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and William Kelte's version of Psalm cxxy. (in 1561), Puttenham includes it in his scheme of metres, ' Art of English Poesie,' ed. Arber, pp. 99 and 101 (1589). Ben Jonson used it in his ' Catiline ' (in 1611), as well as in the elegy to which ME. THOMAS BAYNE makes reference, which was posthumously published in 1641. The metre was also used by Francis f)avison (probably before 1619), by George Sandys (1636), by Christopher Harvey (1640), by the author of a Luttrell Broadside (circa 1660), and by Lord Herbert of Cher- bury. In Thackeray's ' English Humourists two stanzas in this metre are quoted from Prior, but they appear in another form in the Aldine edition. Tennyson used the metre in "You ask me why" and "Love thou thy land," which were written in 1833. Rossetti also employed it in 'My Sister's Sleep,' written in 1847. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

"To DIVE" (9 th S. xi. 230, 514 ; xii. 196). In this connexion it may be of interest to point out that in Liverpool, between thirty and forty years ago, any restaurant situate in the basement of a building was known as a "dive." I need scarcely say that resort to a "dive" did not, at that time, involve meet- ing the company mentioned by Besant, nor using the fork as suggested by your last correspondent. MISTLETOE.

"NiTCHiEs" (9 th S. xii. 227). This is the plural of an Odjibway word, nitchi, friend or comrade, and, like many other Indian words (such as metasses, leggings, muskamoot, a bag, &c.), is used by both English and French speaking Canadians. In a secondary sense it implies a half-breed, and is not infrequent in literature. It is often written neche ; for instance, in a story called ' The Devil's Keg,' by Ridgwell Cullum, 1903, p. 152: "The slimmest necke that ever crossed the back of a cJioyeuse" i.e., pony. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

MINERALOGIST AND BOTANIST TO GEORGE III. (9 th S. xii. 89, 215). In the parish church- yard of Penarth, Glamorgan, is a sepulchral inscription to Archibald Sinclair, "one of the Harbingers of His Majesty George the 3 d & a justly celebrated & scientific Botanist," who died in the year 1795. See ' Cardiff llecords,' vol. iii. p. 583.

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS. Mon mouth.

CARDINALS (9 th S. xi. 490; xii. 19, 174). MR. RANDOLPH is not correct in styling llichelieu a cardinal-bishop ; though a bishop when made cardinal, he belonged to the order of cardinal-priests. The cardinal-bishops are

only six in number, take their episcopal titles from Roman suburban sees, and always reside in curia. Other bishops, when raised to the <5ardinalate, rank among the cardinal- priests. Such as are not bishops belong to the order of cardinal-deacons. Hence Man- ning, though in bishop's orders, was only a cardinal- priest, and Newman, who was only in priest's orders, was but a cardinal-deacon.

W. T. H.

ENGLISH GRAVE AT 'OSTEND (9 th S. xii. 9, 176, 235). MR. PIERPOINT'S communication makes it necessary for me to add to mine. There need be no uncertainty about the locality of Skelbrook. It is in the parish of South Kirkby, and is properly treated of by Joseph Hunter, ' South Yorkshire,' Deanery of Doncaster, 1831, ii. 458. Henry Perryn Brown was the owner of the property, and died in 1823 without issue. In pursuance of settlements it then passed to John Pate Nevile, of Bads worth, Esquire. He was grandson of Richard Lister, the original pur- chaser, and changed his name of Lister for that of Nevile. His family still hold the estate, or did so until recently. W. C. B.

DESECRATION OF HEMINGTON CHURCH (9 th S. xii. 228). W. B. H. will probably find the information he requires in a work by Mr. J. J.. Briggs. It is called ' The History and Anti- quities of Heraington, in the Parish of Lock- ington, in the County of Leicester ' (with illustrations), London, 1873, 4to. I have not seen the book, but there is a copy of it in the British Museum. S. J. ALDRICH.

New Southgate.

This church has already been the subject of an inquiry in 'N. & Q.,' to which replies were given. See 7 th S. x., 208, 356, 452. Reference should also be made to the Gentle- man's Magazine for 1825, the Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural His- tory Society for 1890, and Nichols's 'History of Leicestershire.'

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

MARCO POLO'S PORTRAIT (9 th S. xii. 225). If the object of this note is to collect particu- lars of alleged portraits of Marco Polo and their reproduction, I may perhaps say that I had the Badia portrait reproduced in the April, 1900, issue of Young Days, by permis- sion of Mr. A. H. Hallam Murray, whose firm published Col. Yule's 'Marco Polo,' and copied the portrait from the gallery of Monsignore Badia at Rome. The original painting bears the words "MarcvsPolvs VenetvsTotivs Orbis et Indie Peregr'ator Primvs," which, allowing