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goodly folios of classics and divinity. It was origin- ally founded by Thomas, second Lord Trevor, of Bromham, in the reign of George II. Numerous additions have since that time been made to it.

OXONIENSIS.

Inscriptions on Bells (1 st S. Gen. Index.) I cut the following from the Doncaster Chronicle of June 13, under the head " Gainsborough : "

" In removing one of the parish church bells for recast- ing, the following inscription was noticed on the fifth bell :

"In wedlock bands all ye who join with hands your

hearts unite,

So shall our tuneful tongue combine to laud the nup- tial rite."

Perhaps some Gainsborough reader will be good enough to verify this report, if it is a correct one ?

T. LAMPRAT.

Morning Dreams (2 nd S. i. 392. 479.) It is, I think, very probable that the line respecting which SARTOR sent a Query, inserted at page 392, is in- distinctly remembered by him. If instead of

"For morning dreams, you know, come true," the line that lingered in his memory really was

'' For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true,"

then it will be found in Michael Bruce's Poems. But that part of the " Elegy on Spring" in which the line occurs, was printed in the 36th No. of The Mirror. The extract begins :

" Now spring returns ; but not to me returns."

The stanza in which the line in question occurs is :

" Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, And morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. Led by pale ghosts, I enter Death's dark gate, And bid the realms of light and life adieu."

The idea of the veracity of morning dreams is, I believe, widely spread, but I am not able to refer to any observations on the subject. S. S. S.

Paraph (2 nd S. i. 373. 420.) The Prompto- rium Panulorum has Paraf of a book (or para- graf) ; Paraphus, Paragrapnm ; Paraf yd, Para- graphatus ; Parajfyn,Paragrapho. E. G. R.

Her/bridge Whitsunday Custom (2 nd S. i. 471.) Churches were commonly strewn with rushes and decked with flowers, on the Feasts of Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost (Witeson-Day, a corruption of the German pingsten, fiftieth). The custom was preserved until a recent date in several of the City churches, on all those days. MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

F. N. asks a question concerning the strewing of rushes, &c. in churches. A field at Glenfield, near Leicester, was bequeathed to the church there, on condition that the grass should be mown,

and the hay strewn in the aisles of the church on the Feast Sunday. Hence the custom, which is continued to the present day. Perhaps F. N. might find a similar reason for the custom at Hey- bridge. RUSTICUS.

The Rev. Robert Montgomery (2 nd S. i. 293. 321. 400.) The sooner the discussion as to the name of the late Rev. Robert Montgomery's father is over the better. Robert Montgomery's friends (and he had some who were attached, but not very prudent ones) should be satisfied to rest his merits on what he was as an author and a preacher, and not seek to add ancestral honours. The statement given by D. (2 nd S. i. 293.), and taken from the Gentleman's Magazine, as to the father's name, is correct. Robert Montgomery's father was in the Bath Theatre, and not only went by the name of Gomery, but was married by that name to a Mrs. Power, whose house subse- quently became his home ; and his name is thus recorded in the Bath Directory for 1841 : " Gomery, Robert ; Gent, of Lambridge."

After her death he withdrew to Walcot Buildings, Bath, where he died June 14, 1853, aged seventy- five. The Bath newspapers record his name as " Robert Gomefy," and state what was perfectly well known, that he was " formerly of the Bath Theatre."

I quite enter into MR. DARLING'S feelings (2 nd S. i. 321.), and make this communication for the sake of accuracy only, which is indispensable in a work of such frequent reference, and of such reputed authority, as " N. & Q." And I certainly should not have done so, had not your correspond- ent W. have ventured to tell your readers (2 nd S. i. 400.) that Robert Montgomery's father was " still living in Bath." G.

Canonicals worn in Public (2 nd S. i. 82.) In 1773, Bos well mentions seeing in the street at St. Andrew's a nonjuring clergyman in his cano- nicals (Thursday, Aug. 19). In 1774, Lieut. Troughton, R.N., though on half-pay, when he met Dr. Johnson, was wearing his uniform. Dr. Johnson found fault with Lord Monboddo for wearing a round hat ; and Lockhart remarks (1835), that, till a late period, the judges in London and Edinburgh had "certain grave pecu- liarities of dress." The distinctive habits of the clergy, and of men of various professions, there- fore, probably fell into disuse about the same period. Query, when ?

MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.

Annueller (1" S. vii. p. 438.) The annuellcr sang the annual or anniversary mass of the dead ; as a chaplain without cure of souls. In statute 3G Edward III. c. viii., there are two classes men- tioned: "Chapelleins parochiels" and "chauntantz