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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[9 th IS. V. JAN. 6, 1900.

singing-ornamentation that does not affect the question of organ accompaniment. MR. DAVEY is anxious to learn when psalm- singing became general, and says there is no warrant for it in the liturgy. The Bodleian Library possesses the following book, published in 1566: "The whole Booke of Psalmes collected into English Metre by

Sternhold Newlye set foorth and allowed

to be soong of the people together, in Churches, before and after Morning and Evening prayer: as also before and after the Sermon, and moreover in private houses." Another edition, dated 1667, contains the words "Newly set forth and allowed to be song in all Churches."

I quoted plenty of evidence of the destruc- tion of cathedral organs, and wait for proof of their smallness and adaptability for taverns. I again ask the name of the French traveller relied on by MR. DAVEY in support of his opinion. The specimens of old organ cases still existing do not lend colour to the notion. The beautiful case in old Radnor Parish Church I have seen, and can vouch that it is far too big for erection in a tavern. Let me add to the list of organs destroyed that of Wrexham Church, a build- ing at present attracting considerable atten- tion. 'A Gazeteer of England and Wales, temp. Charles II., says : " At Wrexham is y e rarest steeple in y e 3 nations, and hath had y e fayrest organes in Europe, till y e late wars in Charles y e I st his raigne. Whose Parlia- ment forces pulled him and them downe with other ceremonial ornaments." Will MR DAVEY tell us where his lists of publishec music are to be seen 1

WILLIAM H. CUMMINGS.

'AN APOLOGY FOR CATHEDRAL SERVICE (9 th S. iv. 419, 523). This charming book- charming to all who rightly appreciate English cathedral worship was written bj John Peach, librarian of the Bristol City Library. In one of the catalogues of J Russell Smith it may be found wrongly ascribed to Richard Clark, lay vicar-chora of Westminster Abbey. I had the pleasur in 1846 of meeting Mr. Peach at Bristol, am of being shown over the library by him. H was a man of much reading and great taste with many old-world ideas, and much dislik of new- world inventions, however useful. In my copy of his delightful book I hav inserted a four-page leaflet which he gav me, * A New Year's Gift to the Choristers o Bristol Cathedral,' signed " A Friend to Youn c Choristers," which he issued on 1 January 1840, and which ia such in its devou

haracter as would be looked for from him. have also, by the gift of a friend, a fine ndia-proof impression of his book-plate, ngraved by H. S. Storer, giving an interior iew of the City Library. In 1844 he pub- ished an edition of Sir T. Browne's * Religio ledici ' and * Christian Morals,' and a short liographical notice of him is consequently md complete edition, published in 1881, where it is stated that reach was born in 785 and died in 1861. W. D. MACRAY.
 * iven by Dr. Greenhill in his most scholarly

"To PRIEST "(9 th S. iv. 514). I have con- tantly heard the word "priested" used ^ by clergymen in Warwickshire. H. K.

Many generations of clergy have used he word " priested " in the way which seems a novelty to your correspondent. To " bishop " was used in an analogous sense so far back as Latimer. See what ought to have been seen-the ' H.E.D.' W. C. B.

Is not MR. MARCHANT too sensitive? If " bishoped " (Herrick) and " bishoping " (Ant. Trollope), why not "deaconed " and " priested" 1 All three verbs are certainly in use and are found in big dictionaries. C. S. WARD.

W cotton St. Lawrence, Basingstoke.

' PICKWICKIAN STUDIES ' (9 th S. iv. 492, 525). The corrections on p. 493 still need correc- tion. Mr. Fitzgerald is perfectly right in talking of the blue turban of Mrs. Nupkins. Dickens only made it red later, as MR. MAR- SHALL will see if he looks at an edition of 1837, or the "Rochester Edition" of 1899 (Methuen & Co.), just published. Is it suffi- cient to explain that Sam Weller was called one of Frederick William's big grenadiers? Hardly, perhaps ; but this is all that the "ex- planation " offered comes to. HIPPOCLIDES.

BOXING DAY (9 th S. iv. 477). Among seven examples in the O.E. Pottery Department of the British Museum of the mediaeval globular earthenware thrift-box only one is un frac- tured. It is with exceeding rarity that one is encountered on the London mediaeval " level " by the spade of the excavator, and when one is found it is almost certain to be found fractured, a condition in which it was necessary to place it to realize its contents. When such a receptacle was put to the use of collecting small presents for Christinas, this money-pot was a " Christmas-box," and the contents were spent, or begun to be spent, on Boxing Day. Aubrey, in his 'Natural History of Wiltshire' (circa 1670), speaks of a pot in which Roman denarii were found as resembling in appearance an