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Teeth of St. Apollonia. Can you, or any of your readers, refer me to any work wherein men- tion is made that at the suppression of the monas- teries, there were collected sufficient teeth of St. Apollonia to fill two hogsheads?

They were used as charms against toothache; and I well remember reading, some years since, to the effect above stated, but where I saw it has escaped my memory.

On reference to Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Rees"s Cyclopedia, and Dr. Nathaniel Lardner's Works, 1 find mention of an ancient martyr of that name, whose teeth were knocked out of her jaiv, which makes me more confident in my supposi- tion that I have formerly met with the story somewhere.

Any communication, addressed R. S. Union Society, Cambridge, or inserted in your invalu- able periodical, will very much oblige.

Surnames ; Etymologies wanted. What is the derivation of the following family names ? Lan- chenick, Shrubsole, Garbett, Spurgeon, Tarbot- ton, Sheridan, Wool), Scaife, Waugh, Scutt, Elen, Hoey, Ord, Unthank, Binks, Theesiger, Binns, Wallinger, Pemble, Laidler, Kuox, Scudamore, Amory, Bunn, Grindler, Grubb, Lyell, Metcalfe, Measor, Rand, Purday, Spoor, Tait, Vint, Quiddy, Assender, Mynne, Lacon, Lister, Rea, Arvos, Bowerman, Stent, Harbin, Lyte, Pite, Shaa, Prynne, Towker, Grobber, Gamull, Lomas, Ry- man, Lomax, Grix, Greatorex or Greatrakes, Round, Rosser, Soame, Done, Belknap, Buckle, Coe, Cutts, Coutts, Dubber, Goodyer, Hebbs, Taller, Smallpiece, Wroth, Legg, Tawke, Duchett, Provender, Murchison. MABK. ANTONY LOWEK.

Lewes.

Badge of the Guelphs and Ghibellines. In the wars of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, the cog- nizance of the two parties was a white star and a green parrot, respectively. Which was which ? and what was the origin of these badges ?

C. W. STOCKEB, D.D.

Draycot Rectory, Staffordshire.

O. A. Brownsoris Works. I am anxious to procure a complete list of the published works of O. A. Brownson, Esq., of Boston, U. S., author of Brownson's Quarterly Review, &~c. I have failed on inquiry in England. Some of the American readers of " N. & Q." can, no doubt, help me.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

Bottesford, Brigg.

Parody on " Romeo and Juliet." Can you, or any of your readers, inform me where a copy of a travestie of Romeo and Juliet, called Romunio and Judy, published some ten or twelve years ago in Edinburgh or London, is to be had? J. M. L.

Colombo, Ceylon, Jan. 18, 156,

The Psalm Dances. Herder, in his Essay an Hebrew Poetry, mentions a work entitled De Sal- tationibus Ecdesite: can any of your readers render me any information respecting this book ? or ad- vise me what authors to consult touching on the dances of the Church, or of the processional marches alluded to in the Psalms ? PEECEJJTOR.

Riclis List of Plays. If any of your readers can assist me to find the following MS. I shall be thankful :

" A List of Plays acted at Lincoln's Inn Fields and Drury Lane Theatres, from 1715 to 1737, and Dramatic Memoranda, a Manuscript in the hand- writing of Rich, the Manager."

It was sold in the theatrical and miscellaneous library of Mr. John Field (Sotheby's, 1827, lot 982), and was purchased by "Burn," for 10s. 6d. EDWASD F. RIMBAULT.

Bells of Ouzeley. On the bank of the river Thames, at Old Windsor, and on the Berkshire side of the boundary between that county and Surrey, stands an old and well known public- house, which has for sign " The Bells of Ouzeley." The landlord does not know the origin and mean- ing of this sign, and as his liquor is good, perhaps be thinks the sign is of no consequence, but he says that the house has been known by that t^ign for more than two centuries. Can any of your readers give any account of " The Bells of Ouze- ley," which are represented on the sign by five bells, or, on a field azure. G. R. C.

JHinor tfluerttrf toft!)

Reading of the Psalms. When the Psalms are read in the course of divine service by the priest and people in alternate verses, ought the sequence to be followed uninterruptedly throughout ? Or, in case of the priest having to read the last verse when there is an odd number, ought he to com- mence the next psalm, or are the clerk and people to continue in the order in which they com- menced ? I am supposing a case where there is no organ or choir to sing the doxology.

Y. B. N. J.

[It is not necessary to provide a priest to lead the reading of the Psalms, for the Psalms belong to the people, as chorus or congregation : a singing chorus, where there is a choir; a speaking chorus, where there is no choir. A chorus rfust have a choragus, and in the singing chorus this choragus is called the precentor. The speaking chorus may have one cboragus, i. e. the cele- brant; or it may have two, a celebrant to read one verse, and a clerk (in orders or out of orders) to lead the re- sponse. The officiating minister is not required by any law to give up every alternate verse to a clerk. He may, should he please, read through the entire Psalm, as did Bishop Bedell, who declined to resign to a clerk that which most clerks were utterly incompetent to under- take. The clerk's duty was to preceut upon the monotone,