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when and by whom the use of the mitre was restored in the Church of England. Will any of your readers enlighten me on this point ? H. BASKERVILLE.

Crowsley Park, Henley-on-Thames.

[Have you consulted Woodward's ' Ecclesiastical Heraldry'?]

CROSSING KNIVES AND FORKS. Eighty years ago people in the State of Vermont at the end of a meal used to lay down knives and forks on their plates so as to cross each other at right angles, and thus formed the figure of the Greek cross. Is such a custom now existent in England or elsewhere ? It is described by Browning's lines :

When he's finished his refection,

Knife and fork he never lays Crosswise, to my recollection, As I do in Jesus' praise.

How far in the past can this usage be traced 1 Was a spoon so placed before forks were known? The modern fashion of leaving knife and fork side by side across the middle of a plate has been thought to date from the French Revolution, and to be a petty speci- men of manifold endeavours to abolish Christian usages. What evidence is there in favour of this opinion 1

JAMES D. BUTLER.

Madison, Wis.

[Our American correspondent drew attention to this custom 7 th S. iv. 89. Some information appeared on p. 177 of the same volume.]

" LUNGETE." By a warrant of 20 June, 1332 (Exchequer, Treasury of the Receipt, War- rants for Issues, bundle la, No. 712), Edward III. ordered

" vn Auge de bone graundeure pour baigner nostre file & vne petite cuue lungete.

The last word may possibly be hingete. In either case what is its meaning ? Q. V.

JOHN FOWKE, GOVERNOR OF DROGHEDA. He was a colonel in Ireland under Lord Deputy Fleetwood, and M.P. for cos. Meath and Louth in the Cromwellian Parliaments of 1654-5 and 1656-8. Any particulars of him will oblige. Was he related to Alder- man John Fowke, Lord Mayor of London in 1652-3? W. D. PINK.

SCOTT QUERY. May I ask through your columns the authorship of these lines?

Such was our fallen father's fate,

Yet better than mine own ; He shared his exile with his mate,

I 'in banished forth alone.

The verse is at the head of the twenty-third chapter of ' The Bride of Lammermoor ' and attributed to Waller, but not in the original

editions. I cannot find it in his poems. Can any one help me 1 F. G. NORTON.

' THE CRANIAD.' Who wrote ' The Craniad, or Spurzheim Illustrated,' a poem in 12mo, published by Cadell in the former half of last century? C. K.

BALLANTYNE AND LOCKHART. Were there any reviews, at the time, of the Ballantyne v. Lockhart pamphlets of 1839 1 R. S.

" BEN-CLERK." Caryl on Job iv. 18 (ed. 1671, p. 137) has this passage :

" And if a man that hath not only some smatter- ing of learning and knowledge, but is a professed Scholer, be looked upon as ignorant, compared with the Ben-clerks and great Scholers of the World ; is it any wonder that Angels should be called fools, in reference to the infinite wisdom of God ? "

Is this a misprint for Beau-clerk^ or can the combination be otherwise explained 1

C. DEEDES.

Brighton.

THOMAS WILLIAMSON, ENGRAVER. Can any information be afforded me about Thomas Williamson, who engraved several pictures after George Morland in the earliest years of last century? He is not named in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' in Bryan, or in Redgrave s ' Dictionary of Artists of the British School '. but I believe I have somewhere seen it stated that he came to London from Liverpool.

I am sorry to hear that there is no prospect of a new edition of Redgrave's 'Dictionary' (as above) ; the last (second) was issued in 1878, and is difficult to obtain. This work, carried up to the end of the nineteenth century, would be a boon to a good many people, and I hope the want may in some way soon be supplied. W. B. H.

" PARVER ALLEY." In 1661, of two pews in the church of Swingfield, Kent, it is stated, " They both of them standing together in the parver alley uppermost next to the pulpit." Does this mean the lesser or side aisle, as distin-

Saished from the centre aisle of the church ? r is it a corruption of parvise or porch alley the entrance passage from the porch ? The words occur in a presentment made at a visitation of the Archdeacon of Canterbury. ARTHUR HUSSEY. Tankertoii-on-Sea, Kent.

STONE PULPIT. Has the stone pulpit in the open, near Abbey Church, Shrewsbury, been known as the " Druids' Pulpit " ? Can dates of erection, &c., be given 1 FOTIS.

THE MUSEUM AT THE HOSPICE OF ST. BER- NARD. Does there exist any accurate de-