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' subjects " ; " majeste " for " Majestie " ' sante " for " sante."

This ancient form appears on two othe: Dages of D'Ewes, viz., 76 and 116, with small differences of spelling, " Majestye ' ind " Majesty " for " Majestie " ; also " que Is vous donne " and " que il vous done ' or " vous donner."

As to this ancient form May writes thai nodern practice has substituted for it the oyal assent in the usual form as to a public rill. For an example of this see Journals >/ the House of Lords, vol. xx. p. 546, where July 15, 1717) the Assent was so given to ' An. Act for the King's most Gracious General and Free Pardon."

D'Ewes gives the following forms oi Assent, p. 35, under An. 1 Reg. Eliz., 1558 c 1559 :

To Publick Acts, La Roigne le veult.

To Private Acts, Soit faite come il est desire.

To Bill of Subsidy, La Roigne remercye ses jyaulx subjects, accept leur benevolence, & aussi 5 veult.

n this "ses loyaulx subjects " appears instead f " les (or ses) bon (or bons) subjects," nd " aussi " instead of " ainsi." On p. 76 he word is "ainsi," and on p. 116 it is oubt that D'Ewes wrote " aussi," p. 35, s he translates the last words of the Assent,
 * auxi " (presumably aussi). There is no

and also wills it."

La Roigne s'advkera, i.e., the Queen will dvise upon it, is the form of answer, ccording to D'Ewes, " to such Acts as her [ajesty did forbear to allow."

Sir Winston Churchill in his ' Divi Bri- innici : being a Remark upon the Lives of 11 the Kings of this Isle,' 1675, p. 20, iys:

'"Tis the Royal Assent that Quickens and puts ie Soul, Spirit, and Power into it [a law]. A Roy ivisera,, only much more A Roy ne veult, makes 1 their [the Lords' and Commons'] conceptions >ortive, when he pleases."

I have nowhere else found anything Dout " A Roy ne veult," but I can scarcely link that Churchill was in error, seeing lat when his book was published he had ?en a member of the Pensionary Parlia- ent for about fourteen years. A query

mine as to this appeared at 11 S. xi. 451, it there was no reply.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

MERCURY DRAWN BY COCKS (12 S. v. 154). -The cock was dedicated to Mercury, he ing the god of merchandise, as a symbol that vigilance and early rising essential to e success of commerce.

CONSTANCE RUSSELL.

NEW CHESTERFIELD LETTERS (12 S. v. 154)." The Chesterfield Letters of 1873,

by Lord G -H ," to give them their

correct description, commenced in July,

1873, in a monthly illustrated magazine, now defunct, called London Society, published by Bentley of Burlington Street. There were five in all, and they terminated in November of that year, by which time they had caused a considerable flutter in fashionable circles by their caustic tone and thinly- veiled allusions to many well-known personages of that period. For example, " Rippy Dion" of the Foreign Office was obviously meant for " Creppy " Vivian, as he was known to his familiars, and who afterwards, when Lord Vivian, became British Ambassador at Rome.

The authorship of these satirical squibs was attributed to the late Lord Depart, who, while admitting responsibility for them, - denied that they actually emanated from his pen. When Pelegrini's cartoon of his lordship appeared in Vanity Fair of Jan. 31,

1874, it was styled " Chesterfield Letters " and the letterpress of " Jehu, Junior," dealt rather fully with the matter.

In January, 1874, according to that paper, a resolution was moved at the Guards' Club to the effect that the tone of " ' The Chesterfield Letters of 1873 ' is objec- tionable and unworthy a member of this club, and that Lord Desarts' name may be removed from the list of the club members. The motion was, however, defeated by the necessary majority, and there the incident

nded, to the best of my knowledge, without the actual authorship ever having been disclosed.

Lord George Hamilton wrote a letter in The Times of Dec. 9, 1873, denying that

ither he or Lord George Hill were the authors of the letters, and added that as there were no other Lord G. H.s the author was unwarranted in so describing himself, WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

REPRESENTATIONS OF THE BLESSED TRINITY (12 S. iii., 168, 231, 307 ; iv. 55, 228, . 331). I quite agree with your correspondent,. HEV. J. M. J. FLETCHER, that the dove does not actually appear in the canopy of the Black Prince's tomb in Canterbury Cathe- dral. It was, as suggested by MR. ROCKING- HAM, " bowdlerized " out in some restora- tion, when the body of Christ was repainted as naked, a most extraordinary feature for the time, never to be found before the Renaissance and, even then, quite un- common.