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answer to an inquiry I have just addressed to him on the subject Mr. Hogarth says :

" I certainly never heard of the cubicles being put up for Indian princes. I should think they date from about the middle of last century, when nearly all the dormitories in our principal schools were divided in cubicles. My Siamese boys were nearly all sons of the Siamese nobility, but not princes. They occupied the room over the big schoolroom, not the cubicles."

A fuller and more accurate account of " The Palace " than Robinson's will be found in Ford and Hodson's ' History of Enfield,' issued in 1873. It has since been the subject of numerous articles, chiefly in local magazines. Of these, one contri- buted by the late Mrs. E. L. Hogarth to The Enfield Illustrated Magazine (1898) contains some valuable observations on the subject of Princess Elizabeth's occupation of the building, of which there seems to be no documentary evidence. An account written (or rather compiled) by myself in 1905 for another local publication was subsequently reissued for the opening of the Club, and used to serve as a ' guide " to the building. Many early prints and pictures, with other material relating to " The Palace," are preserved at the Enfield Public Library.

Though the point is not one of much importance, it may be worth adding that we have no " High Street " in Enfield. The chief street of the town is called " Church Street." Oddly enough, Mr. Walter Jerrold has made the same mistake in his ' Highways and Byways in Middlesex.'

Enfield. H - DUGDALE SYKES.

BUTLER'S ' ANALOGY ' (12 S. ii. 369 ; iii. 56, 197). CANON FLETCHER'S anecdote suggests another one, about the bishop of a Southern diocese, who, in addressing his ordination candidates, earnestly impressed on them the advantage they would derive from a serious and methodical study of the ' Analogy.' " Well, good-bye, my dear young friend," were the prelate's parting words, at the palace door, to one of the candidates, who had been his guest for the week ; " good-bye, and do not, I beg you, forget about the Butler." " N no, my /ord, I haven't," stammered the young man, " I gave him half-a-crown."

D. O. HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B.

Fort Augustus.

I am much obliged to MR. ROLAND AUSTIN and to CANON FLETCHER for their replies on this subject. I should be par- ticularly grateful for reference to any French criticisms of the ' Analogy,' if such ext. I may perhaps mention that a

friend of mine made inquiry on the subject of a learned French Franciscan, who replied that he had never heard of Butler's ' Analogy,' and doubted whether any Catho- lic Frenchman ever had. PEREGRINUS.

GREATEST RECORDED LENGTH OF SERVICE (12 S. ii. 327, 397, 412). In 'N. & Q.,' 6 S. ii. 525, an instance was recorded of two clergymen who together had completed well over a century of service as successive vicars of Shoreham in Kent :

" On May 9, 1785, died Vincent Perronet, M.A.r upwards of 90 years of age, and 57 years vicar of Shoreham, Kent. He succeeded Dr. Wall in 1728, who had been vicar 52 years." The period thus covered extended to no less than 109 years.

A case of longer duration than this, how- ever, came to the present writer's knowledge some little time ago, and it is the more noteworthy because it was a family affair, being achieved by father and son.

The Rev. James Peddie, D.D. (1758-1845), was minister of Bristo Secession Chapel in Edinburgh from 1782 to 1845, a period of 63 years. In October, 1828, his son, the Rev. William Peddie, was appointed his colleague and successor, and he held the charge until his death in 1893. His con- nexion with the church lasted for 65 years. Both father and son celebrated their diamond jubilee as pastors of the same charge, thereby setting up a record for which it must be extremely hard to find a parallel. Both men had several points in common that struck me when I read their lives in. the ' Dictionary of National Biography.' They both took a leading part in the affairs of the communion to which they belonged, and each rose, to be Moderator of the Synod. The father's record in this respect was the more striking, as he held that office twice,, once in 1789 and again in 1825, 36 years intervening between his two tenures of this position. Both ministers also were writers of repute in their day, the father being editor for some years of The Christian Magazine, while the son edited The United Presbyterian Magazine.

The father's 63 years' service and the son's 65 years' give the astonishing total of 128 years of united ministry in the one place of worship. Even when one allows for the years when they acted conjointly, there still remains the long tale of 111 years from the time the father took charge in 1782 until his son died, the " father " of the church, on Feb. 23, 1893.

CHARLES MENMUIR, M.A.

25 Garscube Lane, Glasgow.