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also the difference between the Irish and Welsh harp for heraldic purposes.

SIMPLEX.

So many able and exhaustive articles on harps, their introduction into Europe, more particularly into Ireland and Wales, have appeared in * N. & Q.,' that, to save your space, I would refer your correspondent to 2 nd S. iii. ; 3 rd S. xi. xii. ; 6 th S. xii. ; 7 th S. i. iv. vi. xi. ; 8 th S. vii. viii.

EVEEAKD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

"NIBS" AND "NEBS" (9 th S. iii. 365 ; iv. 95, 171, 271). There is an instance of the use of the word "nib" in a letter received here a week or two ago from a native merchant at Attraboe, near Ashanti. The postscript to the communication in question runs :

4< N.B. Please kindly supply me cotton samples asstd, Lavender water asstd, samples Woolen, papers, Envelopes, pens and nibs [the italics are my own], lebt pencils, and other goods asst samples, and your address, envelopes, papers and pice list to supply or show to the clients to choose what they prefere or like in order to make order with you then. I am not playing sirs. Give my best wishes to your intimate wife."

HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

COMIC DIALOGUE SERMON (9 th S. vii. 248). In J. W. Burgon's 'Letters from Rome (Murray, 1862) will be found (in Letter ix. p. 82) an amusing description of a similar dialogue which the author heard at San Vitale, in the course of a mission held in tha church. Both interlocutors were Jesuits, bu neither of them apparently was "dressed a a layman " in this case. The date was Ascensiontide, 1860. From Burgon's accoun the " dialogo " appears to be a frequent inci dent, though not an essential part, of a mission. S. G. HAMILTON.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

A Calendar of the Inner Temple Record*. Edite by F. A. Inderwick, K.C. Vol. III. (Sothera &Co.)

WITH the third volume Mr. Inderwick brings to close so much of his task of editing the Inner Temp] records as he at present contemplates. Whethe further labours, materials for which exist, will b undertaken we are at present unable to say. Wha is accomplished is of great value to the student and it is with that alone we have to deal. Of th three volumes, the first is occupied with th period from 21 Henry VII. to 45 Elizabeth (se 8 th S. x. 507) ; the second carries the record up t the Restoration, 12 Charles II. (see 9 th S. ii. 3

nd the third to the close of the Stuart dynasty id the accession of that of Hanover, 12 Anne, hough less turbulent, and to some extent less icturesque, than the proceedings previously chro- icled, those now presented in Mr. Inderwick's oncluding volume are neither less interesting nor 3ss important. The period of plague which de- leted the Temple is close at hand when his labours egin. It is followed by that of fire, which is not, nhappily, confined to the famous conflagration witnessed and depicted by Pepys. With no very ong interval come the rebellion of Monmouth and he Bloody Assize, upon the heels of which tread he Revolution of 1688 and the flight of the second fames, few signs of which are, however, traceable n the records. With plague and fire, and with ther events of scarcely inferior importance, Mr. nderwick deals in his introduction, which once lore forms a masterly survey of events. On the esidents in the Temple the plague seems to have ,xercised but little direct influence. Residents in he Inner Temple, like those in the other Inns of 3ourt, met the difficulty by flight. The only entries 665, 17 Charles II. : "Order that by reason of the ickness of the plague increasing, the reading for he next vacation shall not be kept, and therefore .he reader, his attendant, and the vacationers are lischarged." This done, barristers and students jetook themselves to the country houses of their riends, with the result that, though there are some burials of those who died in the Temple, the most noteworthy appears to be that of Henry Chilton, [.he Inner Temple steward, who was perhaps en- forcedly a resident (see Appendix I. p. 446). Some deaths of strangers who appear to have taken refuge in the Temple as a place of comparative security are mentioned in the same sad list. Thus, " Mistress
 * o be found are such as the following, under 17 J une,

Peare and Mr. Richard Peare, her sonne,

belonging to Mr. Peare, a barrister of the Middle Temple, were both buried in the churchyard, Sep- tember the first, 1665. Of the plague," and " Capt.

Gyfford, a stranger who dyed at Mr. Gyffbrd's chamber in the Middle Temple lane, was buried in the churchyard, September 30 th, 1665. Of the plague." No preparations whatever had been made to meet a calamity such as was the Great Fire, and though King's Bench Walk offered some opposition to its westward progress, and something was done by blowing up the houses with gunpowder an operation personally superintended oy the Duke of York, afterwards James II., a bencher of the Inn it was due to a change in the wind that the chapel of the Knights Templars was preserved. The fire broke out again on 6 September, 1666 ; and during subsequent years disastrous fires were of fairly con- stant occurrence. The alarm created by the great conflagration was followed by that caused by the appearance of the Dutch fleet in the Thames.

Contests between the Temple, which claimed to be extra-parochial, and the City were of frequent occurrence, and the resistance of the Templars to the efforts of the Lord Mayor to assert his right within the precincts of the Temple led to some stirring and dramatic scenes, the account of which constitutes perhaps the most inspiriting portion of the annals. It is in connexion with the resistance of the barristers, who wore swords under their gowns, to the attempt of the Lord Mayor to enter with his sword held erect that the name first comes forward of Mr. (afterwards Lord) " Jeffryes." He was one of the gentlemen of the Inner Temple sum-