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 294 NGTES AND QUERIES. [9"' S. VI-0012 13. 1900- to be kegt by the officers mynystres and thenh’itants t-herof, y thassent and aggrement of the seyd ofiic’s mynystrcs and inh’itants ordeyned and made certeyn ordy’nces to be vsed and fermely to be obs’ued amongs theym w’in the seyd Town from hensforth.”-I. Zil. A summary of the business of the Council follows. There appears to have been an earlier passing vIsIt to Shrewsbury on the way to Oswestry recorded in '1‘aylor’s MS. preserved in the Shrewsbury School library, under date 1475: “This yeare the lord Marches and lord Rytche went throu h Shrewsbewe to Oswesterye.” But in the late Rev. . A. Leighton’s transcript of that MS. (Trans. Shrop`. Arch. Soc. iii. 239) the passage reads : “ T is yeare the Iiord Marckes and t e Lord Rytche went throughe Shrews- berye to_Oswesterye.” I have not had an Opportunity of comparing the original with t ese different readings, and know not which 18 correct. WILLIAM PHILLIPS. Canonbury, Shrewsbury. HOLYWELL IN HUNTS (9'»" S. vi. 210).-In Lewis’s ‘Topographical Dictionary of En - land’ we read that the garish church, whigm stands upon a hill, is de icated to the honour of St. J o n the Baptist, and that at the foot of the hill is a spring of clear and excellent water, known as the Holy Well-one that formerly was held in the greatest veneration. HARRY HEMs. Fair Park, Exeter. There is Moyns Hall in Essex, near Steeple Bumpstead, a fine old sixteenth- century house, owned for many centuries b the Gent family. May not the Moynes Hall referred to by COOIILE SHELL have some connexion with this family? _ GEORGE UNWIN. Woking, Surrey. PLANTAGENET CHAIR (9°*' S. vi. 150, 233).- To the best of my belief there is still an old chair in the vestry of York Minster that is hallowed by tradition as having been used at a coronation, or at more than one. After its fashion was made the chair occupied by the present archbishop when he sits within the sacrarium. The seat mentioned by your correspondent may have been another and an earlier copy, or a genuine piece of old furniture ejected from the Minster in less watchful days than these, and possessed with as clear a title to traditional honours as the chair which is left behind. Gent wrote, circa 1730, of “ the Coronation Chair in which several Kings have been crown’d” (p. 55), and a modern ‘ Practical Guide to the City of York and its Cathedral’ states that it is “said to be as old as_ the Heptarchy” (p. 36). Murray takes a milder view, referring to the relic as “ an ancient ‘coronation (installation 7) chair,’ apparently of the fifteenth century ” (‘Handboo to the Northern Cathedrals,’ i. 85). ST. SWITHIN. “A MACHE AND A IIoRsEsuOE ARE BOTH ALIKE ” (9°*‘ S. vi.:l27, 215).-Surely Jamieson entered this in the wrong place, and that_ is all. It is a mild joke ; amache isa match, ae., a pair, and each stocking of a pair is like the other. And horseshoes are also alike, if meant for the same horse. The only difference is that “ every customer takes two pair,” as the poet says. WALTER W. SKEAT. SUPPRESSION OF THE ANGLICAN BOOK or COMMON PRAYER (9"" S. vi. 205).-MR.wILLIAM PAYNE’S note on this subject seems in one point to require elucidation since it is not clear how an ordinance for “ the more effectual utting in execution the Directory” should he intituled “An ordinance for taking away the Booke of Common Prayer, and or the establishing and putting in execution of the Directory.’ For so runs the title of the ordi- nance Of 3 January, 1644 (= 1645) ; while the subsequent ordinance “for the more effectual putting in execution” was not passed until 23 August, 1645. It strikes me that the copy of the Directory which MR. PAYNE had before him must have contained the ordinance of 23 Apgust (with its title-page) in place of the o inance of 3 Januar, which was that originally put forth at tlie beginning of the Directory, and referred to in its table of contents. The ordinance of 23 August may very we11_have been substituted for the former In copies of the Directory issued after that date. The ordinance of 3 January is a mild enact- ment, very different in tone from its successor. It begins:- “ The Lords and Commons assembled in Parlia- ment, taking into consideration the manifold Incon- veniences that have arisen lg' the Book of Common- Prayer in this Kingdom, an resolving, according to their Covenant, to reform Religion according to the Vord of God and the Exam Ile of the best Reformed Churches I~Iave Consulted with the Reverend, Pious and Learned Divines,” &c. In other words, with the Westminster Assembl. It then proceeds to repeal In detail ali the Acts of Uniformity of Ed- ward VI. and Elizabeth, orders that the Book of Common Prayer “shall not remain, or be from henceforth used in an Church. Chapel or Place of Publique Worship,” and enjoms the use in its place of “the Directory for