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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. SEPT. 9, 1911.

store by them, as the first two lines are written again at the foot of the last page of the index.

On the said blank page are other lines, e.g.,

Lets not repine that Men and names doe dye Since stone built Cittyes dead & ruin'd lye. This is in the faded brown ink, but has been rewritten above by, I think, another hand. ROBERT PIEBPOINT.

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT : MRS. BROWN. Mary Wollstonecraft, on hearing that some friends disapproved of her action in abetting the escape of her sister, Eliza Bishop, from a drunken husband, writes (January, 1784) to her other sister Everina :

"I knew I should be the Mrs. Brown the shameful incendiary in this shocking affair of a woman's leaving her bedfellow."

Is the Mrs. Brown here mentioned a fictitious or historical character ? C. J.

CHAPLAINS : THEIR STATUS. By the statute of 21 Hen. VIII., c. 13, ss. 13-21, it was enacted that the chaplain of a noble- man, or other privileged person, might hold two benefices. Sir Robert Phillimore ( ' Book of Church Law ') says that this Act was in great measure repealed by 57 Geo III c. 99, and that

"1 and 2 Viet. c. 106 repeals this statute alto- gether, and the question as to the chaplains of privileged persons would now seem to depend on the common law alone : and it is, to say the least uncertain whether the peculiar status of such chaplains is in any way recognized by the existing

It would appear that the qualification for holding two benefices was not necessary if the person were Doctor or Bachelor of Divinity, Doctor of Law, or Bachelor of Canon. Law ; otherwise he was obliged to nobleman app intment as chaplain to some

Now the University of Oxford, on the authority of Dr. Bliss, quoted in Dean Burgoo s Lives of Twelve Good Men,' had not given degrees in Canon Law for cen- SSfi, S J? nclud e that a point was stretched and the degree of Bachelor in Civil Law allowed to stand for it. I well remember when I was an undergradulte hearing the Vice-Principal of my College

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t Dr. Bliss also said that " LL." means

nrtSS K Cl n n f 1 ? Canon a form still preserved by Cambridge and Dublin in the

degrees LL.B., LL.D., Oxford retaining the terms B.C.L. and D.C.L., though these have often been confused by writers.

A relative of my own was appointed in 1831 to a benefice to be held under bond of resignation with his own, from which it was nine miles distant, his qualification being that of nobleman's chaplain. About a year after resignation, he was appointed to it again, also under bond, but it does not appear under what law, the chaplain's qualification, as I understand the matter, having been repealed.

The dispensations granted by the Arch- bishop and the King for the former tenure are in my possession. I should like infor- mation as to the latter case.

The status of domestic chaplain an office which I myself hold is now, it would seem, purely honorary. E. L. H. TEW.

Upham Rectory.

" THE ROAD TO JERUSALEM," INN* SIGN. There is, or was quite lately, an inn with this sign close under Nottingham Castle. The local tradition is that it was a pilgrimage inn. There is a good deal about pilgrimage inns in Messrs. Maskell and Gregory's ' Old Country Inns,' but no mention of this particular hostelry or of the sign it bears. Is the local tradition correct ?

C. C. B.

ANCIENT METAL Box. A small, flat, circular box has a hinged lid, and is made of bronze or some similar alloy. It is almost exactly the size of a modern penny. With its lid it slightly exceeds the thickness of four pennies placed one on another. Both the box and its lid are very shallow, it being difficult to distinguish them. Both are adorned with a roughly drawn cross formed of double rows of impressed dots, evidently made with the point of a nail or some such tool.

The box was found in the grounds of an ancient priory, a fact which confirms the inference as to its use, drawn from its shape and ornamentation, namely, that it was a receptacle for conveying the Host from the altar to the sick and infirm in the neighbour- hood. Can some reader say whether this supposition is correct ?

JOHN T. KEMP.

T. & P. GALLY, PRINTSELLERS. I have some old prints which were sold by T. & P. Gaily, and I should be glad to know when the firm flourished. The prints are of a very common type, yet interesting, and appear to be among the earliest coloured ones issued.