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and the church is now known as St. Peter's. An inhabitant of Coggeshall, by will dated 1515, desired to be buried "in the quire of St. Peter-ad-Vincula."

The Collect for the day (1 August) is " O God, who deliverest blessed Peter the Apostle from his chains, and set him, untouched, at liberty; deliver us, we beseech Thee, from the bonds of our sins, and mercifully protect us from all evil." T. FORSTEK.

Kennington.

THE CORONATION CANOPY (9 th S. x. 189, 297) A portion of the canopy which was used at Queen Anne's coronation served as a pulpit-cloth in All Saints' Church, Hastings, until 1844, and is still in the possession of the rector and churchwardens. It is a piece of plain red cloth with a fringe of yellow thread and worsted. In the centre of the cloth is the following inscription in gold-thread lettering :

A ' R '

INAVGVRAT ' XZIII ' AP ' MDCCII.

This is followed by what seems to be a sample of the ornamental scrollwork, with the letter A (for Anne) at intervals, which had run round the edge of the canopy. It was customary that the cloth of the canopy, the little silver - gilt bells which had tinkled at its four corners, and the silver lances or staves which had supported it should become the property of the barons of the Cinque Ports or of those of them who had carried the canopy at the coronation ceremony a sort of fee ; and they were free to do what they chose with these relics. In all probability the above-quoted inscription was added to the cloth when it was given to All Saints' Church. The barons' privilege of carrying the canopy dates, I think, from the coronation of Henry IV. W. S.

" PRAISE is THE BEST DIET," &c. (5 th S. xii. 39). I see that this phrase (given correctly in J. H. Friswell's 'Familiar Words') is mis- quoted as " Praise is the best diet for us all," instead of "Praise is the best diet for us after all." The reference by Friswell to Sidney Smith, " W. W. p. 333," seems rather obscure. It turns out to refer to the 'Wit and Wisdom ' of the Rev. Sydney Smith (by E. A. Duyckinck, New York, 1858), in which book I have found the phrase as above.

EDWARD LATHAM. 61, Friends Road, East Croydon.

GREEK AND RUSSIAN ECCLESIASTICAL VESTMENTS (9 th S. x. 28, 318). The Pope uses the colours of red and white only in

celebrating the liturgy, but I never heard that the Eastern churches confined their mass vestments to these two colours, or to any particular colour. I understand that the East has no regular sequence of liturgical colours like that of the West, and that, while the vestments for great days are rich in embroidery and ornament, no particular attention is paid to the colours of the same.

GEORGE ANGUS. St. Andrews, N.B.

CROMWELL'S DAUGHTERS (9 th S. x. 289). Of Bridget, the Protector's eldest daughter, and wife first of General Ireton and secondly of General Fleet wood, there is a miniature as a child by Crosse in the royal collection at Windsor ; and "portraits of Ireton and his wife by Robert Walker, in the possession of Mr. Charles Polhill, were," says the 'D.N.B.,' "numbers 785 and 789 in the National Portrait Exhibition of 1866. En- gravings are given in Houbraken's ' Illus- trious Heads,' and Vandergucht's illustrations to Clarendon's ' Rebellion.' "

There is a portrait of Elizabeth Claypole, Oliver's favourite daughter, in the National Portrait Gallery, painted by Joseph Michael Wright in the last year of her life, 1658 ; as well as a miniature by Crosse in the royal collection at Windsor.

Of Mary, Lady Fauconberg, the third, there is a portrait by Cornelius Janssen at Checkers Court; and of Frances, the youngest daughter, first Mrs. Rich and afterwards Lady Russell, there is a portrait by John Riley in the collection of the Rev. T. Crom- well Bush.

With regard to the living descendants of the great Protector I cannot do better than quote from Mr. Frederic Harrison's rnono-

graph on ' Oliver Cromwell ' in the " Twelve nglish Statesmen " series (1889), p. 34 :

"It is a curious example of the persistence of the English governing families, and of their close intermarriages, that the blood of Oliver Cromwell still runs through female lines in the veins of the fol- lowing well-knownpersons : Marquisof Ripon, Earls of Chichester, Money, Clarendon, Cowper, heir-pre- sumptive to the earldom of Derby, Lord Amptnill, Lord Walsingham, Countess of Rothes, Mr. Charles Villiers, M.P., Sir John Lubbock, M.P., Sir F. W. Frankland, Sir Charles Strickland, Sir H. E. F. Lewis, Sir W. Worsley, Sir W. Payne-Gallwey, the Astleys of Checkers Court, the Polhills of Kent, the Tennants of Glamorganshire, the families of Vyner, Lister, Berners, Nicholas, Gosset, Pres- cott. Field, Mr. S. R. Gardiner, the historian, &c. During the present century at least seven persons descended from the Protector have held office under the Crown, including one Prime Minister, Lord Goderich ; one Foreign Secretary, Lord Clarendon ; two Lords- Lieutenant of Ireland, and a Viceroy in India. Amongst those who have