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ever, Az., a cross engrailed gu. between fou water bougets sa. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

ROMAN CATHOLIC (9 th S. ii. 227, 394, 475).-- Is it at all certain that the term " Roman Catholic " did come into existence about or after the sixteenth century ? We know tha from the ninth century onwards, with the exception of a short interval, the Greel* Church was in a state of schism. By whal name, then, did the members of the Gree communion designate those who looked to the Bishop of Rome as their spiritual chief " Latins " they of course called them, as i proved by a passage from an eminent Greek author, whom Gibbon quotes in his account of the reunion of the two Churches ; but it is not the custom of Christians outside the Roman Church to confine themselves to one name in speaking of those who own allegi- ance to the Roman Pontiff. Is it not possible that "Roman Catholic." like "church," has reached England from the East We? Germany" T. P. ARMSTRONG.

Putney.

TENNYSONIANA (9 th S. ii. 461). Lord Her- bert of Cherbury uses the 'In Memoriam stanza in two of his poems in the 'Ode referred to by MR. FORD, and in an earlier 'Ditty' and uses it with almost Tennysonian effect. Though not its inventor (for Ben Jonson had used it before him), he was, as Mr. Churton Collins says, the first to discover its harmony. I believe I have seen it stated that Tennyson when he wrote 'In Memoriam' was unaware of these earlier uses of the stanza. Even he could hardly have improved a verse like this :

Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch, Much less your fairest mind invade : Were not our souls immortal made,

Our equal loves can make them such.

C. C. B.

SIR JOHN RUDSTON (9 th S. ii. 387, 435). Sir John Rudston, Knt., Mayor of London, son of Robert Rudston, of Hayton, co. York, married Ursula, daughter of Sir Robert Dyraoke, Knt. (of Scrivelsby), and Anne, daughter of Alex- ander Cresnor, his second wife (Banks says first wife in his 'History of the Family of Marmyun '). Ursula married for her second husband Sir Ed. Wooton, Knt., treasurer of the parts about Calais. JOHN RADGLIFFE.

CURE FOR CONSUMPTION (9 th S. ii. 466). By referring to 8 th S. xii. 35 it will be seen that Gay alludes to the balminess of the breath of cows. Mrs. Barbauld says that the German doctors sent their lady patients into the cowhouse,

but that Dr. Beddoes used to bring the cows into the ladies' chambers (Academy, 28 Aug., 1897). Stewart inhaled the breath of the cows in St. James's Park, concerning which see 'N. & Q.,' 4 th S. xi. 95. Mathias, in his

Pursuits of Literature ' (i. 137), makes merry about Thicknesse, who claims that his vigor- ous health, when turned sixty, was, due to his " having always partaken of the breath of young women whenever they lay in my way" (' Valetudinarian's Bath Guide,' 1780).

W. C. B.

THE CONSONANTAL COMBINATION " ST " (9 th S. ii. 424). MR. ADAMS says, "It seems to me only a barbarous ear that prefers amidst, amongst, betwixt, whilst, to amid, among, between, while" In answer to him I give in- stances of the use by Milton of the first three condemned words. Milton cannot be accused justly of having a barbarous ear :

Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats.

Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades.

All amidst the gardens fair.

Amidst the hall Of that infernal court.

How oft amidst Thick clouds and dark.

Betwixt them lawns or level downs.

E. YARDLEY.

"ByoY" (9 th S. ii. 447). For a short technical account of "buoys" not men- tioning the word laid see M'Culloch's 'Dic- tionary of Commerce and Commercial Navigation,' 1880.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

EARL OF CARNWATH (8 th S. i. 163 ; 9 th S. ii. 447). Alexander Nesbit's 'Heraldic Plates,' ed. 1892, has the following concerning the second Earl of Carnwath:

"Robert, second earl, forfeited 25 Feb., 1645; oresent at battle of Naseby, 14 June, 1645 ; married Christian, daughter of Sir William Douglas, of Drumlanrig, and had issue (1) Gavin, third earl; 2) William, died 1647, unmarried."

No date is given for the death of Robert, second earl, nor is any second marriage men- tioned. W. E. LAYTON, F.S.A.

Cuddington Vicarage, Surrey.

Robert Dalzell, second Earl of Carnwath, married first Christian, daughter of Sir Wil- tn Douglas, of Howick, and secondly Catherine, daughter of John Abington, of 3owdeswell, co. Gloucester. The earl was >uried 21 June, 1654. The widow married in 661 William Watkins, and again, by licence 662-3, Dr. Samuel Collins. She was buried .s Countess Dowager of Carnwath, 12 Aug. 712, A. C,