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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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recording the still more interesting fact that the 

 collar of the Garter which had belonged to the 

 poet Earl of Surrey was taken for the personal 

 use of King Edward VI. — At the end of the 

 fourth volume of Tytler's History of Scotland 

 (1831), is an inventory of the royal jewels made 

 after the death of James III. Among them 

 (p. 411.) was "a coUer of gold maid with ele- 

 phantis and a grete hinger (or pendant) at it." 

 James III. had married a princess of Denmark — 



"Item, a coUere of cokkilshellis contenand xxiiij 

 schellisofgoW." — P. 415. 



"Item, sanct michaell of gold with a perle on his 

 spere." — P. 411. 



If a list of the knights could be found, we 

 should probably see in it the name of King James 

 III. J. G. N. 



Aneroid (2"'' S. ii. 417.)— Dr. Drew, in his 

 Practical Meteorology (p. 212.), says that the Ane- 

 roid barometer " was invented a few years since 

 by M. Vidi of Paris." In March, 1848, Dr. 

 Daubeny exhibited it as a novelty to the Ashmo- 

 lean Society at Oxford (Proceedings of the Ashm. 

 Soc, vol. ii. p. 188.). We have, therefore, at last 

 advanced tivo steps towards the discovery of the 

 real meaning of the word. We know, first, the 

 date of the invention ; and, secondly, the name of 

 the inventor. Can any of your readers tell me if 

 M. Vidi is still alive, or where his original ac- 

 count of his invention is to be found ? M. D. 



A Boy born Blind and Deaf (2"^ S. iii. 31.) — 

 More recent particulars of the extraordinary case of 

 James Mitchell are given in Miss Sinclair's Shetland 

 and the Shetlanders, published in 1840. This un- 

 fortunate being had then attained the age of forty- 

 five, and was living in apparently good health at 

 Nairne, though deprived of the faculties of speech, 

 sight, and hearing. Miss Sinclair's graphic and 

 affecting account is well worth reading. 



2JoBBi8 Deck. 



Cambridge. 



Ohservation of Saints' Days (2"** S. ii. 452.) — 

 J. H. M. has made a droll mistake. Bishop Lati- 

 iTier was, doubtless, an extraordinary man ; but 

 few will imagine it possible that he could vote in 

 Convocation some years after he was burnt. The 

 Latimer mentioned w£»s William Latimer, dean of 

 Peterborough. Henry Guydickens. 



Canonicals worn in Public (2"^ S. ii. 479.) — H. 

 T. Riley is surprised to find that, in some wild 

 parts of Northumberland, the clergy still go to 

 church in their canonicals. How much will bis 

 wonder be increased when he is told, that in 

 hundreds, perhaps thousands, of parishes through 

 the most civilised parts of the kingdom, in citjes, 

 towns, and villages, it actually is still the common 

 practice, where the parsonage is no great dis- 



tance from the church, for the clergymen to robe 

 at home, and so attired walk through street or 

 road. Henry Gdydickens. 



St. Govor (2"'' S. iii. 31.)— St. Gover was one 

 of the three principal Saints of Gwent, in South 

 Wales ; not one of the Roman Catholic Saints, but 

 one of the early Christians. The two others were 

 St. Henwg and St. Gwarrag. 



There is but one church, that I am aware qf, 

 which bears the name of St. Govor, and that is 

 known by the name of Llan Over. The name of 

 the saint extends to the parish, and to the re- 

 markable well, which, surrounded by eight others, 

 is still regarded by the old inhabitants with espe- 

 cial reverence as Ffynnon Over, — the well of 

 Govor, whose name is generally spelt with an e, 

 although in the genealogy of Welsh saints it ap- 

 pears with an o. 



It is highly probable that the spring alluded to 

 in Kensington Gardens, having been discovered 

 since the appointment of the present Chief Com- 

 missioner to the Office of Works, that Sir Benja- 

 min Hall has suggested this name ; which, though 

 of course very familiar to his own ears, possesses 

 the advantage of being perfectly distinct from any 

 other name within the precincts of the metropolis. 

 It was no doubt considered necessary that it 

 should have the name of a saint, and of a male 

 saint ; as the other well in Kensington Gardens is 

 known by the name of St. Agnes. 



It would really be a boon to the public, if the 

 Chief Commissioner would furnish a i'&w more old 

 British names to distinguish the millions of lo- 

 calities that have now duplicate appellations. 



Hermit. 



^^ Sulpitius Severus" (2"'' S. iii. 28.)— My atten- 

 tion has been called to an interesting MS. note 

 on Sulpitius Severus. It immediately struck me 

 that I recollected a MS. note on the fly-leaf of my 

 own copy (Elzevir, 1665). On referring to it, I 

 find that it was a College premium, with the fol- 

 lowing testimonies written in a vei'y legible hand 

 (except the autograph), as follows : — 



" Honesto, ac liberaliores indolis puero, Cornelio de 

 Bevere, cvim in quarta classe studium ejus profectusq; 

 eniiniiisset, utq; ipse majori etiam inipetu leratur ulterius 

 et alii per ejus exemplum accedantur, ad classem tertiam 

 adscendenfei liunc librum praemii nomine dederunt, Amplis 

 Gravissimiq; Quatuorviri Gymnasii Hagani Curatores, 

 a. d. VI. Cal. Septembris, Anno cioioclxviii. 



".S. L. Salungh. F. W. Banciiem. 



" Jon. Coccius, 

 " Rector." 



I would be glad to hear anything about Bevere ; 

 if I mistake not, his name is familiar to me in the 

 literary world. R. p. 



Cork. 



Comptdsory Attendance at a Parish Church 

 (2"^ S. ii. 466.) — I recollect being present at the 



