, 356' JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

NELSON'S SIGNAL (10 th S. iv. 321, 370, 411, 471, 533). MR. WARD seems to think that I oughtto transcribe, and 'N.&Q.'oughttoprint, what the logs have to say about this signal. I have no intention of doing so for my part, or of asking our Editor to do so on his. I gave MR. WARD the references, and if he would devote to examining these some of the time he spends in writing about what he does not understand, he might arrive at a definite conclusion. It would, at any rate, be better than supporting his story by a reference to an American common - place book. J. K. LAUGHTON.

GARIOCH : ITS PRONUNCIATION (10 th S. v. 9). In Aberdeenshire this word is invariably pronounced Gherry the Gh hard as in ghetto, the word as rhyming with sherry.

JOHN MURRAY.

50, Albemarle Street, W.

The pronunciation of Garioch as a surname (and it is so uncommon that there is only one person so named in the Scotch ecclesiastical

list in * Oliver & Boyd's Edinburgh Almanac ') in the north of Scotland is Gerry G hard, and e as in Kerry. I can hardly think that M.A.P. is correct, as cited by MR, PLATT, in giving " Geevy " as the pronun- ciation of " Garioch (the title) "the eldest son of the Earl of Mar bears the title Lord Garioch and there is certainly a variant of the " Garrick " of * Who 's Who.'

J. GRIGOR.

The Gary, Mary, short.

name of this district is pronounced

riming with the Christian name

In the district the a is sounded rather

Who's Who' and

at fault.

M.A.P. Are equally R. E. B.

CHURCH SPOONS (10 th S. iv. 468 ; v. 13). Walker's * History of the Cathedral Church of Wakefield ' contains the following at pp. 135-6 :

The spoon was given by Mr. J. L. Fernandes, because he saw the late vicar (Rev. C. J. Camidge), remove a fly out of the wine, with his penknife, during a celebration of the Holy Communion ; and, resolved that this should not occur again, he requested the vicar to procure a spoon at his (Mr. Fernandes's) charge. The length of the spoon is 8 inches, of the bowl 2^, its width being 2 inches, and the length of the Apostle is 1^ inches. The Apostle is at the end of the spoon, but it is difficult to decide which of the twelve is represented. On the back of the spoon is the inscription ' Pre- sented by J. L. Fernandes to All Saints' Church, Wakefield, 1869,' with the crest of Fernandes. The hall-marks are J. & J. W., Queen's head, lion passant."

The spoon is silver-gilt.

MATTHEW H. PEACOCK. Wakefield Grammar School.

I find the passage in Lee's ' Directorium ' (to which MR. STREET unfortunately gave no exact reference ; the index does not help) at p. 89 of the second edition, 1865. Is it known whence Lee derived this part of his book 1 ? What is the practice of the Roman Church 1 Are spiked spoons there used 1 Or is it merely an accident that in some church a "mulberry spoon" has been sub- stituted for a perforated spoon (not having a spiked handle) which had been lost ]

Q. V.

PAUL WniTEHEAD(10 th S. iv. 468). At the east end of West Wycombe Church, Bucks, which stands on the summit of a steep hill surrounded by some fine old trees, there is a Grecian hexagonal mausoleum of the Tuscan- order, dedicated to " George Dodington, Baron of Melcombe Kegis," whose legacy to- erect a monument for him, says Thos. Moule ('English Counties,' 1839, vol. i. p. 163), enabled Francis, Lord Le Despencer (the