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CONTENTS. Xo. 165.

NOTES: -'The Church Times,' 141 The Lord of Burleigh and Sarah Hoggins, 143 Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 144-A Letter of Scott's: " Mutate," 145 "Stupples" at Salisbury in Olden Times "Felix quern faciunt aliena pericula cautum " -Archiepiscopal Visita- tions of Monastic Houses in 1250-93 " Bedevil" Shake- speare and the Bible Milton, 146.

Registers Printed " Gentleman " and "Husbandman Repetition of Passages, 143 Wellington's Toast on Waterloo Nights 1 Gentleman's Magazine* " Mad as a hatter" : " Like a hatter" The Empress Helena at Llan- gollen ' Vicar of Bray' : " Pudding-time "Johnson and Garrick : Epigram Roche : Van Ness Church in a Pic- tare, 149 Capt. C. J. M. Mansfield at Trafalgar -Lions in the Tower Sampler : Fytche Family Reference in Burke Peter Hume' Margiana 'Policemen on Point-Duty St. Bridget's Bower, Kent St. George or Mummers' Plays Duplex Ride : Crooked Usage General Elliot, 150.

REPLIES : John Norris : Norris of Spate, 150-Cufew Bell, 151 Hayter's "Trial of Queen Caroline 'German Funeral Custom " Laking "--Playing, 152 " Burgee " "Dander" Shakespeare's Sonnets CXXV. and CXXVI. Thomas Chippendale, Upholsterer, 153 Armorial " Marrowskying " Burke Quotation " Marshalseas," 154 Bishops' Transcripts Cotton's 'Angler': its Motto Earth-eating " Bucca-boo" History of Churches in Situ, 155 Died in his Coffin References of Quotations Wanted Napoleon as Historian, 156 Samuel Johnson of Canterbury The Alchemist's Ape Thomas Bagshaw Battle of Maldon, 157 John Till. Rector of Hayes " Morrye-hou.se " Wreck of the Royal George -Dolls buried in a Scottish Cave The Seven Oars at Henley, 158.

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'THE CHURCH TIMES.' FEBRUARY ?TH, 1863 FEBRUARY TTH, 1913

SEVENTEEN years ago, on the 1st of February, 1896, we noted the Jubilee of The Guardian. To-day we note the Jubilee of The Church Times. It comes as a surprise to us that fifty years have passed since we saw George J. Palmer hard at work on the paper of which lie was the founder in the small shop at 32, Little Queen Street, on the right- hand side from Lincoln's Inn Fields. This continued to be its home until it formed a part of vanished London, being swept away in the great clearances at the making of Kingsway. The present handsome offices

of the paper are, as is well known, in Portugal Street, next to another handsome building occupied by old friends of ' X. & Q.' Messrs. George Bell the publishers.

The Jubilee Number, in the ' Memories of Fifty Years, drawn from the File of The Church Times,' shows what pluck and .in- domitable purpose Palmer must have had to found such a paper. " The public did not smile on its birth" ; it was in some sense a continuation of The Union, which, after a stormy career of seven years, came to an end in June, 1862. Like The Guardian when it started, The Union had only sixteen pages, and was published at the same price, sixpence.

The Church Times commenced with eight pages, and Palmer, taking advantage of the recent repeal of the stamp and paper duties, resolved that the price should be one penny. Little capital was available, " but some friends, of whom the late Dr. Allen of Norwich was probably the last survivor, came forward to guarantee a circulation of a thousand copies." Among other eager and devoted workers were the Rev. J, E.Vaux, then curate of St. Mary Magdalene's, Minister Square, who from the first wielded the most vivacious of pens, and Dr. Littledale. Mr. A. R. Cooke joined at a later date. Others who lent their aid were the Rev. E. A. Hillyard, Rector of St. Lawrence's, Norwich, and Mr. George Paynter, afterwards of The Standard ; " and most active of all was Mr. Charles Williams, who was to achieve fame as War Correspondent to the future Daily Chronicle." Twenty years later one of its " best-known contributors " was that old friend of ' N. & Q.,' the late Rev. W. Benham, who joined the ranks of The Church Times "as the evergreen * Peter Lombard.' '

The Church Times was, as already men- tioned, in some sense a continuation of The Union, and " was from the first specially interested in the hopes and aspirations after unity among Christians which alter- nately fire the imagination and provoke the disappointment of the faithful. The Association for Promoting the Unity of Christendom, an outcome of these hopes, was founded some six years before the founding of the paper. Interest was taken in the movement " by men like Mr. Ambrose Phillips de Lisle, who were unquestioning adherents of the Papacy, but equally un- questioning believers in a larger unity tha.n could be achieved by a mere papal sect " ; but " the authorities at Rome. . . .condemn* d the movement, compelling all who bowod