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NOTES AND QUERIES.

upon a Book called " Pax Vobis." This was anonymous, and was also the subject of inquiry by W. C. B. The author was Thomas Linford, D.D. (See ' D.N.B.')

A very interesting reference to ' Pax Vobis ' is to be found at p. 221 of Fountain- hall's * Historical Observes ' (Bannatyne Club, 1840), which The Athenceum (9 June, 1900, p. 709) described as " a delightful book, which deserves a larger public than the limited circle of its fortunate possessors." Under date 1685 Sir John Lauder writes : " We ware also much stumbled with a litle book, then printed at Edinburgh, ather published by Doctor Sibbald, Robert Barclay quaker, or David Fairfoull the jesuite, or some priest, called ' Pax

Vobis, or Gospell Liberty.' The designe of the

book is very knavishly contrived to bafle, disgrace and affront our reformation ; alledging Melanc- ton maintained bigamy ; Calvin, that Christ despaired on the crosse ; Beza, that the Sacrament may be adhibite in other elements then bread and win ; but his citations out of them are false and distorted. Being write dialogue wayes, it's easie to put no argument in his antagonist's mouth but

what he can easily answer Tho the author would

passe for ane Protestant, yet it 's most evident his designe is to shake and unsetle us in our founda- tion, hoping that our reeling will at last land us at Rome."

C. D.

BARON STULZ (11 S. vii. 121, 336). The Mr. Stulz whom G. A. Storey, A.R.A., knew when a young man must have been John Stulz, who died at Norwood. 16 April, 1849, aged 61. He carried on with Samuel Housley a tailors' business as " Stulz, Housley & Stulz," at 10, Clifford Street, Bond Street, 1817-40, and as "Stulz, Housley & Wain," at same address, 1840-48. They employed 300 hands, and netted 40,000?. a year. Housley invented the frock coat which was worn in 1838. He died 9 June, 1847. Baron Stulz died 17 Nov., 1832. FREDERIC BOASE.

DICKENS : PLACES MENTIONED IN ' THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER ' (11 S. vii. 249). In respect of query (1), might not the churchyard of Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, have been in Dickens's mind ? It must have been a spot quite after his own heart, with its crooked gravestones overlooked by half a dozen picturesque old houses on the eastern side. Now all are razed, including the premises for many years occupied by Messrs. Bremner & Frith, tobacco merchants, which made a cul-de-sac of the court.

Anent query (2), I hazard the conjecture that the name of the gallery was fictitious.

CECIL CLARKE. " Junior Athenaeum Club.

AUTHORS WANTED (US. vii. 387). Thy works and alms, and all thy good endeavour, fee. The four lines are 11. 58 of Milton's Sonnet XIV., ' On the Religious Memory of Mrs Catharine Thomson.'

And, before he heard, &c.,

are 11. 324-8 of Wordsworth's poem ' Michael. 5

R. A. POTTS.

The lines

And, before he heard, &c.,

are from Wordsworth's ' Michael.' It is perhaps worth recalling in connexion with this poem that Matthew Arnold, in his preface to ' Poems of Wordsworth,' alludes to one of its lines

And never lifted up a single stone as " the right sort of verse to choose from Wordsworth, if we are to seize his true and most characteristic form of expression."

W. B.

[MR. T. BATNE, PROF. BENSLY, MR. H. E. POWELL, PROF. G. C. MOORE SMITH, MR. A. SPARKE, URLLAD, and MR. W. E. WILSON also thanked for replies.]

THE EARL OF PEMBROKE AND RICHARD BURBAGE (US. vii. 326). I regret to find that the reference has been omitted from the letter in which Richard Burbage is referred to. As I always like to give my references I now supply it : Egerton MS. 2592, f. 81, Brit. Mus. C. C. STOPES.

THE RED HAND OF ULSTER (11 S. vii. 189, 275, 334, 373). At p. 334 MR. HAROLD BAYLEY refers to the emblem -tipped staves used by certain village friendly societies in the West of England. In this connexion I would point out that the open hand, with the heart in the palm of the hand, is the crest and principal emblem of the great Manchester Unity of Oddfellows, the largest and richest friendly society in the world ; the motto is " Amicitia, amor et veritas," these being signified by the hand and heart. The right hand of friend' ship or fellowship, placed over the heart, signifies lore, the open palm denoting truth.

In the remarkable collection of pottery presented by the late Mr. Henry Willett to the Corporation Museum at Brighton a collection classified not so much as ceramic art, but with regard to the human interest connected with each object one division is devoted to Clubs and Societies. There are here several pieces of china in the form of the open hand, and of the hand and heart, as well as several mugs and jugs bearing the emblem and motto of the order of Odd fellowship.