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King's School at Canterbury, who furnished Maclaine 

 with copies of the documents published in his Appendix 

 to Mosheim. It is probable that a copy of the Commoni- 

 toriuin may be found among Abp. Wakc^'s manuscripts in 

 the library of Christ Church, Oxford. Cf. Nichols's Li- 

 terary Anecdotes, ii. 40. ; Biographia Britannica, art. 

 VVaivE ; Gent. Mag., xxxvii. 242. ; and Le Courayer on 

 English Ordinatmis, edit. 1844, p. xviii.] 



Service for Consecration and Reconciliation of 

 Churches. — Is there any {post Reformation) au- 

 thorised form to be used at the reopening of 

 churches after repair and consequent desecration ? 

 or what is the form, and its authority, generally 

 used ? With regard to the consecration. Palmer 

 states that a form was authorised and printed by 

 Convocation in 1712, but that several others were 

 in use under individual episcopal sanction only. 

 If any correspondent should have either of the 

 above named in his possession, I should feel ex- 

 tremely obliged for the loan of it for a few days. 



E. S. Taylor. 



Ormesby St. Margaret, Norfolk. 



[It is clear there is no post-reformation authorised 

 form of Reconciliation or reopening of churches. That 

 some service was occasionally used by the Caroline di- 

 vines is evident from a petition presented to the Com- 

 mons by Alderman Pennington on Dec. 11. 1640 ; where, 

 after the preamble, is " a particular of the manifold evils, 

 pressures, grievances, caused, practised, and occasioned 

 by the prelates and their dependents," of which the 18th 

 is, " The christening and consecrating of churches and 

 chapels, the consecrating fonts, pulpits, tables, chalices, 

 churchyards, and many other things, and putting holi- 

 ness in them ; yea, re-consecrating upon pretended pollu- 

 tion, as though every thing were unclean without their 

 consecrating." (Nalson's Collection, vol. i.) Hence we 

 find that the church of Mailing in Kent, having lost its 

 consecration by profane uses. Archbishop Abbott forbid 

 the parishioners " ab ingressu ecclesiae " till it should be 

 consecrated afresh. (Bp. Gibson's Codex, i. 189, 190.) 

 The only service that occurs to us is " The Form of Re- 

 conciliation of Lichfield Cathedral, by Bishop Hacket, as 

 given in his Century of Sermons, pp. xxxi. — xxxv. fol. 

 1675, and reprinted in Hierurgia Anglicana, pp. 118 — 

 122, edit. 1848. To come to later times, there was some- 

 thing very like a reconciliation at the reopening of St. 

 Mary-de-Crypt Church, Gloucester, on the 27th Nov. 

 1845, when the total number o,f assembled clergymen in 

 their robes was ninety-four ; but it does not appear that 

 the bishop was present, or that any special service was 

 used for the occasion. {English Churchman, Dec. 4, 1845, 

 p. 768.) As there is no authorised Form of Reconcili- 

 ation, so neither is there any authorised Form of Conse- 

 cration of Churches, as every bishop may now use any 

 form, so that he uses some (Burn's Ecclesiastical Law, sub 

 voce). Attempts have several times been made by the 

 most eminent divines of the Church to supply this defi- 

 ciency; hence we have Bishop Barlow's Form, 1610; 

 Bishop Andrewes', 1620 ; Abp. Laud's, 1630 ; and Bishop 

 Cosin's, 1661, inquired after by Mr. Sansom in our 1'* S. 

 i. 303., which was drawn up in Convocation, but not pub- 

 lished, on account, as some think, of the excitement oc- 

 casioned by Abp. Laud's manner of consecrating St. 

 Katharine Creed Church in 1631. The two forms, that 

 of 1712, which passed the Lower House, and that of 1715, 

 approved in the Upper House of Convocation, are sub- 

 stantially the same, though in some few particulars they 

 differ from each other, but neither was finally adopted. 



These forms are printed in Burn's EcnJes. Law, art 

 Church; Dr. Cardwell's Synodulia, ii. 819. ; Wilkins's 

 Concilia, iv. 668. ; and in the Appendix to the Rev. E. C. 

 Harington's useful work The Consecration of Churches, 

 &c. The form of 1712, with some trifling variations, is 

 the one used at the present time throughout England 

 and Wales.] 



History of Printing : Felix Kingston. — What 

 materials exist for continuing the history of print- 

 ing on the same plan as the elaborate work of 

 Ames, which he pursued no further than the end 

 of the sixteenth century ? I am anxious in par- 

 ticular to obtain some notice of a work in folio 

 against Machinnel, translated frorti the French by 

 Symon Patrick, grandfather to the bishop, and 

 printed by Felix Kingston in 1602. 



A. Taylor, M.A. 



[A copy of this work is in the Bodleian, and is entitled 

 The Estate of the Church with the Discourse of the Times, 

 from the Apostles untill this present, Sfc, translated out of 

 French by S. P. [Simon Patrike], 4to., Lond. 1002. We 

 cannot learn that any one is engaged in the revision of 

 Herbert's edition of Ames's Typographical Antiquities, re- 

 specting which some valuable suggestions were submitted 

 to the readers of " N. & Q." by Dr. Maitland in our first 

 Number.] 



G. H. Glasse, the Translator of " Samson Ago- 

 nistes " into Greek. — Can any of the readers of 

 "N. & Q." give me any account of this gentle- 

 man ? Dr. Parr revised his translation ; and he is 

 said to have been the author of a rhyming Latin 

 version of George Colman's Miss Bailey. He also 

 translated Mason's Cai^actacus into Greek. But 

 what I wish principally to know is, vv^hether a me- 

 lancholy story which I have heard respecting his 

 death is true. Lesby. 



[The Rev. George Henrj' Glasse, son of Dr. Samuel 

 Glasse, was a student of Christ Church, Oxford; M.A. 

 1782 ; Rector of Hanwell, Middlesex, 1785 ; Domestic 

 Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge, also Domestic Chap- 

 lain to Lord Sefton. He was u man of extraordinary wit, 

 genius, and classical learning. His pecuniary embarrass- 

 ments preyed on his susceptible mind, and in a state of 

 mental irritability he destroyed himself by strangulation 

 at the Bull and Mouth Inn, St. Martin's-le-Grand, Oct. 

 30, 1809. Some account of him and his numerous works 

 will be found in the Gentleman's Mag., Ixxix. 1082 ; Ni- 

 chols's Lit. Anec, ix. 132. 228; and a report of the Co- 

 roner's Inquest in St. James's Chronicle of Oct. 31, 1809. 

 Mr. Glasse was a frequent contributor to the Gent. Mag., 

 under the signature of E. E. A."| 



Passage in Beranger. — Beranger, in his Chant 

 du Cosaque, has these lines : 



" Retourne boire h la Seine rebelle, 

 Oil, tout sanglant, tu t'es lave deux fois." 



Can any reader of " N. & Q." tell me what is 

 meant by the " deux fois " ? Lesby, 



[Twice the Cossack was in Paris; in March, 1814, 

 when the city was taken by the allied forces under the 

 command of Prince Schwartzenberg, and again after the 

 battle of Waterloo.] 



