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NOtES AND QlTEiRlES. 



[2nd S. Vil. Jan. 8. '6d. 



only. They are thus enumerated by Durandus 

 in the thirteenth century, though, as he notices, 

 there were two others added in some places. 

 Pope Pius V. fixed their number at seven, as they 

 stand in the Roman Breviary. 



Christmas, then, properly begins at Lauds on 

 Christmas Eve, when the Divine Office begins to be 

 solemnised as a Double, and refers directly to the 

 nativity of our Lord. It terminates on 13th of 

 January, the Octave Day of the Epiphany. The 

 Christmas holly, however, remains in churches and 

 houses till 2nd of February, the Purification of the 

 B. Virgin Mary. F. C. H. 



The season of Christmas is accurately deter- 

 mined by the period during which the Christmas 

 decorations are permitted to remain in churches. 

 This extends from Christmas Eve to the Vigil of 

 the Purification, unless Septuagesima Sunday 

 should fall previously, in which case they are re- 

 moved on the preceding Saturday. The anthem, 

 O Sapientia, was not, according to the Sarum Use, 

 appointed to be sung every day (from Dec. 16th) 

 to Christmas. There were seven other Antiphons 

 for the following days, of which the commencing 

 words were as follows ; — O Adonai, O Radix 

 Jesse, O Clavis David, O Oriens, O Rex Gen- 

 tium, O Emmanuel, O Virgo Virginum. These 

 were the Antiphons to Magnificat at vespers ; one 

 being added for Christmas Eve from Psalm xix. 5. 



W. J. D. 



Clergy called Bricklayers (2°'* S. vi. 528.) — 

 Your correspondent inquires the origin of this 

 term as applied to the clergy of Oxon and Berks. 

 Query, may not this be a familiar corruption of 

 ^Rwbricklayers, a name employed perhaps to de- 

 note their general character for Rubrical exact- 

 ness, who not merely lay down the Liturgical law, 

 but obey it ? F. Phillott. 



" Sir Edioard Seaward's Narrative (2°^ S. vi. 

 290.) — " This work was the production of Jane 

 Porter's brother. Dr. William Ogilvie Porter, a 

 physician of Bristol. When finished, he wished 

 to give it to the world, but was afraid that a 

 novel would be deemed a work not exactly in 

 keeping with the character of a grave and learned 

 physician, and therefore his sister Jane, being 

 well known as a writer, undertook the publica- 

 tion. Some of ' Sir Edward's' adventures had 

 been realised in Dr. Porter's own experience, 

 and Lady Seaward was the portraiture of a young 

 lady to whom the doctor was particularly at- 

 tached. He had spent many years of early life at 

 sea, as surgeon on aboard a man-of-war, and 

 amongst other episodes had been wrecked, and 

 lived some time on a desolate island. Most 

 thoughtful men in their early days have some 

 bright object of excellence to be attained, and he 

 had dreamed of the high capabilities of woman 

 under a different training and moral culture to 



that adopted at the present time. He had twice 

 unsuccessfully attempted to carry out his views, 

 but in the third instance was successful. His 

 pupil (and his ward) was an orphan girl of ex- 

 quisite temper and capabilities, and he spared no 

 pains in her mental and moral education. She 

 became all he could desire, but when just of age 

 died of consumption, — a severe blow from which 

 the doctor never recovered. This young lady, 

 Eliza Clark, was his Lady Seaward." 



The above is extracted from the " Notices to 

 Correspondents " of No. 720. of the London 

 Journal, and is contributed to that publication 

 by " Amicus," who states that he has a formal 

 acknowledgment written by Jane Porter, in 

 which she declares that her brother was the sole 

 author, and accounts for the sum of money re- 

 ceived for the copyright. J. Dixlon. 



Adriaan van Utrecht (2"'^ S. v. 15.) — 

 " This painter, Adriaan van Utrecht, was born at Ant- 

 werp in 1599, and died in 1651. He especially excelled 

 in painting fruit, and all kinds of living and dead animals, 

 particularly birds. On his travels through France, Ger- 

 many and Italy, van Utrecht everywhere was received 

 with regard, and his artistical talent greatly valued. 

 Amongst his admirers the King of Spain chiefly appraised 

 the merits of his pencil." — Translated from Algemeen 

 Noodwendig Woordenboek der Zamenleving, te Amsterdam, 

 bij Gebroeders Dicaerichs, 1831-1858, Part 25, p. 3970. 

 col. 2. 



J. H. VAN Lbnnep. 

 Zeyst. 



" Lareoversfor Meddlers " (2'"> S. vi. 48 1.) —I 

 have often heard this quoted, as H. B. remarks, 

 over a dish of medlars ; but I believe it has 

 nothing to do with the fruit, or with Mr. Forby's 

 " instrument of chastisement," however much 

 meddlers may deserve a stick laid over their backs. 

 In my interleaved copy of the Vocahulatn/ of East 

 Anglia, I have made the following entry : — 



" Layer-over. — Forby has here mistaken the form and 

 sense of this term. It is properly lare-over, from the 

 Saxon laepe, hence O. E. lare, lore, learning, and is a 

 transposition of an English word corresponding to the 

 German ober-lehrer, signifying a teacher, corrector, or 

 master over those who are continually meddling with 

 what they ought not." 



It thus furnishes a parallel to the two similar 

 instances of transposition given by Mr. Walters 

 in the opening article of the Number in which 

 the Query occurs. E. S. Taylor. 



Ormesby St. Margaret, Norfolk. 



Wary-angle : Old English Name of the Butcher- 

 bird, or Pie grieche (2"'^ S. vi. 504.) — This is 

 from German WUrgengel, literally " worrying 

 angel," otherwise " destroying angel," — a name 

 given by the Germans to several different beasts 

 and birds of prey. The word worry still retains 

 in Scotland the meaning, "to strangle," "to kill." 

 In The House that Jack Built we have " the dog 

 that worried the cat." H. F. B. 



