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craft and subtilty of the Devil or man worketh against us, be. brought to nought, and by the providence of Thy goodness they may be dispersed."

This seems to be a fair instance of the same construction which E. C. H. condemns as " not English." I quote the passage from the first and second Prayer Books of Edward VI. I cannot say who was its author, nor am I aware of the date of the General Thanksgiving*, but it does not appear in Edward Vlth's Prayer Books.

H. D. N.

Trial of the Galas (2 nd S. i. 13.) In the sale of M. Donnadieu's autograph letters at Messrs. Puttick's & Co., in July, i'851, was sold (Lot 109.) the original petition of Donat Galas to the king, praying that justice may be done to himself and family. It is dated " Chatelaine, Juillet 7, 1762," and these words are in the autograph of Voltaire. This interesting paper, with some other letters re- lating to the Galas family, was previously in the possession of Mr. W. Upcott. /j..

Dr. Forster (1" S. x. 108.) S. H., in the pnge here referred to, insinuates that my good friend Dr. Forster has departed this life. Last autumn, Mr. Dolman, of Bond Street, did the same thing. He remembered to have read some- where (in " N. & Q." ?) of the doctor's death, and of his library being sent on the occasion from Brussels to London for sale. On my inquiring as to the correctness of this assertion of a friend both of the doctor and myself, who has for some years been moving about Flanders, I was assured he was " alive and well, residing at Brussels with his lady and only child." This intelligence came to me in a letter, dated 14th August. A much better list of the learned doctor's numerous lite- rary children than that given by S. H., is to be found in his very remarkable but not more re- markable than amusing and instructive

" Epistolarium, or Fasciculi of Curious Letters, together with a few familar Poems, and some Account of the Writers, as preserved among the MSS. of the Forster Family. Bruges, 1845, vol. i. ff. 31, 32." %

G. STEINMAN STEINMAN. Priory Lodge, Peckham.

Way-side Crosses (1 st S. xi. 445.) A cross of this kind formerly existed at the boundary of the Abbey Parish, Shrewsbury. The locality is still called the " Weeping Cross." The upper portion of this cross is preserved in the abbey church, and bears sculptures of the Visitation, the Virgin and Child, the Crucifixion, and a figure of a penitent. Previous to the Pieformation, on Corpus Christ! day, the masters and wardens of the several in- corporated trades of the town, with the bailiffs and corporation, and the ecclesiastics of the place, pro-

[* The General Thanksgiving is attributed to TSisbon Sanderson, and was inserted at the Restoration. J]r>.]

ceeded in solemn procession to this cross, where they bewailed their sins, and offered up prayers for a plentiful harvest. They returned in similar order to St. Chad's Church, and attended high mass. Three days of recreation followed this festival. After the Reformation it was changed to the present far-famed pageant of Shrewsbury Show. PRIOR ROBERT OP SALOP.

Etymology (2 nd S. i. 73.) Theodolite, or theo- dolit, is a word of which no satisfactory etymology has ever been given. It was probably the in- vention of some one ill acquainted with Greek. According to all analogy, ebs should be the first element in the compound ; but the sense mnkes that impossible. If it be 0eao,ucu, the compound is incorrectly formed.

There is no etymology ascertained for clique ; it is rather a cant word to express a small society who keep much together. Some have conjec- tured that cirque was the original word ; whence, first crique, and then clique, but the conjecture is not worth much. The other three words are ex- plained in the commonest books of reference. Erysipelas, fpv<ri-jrf\as, a - word of frequent occur- rence in Greek medical writers, from epufyby and ire'XAa, the root of the Latin pellis.

Platitude. The adjective plat is applied very much as we should apply the wordy? to a very dull and stupid remark. We adopt the French substantive, because we cannot use our own equivalent, flatness, in a metaphorical sense.

Caucus. The original meetings in America to determine upon the election of candidates previous to the ballot, were held in that part of Boston where the ship business was carried on. Thence they were called Caulker's Meetings, then Caucus Meetings, and then Caucus. Cab for cabriolet, and 'bus for omnibus, are perversions quite as strange.

Jacquerie. The common term for the lower orders in France at a very early period was Jacques Bonhomme. Hence the sedition of the mob in the reign of Jean was called Jacquerie ; and frequently in later reign's. E. C. H.

Portrait of Franklin (2 nd S. i. 12.) I do not suppose I am giving T. H. B. the information he seeks in his Query ; still the reference may be acceptable to him that mention is made by Barnum in his Life, of a portrait of Franklin in the possession of M. Regnier, Paris, to whose father, it is there said, it was given by Franklin himself. The passage occurs near the end of the " Tom Thumb " division of the work.

R. W. HACKWOOD.

Sir Thomas Lunsfurd (I 5t S. ix. 373.) MR. BAI.CH will find a memoir of Sir Thomas Ltins- ford, supplied by me, in the Gentleman s Maga- zine for 183G. I shall feel very greatly obliged to