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jurisdiction of the holy Catholic Church, apostolic and Roman, particularly in the civil constitution of the clergy.

"2. To restore without delay all legitimate pastors, and all persons possessed of benefices instituted by the Church, to the benefices of which they have been unjustly despoiled by the decrees of an incompetent power, with the reservation of taking canonical means for suppressing the titles of benefices which are least necessary, and to apply them to the wants of the State."

Louis XVI. was an admirer of Charles I., and looked on his case as analogous to his own. Charles I. had a similar intention, and his written vow on the subject is in the St. Paul's Cathedral Library (8 S. v. 143). Perhaps, therefore, Louis XVI. in this matter also imitated Charles I.

A. B. G.

LAST MAIL COACH. In Lady Dorothy Nevill's charming book * Under Five Reigns' I read that " the last of the regular mail coaches would seem to have been the old Derby mail, which made its final journey out of Manchester in 1858."

I certainly went from Plymouth to Truro in 1858, and I think again in 1859. The Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash was opened in the latter year, and I presume that up to that date the mail coach continued to run. HENRY FISHWICK.

VENETI : VENETIANS. One is so accus- tomed to think of the Venetians as the people of the great mediaeval republic under whose leadership took place the Latin conquest of Constantinople (the first capture of that city) in 1204, and which preserved its independence after its decline until the capture of Venice by Napoleon in 1796, that one is rather startled to read in Dr. Mitchell's 'History of the Highlands and Gaelic Scotland ' (p. 4) that " at this time [i.e., that of Julius Caesar] the Venetians carried on a large trade with Britain." But of course this refers to the tribe of the Veneti on the north-west coast of Gaul, who raised a war with Caesar, which is described in the third boojk of the Gallic War, the result being their almost complete destruction in a naval battle, probably fought near the mouth of the Loire. From that tribe, however, is derived the name of the modern town of Vannes. Whether that had any ethnic connexion with the Veneti in the north-east of Italy who inhabited the modern Venetia cannot be answered positively. But it is more prob- able that the latter were connected with a Slavonian tribe also called Veneti or Venedi

(whence the appellation Wonds, in German Wenden) on the southern shores of the Baltic.

But besides these there was in very ancient times a tribe of similar name in Paphlagonia which is mentioned by Homer as a mule- breeding race :

E 'EvcruM', oOtv fjfuovwv yevos dyporepaMv

(' Iliad, 'ii. 851.) Of these nothing more is known.

W. T. LYNN. Blackheath.

INDEXES LOCORUM TO PRINTED PARISH REGISTERS. May I venture to suggest to editors of printed parish registers the advisability of adding an index of places to the volume or volumes for which they are responsible ? With one or two note- worthy exceptions, it does not seem to have occurred to those in charge that the books are likely to be made use of for topographical, as well as genealogical, purposes. An index of places outside the immediate area covered by a particular volume would be easy of compilation, and would not take up much room. I have been lately put to considerable trouble in going through the successive volumes of the Harleian Society's London registers by the absence of such aids. WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

St. Anne and St. Agnes, Grcsham Street, E.G.

LONGEVITY. It may be noted that the Rev. H. M. Sherwood has just resigned the living of White Ladies, Aston, Worcester- shire, which he held for seventy-one years. He was born in 1813. He took his B.A. degree (Queen's College, Oxford), in 1834. This tenure of an incumbency approaches a remarkable length. The reverend gentleman is said to enjoy, happily, excellent health.

W. H. QUARRELL.

FORWARD AL. I had occasion recently to write to the Superintendent of Govern- ment Printing, India, for a publication, and in reply received a printed form on which I was asked to remit the price of a copy, inclusive of lorwardal charges. The word is not in the * N.E.D." L. L. K.

PETER MUNDY, TRAVELLER. In a letter from Sir Nicholas Parker to the Lords of the Council (Hist. MSS. Comm.), dated 12 March, 1600-1, mention is made of " Robert Mundey, an honest merchant of Penrhyn."

P. D. M.