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that the latter might easily lapse into the former; and lastly, since bay means a reddish brown in colour (v. Skeat's 'Etymological Dictionary '), perhaps the water was brown, i. e., " bay water," or " bayswater " in easy parlance.

What gives countenance to this idea is the fact that the rivulet, the Bayswater, was cut off and deflected into a sewer, being, no doubt, bayard in colour and so unfit for ornamental purposes (see 8 th S. xii. 349, 'Kensington Canal'). I find the reference "8 th S. ii. 349," at 8 th 8. xii. 405, under ' Bayswater,' incorrect as to volume : it should be " xii.," not ii. In conclusion, I beg to suggest that perhaps the place-name Bayswater comes neither from man nor horse, but from bayard water, softened down into its present form by gene- rations of weary tongues. X.

Philadelphia, U.S.

YORKSHIEE MURDER (8 th S. xii. 489). Has MR. EDWARD PEACOCK forgotten that upwards of thirty years ago, on two occasions, he had already stated in ' N. & Q.,' 3 rd S. iv. 7 ; x. 145, that the murder of Mr. John Dyon took place at Branscroft, near Doncaster, on 16 February, 1828 ? His appeals for the loan of the pamphlet do not hitherto appear to have been attended with success.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

NOVEL BY JEAN INGELOW (8 th S. xii. 429, 454). I may state that the continuation of 'Off the Skelligs' is entitled 'Fated to be Free,' and is published in the Tauchnitz edition. JANET HODGKIN.

[Was it not published by Messrs. Chatto & Windus ?]

"PLAYING HAMLET" (8 th S. xii. 308). In North- West Lincolnshire "playing Hamlet" is equivalent to " playing the deuce," and in that sense the expression is common.

H. ANDREWS.

MAZARIN FAMILY (8 th S. xii. 447).' N:& Q.,' 4 th S. v. 164, recorded the recent sale of the portraits of the five nieces of Cardinal Maza- rin, by Sir Peter Lely, which paintings were formerly in the Colonna Palace. The name of " Nirnten Mazarin " does not appear among them EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

GLASS FRACTURE (8 th S. xii. 268, 355). An amusing case of glass fracture occurred in my experience, on a sunny day many years ago, at the good town of Horsham, in Sussex. I had called upon a hospitable friend, and he, in his drawing-room, was in the act of pour-

ing out a foaming stream of cool ale, when the tumbler, which had no crack before, suddenly parted in two. The bottom of the glass fell clean off, and the beer fell on the carpet. We were as much amused as puzzled at the little contretemps. JAMES HOOPER. Norwich.

COPE AND MITRE (8 th S. xii. 106, 175, 350, 493). Perhaps we may manage to be his- torical without being polemical :

1. From at least the time of Augustine, chasubles (or vestments) and copes were used in divine service.

2. Chasubles were restricted to the celebra- tion of Mass. They were used as sacerdotal, or sacrificial, vestments only.

3. Copes were not so restricted. They were not regarded as sacerdotal or sacrificial. Bishops, priests, clerics, laymen, layboys wore them at choir offices, processions, and such like services. And no form of blessing is provided for the cope, as it is for the chasuble and Mass vestments.

4. At the Keformation, although the sacris- ties were full of chasubles, such were disused in practice at leastand copes were worn instead. Such a use had never been found in Western Christendom until that time.

5. Copes were worn occasionally from that time onwards ; their use ceased, except at coronations and such like ceremonies, but has been revived in later days.

6. From the Reformation until the High Church revival no chasuble had ever been used in the Church of England.

7. At the present day in England only one bishop (Lincoln) uses the chasuble. The others some of them wear copes on certain occasions.

8. The Anglican Church has, then, converted the cope into a sacerdotal or sacrificial vest- ment. So, at least, it may be maintained. But in doing so I think that, historically, she made a new departure. The change may or may not be significant from a doctrinal point of view ; but upon that I do not enter nor, again, upon the question how far bishops using copes regard such as sacerdotal and sacrifical vestments, or merely, as in pre- Reformation usage, robes of dignity used in solemn ceremonial. Catholics, of course, say that a cope means nothing at all, as it may be, and often is, worn by lay persons.

GEORGE ANGUS. St. Andrews, N.B.

TORTOISESHELL WARE (8 th S. Xii. 487). The

mottled Whieldon pottery mostly plates and dishes known as tortoiseshell ware is appa- rently so called because it is not a whit like