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 tion who had right to the meeting-house, and the Court of Session decided in favour of Mr. Smytan and his adherents. The swarm that went off built a new meeting-house, and the two bodies were vulgarly called the Lifters and Antilifters, or the New and Auld Light. The Burghers and Antiburghers, the Lifters and Antilifters, and the New and Auld Light, have associated and re-associated, and are now principally connected with the United Presbyterian Church. The Smytanites have sunk into oblivion.

HENSHAW (2 nd S. x. 331., &c.) Since my Query relative to the name of Henshaw, I have referred to Elisha Coles' s English Dictionary, and found the word haw means black. May not the name have been adopted in allusion to the arms argent, a chevron between three heronshaw ? In all the various drawings of the arms, the birds are always sable. G. W. M. STATIONERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES (2 nd S. x. 514.) As a help to MR. GOUGH NICHOLS, in his wish to discover some example of the early use of the Latin word Stationarius in this country, I would refer him to the council held at London by the Abp. of Canterbury, Thomas Arundle, A.D. 1408, against the Wycliffites and Lollards. In its sixth decree it ordains : "Quod nullus libellus sive tractatus, &c. amodo legatur in scolis, &c. nisi per universitatem Oxonii aut Cantabri- giaa primitus examinatur, &c. et universitatis nomine ac auctoritate stacionariis tradatur ut copietur, et facta col- latione fideli petentibus vendatur justo pretio sive detur, &c." Condi. Britann., ed. Spelman, ii. 665. From the unqualified and ready way in which the archbishop uses the word, it seems that both the name as well as trade were well known, and of somewhat old standing in England, at the be- ginning of the fifteenth century. The celebrated English canonist, William Lynd- wood, who died, A.D. 1446, in his gloss upon this very constitution, says : '^Stationariis, i. e. His, in quorum statione libri sunt ex- positi ad vendendum. Est enim statio locus ubi naves vel rnerces tute stare possimt ad tempus. . . Et sic simi- liter potest statio dici locus ille ubi aliquis pro tempore exponit aliquas merces venal es," &c. Provinciate, &c., ed. W. Lyndwood, Oxoniae, 1679, p. 285. D. EOCK. Brook Green. MR. NICHOLS says in his Note on this subject, that he is " desirous to discover some example of the early use of the Latin word Stationarius in this country." The following note from the cata- logue of Sir J. Savile's books, appears to give exactly what is desired : " A leaf of contemporary MS. is preserved in this vo- lume (a French Livy of 1486) of very peculiar curiosity and interest as regards the first printer at Oxford. The heading is as follows : " Secuuntur Inventorium librorum quos ego Thomas Hunt, Stationarius Universitatis Oxoniensis, recepo de Magistro petro actore et Johanne de Aquisgrano, ad ven- dendum, cum precis cujuslibet libri etpromitofidelitur re- stiturus libros aut pecunias secundum precium inferiua scriptum prout patebit in sequentibus, anno MCCCC. octo- gesimo tertio.' " The extract is certainly most curious and inter- esting for the history of bookselling, and worthy of being printed in a place where it can more easily be found than a sale catalogue. F. S. ELLIS. . King Street, Covent Garden. HADDISCOE FONT (2 nd S. x. 411.) There is at Pewsey, in Wiltshire, an arrangement similar to that described by MR. D'AVENEY as existing at Haddiscoe. I have not been into the church at Pewsey for many years, and therefore feel in- competent to describe details with accuracy ; but I recollect that the font is placed close to the south-westernmost pier of the nave, and that im- mediately above the font is a niche sunk into the pier, which is, by tradition, considered to have been a receptacle for the holy oil used in baptism. PATONCE. PRINCE MAURICE (2 nd S. xi. 11.) R. R. does not give any idea of the information he himself pos- sesses relative to Prince Maurice. He thus leaves rather a wide field for reply. Should R. R. not have seen the following works, he may consult them with advantage : History of the Wars of Flanders, by Cardinal Bentivoglio, Englished from the Italian, by Henry Earl of Monmouth, fol. 1678, commencing at p. 189. Though written by an enemy to the Low Country struggle, the learned Grotius commends it for its impartiality. Hugo Grotius's De Rebus Belgicis ; or the An- nals and History of the Low Countrey Warrs by T. M. (T. Manley), 12mo. 1665, pp. 145-937. Little is said in Bentivoglio of Barnevelt. At p. 375. (mispaged 373.), he is styled the Advocate- General of the Province of Holland. His speech, in 1607, against Prince Maurice, is there given at length. Barnevelt's name does not appear in the Index of Manley's Grotius, but it occurs in the text at pp. 917. 938., and elsewhere. Among the Cottonian MSS. in the British Mu- seum are many papers of great interest and value concerning the prince. R. R. will find them in Galba, C. vn. pp. 302. 306., vnr. 176. b. 180. 189. b. 407. 409. ; D. n. 80. 338., iv. 222., v. 300., vm. 104. 129., x. 20. 148., 183. b., xi. 73. 131. 202., xii. 115. ; E. 1. 120. 124.; Cal. E. xi. 204. ; Nero, B. vi. 331.333. M. S. R. Brompton Barracks. NAMES ON JAMAICA MONUMENTS (2 nd S. x. 404.) SPAL is informed that the last in his list of Jamaica names, " Hill Hochryn," misrepresents Hill Hotchkin, the wife of Robert Hotchkin, Esq., Attorney-General, Her maiden name was Boui-