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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[ 2 nd S. NO ^2., MAY 31. '56.

property in the city and county of Edinburgh, which he mortified for charitable purposes ; but not, as R. S. states, " for the benefit of the poor of the parish of Cramond."

Mr. Strachan died about the year 1719 ; and as he had omitted to make any regulations for the management of his valuable " Mortifications," his trustees did so themselves, resolving that the pen- sioners were to consist of " Poor old men, women and children."

Should I fall in with any other information, as to his history or connexions, I will with pleasure communicate the same. T. G. S.

Edinburgh.

Wooden Chalices (2 na S. i. 340.) F. C. H. denies that Pope Zephyrinus made any decree " about chalices at all," and says, on the authority of the Liber Pontificalia, that he speaks only of patens. The Liber Pontificalis is very untrust- worthy (Oudin. 11. cols. 345. &c.), and the decretal epistles of Zephyrinus are forged (Ed. n. cols. 46. &c.). But Becon had plenty of authorities, such as they were, for his assertion that Zephyrinus " commanded chalices of glass to be used."

Thus Platina, De Vit. Pontif., says :

" Statuit item ut consecratio divini sanguinis in vitreo vase, non autem in ligneo, ut antea, fieret. Haec quoque institutio sequentibus temporibus immutata est."

Stella, in Vit. Due. et Trig. Pont., uses nearly the same words :

" Statuit ut consecratio divini sanguinis in vitreo vase, non autem in ligno, ut antea fiebat, consecravetur."

Polydore Vergil, De Invent. Her. lib. vi. cap. xii., adds a similar testimony :

" Zepherinus postea mandavit, ut in vitreo vase, non iu ligneo, ut antea, sacrificaretur."

More authorities might readily be found.

J. A.

Double Christian Names (1 st S. passim; 2 nd S. i. 384.) Your correspondent P. B. states that the earliest instance of three names within his knowledge occurs in 1588. I can supply one forty years before. In 1547 John Dudley, Vis- count Lisle, hud licence from Henry VIII. to alienate the " house of the dissolved hospital of St. Giles in the Fields " to John Wymonde Carew, Esq. Vide Dobie's History of St. Giles and Blonmsbury, p. 24. G. J. SAGE.

Upper Holloway.

Calvary (2 nd S. i. 374.) The height of the small Mount Calvary was about fifteen feet : the whole of it is inclosed in the present church, the keys of which have been the cause, ex concesso, of enormous blood-shedding the last two years. Its name is Golgotha in Hebrew (Matt, xxvii. 33. ; 2 Kings, ix. 35. ; Ex. xvi. 16. ; Judg. ix. 53.), and Culvaria in the Latin version (Luke xxiii.

33.), which is a translation of the Hebrew word, as well as of Kpaviov in the Greek (Mar. xv. 22. ; John xix. 17.). Dr. Kitto has an interesting dis- cussion on the site of Calvary at the end of the epistle to the Hebrews ; see also his note on Mark xvi. 2. Recent travellers disagree on this subject, and some write as if they had seen the spot, when probably they have not been admitted within the precincts. See La Martine's Travels in the East, p. 84., Chambers' ed. 1839.

T. J. BUCKTON.

Lichfield.

Church and State (2 nd S. i. 375.) The passage inquired for by GASTKOS is probably the follow- ing :

for the sake of making the Church political, but for the purpose of making the state religious."
 * %Iy opinion is, that the establishment is framed not

This occurs in Lord Chancellor Eldon's letter to Rev. M. Surtees, Feb. 1825. I quote from Dr. Wordsworth's Theophilus Anglicanus, pt. in. ch. ii.

A.A.D.

Hiding-places of Priests (2 nd S. i. 182.) There was at Weybridge,. . . Lord Thomas Howard, who,. . . leading me about the house made no scruple of showing me all the hiding-places of the priests, and where they said mass. Evelyn's Diary, April 25, 1678.

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

The Ten Commandments (2 nd S. i. 379.) Your correspondent F. C. H. says that in most French Prayer- Books the commandments are given at length in prose/ Perhaps so ; but in the example adduced it is not the case. As this topic has been introduced into " N. & Q.," it may be worth printing the following concise and accurate state- ment from Professor Browne's Exposition of the Articles :

"The second commandment is joined with the first ac- cording to the reckoning of the Church of Rome. This is not to be esteemed a Romish novelty. It will be found so united in the Masoretic Bibles; the Masorctic Jews dividing the tenth commandment (according to our reck- oning) into two. What the Roman Church deals un- fairly in is, that she teaches the commandments popularly only in epitome; and that, so having joined the first and second together, she virtually omits the second, recount- ing them in her catechisms, &c., thus: 1. Thou shalt have none other gods but Me. 2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. 3. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath Day, &c. By this me- thod her children and other less instructed members are often ignorant of the existence in the decalogue of a pro- hibition against idolatry." P. 527. note (edition 2nd.).

A.A.D.

"Starboard," "Larboard" "Port" (2 nd S. i. 335.) In nautical language board means the space comprehended between any two places where the ship changes her course by tacking; or, it is the line over which she runs between tack and