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iaturally wish to know the incomes derived >y those same artists, whose supply (and lemand) would seem to be inexhaustible. HILDA GAMLIN.

Camden Lawn, Birkenhead.

A SONNET AS SERMON. The Yorkshire Herald of 6 November, 1897, gives the follow- ing instance of clerical amenity, possibly unique :

"In the current number of the Ganton Parish Magazine there appears, by the kind permission of the Dean of York, the address delivered by him on the occasion of the marriage of Lord Deramore to Miss Fife, in the church of St. Michael-le-Belfrey at York. It was desired that the address should, be short, and therefore the Dean cast it in the form of a sonnet, as follows :

Ecclesiastes iv. 12, ' A threefold cord is not

quickly broken.' The nuptial cord, if true, hath threefold strands.

Two are the love of twain devoted hearts,

Which each to each stability imparts ; The third, the presence of the Lord, who stands When bidden, here, to bless the clasped hands,

And then abides with those who seek His face

To cheer with constant benisons of grace Their future life, whate'er the world demands. Here is your confidence for wedded life,

For peaceful days, for joys of that sweet home Ofhearts together knit with Christ in love. Without may rage the storms of hate and strife,

Within this holy house they cannot come. Blessed on earth perfect for aye above.

"July 15, 1897. "A P. P. C."

This, however, it may be objected, was not a " sermon declaring the duties of man and wife," and perhaps it was supplemented by the usual address beginning "All ye that are married"; but as to that I have no in- formation. ST. SWITHIN.

" RED-TAPE." I think " tape-tying," in the following passage from Fraser's Magazine, October (1832), in the Boston, Lincoln, Louth, and Spalding Herald of 9 Oct., 1832, is pro- bably a forerunner of " red-tape " as used in that symbolic manner to which we are so well accustomed. The writer is speaking of Sir Walter Scott, whose death had taken place on the previous 21 Sept. :

" He had received no favours absolutely none from the Tories. His place of Clerk of Sessions was conferred on him by Fox ; and we rather think that his politics on some occasions were made a plea, by the tape-tying crew who had wriggled themselves into office under our colours, for insult and imper- tinence, neglect or ingratitude."

EDWARD PEACOCK.

DECLINING ENGLISH INDUSTRIES. The Western Morning News for 11 Jan. says :

"The Carvedras tin smelting works, Truro, are to be closed, owing to the long depression in Cornish mining. For many years the works were carried

on by Daubuz & Co., but some time ago they were taken over by the Consolidated Tin Company, in which Mr. J. C. Daubuz has since retained his interest. There were formerly four smelting-houses in Truro, but the closing of Carvedras has Brought about their complete disappearance. The tin from Carvedras bore the well-known sign of ' the lamb and flag,' and in its treatment twelve men were em- ployed. These have, it is stated, received notice to leave, and the smelting business will be trans- ferred to the company's works at Chyandour, Penzance. There are now left in Cornwall but four smelting works at Penzance, Redruth, and Pen- poll. This is a saddening reminder of the decay of Cornwall's staple industry."

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

WILL OF EDMUND AKERODE. A bookseller's catalogue sent to me offers for sale " a charm- ing relic of the Marian period," being the will of Edmund Akerode, "clerke," parson of the parish church of Tewing, Herts, dated 14 August, 1557 (folio by 14| in.), ^ with record of probate attached. This is, of course, no imputation on the vendor, who I have no doubt purchased the MS. in the course of business in a perfectly legiti- mate way; but it seems a pity that our national records should be treated in this fashion. I presume that a considerable time must have elapsed since the document left its lawful custodian's hands, but I believe there is a legal axiom that time does not run against the Crown, and it might be worth while for the Master of the Rolls to claim the document, paying, of course, the owner reasonable compensation for it.

JOHN HEBB.

"THROUGH OBEDIENCE LEARN TO COMMAND." These words, if I remember rightly, are inscribed in the hall of Woolwich Academy. I do not know whether the maxim was derived from the following passage in Pliny's ' Letters ' (viii. 14, 5). The Latin, at any rate, furnishes an exact parallel : " Inde adulescentuli statim castrensibus stipendiis imbuebantur, ut imperare parendo, duces agere dum sequuntur, adsuescerent."

ALEX. LEEPER.

Trinity College, Melbourne.

MOTTO OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. (See ante, p. 29.) In amplification of the editorial note appended to this query, referring to the use of the motto as a printer's mark in an edition of Camden, "n.d.," I would mention that I have a folio volume entitled ' The History of the Church,' &c., printed at Cam- bridge by John Hayes, Printer to the University, in (according to the title-page of the whole volume, which, by-the-by, does not bear the motto) 1692. However, the work is