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NOTES AND QUERIES, no s. vn. JAN. 26, 1007.

where the preface is " Let us pray for the whole state of Christ's Church militam here in earth," the prayer following being in many of its features similar in character to the clauses of the Bidding Prayer.

F. A. RUSSELL. 4, Nelgarde Road, Catford, S.E.

The 55th Canon of the Constitutions anc Canons Ecclesiastical, 1603, gives the pre scribed form of the Bidding Prayer, now seldom used, except in cathedrals. Th title of Canon 55 is, " The form of a Prayer to be used by all Preachers before their Sermons " ; and it commences thus :

"Before all sermons, lectures, and homilies, th_ preachers and ministers shall move the people to join with them in prayer, in this form, or to this effect: Ye shall pray for Christ's holy Catholi Church," &c.

This bidding or exhortation names or refers to the king, the royal family, the Council, and all the dignitaries, officers, and authorities in Church and State ; and also the local diocesan, capitular, municipal, and edu- cational officers and institutions, often in a quaint and old-world phraseology. The local variations are sanctioned by the words " to this effect." The canon ends with the words " always concluding with the Lord's Prayer," and this direction is invariably observed. fc W. R. HOLLAND.

ROMAN CATHOLIC PBIESTS BURIED IN LONDON (10 S. vi. 149, 218, 237). A corre- spondent very kindly answered my query in The Catholic Times, and from his reply I gather the following particulars.

During the eighteenth century and the earher part of the nineteenth the greater number of Catholics were buried in the churchyard of Old St. Pancras. Lysons in his Environs of London,' vol. iii. p 351 says :

"The church and churchyard of Pancras have long been noted as a burial-place for such Roman Catholics as die in London and the vicinity, many persons of that persuasion have been bur ed at ^diiigton but their numbers are small when compared with what are buried at Pancras, where almost every other tomb bears a cross and R IP .....1 have heard it assigned as a reason for the

preference to Pancras that before the late con

vulsions in France [the French Revolution] Masses

S 6 1 T d A" a Church in the South of France dedl

eated to the same saint for the souls of those

interred at St. Pancras in England."

Soon after the passing of the severe laws

against Roman Catholics in the reign of

izabeth. Catholics began to bury their

dead in St. Pancras ; but of these little or

record remains. The earliest is that of

the Right Rev. Bonaventure Giffard, Bishop of Madaura and Vicar-Apostolic of the Lon- don District, 1734. Then follow the Rev. Robert Grant, President of the Scotch College, Douai, 29 March, 1784 ; the Right Rev. Caesar d' Anterroches, Bishop of Condom, France, 31 Jan., 1793 ; the Right Rev. Bishop of Coutance, 1798 ; and the Bishop of St. Pol de Leon, 1800.

At the commencement of the nineteenth century occur the Bishop of Triguier, 1801 ; the Rev. Arthur O'Leary, O.S.F.C., the founder of St. Patrick's, Soho, and friend of Curran ; Father Nicholas Pisani, 1803 ; the Bishop of Noyon, 1804 ; the Archbishop of Narbonne, Dr. Arthur Dillon, 1806 ; and a large number of priests. Lysons says that " an average of about thirty of the " French clergy were buried annually."

In Hammersmith Churchyard : Dr. James Talbot, Bishop of Birtha and Vicar-Apos- tolic of the London District. He was the fourth son of George, Earl of Shrewsbury, and was the last ecclesiastic to be tried for saying Mass under the penal laws.

In St. Giles-in-the-Fields a large number of Catholics were buried, their gravestones being distinguished by the cross and R.I. P.

In the old church of St. Mary, Horseferry Road, Westminster, the founder, a French emigre priest, was buried.

St. George's Cathedral, Southwark, is the burial-place of the Rev. John Griffiths (1813), the Rev. John Rudford, the Rev. John White, and the Rev. Edward McStay ; and close to them Dr. James Danell, the second Bishop of Southwark, 1881. Pro- vost Doyle, who was the founder of the cathedral, also lies within its walls (1879).

Beneath the church of the Holy Trinity, Parker's Row, Bermondsey, are interred the Rev. Peter Butler, the founder, and six priests.

In the rear of SS. Mary and Michael's hurch, Commercial Road, is a small cemetery in which are buried several of the clergy.

There were also several private burial- grounds in different parts of London almost exclusively used by Catholics, but long since closed. Priests are said also to have aeen buried in the churchyards of St. James's, 31erkenwell, St. Anne's, Soho, and St. Greorge's, Hanover Square ; but I have 3een unable to search the registers of these Churches, so I cannot verify the statement. FKEDERICK T. HIBGAME.

POST BOXES (10 S. vi. 389, 453, 475). Early post boxes, several of which remain,