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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vn. FEB. 23, 1901.

MR. SOUTHWELL desires the equivalentof the same day of 1543 in the present year 1901). I submit that this analogy suggests the formula, "The day after Corpus Christi Day in 1543 " having been ascertained to be Fri- day, 25 May, 25-13 = 12, or, in other words, we arrive at the fact that the equivalent " morrow " for the present year is Saturday, 12 May. Should MR. SOUTHWELL desire to know the equivalent of the morrow of the actual holiday in this year, Corpus Christi being Thursday, 6 June, morrow Friday, 7 June, by the same formula 7 June- 13 = 25 (May), we arrive at Saturday, 25 May, 1901, or, by an odd coincidence, the same day as in 1543 itself. GNOMON.

Temple.

MOON LORE (9 th S. vii. 27, 96). I wonder no correspondent has given you the German "saws" viz., " Abnehmend," when the moon wanes, from the outer curve of the script A, and " Zu nehmend," when it waxes, from the outer curve of the script 3. I have never had any other guide to the condition of the moon. EDWARD HERON-ALLEN.

THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S FUNERAL (9 th S. vii. 89). IBAGUE says that the Archbishop of Canterbury held his cross while pronouncing the benediction. Is this a modern "use'"? I ask because, having often attended functions in which Cardinal Manning took part, I never saw him carry his cross. It was always carried before him I have two or three times carried it myself and held before him while he gave the blessing with his right hand, his left holding the pastoral staff or crook. The archiepiscopal cross (unlike the processional cross) is carried with the figure thereon facing the archbishop, as is mentioned by Thackeray in his account of the second funeral of Napo- leon I. It may be noted that in mass and office of the dead, whether at funerals or not, no blessing at all is given. This is a vestige of earlier times, as the blessing now given at the end of mass does not appear until the tenth century. To this day the Carthusians omit the blessing and the prayer preceding it at all masses. GEORGE ANGUS

St. Andrews, N.B.

P.S. I am aware that in windows or pictures archbishops are represented as hold- ing their crosses, but was this pre-Reformation practice? [ have read that St. Thomas a Beckett took his cross from the cross-bearer just before going for the last time into the cathedral, but was this usual ?

If the Pall Mall Gazette used the word
 * crosier " properly, as meaning the pastoral

staff, the archbishop was probably quite right in giving the blessing " crosier in hand." But if his grace held his archiepiscopal cross, still miscalled a " crosier " by some, he was quite wrong. Whether an archbishop should use the crosier outside his own diocese I am not very sure. J. T. F.

Durham.

JOHN BRIGHT OR ' CRANFORD' (9 th S. vi. 445 ; vii. 93). In to-day's (2 February) Newcastle Chronicle the enclosed paragraph occurs :

" A characteristic story is told of the late William Ord, of Nunnykirk, who never took much pains with his dress. When in London on one occasion, a friend of his asked him why he wore so shabby a coat. ' Oh,' said Mr. Ord, ' nobody knows me here.' The same friend, meeting him in Newcastle sub- sequently, and seeing that he had not changed his attire, asked him the same question. ' Oh,' was the reply, 'everybody knows me here !'"

Mr. Orde (not Ord) died in 1842.

K. WELFORD.

SERJEANT HAWKINS (3 rd S. iii. 428 ; 4 th S. i. 295, 378 ; 9 th S. vi. 188, 250, 274, 371, 492). It seems that the Serjeant's father was at any rate not John, second son of Sir Richard Hawkins (knighted 1687), named at the fourth reference ; for this knight's will, dated 4 August and proved 12 November, 1687, P.C.C. 138 Foot, shows that his son John was still a minor in 1687 (cf. Foster, 'Alumni Oxon., 1500-1714,' p. 676, No. 22). The will names Marcham (Berks) as the knight's birth- place, and mentions his father-in-law Richard Racket, sons-in-law Mathew Bluck and Richard Webb, sons Richard, John, and Mathew, daughter Jane, and other persons (cf. Harl. Soc. pub., vol. xxiii. p. 66; vol. xxiv. pp. 165, 175). As the knight by his will en- tailed his 'lands in Oxfordshire"upon his sons successively, he is possibly identical with the " Sir Richard Hawkins, Knt., of Middle Aston, Oxfordshire," named in Gutch, Wood's * Col- leges and Halls' (Oxford, 1786), appendix, p. 324, as being father of Richard Hawkins, of St. Edmund Hall (cf. Foster, ubi supra. No. 37). H. 6.

OLD LONDON TAVERNS (9 th S. vii. 69). John Diprose, in his * Account of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes in 1734' (London, 1868), says: "This street [Hollowel Street] runs up to the May Pole in the Strand, where is 'Five Bell Tavern,' which is a thorough- fare into the Wich Street, and near it is a small alley called Sallett's Alley " (i. 288).

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

BOCA CHICA (9 th S. vii. 69). Boca chica means "small mouth." It is exotic, being