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ilip O'Sullivan Beare, 'Hist. Cathol. jr.,' torn. iii. 1. ii. c. 6, anent the Primate, information concerning our patriotic isman can be obtained from perusing my ? rticles in the back numbers of ' N. & Q. i nder his name.

JOSEPH HENKY McGovERN. Liverpool.

DEAD FOLD (9 th S. iii. 68, 153). This is clearly a member of a family well known in Wiltshire as including " dead hedge," " dead roof," "dead pen" all dead because made of dead materials. The replies at the last reference are unsatisfactory. MR. TATE'S explanation, illustrated by an original inter- pretation of " dead-heat," lacks authority. MR. PEACOCK'S reference to "dead wall" that is, a monotonous wall without break or relief is, I think, scarcely germane.

COLLINGBOURNE.

This subject has involved the term "dead wall," which, in my youngest days, meant a continuous wall without variation, i.e., with- out any opening, as doors or windows ; gener- ally, of course, a mere boundary wall, such as surrounds old-fashioned college grounds at Oxford, &c. We also speak of ' r dead-lights."

A. H.

CHURCH OF ALLHALLOWS THE GREAT,

LONDON (9 th S. iii. 388). The following extract

from the City Press of 12 September, 1896,


 * gives the whereabouts of the beautiful

interior fittings of the late church :

" To the church which now serves the Allhallows' parishioners St. Michael Paternoster Royal, on Jollege Hill were taken the organ case, the stone statues of Moses and Aaron, formerly affixed to the Allhallows' reredos, some of the wood carving, and the curious figure Charity from the front of the organ gallery. To St. Margaret, Lothbury, have gone the magnificent screen, the pulpit and sound- ng-board, the sanctuary rails which were saved 'rom ignominious sale only by the generous zeal of ]anon Ingram and the fine brass candelabra, whose candles now shed their light through electric 'lobes. Farther afield literally afield may be ound the communion table, which is represented n the illustration. They who would discover it nust journey to Parliament Hill, Gospel Oak, to he parish of Allhallows, North St. Pancras, whose lerrnanent church is now being built partly from unds derived from the sale of the site of Allhallows n Thames Street."

The Daily News of 18 July, 1894, contains i brief but interesting description of the late ihurch, and some of the items named in the ibove account.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

Most of the carving formerly in this church emains in the City. The magnificent chancel

screen and the sounding-board have been erected at St. Margaret, Lothbury (behind the Bank), in relatively the same positions as they occupied at Allhallows'. The pulpit and some twisted rails of Allhallows' are also at St. Margaret's, but are not yet utilized. The organ case, a curious figure of Charity with other carving, and the stone statues of Moses and Aaron, are at St. Michael Paternoster Royal, College Hill, Cannon Street. Both churches are open at midday. There is no ground for attributing the carving to Gibbons, but there are various substantial reasons for believing it to be English, not foreign. There is a monograph on the whole matter in MS. in the hands of Canon Ingram. It is too long for publication, but I hope to rewrite it in an available form at some future time.

ALLEN S. WALKER. Adelaide House, John Street, Hampstead.

CURIOUS MISQUOTATION (9 fch S. ii. 205, 312, 454). MR. BRESLAR, who seems to have been misled by the statements of some inaccurate commentators on the Gospels, has called the words of Jesus on the cross, which are given in Aramaic (the Hebrew of his age) by the Evangelists Matthew and Mark, "a mis- quotation." Now they were not intended to be a quotation, but an interpretation. It is not said nor implied by the writers that a quotation is given, and they certainly knew the meaning of that term. In fact, Jesus as little wished to quote the exact words of David as we wish to quote the Old English version, "Min God, min God, hwi forlete thu me?" when we read, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me ? "

As to why Jesus of Nazareth used Aramaic in this case, Chrysostom replies (Oxford translation) :

' He saith, 'Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani ?' even

to his last hour bearing witness to the Old Testa- ment, and not simply a cry from the Prophet, but also in Hebrew, so as to be plain and intelligible to them."

T. C. GlLMOUR. Ottawa, Canada.

" Gow" (9 th S. iii. 386). My grandfather, a Fife farmer, and one of the closest and most systematic observers of atmospheric varia- tions that I have known, never failed to note and comment on the appearance of this phenomenon, which he called a " weather- aw." He was always up and about the place and the grounds before other people were astir, and his early habits brought him both meteorological experience and a storeof health and strength that sufficed for a long life. When he sat down to breakfast with the family,