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 114 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. VL AUG. 11. woo. duction to ' Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant '(Hakluyt Society, 1893). Q. V. The Mayor, Constables, and Company of Merchants of the Staple of England were still in existence in 1887. In that year the company brought an action against the Bank of England, and a report of the case is to be found in the 'Law Reports,' 21 O.B. Div., 160. T £ M. S. SOURCES OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (8"1 S. xii. 308).— Magis arnica Platonis. Perhaps this ought to be Amicus Plato, magis aniica veritas, which is to be found in the 'Adagia' of Erasmus and others, Francofurti, 1670, under 'Amicitia,' p. 48. The explanation is as follows :— d.VAa "Istud sou proverbium, sou apothegma, innuit niillum hominem tarn charum uubia ease debere, ut in illiua gratiatn veritas ullo supprimatur modo."— Galenus. The proverb appears again, under ' Libertas Veritas,' p. 453, as follows :— Licet Plato amicus, magis tamen arnica veritas. A passage from Lactantius, lib. iii. (' De Falsa Sapientia '), cap. 13, is cited :— " Sciant igitur, errare se, qui philosophiam putant esse sapientiam. Noil trahautur auctoritate cuius- quam ; sed veritati potius faveant, et accedant. (1 take the passage from the text of Lac- tantius, edited by Servatius Oallaeus, 1660. It is slightly different in the ' Adagia.') ROBERT PlERPOINT. St. Austin's, Warriugton. "MR. ATTORNEY" (9th S. v. 474).— If MR. ROBBINS carries his researches to earlier dates he will find this style in use in the reign of Elizabeth, e. </,, in the ' Commons' Journals.' i. 65 :— "1562, Feb. 16.. .Mr. Serjeant Carus and Mr. Attorney brought from the Lords five Bills for Restitution in Blood of divers Persona." Q. V. QUOTATIONS IN GREEN'S 'SHORT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE ' (6th S. ix. 28. 52).— In 1884 the authorship of only one of the two quotations was, so far as I can trace, given. Can some one now furnish the name of the author of the other 1 It runs as follows :— " ' In every house,' says a shrewd English ob- server of the time, ' strangers who arrived in the morning were entertained till eventide with the talk of maidens and the music of the harp." "—P. 155. MAUKIOE BUXTON FORMAN. G.P.O., Cape Town. TITLE AND AUTHOR OF BOOK WANTED (9th S. vi. 67).—The short story, by G. II. Sims, entitled ' My Dog Pickle,' which may be tound in ' The Dagonet Reciter and Reader,' appears to be the one inquired for. The dog is not a fox-terrier, but, to quote the author, "her mamma was a member of the famous Skye family and her papa connected by birth with the black-and-tans." E. G. B. Barnsley. STONE SEDILIA IN MEDIEVAL CHURCHES (9th S. v. 457).—The use of the fourth seat, in cases where there are four stone sedilia side by side, is sometimes said to be for the assistant priest (mresbyter assistens) to sit in at pontifical high mass. This would be in- telligible in cathedral or abbey churches, but less so in collegiate or parish churches (of which your correspondent gives some examples), where pontifical masses, except at occasional confirmations, would be of rare occurrence. However, I give the ex- planation for what it is worth. Another view is that the fourth seat was meant for the ceremoniarius. OSWALD HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B. Oxford. In writing on 'The Internal Arrange- ment of Churches previous to the Reforma- tion ' (' Goth. Eccl. Arch.,' tenth edition, 1859, chap, x.) Bloxam gives some interest- ing and valuable notes on sedilia. He cites examples of one to five seats, and mentions those instances of quadruple sedilia given by J. C. and also another one — the Mayors Chapel, Bristol. He states that quintuple sedilia are very rare, but that an example may be seen at the conventual church of Southwell, Nottingham. I have read that in Maidstone Church, too, the sedilia are quintupled. As a possible answer to J. C.'s question, I quote the following from ' The Appropriate Character of Church Architecture,'1 by Rev. Geo. Ayliffe Poole (1842), pp. 152-3 :+- 'A single remarkable instance position that when the number of otncia men were not enough to fill the sedilia have been occupied by movable statues. field, near Shrewsbury, where there are tl reesedilia, a figure of ' Our Lady of Pity' sat in on s of them ; and another figure not fixed to the seat was in the same church withiu the memory of some persons." JOHN T PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire. A correspondent in ' N. & Q.,' 2nd stated that the sedilia seldom exc compartments: all were canopied seats were differently elevated. • the sup- ing clergy- hey might At Battle- S. v. 311, eeded six but the here are