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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[128. III. OCT., 1917.

.-as New Oxford Street, was then in con- templation. Each issue of the ' Almanac,' of which the ' Companion ' forms a part, contains an article on ' Public Improve- ments,' and your correspondent is almost certain to find there information which wil] be of service to him. The late Mr. W. A. Taylor, Librarian of the Borough of Holborn, was an industrious collector of items of local topography, and I feel sure that his successor would be glad to place the collec- tion at the disposal of H. A. H. His address is Holborn Public Library, 198 High Hol- born, W.C. R. B. P.

METAL-TIPPED STAFF (12 S. iii. 301). I possess a small mace or staff somewhat similar to that described by your correspon- dent, but mine is under 6 inches in length ; a beautifully finished crown surmounts a turned staff of ebony or some dark wood, having the top and bottom encased in burnished brass. It was given to me many years ago in recognition of some small service I was able to extend to a man whose father had held some position of importance in the police, and I have always thought it was the badge of authority formerly carried by the tipstaff of some court of justice.

A. E. P. RAYMUND DOWLING.

Oxford and Cambridge Club.

FOREIGN GRAVES OF BRITISH AUTHORS (12 S. ii. 172, 254, 292, 395, 495; iii. 39, 59, 96, 114, 176, 238, 277). The Rev. Henry Francis Lyte, author of ' Abide with me,' ' Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven, 1 and many other beautiful hymns, died at Nice, Nov. 20, 1847, and was buried there, and a memorial cross was erected to his memory. I regret I am unable to give the inscription on it. L. H. CHAMBERS.

Bedford.

ENGLISH CARVINGS OF ST. PATRICK (12 S. i. 429, 478). The monks of Milton, by Blandford, must have had communication by roads or tracks of some kind with those of Glastonbury. It is, therefore, to the point to add under the above heading this item from ' Glastonbury : the Historic Guide to the English Jerusalem,' by C. L. Marson, M.A., published in Bath by George Gregory in 1909. On p. 101 of that interesting contribution to mediaeval history we read of the seal of the time of Abbot John Chin- nock (1374-1420) that

"it had two sides to it. On the one, three masculine saints, Patrick, Dunstan, and Benignus, with the legend, Confirmant 7as res + scripti pontifices Ires the holy bishops three, assurance give to thee."

The metie here is lame. Ought we not to read conscripti or inscripli ?

If Dunstan and Patrick were associated in the making of a seal for Glastonbury at that date, why may not the same thing have happened in making ornaments for the roof at Milton Abbev ? E. S. DODGSON.

BIBLE : WORDS PRINTED IN CAPITAL LETTERS (12 S. iii. 384). I am unable to say positively who is responsible for having certain words and phrases so printed, but a careful examination of the instances occurring in modern editions, and a com- parison of them with the corresponding places in one of the old editions that I happen to possess one printed by Robert Barker, and dated 1634 show that at that date at least they were all, as now, set out in capitals.

I think we may presume, therefore, that the first printers of our Authorized Version are those responsible. As to the " prin- ciple " which governs the distinction thus made, these phrases are, so far as I have been able to ascertain : (a) Words written as inscriptions, beginning with " Holiness to the Lord," upon the gold plate on the High-Priest's mitre (Ex. xxxix. 30; ; fol- lowed by the prophecy of the appearance of the same words upon the bells of the horses (Zech. xiv. 20) ; the name " Mys- tery, Babylon the Great," &c., written on the forehead of the woman sitting on a scarlet-coloured beast (Rev. xvii. 5) ; and the title " King of Kings, ana Lord of Lords," which, we are told (Rev. xix. 11 and 16). was written on the vesture and on the thigh of the rider on the white horse. Other prominent examples of this class are the inscriptions on the cross of ovir Blessed Lord (Matt, xxvii. 37, Mark xv. 26, Luke xxiii. 38, and John xix. 19). (6) Or they are names of God, or of the second Person in the Blessed Trinity, as "I am that I am " (Ex. iii. 14), " Jah ! " (Ps. Ixviii. 4), " Jeho- vah " (Ex. vi. 3, Ps. Ixxxiii. 18, Is. xii. 2), ' The Branch " (Zech. iii. 8 and vi. 12), " The Lord our Righteousness " ( Jer. xxiii. 6), and " Jesus " (Matt. i. 21 and 25). Con- nected with these should be noted the universal expression of the name " Jehovah" in English, as " the LORD," printed in small capitals.

There is another use of capital letters in the various editions of the Authorized Version, culminating in present-day issues, which possibly few people have noticed.

To take the examples in my own posses- sion, the first word in every chapter in 1634