Although St. Dominic was a Spaniard, the volumes dealing with the Order. If any origin of the Order was in France, and the further information, historical, liturgical, friars' Mass retains many of the peculiarities mystical, or biographical, is required, I shall of the Southern French ceremonial. In low be happy to supply all such details as lie mass the gifts are prepared beforehand, the in my power to give. priest ascending the altar, laying out the corporal, blessing the water, mixing the chalice, and then covering all with the pall and veil. He opens the Missal, and puts back the amice with which his head has been clothed : 6 'The Dominican Tertiary's Daily Manual' (Kegan Paul), edited by the late Fr. Procter, gives the Dominican Little Office of Our Lady,' together with many commemorations of Saints and Blessed of the Order. Compline, which is often sung at Haverstock Hill, may be found in the Rev; F. F. Purcell's 'Dominican Compline Book (Browne & Nolan). The Rosary and Dominican Calendar,' published each year by Mr. S. Walker of Hinckley, is an admirable guide for the layman. Those who wish to enter more fully into details of Dominican life and thought should directly study the Book of the Constitutions,' with its exegesis, Marchese's Diario Domenicano,' Cardinal Cajetan's commentary on the Summa,' and the works of the principal Dominican philosophers, theologians, canonists, and historians. 6 Very inadequately I have now mentioned a few of the many reliable and simpler *"Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings." MONTAGUE SUMMERS, F.R.S.L. C. F. Palmer's Life of Cardinal Howard " (London, 1867) gives a special account of the English Dominican Province. Dora Greenwell's book on Lacordaire' contains a considerable amount of informa (Edinburgh, Edmonstone & Douglas, 1867) tion on the foundation of the Third Teaching Order of St. Dominic. Père Lacordaire founded this order in France about 1850, where it is now regarded as a special province of the Dominican Order. He also founded a number of colleges in France, but these have ceased to be directed by Dominicans since the persecution in 1903. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. THOMAS GRAY (12 S. ii. 285, 397, 526).MR. MCGOVERN is quite mistaken in thinking Cambridge. There is a good bust of him in that there are no memorials of Gray at the Hall at Pembroke, and certainly two portraits, one as a young man and one painted later in life, in the Common Room, besides a silhouette of him in the Master's Lodge. The Master also has in his keeping Gray's commonplace book in three MS. volumes, which contain the Elegy' and other poems in his handwriting. These were bequeathed to the College by his friend Stonehewer. There are also various MSS. and some of his note-books in which he recorded his meteorological and nature observations, in the College Library. May I, as an old Pembroke man, assure your correspondent that Gray is far from being forgotten at Pembroke, and that every tradition about him is carefully preserved ? His rooms, too, which a few years later were occupied by the younger Pitt, are well known, and were those on the first floor in the south-west corner of the Inner or Ivy Court. In the Fitzwilliam Museum there is an interesting portrait of him as a small boy, while on the outside of the window of his rooms at Peterhouse can still be seen the iron framework to which he attached his fire-escape. It is well known. that the false alarm carefully engineered by the undergraduates of Peterhouse, which caused him hurriedly to descend his escape into a bath placed at the bottom, was the cause of his removing to Pembroke. Savile Club, W. LAWRENCE E. TANNER. ། FRANÇOIS, DUC DE GUISE (12 S. ii. 507).— De Thou gives a detailed account of the wound suffered by the Duke of Guise in 1545, when the French were making unsuccessful attempts to recover Boulogne, captured in the previous year by Henry VIII.: "Interea crebra inter nostros et Bononiae praesidiarios quotidie certamina conserebantur: in queis Fr. Lotaringus Aumalius, Claudii Guisiani filius, graviter vulneratus est, accepto infra oculum dextrum hastae in maxilla ictu, fractaque hasta cum cuspis cum sesquipedali trunco in 1 vulnere remansisset, non tamen tanta succussatione ex equo praecipitari potuit; tandem in hospitium relatus truncum educi constantissime tulit, nulla, quae doloris acutissimi sensum proderet, voce emissa, et praeter chirurgorum spem ex tanto vulnere convaluit.". 'Historiae sui Temporis," Lib. I. cap. xxvii. In Book XX. chap. ii. of the same work 3 an account is given of the reduction of Calais in January, 1558, by the Duke, with an army of Swiss, Germans, and Frenchmen, but nothing is said of his having been wounded on this occasion. EDWARD BENSLY. GENERAL ssue as Réflexions et Pensées d'un Faussaire.' P. Masson's Pensées d'un Yoghi,' Projet de Loi sur le Duel,' 'Les Trains Éperons,' &c., are immense fun. A native of Strasburg, he got drowned near that city on a holiday visit. His friends declined for months to lament the sad event, feeling sure Masson could only be joking and would turn. up again. I append seven more titles:— J. Ermerius. Een Laaste Woord. Haagsche Stemmen. No. 44. Gravenhage, 31 October, 1891, in 80. Pièce. Dr. Chassagne. Élections Législatives, 1893. Les Quarante Mortels du Boulangisme. Paris 1893, in 80. A. Vallet de Brugnières. L'Étoile filante ; Grandeur et Décadence du Général Boulanger. Paris, 1893, in 80. Dr. Chassagne. Les Grandes Élections de 1893 et le Pananio-Boulangisme actuel. Paris, 1893, in 80 Pierre Denis. Le Mémorial de Sainte-Brelade... Georges Belz de Villas. L'illet Rouge. Sou-- 22 Rue de Belleville, Paris. HENRI VIARD. Read [Our correspondent's corrected proof of his former article (12 S. ii. 491) returned to us after it had appeared. The following corrigenda are required:J. Ermerius, &c.-Delete entry. Saint-Ernan-Read Saint-Eman A. L. A.-Pourquoi nous_aurions. aimons.-Ibid. Août. Read Avril. Robert d'Arcysse.-Read Ascyse. Constantin von Boste.-Read Bosse. Charles du Hemme. Le général Boulanger et le parti républicain.-Read le parti républicain national.] DR. ROBERT UVEDALE (12 S. ii. 361, 384, 404, 423, 447, 467, 527).-The escutcheon which was snatched from Oliver Cromwell's hearse by Robert Uvedale was lent by the late Rev. Washbourne West to the exhibition at Westminster School at the commemoration of the bicentenary of Busby's death, Nov. 18, 1895. G. F. R. B. BOULANGER: BIBLIOGRAPHY (12 S. ii. 261, 491).—May I alleviate the dryness of bibliographical enumeration with a little story about the book listed as : Anonyme. Le général Boulanger. Réflexions et Pensées extraites de ses papiers et de sa VERDIGRIS (12 S. ii. 470).—Verdigris is correspondance intime"? The beauty of this found in practice to be decidedly contagious work very good reading indeed-consists and readily communicated from one coin to in the fact that it contains not a word of another, some blends of bronze being espeanything ever written or said by the General. cially susceptible to this dread scourge The author was, in fact, that irrepressible but to produce the patina much valued practical joker, Paul Masson, attaché à la by numismatists by this process would Bibliothèque Nationale, ancien magistrat, be impossible during the lifetime of any who introduced himself to an astonished collector. Verdigris is loathed, not loved, public as Membre Honoraire de l'Acadé- by numismatists, a canker which, smallmie d'Hippone" and Commandeur du pox-like, eats away the features of our Nichon Istikhar, &c., &c." When the cherished F. D. C.s. volume came out a long notice of it appeared Certain woods and varnishes must be in Le Temps, the solemn anti-Boulangist avoided in the manufacture of coin cabinets, paper, the writer pretending to believe the as they give off volatile essences favourable extracts were genuine. A hot protest from to the chemical formation of verdigris. Marcel Habert ensued; the Boulangist press fumed, summonses flitted about, but I have it from Masson's publisher, my friend Albert Savine, the only reply vouchsafed was to alter the cover and to bring out the second 66 66 Unwittingly, I have marred many a perfect coin and token through being addicted to the vice of smoking, as where an atom of cigarette ash fell and remained there a speck of verdigris formed. To cover a copper or kr 66 STAIG " (12 S. i. 68, 116).-As it is always important to hear Sir Walter Scott on a matter of exclusively Scottish interest, it may still be appropriate to cite his use and explanation of the word staig.' In The Pirate, chap. xiii., he makes Triptolemus Yellowley, Factor in the islands for the Earl of Zetland, give this account of the repulsive Fitful Head :dwarf kept in the service of Norna of the heareth that which he expects not; but pre"Well, sirs, he started at first, as one that sently recovering himself, he wawls on me with his gray een, like a wild-cat, and opens his mouth, whilk resembled the mouth of an oven, for the deil a tongue he had in it, that I could spy, and took upon his ugly self altogether the air and bearing of a bull-dog, whilk I have seen loosed at a fair upon a mad staig.' In a foot-note the author defines staig as a young, unbroken horse," which exactly corroborates the statement made in the review of the Strathearn volume. The extract thus given and the authoritative definition have a twofold_significance. In the first place, the speech ostensibly represents the practice of Kincardine, the Factor's native county; and, secondly, Scott's application of the term shows how he found it used in Southern Scotland. THOMAS BAYNE. SARUM MISSAL: MORIN, ROUEN: COPY SOUGHT (12 S. ii. 489).-This 1514 edition is described from the imperfect copy in the British Museum in W. H. J. Weale's' BiblioBut no other copy seems to have been known graphia Liturgica' (London, 1886), p. 183. to that writer. An imperfect copy of an edition of 1515 by the same printer is in the Stonyhurst Library. Weale (Index, p. 283) mentions many editions of the Sarum Missal printed at Rouen by Morin, dating from 1492 to 1519. W. A. B. C. Grindelwald. 6 A LOST POEM BY KIPLING (12 S. ii. 409, 475, 495).—Under the title A Lost Kipling Poem' Prof. E. S. Meany inquired for this in The Century for January, 1909, stating that Mr. Kipling himself had forgotten about it; and in the same magazine for April, 1909 (lxxvii. 471, 958), a correspondent printed The Foreloper,' from a clipping which he made from a newspaper several years ago.' Under the title The Voortrekker,' the poem was printed by Mr. Kipling himself in his Songs from Books,' New York, 1912, pp. 93-4. It contains fourteen lines, and differs somewhat from the earlier newspaper version. ALBERT MATTHEWS. 6 Boston, Mass. FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES 12 S. ii. 469, 518). The following list gives some particulars of the Fellows mentioned, viz ::William 1769. Died 1781. ment. Then there were soldiers' necessaries not included in the 21. 38. Knapsacks and great coats were apparently supplied by the Govern which must have come out of the off-reckonings."; Much curious information on this subject Of Weston, Warwick. will also be found in Grose's John Motteux, elected 1770. Died 1844. Antiquities,' vol. i. p. 314. Sheldon, elected London merchant. Major William Cooper Cooper (not William 1 COLONELS AND REGIMENTAL EXPENSES and that 6 Military ARCHIBALD SPARKE. 391, 456).—MR. A. R. BAYLEY is not quite SONS OF MRS. BRIDGET BENDYSH (12 S. ii. correct in saying at the second reference that Waylen gives no issue of Thomas Bendysh. He writes, 'The House of Cromwell,' p. 107: of his only son, Ireton, a young man of great "His [Thomas's] first wife was the mother promise, whose early death was much lamented.” ROBERT PIERPOINT. BINNESTEAD IN ESSEX (12 S. ii. 391, 494). -I beg to thank for replies to above query. My aim in inquiring was to try to discover if the annals of this parish contain the marriage of my great-great-grandmother, Bridget Bendysh. daughter of Thomas, eldest son of Mrs. her son, but I cannot find records of his My great-grandfather George Bettiss, born 1742, was, I believe, baptism or his parents' marriage. I have three portraits on one canvas, said at the National Portrait Gallery to have been painted by Jonathan Richardson about 1730, of a father, son, and daughter. They d. have been identified as the above Thomas, 0 10 who died in the West Indies; his son Ireton Bendysh, said by Noble to have died in 1730, unmarried and greatly lamented, as in person, temper, and breeding he was a very 8 amiable young gentleman ; and the daughter, whose marriage I wish to discover. 8. 6 2 2 2 AMERICANISMS (12 S. ii. 287, 334, 414, 496).—I have often been struck by a form of expression which seems now to have taken a firm hold in America. During the past few weeks I have had to read some six or eight American books-chiefly novels-and find it of very frequent occurrence in all of them. It consists in the omission of should or would" in such sentences 4 8 6 as She was always afraid lest he meet with some accident." 4 16 2∞ 0 7 8 "Thus 41. 8s. 6d. would remain in the hands of the Colonel from each private in his regiment, and as by the 30 Car. IL. (1878) the cost of the clothing of a Foot soldier was settled at 21. 38., a very considerable profit must have accrued to him. 'It must not be supposed that the difference between 21. 38. and 41. 8s. 6d. came net into the Colonel's hands. There were other charges that devolved on him-package and carriage of the -clothing, commission to the agent, &c. Hats are 66 66 Here are a few examples taken at haphazard : "H. insisted that he keep back and use his influence only as a last resort." "I proposed that 1 merely take the data for each eclipse." "H. proposed that C. supply them." "Their tired horses made it imperative that they keep on.' And in a work-not a novel-by a Professor of Literature: "Finally Sir W. proposed that each man write on a slip of paper a name," &c. This peculiarity seems worth noting; perhaps some of your readers can throw light on the genesis of it. 50 Albemarle Street, W. 6 JOHN MURRAY. 6 tonists; and he is severely handled in Hudibras,' III. ii. 215-30, where it is said 66 furious that Oliver, in consequence of the hurricane that raged at his death, was generally believed To founder in the Stygian ferry, See Zachary Grey's note. W. A. C. In Birchanger Church, Essex, there is one M.A.OXON. In his Dictionary of Archaic and Pro- of a former vicar named Hatch. vincial Words Halliwell duly enters cricket," and defines it as a low stool." This seems to be the sense in which it is used by Sir Walter Scott in Kenilworth,' chap. x. When he makes Wayland Smith settle to describe his career for Tressilian, he writes thus: "So saying, he approached to the fire a threefooted stool, and took not her himself, while Dickie Sludge, or Flibbertigibbet, as he called the boy, drew a cricket to the smith's feet, and looked up in his face," &c. It may be surmised that Sir Walter thus uses the term as being appropriate to Berkshire, with which he was specially concerned at the moment. PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS (12 S. ii. 172, 211, 275, 317, 337, 374, 458, 517; iii. 15). Few windows, probably, contain more authentic portraits than that given to St. John's College, Cambridge, by Mrs. Charles Taylor in 1910, in memory of her late husband, for twenty-seven years Master of the College. This window, which is in the College Chapel, shows, in addition to Dr. Taylor, the following distinguished members of the College: T. Clarkson and W. Wilberforce, Prof. E. H. Palmer, Dr. Kennedy of Shrewsbury, Bishop George Selwyn and Henry Martyn, the poet Wordsworth, J. Herschel and Adams the astronomers, Lord Palmerston and Lord Chief Justice Denman. ii. 487). The gun referred to must be one A NAVAL RELIC OF CHARLES I. (12 S. that is now in the Rotunda at Woolwich. In the excellent Catalogue of that Museum it is noticed as follows: No. 17. A brass demi-Culvering of the time of Chas. I. On the chase is a crown with an anchor and a rose, a trident and staff: Carolus Edgari sceptrum stabilivit aquarum. Charles established Edgar's sceptre on the waters On the reinforce the inscription : Mountjoye Earl of Newporte Mr Generall. And then : John Brown made this piece ANO. 1638. Length 9 ft. Calibre 44 inches Weight 20 cwt. 23 lbs. There is no reference in the Catalogue as to its having been in the Park, but I have a note I copied from Col. Cleveland's Notes on Royal Regiment of Artillery,' which is : "King Charles 1st directed this [referring to the Rotunda gun] to be cast, and it was placed in St. James's Park and emphatically called The Gun." A correspondent at ii. 517 mentions the The diameter 44 inches would make it A whole portrait in glass of John Harvard at Em- rather less than a 12-pounder. manuel. That of Peter Sterry in the same culverin, whose bore varied from 5.20 inches College chapel also deserves mention. Sterry to 5.50 inches. was roughly computed an is numbered among the Cambridge Pla- 18-pounder. |