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ested forty-six years, so Canon " Ver' >t. Osythe said. At least, Leland reports it ^.t Quarrendon, close to Aylesbury, she am it least one of her two sisters, St. Ead mrga and St. Eadgyth, were born.

I should like to put a query. Who wer Bishops Hecca and Baldewyn, of the Orienta Saxons, who dedicated St. Osyth, according DO the annals of Colchester ? I have sough bo locate them in the lists of bishops, bu without success. T. W.

Aston Clinton.

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCHES o: POLAND (8 th S. xii. 448). I happen to havi before me the brief referred to in the query It belongs to our Grammar School Library, anc is entitled, "A short View of the continua Sufferings and heavy Oppressions of the Episcopal Reformed Churches, formerly ir Bohemia, and now in Great Poland anc Polish Prussia." It was printed in London by John Baskett, and by the assigns oi Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, deceased 1716. Joined to the above " Short View " is a "Short History of the Episcopal Betlenian College in Transylvania/' The brief states :

"The First foundation of the said Churches was. Laid by that true Son of the Church of England, anc celebrated Reformer, John Wiclef. For from hirr it was, that John Huss and Jerome of Prage, hoc the Happiness of First receiving the pure Evange- lical Doctrine, and Apostolical Constitution, when he was amongst them, during his Exile in Bohemia.

After the expulsion of the Protestants from Bohemia, in 1627, " it pleased God to prepare a Place of Refuge for that Persecuted Church in Great Poland and Polish Prussia, where the distressed Remainder of it is still left to this Day."

A record of the persecutions is given, and the brief continues :

"Nothing more is left them in this necessitous and deplorable state, but to take Refuge to, and to implore the Compassion of their Brethren of the same Houshold of Faith Abroad, amongst whom they have set their chief Hopes upon the Church of England, which they do not only look upon as the Chief Pillar of all the Protestant Churches, but also Esteem and Revere as their own Mother, owing, as is said before, their First Origine to the Doctrines of the Blessed Wiclef, and having con- stantly and strictly kept hitherto to the Church of England s Constitution and Discipline, as well in Relation to an uninterrupted Series of Bishops and Episcopal Ordination from their very first Re- formation, as to the Subordinate Orders of Presby- ters and Deacons ; besides the Confirmation of Young People by the Hands of the Bishop, before they are admitted to the Lord's Supper ; and their using the same devout Posture and Ceremonies at

the Celebration thereof The whole History of

this Bohemian Church has been related more at large by Regenvolscius, in his ' Historia Sclavonics' Besides him Frederjcus Spanhemius does Treat of

the Bishops of this Church in his ' Historia Ecclesi- astica,' sec. xv. col. 1856. The Ecclesiastical Dis- cipline of the same Church has been laid open out of Lassicio, by Johannes Amos Comenius, Bishop of the same Bohemian Church, which Book he has published at Amsterdam, and Dedicated to the Church of England. 5 '

Burnley.

J. LANGFIELD WARD, M.A.

The Kev. John Lewis, the historian of the Isle of Thanet, was usually pretty accurate in his record of the collections upon briefs in St. John's Church, Margate. Under date of ... Nov. and 30 Dec., 1716, he entered "for the Protestants in Poland and Transilvania the sum of eleven pounds nineteen shillings and one penny farth'." This was an excep- tionally large amount, the average collections in this parish being under one pound. It is improbable that the Protestants of those parts were under episcopal government. Had they been so, I think Lewis would have noted the fact; but it is evident that, from some powerful cause, much pressure was brought to bear upon the parishioners to produce so large an amount. T. N.

The subject was discussed in ' 1ST. & Q.' a few years ago. The "episcopacy" of the Poles was less genuine than their Protestant- ism and their persecution. Briefs on their behalf are mentioned from 1689 to 1717 in the * Sussex Arch. Colls.,' xxi., xxii., xxv.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. Hastings.

COL. HENRY FERRIBOSCO IN JAMAICA (8 th S. xii. 348, 413, 474). The folio wing notes relating bo the Ferrabosco family may be of interest to G. E. P. A. Alphonso and Henry died in 1661 (' St. Pap., Dom., Charles II.,' vol. xxxix. Mo. 9). John was organist of Ely Cathedral, and died in 1682 ; he appears in the Green- wich registers, in the baptisms, 9 Oct., 1626, as " John Pharabosco, sonne of Alfonso ffara- DOSCO." I have several other entries of japtisms and burials of females of the family, >ut no other males ; doubtless the Rev. Brooke Lambert, vicar of Greenwich, would give the information if requested.

AYEAHR.

"ON THE CARPET" (9 th S. i. 26). Why hould a leading daily newspaper be supposed o imperil its deservedly high reputation by he use of this English phrase ? If it is dying lard, why should its deathbed be made harder han it would be by the imputation of its eing an absurd and misleading translation f a French phrase 1 Carpets covered tables efore they covered floors. They would have eemed as out of place on the mud or stone