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NOTES AND QUERIES. [us. XL JUNE 12,1915.

list of the ministers of each of their circuits. Two of these volumes, dating between 1830 aid 1850, 1 recently placed in the library of the Society of Genealogists of London. At the end of the volume there is a necrology of
 * all the deceased Wesleyan ministers from

the earliest period.

A. WEIGHT MATTHEWS. -60, Rothesay Road, Luton.

The following list of books might prove of use to your correspondent :

ABC Church and Chapel Directory, 1861 to date.

Hill (William). An alphabetical arrangement of all the Wesleyan Methodist ministers and preachers on trial, in connexion with the British and Irish Conferences. . . .to. . . .1896. 1st edition lo 1819 ; 18th edition to 1896.

Wesleyan Methodist Minutes of Conference from 1749 to date.

Baptist Handbook, 1813 to date.

Congregational Year-Book, 1846 to date.

Congregational Almanac and Directory, 1870 to date.

Official Handbook of the Presbyterian Church oi England, 1887 to date.

Essex Hall Year-Book, 1889 to date (Unitarian).

ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

COMMEMORATION OF ST. CHAD (11 S. xi. 399). St. Chad died on the 6th nones of March, (2nd ? day), and was buried on the nones (7tb) "according to Bede, ' Hist. Eccl.,' Book IV. chap. iii. In the Sarum, York, Hereford, and Aberdeen Breviaries he is commemorated on 2 March, and the proper lessons relate to the events of his life ; his translation being only mentioned incidentally at the end in Sarum. I am. not aware that the date of his trans- lation is recorded. His brother St. Cedd had no commemoration in the calendars or church services, but only in the mar tyro - logies on 7 January. 'The date of "his death is not known.

I see no reason for connecting " Cadding- ton " with St. Chad. It was probably the tun or farm of a tribe called the Caddings.

J. T. F.

Durham.

According to Bishop Challoner, ' Britannia Sancta ' (London, 1745), Part I. p. 151, St. Ceadda, or Chad, died 2 March, 673, and was buried " by St. Mary's Church in Litchfield, but afterwards his bones were translated to the Church of St. Peter." He adds :

" The relicks of St. Chad were afterwards trans- lated to the church built by Roger de Clinton, anno 1148, and dedicated to God in honour of the Blessed Virgin and St. Chad; which is now the Cathedral of Litchfield."

Nothing is more likely than that this last translation took place on his feast-day. His festival was kept at Lincoln on 2 March in Catholic times : see Wordsworth, ' Notes on Mediaeval Services in England ' (London, 1898), p. 309.

MR. MYMMS is mistaken in thinking that the festival of St. Ceadda's brother, St. Cedda or Cedd, was also kept on 2 March. It was observed on 7 January. St. Cedd died about nine years before St. Chad. St. Chad's relics, preserved from profanation at the Reformation, are now in the Catholic Cathedral at Birmingham, which is dedicated to him ; see ' History of St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham' (Birmingham, 1904), vii. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

St. Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, is com- memorated in both the Sarum and the Roman calendars on 2 March, which was the day of his death. His brother St. Cedda, called Bishop of London, but more properly Bishop of the East Saxons, is commemorated in the English martyrology on 7 January, but the day of his death was 26 October. According to some writers he had two other brothers, both saints and priests St. Celin and St. Cynibel.

MARQUIS DE TOURNAY. Frant, Sussex.

RETROSPECTIVE HERALDRY (11 S. xi. 28, 77, 155, 236, 330). I cannot follow closely ' N. & Q.,' the present war having caused the mails much delay; but I observe that MR. JUSTICE UDAL expresses clearly my own ideas on this subject.

I should like to suggest another problem which seems to present itself : Is there any restriction in the Heralds' College as to a grandfather being what LEO C. calls an " identification " ? Why not a great-great- grandfather on the same principle, or any number of generations backward, which might serve the would-be armigerous person and his cousins of many degrees ? A youthful member of a large family might desire to pay the necessary fees to honour his living grandfather and a large circle of acquaintance in this manner, including his grandfather's grandfather !

Almost any textbook of heraldry insists upon the fact that coats of arms are marks of honour, either hereditary or granted by the sovereign for individual military valour, shining virtue, or signal public service, and serve to denote the descent and alliances of the bearer and his posterity. But when we find that persons can go to the Heralds'