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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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and other such Gospel-artillery (sic), as the only helps 

 to devotion, things never cnjoyu'd (.«c) either by the 

 Apostles, under the Christian ^Economy, or by the pro- 

 phets, under the Jewish ; who surely knew and understood 

 the proper and the most efficacious means of Fiety us well as 

 any Abbott (sic) or 3Ion/t wluitsoever. 



" Cannot a man be a penitent unless he also turn vaga- 

 bond and foot it to Jerusalem, or wander over this or that 

 solitary desert ? 



" Must that which was Cain's curse be my religion ? 



" He that thinks to expiate Sin by going barefoot 

 ' does the penance of a Goose ' (sic), and only makes one 

 folly the atonement of another." 



This book has also written on the other fly*leafj 

 in the same hand-writing : 



" Ja. Scott. 



E. Coll. Univ. 



Oxon." 



The ink is now pale with age, but the writing 

 is very good ; it is a firm old-fashioned hand. I 

 forward you a copy of the stricture, thinking that 

 perhaps it may amuse some of the readers of 

 "N. & Q." I shall be happy to forward the 

 original for the inspection of any of your readers. 

 Perhaps some of them can tell me who the person 

 whose name appears on the fly-leaf was ? 



K.K.K. 



St. John's College, Cambridge. 



JRage for Canary Birds, -^ Iii the London Ga- 

 zette., No. 2634, from Thursday, Feb. 5, to Monday, 

 Feb. 9, 1690, i. e. 1690-1, are nine advertisements : 

 of these no less than three are of sales of canary 

 birds. The first announces that, — 



" at Mr. James Dalston's, at the Three Tuns in Gracious 

 Street, are several hundred of Canary Birds to be sold 

 newly come over." 



The next runs, — 



" Seven Hundred choice Canary Birds are newly come 

 over from Germaiiy, which are to be sold by Mr. Henry 

 Lane at the White Hart, in Abchurch Line, neat Cannon 

 Street." 



And the last, -^ 



"There are newly come over from Germany several 

 Hundreds of Canary Birds of several Colours, which are 

 to be sold by Thomas Bland at the Black Bull, at Tower 

 Dock, London." 



Anon. 



^mxitS, 



ADULT BAPTISMS. 



I have recently examined several editions of 

 the book of Occasional Services, published for the 

 use of the clergy, and singular to narrate, in none 

 of them is "Tne Office for the Ministration of 

 Baptism to such as are of Biper Years " printed. 

 This office was first added to our Liturgy at the 

 Savoy Conference, a.d. 1661, when our Prayer- 

 Book underwent its last review. Can any of 

 your correspondents suggest any reason for its 

 omission ? It seems to me rather unaccoimtable. 



May I add another Query ? In Pindcr's Me- 

 ditations on tlie Ordination Service for Deacons 

 (Rivingtons, 1853), there occurs the following 

 passage : 



" It seems clear that I am not ordinarily at liberty to 

 baptize an adult while I am only in Deacon's Orders." 



I should very much like to know on what au- 

 thority this is grounded ? The term " priest " Is 

 used in the rubric before the "Baptism of In- 

 fants," as well as in that prefixed to the " Baptism 

 of Persons of Riper Years." In the offices of the 

 Deacon, as set forth in the " Ordination Service," 

 it is certainly said that " it appertaineth to the 

 office of a Deacon .... in the absence of the 

 Priest to baptize Infants (adults may by implica- 

 tion be excluded)." An instance has come under 

 my own observation where a Deacon administered 

 this Sacrament to an adult. Philip the Deacon 

 undoubtedly baptized the Ethiopian eunuch, an 

 adult, see Acts, ch. viii. v. 26. etseq. The learned 

 Bingham, in his Antiquities of the Christian Church, 

 bk. ii. cap. 20, sect. 9., shows satisfactorily that 

 they, i. e. Deacons, had the power of baptizing 

 equally with Presbyters, but the consent of the 

 Bishop was required in both cases. Tertullian, 

 St. Jerom, and Cyril, are cited in support of this 

 opinion. Oxoniensis. 



CASSIYELAUNUS. 



When Pennant described the " British Crusta- 

 cea " in the fourth volume of the Ih'iiish Zoology, 

 published in 177G, he named his long-clawed 

 crab, a species not only new to Britain, but to 

 science, Cancer Cassivelaunus, to commemorate, 

 and in some measure to rescue from oblivion, an 

 ancient British warrior of this name, and one of 

 the numerous opponents of Cassar in his attempts 

 to conquer the British Islands. 



In this patriotic endeavour the classic author of 

 the British Zoology does not appear to have been 

 very successful, for on looking over Bell's British 

 Crustacea this morning, I found the following 

 paragraph : 



" It was first discovered by Pennant, who gave it the 

 name of Cancer Cassivelaunus, for no very obvious 

 reason." 



Had the Professor of Zoology in King's College 

 been as well acquainted with the history of the 

 Ancient Britons, as he appears to be with the 

 Crustaceans of our coasts, he would scarcely have 

 made the observation ; for surely the name is 

 quite as obvious, and much more appropriate, 

 than innumerable ones given to various species by 

 Llnnseus and his followers ; such for instance as 

 Papilio Priamus, P. Hector, P. JEneas, P. Ulysses, 

 P. Helena^ &c. In fact, nearly all the names In 

 the heathen mythology have been put in requisi- 

 tion for this purpose. 



