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say " in a vault " ; eight on the west aisle wall ditto ; one, " by virtue of a Faculty from the Bishop of Winchester" (1817), "beneath this monument"; another " in the east vault" near the altar; one "in the vault of the Earls of Beverley beneath" (1848). When I wrote before I was not thinking of interments, but of MR. ARNOTT'S words (9 th S. vi. 277) that "churches in England have always and by continuous use in the Church of England from early times, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day been placed east and west," and his inference as to " the Roman Mission." If anybody will take a walk from Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, along to Holy Trinity, Euston Road, seeking for the true Church by orientation, he will fetch up at the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Seymour Place, which alone, of the many places of worship so far as I know in that direct line, orientates properly.

IBAGUE.

" COLPEARA " (9 th S. vii. 249). I quote the following from ' A Week at the Lizard,' by the Rev. C. A. Johns (London, S.P.C.K., 1848), pp. 64-5 :

" A singular custom exists in the parish of Lande- wednack, which seems to have reference to a time when the fast of Lent was more rigidly observed than it is at present. On Shrove Tuesday the poor children, from the ages of six to twelve, perambulate the parish begging for Colperra, probably an old Cornish word ; but whatever be its meaning, they expect to receive eatables or halfpence. As few refuse to give, they collect during the day a tolerable booty in the shape of money, eggs, buns, apples, &c. The custom has existed from time immemorial, but none of the inhabitants are acquainted with its origin. Tradition asserts that the Lizard was at some very remote period colonized by Spanish emigrants. There is still something very Spanish about the features and complexion of many of the inhabitants, and there are one or two names which indicate the same extraction. Possibly the custom alluded to above may have been introduced from the Continent.

" Since writing the above, I have been told that in the parishes of Marystowe and Lamerton, in Devonshire, the children assemble in large parties on the same day, and go from door to door singing : Pancake, pancake ! a penny for my labour : I see by the string there 's a good dame within, I see by the latch I shall have a good catch Give me a penny, and away I be go."

THOMAS J. JEAKES. Tower House, New Hampton.

We have the same custom in my little native town of Zerbst, in the Duchy of Anhalt, where the great Catherine II of Russia was born in 1729. On Ash Wednesday the boys of the lower classes (as to the girls I am not sure) go begging around the place and it is mostly eggs and cracknels (Fasten-

brezeln, Aschermittwoch Brezeln) they receive. The cracknels are strung, and the string hangs down from their necks. The children are armed with Aescherruten, branches of fir or pine. With them they beat some only sym- bolically, but others, less reserved, rather strongly the people they visit ; sie dschern


 * ab, i.e., cleanse them from tneir sins. A

strange coincidence between the custom ob- served at the Lizard and that at Zerbst is this : the begging is only done in the fore- noon ; and the custom does not prevail, so far as my knowledge goes, in the other towns of Anhalt. DR. G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

LATIN MOTTO (9 th S. vi. 469 ; vii. 12, 312). Surely "Lustrum sine filliatione" is dog Latin, from fullinatio, formed wrongly from fullpnia (ars\ and means polish without artificial cleaning. HERBERT A. STRONG.

OLD LONDON TAVERNS (9 th S. vii. 69, 154,236). There was another " Temple Coffee-house," perhaps the predecessor of that in Devereux Court, in the days of Queen Anne in Clifford's Inn Passage. See John Ashton's * Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne' (1897), p. 452.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

SARGENT FAMILY (9 th S. vii. 329). There is a pedigree of this family in Burke's k History of the Commoners' (vol. iv. p. 123), 1838, then represented by Charlotte Sargent, relict of John Sargent, Esq., of Wool - Lavington. Wool-Lavington is near Petworth in Sussex, and Emily Sargent, the eldest of his surviving daughters, married Samuel Wilberforce, after- wards Bishop of Oxford, and then of Win- chester. They are both buried in the church- yard of that parish. The arms of Sargent are given : Arg., a chevron between three dolphins naiant sable. The estate came to Bishop Wilberforce in right of his wife as heir. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

I do not know the family in question, but the surname is common enough. There was a tobacconist of the name in the Western Road, Hove, Brighton, 1876-7, and there is a shoemaker so called in Heath Road, Twicken- ham. THOMAS J. JEAKES.

"ANYONE," "EVERYONE" (9 th S. vii. 205, tion that " there is less need to distinguish between ' any body ' and * anybody ' than i between ' any one ' and ' anyone.' " There is I as wide a difference between anybody and any body found, say, in the water as between life and death. There are also other obvious
 * 294, 358). I cannot assent to C. C. B.'s asser-