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to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 22 May,

1874 :

" There is ample documentary evidence that the predecessors of the present bishops suffragan Were, up to the disuse pi their office in the reign of James L, every whit (whether by right or courtesy) as much ' lord bishops ' as the diocesans, peers of Parliament."

See more in Crockford's ' Clerical Directory/ 1896, p. Ixviii.

Moreover, the angels of the seven churches in Rev. ii. and iii. are commonly understood to be bishops, and, according to our English Bible, the proper way to address an angel is "My lord"; see, e.g., Gen. xix. 18, Judges vi. 13, Dan. x. 17, Zech. i. 9, iv. 5, &c.

W. C. B. [Many replies are acknowledged.]

SAEAGOSSA SEA (9 th S. i. 207). One of the most frequent of misprints is that which makes " Saragossa Sea " out of Sargasso Sea. Of course the printers of the Pall Mall Gazette had made this almost inevitable mis- take ; and what the unfortunate writer meant was that the lake had become covered by weed in the manner in which the great tract of the ocean which bears the name of the Sargasso Sea is covered with seaweed. It may be noted that a fine house at Henley - on-Thames, which is named after the sea in question, is commonly burlesqued by local usage in the same way which has caused the present query. D.

[Many replies are acknowledged.]

MOTTO (8 th S. xii. 509). The motto referred to by ME. GLYNNis Cornish. It means "Bring us help, our God." It may interest West- Countrymen to know that a Cornish Society has been formed in Liverpool. The honorary secretary is J. Sampson, University College, Liverpool, the Romany scholar.

H. A. STRONG.

The Cornish words " Dry weres agan Dew ny " mean " Our God is a strong tower."

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

^WASSHEBROOKE OR GREAT BELSTEAD (8 th S. xii. 508). This is a parish about five miles from Ipswich. 'The Suffolk Traveller,' by John Kirby, published in 1764, says concerning it:

" Within the Bounds of this Parish there was formerly another Church, and perhaps a Hamlet called Felchurch, or Velechurch, which was impro- priated to the Abbey of Albemarle ; and, upon the Dissolution of the alien Priories, given to the Nunnery of Dartford ; and 31 Hen. VIII. granted to Sir Percival Hart, with the Rectory and Advow- son of the Vicarage of Washbrook. The Vicarage of Felchurch was instituted into A.D. 1301, 1314, and 1338."

JOHN H. JOSSELYN.

SYMBOLISM OF COLOURS (9 th S. i, 167). This is a subject in which I am also interested, and should A. S. P. find any answer to his query, I should be very glad of a reference ; but whether we require the symbolism for the same reason may be doubtful. Ecclesiasti- cal magazines sometimes give references to colours used in the Church at various seasons, and there is a great deal about the symbolism of colours in such occult magazines as Light and Borderland, Mrs. Anna Kingsford's 'Life,' and other books of the same kind. There was a curious article in Borderland on the colour of thought by a clairvoyant blue being devo- tional or religious thought; red, anger and passion. My reason for wanting a guide to the symbolism of colour is that I am a dreamer of symbolical dreams, and as colour has much to do with them, I wish to understand these colours ; but I incline to the belief that colours mean various things to different people, so that each must make his own dictionary for this particular purpose.

J3. FLORENCE SCARLETT.

A. S. P. may find sufficient on this subject in the last edition of Dr. Cobham Brewer's 'Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,' 1895, art. ' Colours,' p. 276. J. P. B.

Nottingham.

ERA IN ENGLISH MONKISH CHRONOLOGY (8 th S. xi. 387 ; xii. 421, 466 ; 9 th S. i. 10, 92). It is curious that ME. ANSCOMBE is still unable to see that " my position would remain unaffected, even if he could prove all his theses," and that in saying this I am not "turn- ing my back on my own propositions." He has advanced no arguments or evidence that were unknown to me when I wrote the note attacked by him. The question is not that of " Paschal computation by the use of the Dionysian era [read tables] in England in the seventh century," but that of the use of the era for legal and historical dating. Obviously the only way to prove that I am wrong is to produce a genuine seventh- century English charter or legal document dated by this era. In spite of my remark that the inconsequent talk about the observ- ance of Easter did not concern me, MR. ANSCOMBE now asks me to " re-examine my position and provide, at the same time, reasons for disclaiming (p. 11, col. 2) that [I] share the belief" in certain events in con- nexion with the Easter controversies, which I have not so much as mentioned. The only ground for dragging in this recapitulation is my remark that I did not claim that the English use of this era was derived from the Papal chancery. What is said about