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But there is no copy of this in the British Mu- seum.

At the end of the MS. in the British Museum, is the following testimony, apparently written by the king's French master, Belmaine ; the perusal of which will gratify your readers :

" Tout ainsi qu'un bon Paintre peut representer le visaige, regard, contenance et corpulence dun Prince, Ainsi par les escritz, parolles et actions d'un Prince on peut facilement entendre quel Esprit est en lay, et aquoy II est adonne', comme on peut veoir par les Escritz de ce Jeune Roy, Lequel composa et escrivit ce Livre, n'ayant encores douze ans accomplis, Et sans 1'ayde de parsonne vivant; excepte des propos,, qu'il avoit ouys de plusieurs, et la souvenance qu'il avoit des livres qu'il avoit leuz. Car des ce qu'il commenca a escrivre ledict livre, ot jus- ques h ce qu'il 1'eust acheve', ledict livre a tousjours este tij ma garde jusques u present."

JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS.

OLD ENGLISH ALBS.

In Mores Catholici, I find the following passage : " The priests of England bore upon their albs, on the left shoulder, ' Quasi socipes de panno serico super as- sutas ; ' the upper closed, in sign of their being but one faith ; but the lower divided, as a sign of their having been twice converted to the faith : first by the mission- aries of Pope Eleutherius, and, secondly, by St. Augustine (Chronicon Monasterii, S. Bertini, cap. i. par. 1. ; Mar- tene Thesaurus Anecdotorum, torn, iii.)." Booki. p. 11., edit. 1845.

Can any light be thrown upon this ornament of the alb from any existing sepulchral monuments, brasses, or stained glass windows ? Do any En- glish liturgical writers notice it, or can we find any clear allusion to it in our numeral lists of albs belonging to English churches and cathedrals ? An allusion to it is made in the Compendious T'reatise, or Dialogue, of Dives and Pauper, as follows :

" 'And the same [_i. e. the duty symbolised by the two pendants of a bishop's mitre, of a bishop to teach with the tongue of deed, and the tongue of speech, the know- ledge of the Old and New Testament] betoken the two tongues hangyng behynd on the aube on the priestis shulder. . . .' Div. ' It is a common saw, that the two tongues on the prestes shulder betoken that this lond hath been twyes renegate and peruerted.' Paup. ' That is false. For syth this londe toke fyrst the fayth, the people was neuer renegate." 1 The JEyght Command., cap. viii. f.288.

Dr. Rock, without mentioning the socipes above referred to, and merely speaking of these tongues, explains them as the pair of higher apparels, worn like a short scapular, when, as was often the case, six apparels were worn on the alb in this country, i. e, one on each sleeve ; one before and another behind, at the feet ; and one on the breast, and another on the back of the alb. (See Church of our Fathers, vol. i. pp. 444 448.) But this ex- planation docs not seem altogether satisfactory.

" Courage Rewarded." Who is the author of the following political piece, Courage Reivarded, or the English Volunteer, a political drama, by Mr. A. L. G., 8vo., 1798 ? Dedicated to the Vo- lunteer Corps of the Kingdoms of England, Scot- land, and Ireland. E,. J.

Wm. Clapperton. Can any of your Edin- burgh readers give me any account of Win. Clap- perton, author of Guarinis Pastor Fido, translated into English blank verse, 12mo., Edinburgh, 1809; a French translation of the Vision of Mlrza, Edin- burgh, 1829 ; The JEneid., from the versions of Christopher Pitt and John Ring, with additions. Published in 1834, in 2 vols. 12mo., Edinburgh ?

R. J.

Mrs. M. Holford. Can any of your Chester readers give me any account of Mrs. M. Holford, a lady of Chester, author of Fanny and Selima, a "Tale; with Gresford Vale, and other Poems, 4to., 1798 ; and First Impressions, or the Portrait, a novel, London, 1801 ? She also wrote two come- dies, one of which I believe was acted in Chester, and published in 1799. R. J.

Pope Martin V. In a recent historical work, entitled England and France under the House of Lancaster, p. 242. 1st edit., occurs the following

passnge :

"He [Pope Martin V.] actually conferred the Arch- bishopric of Canterbury on his nephew, a boy of fourteen, who also held by his uncle's appointment fourteen benefices in England, Henry showed so much favour to the Pope's nephew as to allow" his holding the preferments bestowed on him."

What does this refer to ? What foundation has it in fact ? And what preferment did this pope's nephew hold ? It is, I imagine, pretty certain that the archbishopric was not amongst these pre- ferments. But if so, who was the archbishop ?

W. DENTON.

Proverbs. What is the sense of the following proverbs ?

"Old maids lead apes in hell" [which occurs more

than once in Shakspeare.] " A black shoe makes a merry heart" [exercise gives

health?]

" Honest millers have golden thumbs."

" He has bought a brush, i. e., ho has run away."

" He that shoots always right, forfeits his arrow."

J. P.

William Kennedy. Can any of your readers favour me with information of William Kennedy, author of a spirited lyrio called Ned Bolton, or of his other writings? or tell me where I may get sight of his volume, published about twenty or twenty-five years ago, called The Arrow and the Hose ? PATKICIUK.