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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vn. FEB. is, 1901.

always regretted the removal of an ol entrance gateway with a porter's room through which one passed into the forecpur paved in geometric pattern with two kind; of stone of differing tint. When the entrance door and the garden door at the back stooc open in summer time, it was pleasant tc catch a glimpse suggesting the terracec garden beyond the partly paved court at the back. There was an interesting classic summer - house built against the garden boundary (the wall of the south cloister walk), directly opposite the doorways of the house an ideal place to sit in and I regret that this feature was also removed.

The external accessories of this house, linking it so well with the past, seemed to me to give it an additional interest, but I suppose the paved forecourt must remain as it was. H. SIRE.

HUMAN EEMAINS FOUND ON ROOD-LOFT STAIRS AT MACHEN, MONMOUTHSHIRE. I quote from the Echo of 16 October, 1900 :

" During the renovation of the ancient church at Machen, near Newport, some plaster was removed from the west side of the building and two built- up doorways were disclosed. On pulling down the masonry, stairways leading to the rood-loft were discovered, and within the space two human skele- tons were found. The church records do not throw any light on the matter, except that for over 200 years nothing seems to have been known of the existence of the stairways."

Some further corroboration of this rather strange discovery would be useful.

W. B. GERISH. Bishop's Stortford.

MEMORIAL TO JOHN RUSKIN. A memorial to John Ruskin has been placed in the church of St. Paul, Herne Hill. It consists of a tablet of coloured marble, with inscription, sur- mounted by a medallion portrait in white marble by Mr. Brindley. The inscription is as follows :

"John Ruskin, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., born in Bloomsbury, Feb. 8, 1819. Brought to '28, Herne Hill by his parents in 1823. He dwelt in Herne and Denmark Hill for fifty years. His later days were chiefly lived upon the shore of Coniston Lake, yet under the roof where he grew up he had a home in this parish to the end, the house having passed into the possession of his cousin and adopted daughter Joan and her husband Arthur Severn Died at Brantwood, Jan. 20, 1900. Buried at Conis- ton, Jan. 25, 1900. ' The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are the words of masters of assemblies.' "

N. S. S.

HANDEL : A RELIC. A precious relic of Handel was shown by Mr. Shedlock last Saturday at the meeting of the Incorporated

Society of Musicians. The relic is a book of harpsichord pieces, written by Handel's friend Johann Krieger, organist at Zittau for more than half a century, and published at Nuremberg in 1699. The copy was pre- sented to Handel by the composer. It is one of the earliest examples of music printing extant, and was evidently greatly cherished by Handel. Mr. Shedlock traced its history, showing how it was given by the great com- poser as a rare gift to his friend Bernhard Granville, brother of Mrs. Delany, from whom it descended to Major Bevil Granville, who himself lent it to Mr. Shedlock. On the title-page it is described as " Anmuthige Chavili Terburg"; and at the end of the preface, which is in the old German character, are the words " Zittau, 20th December, 1699 Christ year running to an end." N. S. S.

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Now that a -eprint of the Book of Common Prayer has again become necessary, it would be inter- esting to know why Messrs. Eyre & Spottis- woode have in very recent years altered the punctuation of the Lord's Prayer. In all Ider issues the King's Printers and the Oxford and Cambridge Presses alike printed : Thy will be done in earth, As it is in leaven." For some reason or other the first named now print: "Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven." The initial capital, vhich in the Prayer Book marks a pause ind a fresh lead by the minister, is aban- doned m the word "as," while the point i placed after "done," instead of after earth. The result, when the minister i reading or singing from a five -year -old ervice book, while the choir and con- gregation

are provided with new books resembles the confusion which is caused when the clergy ignore (as nine-tenths of them do) the same pauses marked by capitals m the confession in the Communion Service in the latter the capital initials do not all - points, and it is hard to say for what

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A. T. M.

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