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day has come under my personal notice. There is living at Northampton a working shoemaker, a real "cordwainer" {ante, p. 5), which in the shoe industry is a synonym for " hand-stitchman," who for the last twenty years has gone by the name of Enoch Owen. He came to Northampton when he was a

Smng man, and when his name was Enoch oron. Afflicted with a slight impediment in his speech, he failed to make the North- ampton shoemakers understand that his name was not Owen Northampton people have dreadful ears for the aspirates. Owen was as near as they could get without trouble, and the man accepted the change. I have before me some documents relating to the Bradlaugh controversies in the town during the seventies. He signs his name on them Enoch Owen. He joined a Northampton Church as Enoch Owen, and so wrote his signature in the members' book. A few years ago he was baptized, and then it was he mentioned, what had been practically a secret for thirty years, that he was born Horon, but was always called Owen by his friends, his married daughter, and himself. A note to that effect appears in the register of baptisms of the church. K.

A COINCIDENCE IN REGARD TO THE WASH- INGTON FAMILY (9 th S. i. 467). Dr. Moncure D. Conway, who speaks with authority on the subject, considers that the resemblance between the Washington arms and the United States flag is merely a coincidence, and that, moreover, George Washington was not the originator of the stars and stripes. Dr. Conway dealt with the question very fully in the Graphic^ of 6 May, 1893, p. 506, and also mentioned it in a foot-note to an article of his on 'The English Ancestry of Washington,' which appeared in Harper's Monthly Magazine for May, 1891. An article based on Dr. Con way's conclusions, and entitled ' The Arms of Washington and the Stars and Stripes,' appeared in the Daily Graphic on Friday, 14 September, 1894.

May I say that I should be very glad if MR. C. E. CLARK would kindly give particulars of the Washington inscriptions at Ad wick -le- StreeU JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

" THERE is A GARDEN IN HER FACE " (9 th S. i. 488). -I do not understand why Palgrave gives this song as anonymous, since it occurs in Campion's Fourth Book of 'Airs,' and Palgrave himself says that Campion " appears to have been author of the words which he set to music." Campion says, in the note "To the Reader " prefixed to the Fourth Book :

" Some words are in these Books, which have been clothed in music by others, and I am content they then served their turn ; yet give me leave to make use of mine own ! "

And again :

" To be brief. All these Songs are mine, if you express them well ! Otherwise, they are your own ! "

There are a few verbal differences between the version of this song given by Mr. Arber in the ' English Garner ' (vol. iii.) and the one in 'Lyra Elegantiarum ' and Palgrave's ' Golden Treasury.' Mr. Arber, I understand, follows the original edition word for word.

C. C. B.

" PAEJAMA " (9 th S. i. 486). It is perhaps a little ungracious to criticize the value of a note from so interesting a contributor as KILLIGREW ; but is it not a little pedantic to complain of a hosier including the complete garment in the term "pyjamas," when such has been the universally accepted custom for years ] And how many columns of ' N. & Q.,' may I ask, could be filled with instances of words whose original meaning has been either obscured or destroyed ?

ED. PHILIP BELBEN.

Branksome Chine.

COPE AND MITRE (8 th S. xii. 106, 175, 350, 493 ; 9 th S. i. 14, 212, 351 ; ii. 34). Certain bishops now wear copes and mitres. Quite so : I have never denied it. What I ask is, as Dean Burgon asked, Can any instance be given of Church of England bishops, or clergy, wearing not copes, but chasubles, during divine service, from the time of Elizabeth until the Anglo-Catholic revival ?

Dean Burgon distinguished (as did the Reformers, who knew what they were about) between cope and chasuble, and expressed his willingness to use the former, while pointing out (as I point out) the entire disuse of the latter from the Reformation until, say, sixty years ago. In the quotation given by MR. F. T. HIBGAME I am at a loss f o understand the "three sub-deacons." The date is 1641, and surely the order of sub- deacon was abolished by the Church of England at the Reformation !

GEORGE ANGUS.

St. Andrews, N.B.

BENJAMIN THORPE (1782?-! 870), ANGLO- SAXON SCHOLAR (9 th S. i. 507). This dis- tinguished scholar died at Chiswick on 19 July, 1870. In addition to the brief notice of his death in the Athenaeum of 23 July, I may refer your correspondent to an equally short account in ' N. & Q.,' 4 th S. vi. 86. For a list of his nineteen works see p. 146. Most of