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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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quities from the British Museum; Dr. Diamond's Tray of Admiral Smyth's Roman Coins and Fac-simile of En- gravings ; and Mr. Thurston Thompson's Copies of Anti- quities from, the Louvre, and then say if we have not been justified in giving special encouragement to an art of such immense value, for the fidelity of its results, to all who are engaged in literary, historical, and antiquarian pur- suits.

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Dictionaries chained in Schools (1 st S. xli.479.) In the records of the corporation of Boston, under the date 1578, I find the following entry.

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" That a Dictionarye shall be bought for the scollers of the Free Scoole; and the same boke to be tyed in a cheyne, and set upon a deske in the scoole, whereunto any scoller may have accesse, as occasion shall serve."

PISHEY THOMPSON.

Stoke Newington.

" Quid magis cst" (1 st . S. x. 309.) the lines commencing "Quid magis est durum" (not du- rum est), are certainly Ovid's. J. R. R.

Bridge the Organ Builder (1 st S. xii. 46.) Richard Bridge is supposed to have been trained in the factory of the younger Harris. Bridge, together with Jordan and Byfield, had nearly the whole organ-building business of the country, from the death of Harris till the arrival of Snetz- ler. Byfield, Bridge, and Jordan are usually spoken of as in partnership. This was not strictly the case, as their factories were separate, and the organs of each maker have distinctive character- istics. Their union was simply a private ar- rangement to obviate underselling each other, by which it was agreed that whoever was the nominal builder of any organ, the profits should be divided between the three.

Organs built by Bridge. Christ Church, Spitalfields, 1730. St. Leonard, Shoreditch, 1757. St. Anne, Limehouse, 1741; burnt, 1851. St. George in the East, 1738. St. Alban, Wood Street, 1728. St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, 1731. St. Luke, Old Street, 1730. St. Dionis, Fenchurch Street, 1732. St. James, Clerkenwell, removed, in 1796, to Beccles,

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Chelsea Old Church, now at Bideford, Devon. Spa-Fields Chapel. Woolwich, Kent, 1754. Utham, Kent (small). Faversham, Kent, 1754. Bishops Stortford, Essex, 1727. Minehead, Somerset. St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, 1732. St. George, Great Yarmouth, 1740. Favnham, Surrey, 173G.

A similar list of organs by By field and Jordan can be forwarded, should I. H. desire it.

PHILORGANON.

Steel Bells (2 nd S. i. 12.) Some steel bells were exhibited in the Paris Exhibition of last year by the Societe Anonyme des Mines et Fonderies d'Acier. They were cast at Bochum, in West- phalia, and are both cheap and well-toned.

CETREP.

In reply to your correspondent A. A., these bells are solely manufactured in England by Messrs. Naylor, Vickers, & Co., Sheffield, and so far have been found successful. Their cost is about half the price of ordinary bell-metal, and can be cast to almost any size. One is now used in a church in this town, and another in Bristol.

G. A.

Sheffield.

Bread converted into Stone : an enduring Mi- racle (1 st S. x. 385.) Where the stone is now, I know not, but an old picture representing a loaf converted into stone at Leyden, in 1316, still hangs in the vestibule of the hospital at Middel- burg. From the Navorscher. J. J. WOLFS.

The loaf converted into stone here, at Leyden, my dwelling-place, disappeared, I believe, about the time of the Reformation ; but I saw it, or something like it, a few weeks ago, in the hospital at Middelburg. Here I was shown the miraculous relic, which has exactly the form of a loaf, and is of great weight. As I am no geologist, I cannot say what kind of stone it is ; it is such as children call white kittelsteen (pebble). O sancta simpli- citas of the middle ages ! From the Navorscher.

The Mirakelsteeg (Miracle Street), at Leyden, derives its name from the miracle which happened there, in 1315, and which is thus related in the Kronyh van Holland van den Klerk :

" In the aforesaid year of famine, in the town of Leyden, there occurred a signal miracle to two women who lived next door to each other; for one having bought a barley- loaf, she cut it into two pieces, and laid one half by, for that was all her living, because of the great dearness and famine that prevailed. And as she stood and was cutting off the one half for her children, her neighbour, who was in great want and need through hunger, saw her and begged her for God's sake to give her the other half, and she would pay her well. But she denied again and again, and affirmed mightily, and \>y oath, that she had no other bread ; and as her neighbour would not believe her, she said in angry mood : ' If I have any bread in my house more thnn this, 1 pray God it may turn to stone.' Then her neighbour left her," and went away. But when the first half of the loaf was eaten up, and she went for the. other half, which she had laid by, that bread was be- come stone. Which stone, just such as the bread was, is now at Leyden, in St. Peter's Church, and as a sign, they are wont, on all high feast-days, to lay it before the Holy Ghost."

JOHN SCOTT.

Norwich.

Bunting Norfolk Pedigrees (1 st S. xii. 509.) In reply to your correspondent S. A. hereon, I am enabled, through the medium of my MS. Index