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Holy Table, as I found them in Bristol Cathedral?" My impression is that these are a survival. The Koman Missal directs a cushion to lie on the altar to support the mass book. I have said mass using such a cushion, and seen it in other places. As a rule, however, a bookstand, more or less elaborate, has superseded the cushion. I prefer the book-rest, as the cushion is too low, and the book has a tendency to slip from the soft cushion. I have an indistinct recollection of seeing two cushions on the altar in (what was then) the Catholic church at Lahore. Things have changed in the Punjab since 1862. Then the Catholic church was a humble building and the Anglican church was a Mohammedan mosque the tomb of a slave girl named Anarkallee. Hence the name of the civil lines in Lahore. Now, I believe, there is a beautiful Church of England cathedral as well as a Catholic cathedral. The first-named recalls to my mind that earnest missionary and cultivated Christian gentleman, whom I knew in India and afterwards at Cheltenham, Dr. Valpy French, first Protestant Bishop of Lahore.

Dean Pigou's story of how Bishop Wilber- force persuaded two Low Church clergymen to wear surplices, and not black gowns, is given in the life of that accomplished and versatile prelate. GEORGE ANGUS.

St. Andrews, N.B.

CELSUS. One would have thought that the " Cicero medicorum " (as he was called) was entitled to mention in the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' But, oddly enough, his name seems to have been omitted designedly, for it occurs (with a very brief notice) in the eighth edition, but is omitted from the ninth, which only contains under ' Celsus ' an account of the later writer, famous for his attack on Christianity. The medical writer, Cornelius Celsus, is mentioned in ' Chambers's Encyclo- paedia,' and in the 'American Cyclopaedia' and others. His prenomen seems to be Aulus (as given in fche earliest known manu- script), though it appears as Aurelius in many books and catalogues. W. T. LYNN.

Blackheath.

CHRISTMAS CARD : THE FIRST. The death of Mr. John Callcott Horsley, R.A., on the 19th inst., is a reminder that he designed for the late Sir Henrp Cole (Felix Summerly) the first Christmas card, issued Christmas, 1846. I still possess the one signed by my father, "To my beloved wife and children." It bears the imprint, *' Summerly's Home Treasury Office, 12, Old Bond Street," where a number of delightful books ior children were published,

Cole "obtaining the welcome assistance of some of the first artists in illustrating them." These included Mulready, Cope, Horsley, Red- grave, Webster, the four Linnells, Townsend, and others. A specimen of the first Christmas card was sold a few years back for 50.

JOHN C. FRANCIS. [See also 7 th S. xi. 105, 312.]

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

"LORD PALATINE." Ante, p. 21 and else- where, CAPT. THORNE GEORGE writes of Sir Ferdinando Gorges as " Lord Palatine of Maine." The 'D.N.B.' speaks of him as " Lord Proprietor of Maine " ; and this is the term used by himself :

" Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Lord Proprietor and owner of the Province of Maine in New England." ' Calendar of State Papers, Colonial,' i. (1860) 39.

The charter granted to him in 1639 gave him

" as large and ample Rights, Jurisdictions, Privi- ledges, Prerogatives, Royalties, Liberties ...... as well

by Sea as by Land within the said province ...... as

the Bishop of Durham within the Bishoprick or County Palatine of Durham ...... hath, useth, or

injoyeth, or of Right he ought to have, use, and enjoy, within the said County Palatine." J. P. Baxter, ' Sir Ferdinando Gorges ' (1890), ii. 127.

Although he had thus palatinate rights, and might, by inference, be termed a " lord pala- tine," our esteemed contributor Mr. R. J. Whitwell, to whom the 'N.E.D.' is in- debted for so much exact detail on his- torical and legal antiquities, has failed to find any trace of such title applied to him earlier than that mentioned above, in spite of considerable search in his own works and those of his grandson and namesake. I shall be glad if any of your readers can supply particulars of any work in which the phrase is used. In the article ' Palatine ' we should like to mention the title " Lord Palatine," if any evidence is found of its existence in Great Britain or its dependencies.

J. A. H. MURRAY.

LADY ARABELLA STUART : DR. FULTON. An order to " Mr. Doctor Fulton " was sent, under minute of the Privy Council dated 8 September, 1614 ('Reg. Jac. Bibl.,' Birch, 4161, No. 337,126; also 'Bibl. Harl,,' 7003, No. 138), desiring him to repair without delay to the Tower, and giv^ to the Lady Arabella (Stuart), a prisoner there, "spiritual and fitting comfort and advice," and "to