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 9 th S. II. JULY 9, '98.]

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able to find a single instance of a chasubl being mentioned in connexion with any Anglican service from the time of Queen Elizabeth till the Oxford revival.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

MR. GEORGE ANGUS asks, " Does any bishop, except the Bishop of Lincoln, wear a vestment or chasuble ? " The present Bishop of London wears both a cope and mitre, as J have seen him officiate in them ; and he has lately been presented with a new ivory mitre I have also read that the present Bishop pi Rochester uses the cope and mitre at certain ceremonies. These are the only two bishop; of the Establishment (besides the Bishop oi Lincoln), I believe, who wear the cope anc mitre. C. R. T.

There is one well-known exception to the statement of the late Dean Burgon anent the use of vestments, cope, &c., in the English Church, quoted by FATHER ANGUS. The beautiful copes now preserved in Durham Cathedral Library one of which was pre- sented to the cathedral by Charles I. were in use at the celebration of the Holy Com- munion so late as 1779, and were discontinued in that year by Prebendary Warburton (afterwards Bishop of Gloucester).

F. S. SNELL.

HANDS WITHOUT HAIR (9 th S. i. 328). If PALAMEDES turns to the twenty-seventh chapter of Genesis, the Scriptural origin of this not very common idiom will appear to him. The interjection wfft (pronounced oofff) in Welsh means " Fie, for shame ! " whicn may be the meaning of the word ooft in the English translation of 'Rhys Lewis.' Had PALAMEDES given the number of the chapter in which the word appears, a reference to the original might have cleared the matter up. JEANNIE S. POPHAM. Plas Maenan, Llanrwst, North Wales.

Has PALAMEDES forgotten the hairy hands of Esau and the smooth hands of Jacob ? Surely the interpretation of an easy con- science, void of deceit, is very plain.

W. D. MACRAY. [Many replies are acknowledged.]

CORNWALL OR ENGLAND? (8 th S. xii. 466; 9 th S. i. 131.) There seems to be a parallel to this in France, judging from the following extract, the original of which appeared in a Dublin daily paper two or three years ago :

"With reference to the number of suicides of Breton recruits in the French army, it appears that home-sickness is not the only cause of this disgust of life. Most of these men speak French very imperfectly, and so they are regularly set upon

and ' ballyragged ' by their barrack-room com- panions from other parts of France. The inhabitants of the central portion of the country are fond of saying that the Basques, the Bretons, and the Nor- mans are not Frenchmen, and the barrack-room bullies have taken the jibe so literally that the French press has made a strong protest against this persecution."

S. A. D'ARCY, L.R.C.P. and S.I. Rosslea, Clones, co. Fermanagh.

BURNS AND COLERIDGE (9 th S. i. 405). Why does MR. THOMAS BAYNE omit the words with which Burns concludes the letter to Mrs. Dunlop ?

"I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities a God that made all things man's immaterial and immortal nature and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave."

H. J. F.-A.

Beverley.

'ALONZO THE BRAVE' (9 th S. i. 287). This poem may be found in ' Anthologia Oxoni- ensis ' (1846), accompanied by a translation into Latin elegiacs, signed J. E. B., i. e.. John Ernest Bode, M.A., student of Christ Church. Mr. Bode was also author of 'Ballads from Herodotus.' I can remember, when a little boy, seeing this poem dramatized at a travel- ling show, and Ibeing much alarmed at the apparition of Alonzo the Brave in his sable armour. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

" MINISTER OF THE WORD OF GOD " (9 th S. i. 228, 297). An early use of this phrase occurs in the parish registers of St. Edward the Confessor's, Romford. At the end of the year 1609, burials, the vicar signs as follows : "Per me Samuelem Collins Ministru' Verbi Dei ibidem in ecc' p'ochiali de Romford."

THOS. BIRD.

Romford.

THREE IMPOSSIBLE THINGS (9 th S. i. 368). Proverbs xxx. 18, 19 ] THOMAS J. JEAKES.

OLDEST PARISH REGISTER (8 th S. xi. 108, 215). Although this question was asked more Sussex, date from 1512, being twenty-six /ears prior to the compulsory statute of ETenry VIII. This is said to be the oldest parish church register known in England.
 * han a year ago, it may interest Miss THOYTS
 * o know that the registers of Alfriston, co.

C. H. C. South Hackney.

AUTOGRAPHS (9 th S. i. 268, 336). I keep my collection of autograph letters (4,000) and a vast mass of illustrative items alphabetic- ally. " Variety is charming." I take a four-