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"A fashionable chapel in London was not suited to his retiring habits [Gary was at one time reader at Berkeley Chapel]; he therefore gladly availed himself of the offer of the curacy and lectureship of Chi s wick, of which parish the Rev. Thomas Frere Bowerbank was vicar. This made his removal to the sphere of his duties requisite ; he therefore purchased a house at Chiswick which had formerly been the residence of Sir James Thornhill and his son-in-law Hogarth. Here he fixed his residence in the summer of the year 1814."' Mem. of Gary,'

Hogartli was admitted as a copyholder of the manor of Chiswick 13 September, 1749, and his predecessor was G. A. Ruperty, clerk, who was admitted 15 July, 1721. Mrs. Hogarth lived in the house in Hogarth Lane, Chiswick, until 1789. JOHN HEBB.

14, Spring Gardens, S.W.

INTRODUCTION OF THE EPISCOPAL WIG. It is stated in All the Year Round, 22 March, 1873, and in other publications, that Arch- bishop Tillotson is said to have been the first spiritual peer who wore a wig ; but this is not quite certain. There can be no doubt that the spiritual bench gradually followed the usage of laymen. It would be interest- ing to learn on what authority this state- ment is made.

In the portrait of Archbishop Tillotson at Clare College, Cambridge, that ecclesiastic is represented in his episcopal robes and wear- ing his natural hair. He was in early life a Fellow of this college.

WILLIAM ANDREWS.

Hull Royal Institution.

CROSIER AND PASTORAL STAFF. (See ante 1 p. 231.) Your correspondent LORD MELVILLE writes as if he thought that the term "crosier" denoted something different from a pastoral staff namely, an archbishop's cross. But it has been shown over and over again that to call an archbishop's cross a crosier is a modern blunder, and that both "crosier" and "pastoral staff" are terms properly applied to a bishop's crook. I may refer to an article on the use of these terms in Archceologia, lii. 709-32, and to a letter in the Church Times of 22 March from the Rev. G. S. Tyack, who appears to have come to the right conclusion by an independent investiga- tion on historical lines. He also calls atten- tion to the ritual blunder not yet exploded, after all that has been written about it that an archbishop should hold his cross, instead of the episcopal crosier, in the act of blessing. The rubrics in the Pontificals and the unbroken Roman tradition are quite con- clusive on this point, and pictorial repre- sentations symbolical, and not realistic, which, however, could mislead no one at the

time when they were executed should carry no weight in a question of this sort. A repre- sentation of an archbishop with a cross in his hand is as purely symbolical as is a picture of St. Denys walking about in his pontifical vestments with his mitred head in his hands, or one of St. Cuthbert in bed with nothing on but his mitre. If archbishops sometimes carried their own crosses, or still do so, out of church, that is another matter. J. T. F. Winterton, Doncaster.

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"COMPLAIN." The 'H.E.D. ; gives as the earliest quotation for this word in the sense of "to groan or creak from overstraining," used of a ship, the London Gazette of 1722. The following is much older (1608) : "For she complained already in many places, she being a very old ship" (Danvers, 'Letters received by the East India Company from its Servants in the East,' i. 19). W. CROOKE

Langton House, Charlton Kings.

LITERARY ERRORS. The Onlooker is a three- penny paper expensive enough, in all con- science. I have just picked up a specimen copy of it dated 30 March. Opening casually at p. 649, I read the following :

"An Oxford undergraduate sends an effusion, original I think, which shows some knowledge of feminine nature, is [sic] apt at this time of the year to turn longingly in the direction of Paris : Mrs. Gill Was very ill,

And nought would her recover, But she must see The Tuillerie, And wander in the Louver."

Shade of Theodore Hook ! can Oxford under- grads thus easily hoax unliterary editors? Just half an hour previously I had made the