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 72 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vm. JAN. 22, 1021. REFERENCE WANTED to following pasag^, from a letter of Henry Sedgwick to F. W. H. Myers : " My difficulty is that I cannot give to principles of conduct either the formal certainty that comes from exact science or the practical certainty that comes from a real consensus of experts." J. E. T. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I should be much obliged if any reader can give authors' names and exact reference for the following quotations. I am quoting only from memory : 1. Did not the learned Sergeant Maynard To prove all traitors guilty strain hard ? 2. 'Tis rare the father in the son to trace He sometimes rises in the third degree, Now on the crest of the wave And now in the trough of the sea. 3. Oft have I seen a game of chess, The king and bishops in distress, Queen, knights and castles all forlorn, And now and then a pawn. W. H. GINGELL. 8 East Parade, Leeds. 4. endlessly pexplexed With impulse, motive, right and wrong, the ground Of obligation, what the rule and whence Tfce sanction. [Wordsworth, Prelude, ' bk. xi. 298.] J. E. T " FRANCKINSENCE." (12 S. viii. 29.) The use of incense for ceremonial purposes in the English Churchpractically ceased, in the reign of Edward VI.; it seems, however, that no Act was passed or order promul- gated for its abolition. At Aldeburgh and many other towns the Church was used for elections and other secular purposes ,(the sale of ships took place in the church at Aldeburgh) and in this particular case I think the entries refer to fumigation only and extracts from the later Chamberlains Account books (which I am now preparing for *N. & Q.') confirm this impression : 1625. Item to Mr. Oldringe for pfume oyle anc Fran ckensence for the Churche .. 00 01 06 1625 Item to Mr. Oldringe for pfume Candl Aprill 18 00 01 06 1626 To Mr. Owldrine for perfumes at Christide and Easter. . . . .. 00 03 00 I have read somewhere that the "per fume pan " and bearer bore their part at th< coronation of George III. AUTHUB T. WINN. Aldeburgh MB. CHAMBERS 's query should probably }e answered in the affirmative. The follow- ng, which was written to some Anglican paper n the late nineties, may interest him : INCENSE, &c. Sir, In an interesting book in my possession published in 1820, I find the following record of the ceremonial use of incense in the procession at the Coronation of King George III., in 1761 : THE ORDER OF THE PROCESSION. Children of the Chapel Royal in surplices with scarlet mantles over them. Choir of Westminster in surplices. The Kind's Organ Blower The King's Groom of the (John Kay), Vestiy in a scarlet coat, with a (William Smith), silver-gilt badge on his left in a scarlet dress, holding a breast. perfuming pan, burning per- fumers. The book also contains a picture of the pro- cession, with William Smith and his cloud of incense and perfuming pan very much in evidence. The same book also contains the following reference to the ceremonial use of lighted candles- at the funeral of the previous monarch, King George II. : At the entrance within the chnrch, the Dean and Prebent daries in their copes, attended by the choir, all having wax tapert in thir hand*, are to receive the Royal body, and are to fall into the procession just before Clarenceux, King of Arms, and are so to proceed singing, etc. S. EOYLE SHORE. January 16. It is unfortunate that Mr. Shore omitted to give the title and other particulars of the "interesting book." The use of incense in the consecration of chanceJs and altars was a matter of complaint among the Puritans in 1641 (see 'Hierurgia Anglicana,' p. 367). Incense was "swung and waved " in Ely Cathedral at the end of the eighteenth century (see a letter of Dr. Harvey Goodwin^ Bishop of Carlisle to The Guardian of Jan. 6,. 1875). In the Form of Dedication and Consecra- tion of a Church or Chapel drawn up in 1685 by Archbishop Bancroft, and first printed for John Harley in Holborn in 1703, there is a form for the dedication of a censer, and of candlesticks, though the form does- not contemplate that a censer and candle- sticks will always be presented for dedica- tion. In the well-known case of Martin v_ Mackonochie (L. R., 2 A. and E. 116) Sir Robert Phillimore remarked (p. 213), that incense "for the purposes of ornament or fumigation of the Church " appears to have- been used in the Anglican Church afc various times since the Reformation, " and especially