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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. iv. SEPT.,

FIRST KHAKI- CLAD FIGURES IN STAINED - GLASS WINDOWS (12 S. iv. 214). If the window at Willingale Doe was not erected till June, 1918, then it certainly is not the first nor even the second instance of a khaki figure in stained glass. A window, a photograph of which appeared in The Graphic for Aug. 31, was dedicated in Cannock Parish Church on the eve before Good Friday last, viz. .March 28, in memory of my son Charles Edward Holden Loxton. Nearly all the figures in it are in khaki.

I should like to add that, although there are but two stained-glass windows as yet in this church, both are endeavours to express a new idea as to what stained glass in church windows should be. Both are designed as parts of a general scheme for stained-glass decoration, and this one, the work of Mr. Reginald E, Frampton, being the east window of the south aisle, and so the last before the rood-screen and chancel are reached, is a symbol of the completion of the Christian life, and the last act or reality here. It is Holy Communion on the battle-field. C. A. LOXTON.

[Mr. Loxton has kindly sent us some four-page leaflets explaining the subject of the window, and we shall be pleased to forward one of these to any of our contributors on receipt of a stamped addressed envelope.]

SPTJR PROVERBS : CHAUCER (12 S. iv. 104). Erasmus in ' Adagia,' under ' Minantis,' 1599 edition, col. 1287, has :

" Atjoe irXiJKTpov dfj.vvTTJpi.ov, id est, Tolle calcar ultorium- Extat adagium in Aristo- phanis ' Avibus ' :

Aipe TrXfjKTpov, fl /iX!?' Id est, Tolle calcar si pugnas."'

Also col. 1516, under ' Proclivitas,' h gives " Calcar addere currenti," quoting " Addidisti ergo calcaria sponte currenti' from Pliny the Younger' s Letters, i. 8 He gives as from Ovid,

Non opus admisso subdere calcar equo, but this is not an exact quotation. In the ' Remedia Amoris,' 788, we read :

Nunc opus est celeri subdere calcar equo. For " admisso " in place of " celeri " see ' Ars Amat.,' ii. 732, and 'ii. ex Pont.,' vi. 38.

Le Roux de Lincy in ' Le Livre des Proverbes Francais,' sec. 6dit., 1859, tome ii., p. 79, under ' Eperon ' gives :

Bon vin, bon esperon. Oudin, ' Curiosit^s francoises,' 1640.

Par esperons on se commence a armer. ' Beceuil ' de Gruther, 1610.

Car nous disons que par esperons on commence a soy armer. Babelais, liv. iii. ch. 8, XVIe siecle.

Vincent Stuckey Lean in ' Lean's Col- sctanea,' 1903, vol. iii., gives : P. 400. A pair of" good spurs to a borrowed orse is better than a peck of haver. (Yorkshire.) G. Meriton, ' The Praise of Yorkshire Ale,' 1683. Haver = oats.

P. 402. A running horse needs no spur. "ohn Clarke, ' Parcemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639. P. 405. A spur and a whip for a dull horse. bid. and T. F. T. Dyer, ' English Folk-Lore.' 1878. P. 405. A spurr'd horse of force must trot. '. Da vies, 'The Scourge of Folly,' 1611-14.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

Here are a few spur proverbs from various sources :

Spur not the willing horse.

Spur not a true horse to death.

A restive horse must have a sharp, spar.

A spurred horse of force must trot.

ST. S WITHIN.

It is ill to set spurs to a flying horse. Oamden Remains concerning Britain,' London, John Russell Smith, 1870, p. 325).

He that hath love in his breast hath spurs in lis sides.

Reason lies between the spur and the bridle. George Herbert's ' Jacula Prudentum,' 1651. Reprinted in ' The Poetical Works of George Herbert,' Edinburgh, Gall & Inglis, n.d., pp. 257, 265. Hertford. B - E ' SQUIBES.

Though not in the form of a proverb, it may not be irrelevant to note the use of " spur-peal " for a peal formerly rung at Seaton Church, Rutland, after every pub- lication of marriage-banns. Up to the eighteen seventies this seems to have been invariable, but then, an objection being made to payment of a customary fee, it was arranged to ring only when specially desired ; and this was the practice in 1891 (Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries, i. 230). Is " spur -peal " known elsewhere ? W. B. H.

[The custom of ringing a "spurring peal" at Beckingham and Saundby, in Nottinghamshire, was noted in ' N. & Q.' for Nov. 11, 1899 (9 S. v. 394).]

RELIGION : MAX MULLE'S DEFINITION (12 S. iv. 186). The matter is fully dis- cussed in the first chapter (' The Perception of the Infinite ') of the author's ' Introduc- tion to the Science of Religion,' pp. 1-51 ; but the quotation asked for, which reads, " Religion consists in the perception of the infinite under such manifestations as are able to influence the moral character of man," occurs in the seventh Gifford Lecture in Max Muller's ' Natural Religion,' p. 188.

N. W. HILL.