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Clergy. — After the Reformation, few sons of 

 the nobility and greater gentry entered Holy 

 Orders. Chamberlaine, writing in 1682, gays with 

 exultation — 



" A brother of the Earl of Northampton, another of the 

 Earl of Bath, a son of the Earl of Anglesey, a son of 

 the Lord North, another of the Lord Crewe, another of 

 the Lord Brereton, have been lately encouraged to enter 

 into Holy Orders." — Present State of England, p. 269. 



In 1671, Barnabas Oley likewise commemorates 

 those of noble extraction in Holy Orders : — 



" A son of the Earl of Westmoreland ; a son of the 

 Lord Cameron, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and 

 Rector of Boltoa Percy, co. York; a brother of Lord 

 Gray's of Wark ; the Earl of Kent, rector of Burbidge, 

 1640 ; Compton, Bishop of Oxford ; Hon. Dr. Grenville, 

 brother to the Earl of Bath ; Bishop Crewe of Durham 



S afterwards Lord Crewe] ; Hon. John North, Fellow of 

 esus Coll. Camb., Prof, of Greek ; son of Lord North ; and 

 Hon. Mr. Brereton, son of Lord Brereton." — Preface to 

 Christian Reader, Herbert's Works, i. 138. 



What a remarkable change is presented by our 

 present Clergy List : " Sat sapienti." 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Ambiguities. — There are a number of phrases, 

 which are to a certain extent ambiguous, the 

 use of which might perhaps be fixed by a discus- 

 sion in " N. & Q." One of these I have just 

 " found and make a note of" Ought one to say, 

 " This object is gained at the price of some con- 

 sistency or inconsistency, comfort or discomfort?" 

 I feel an inclination to say at the price of some 

 consistency that the object is gained at the price of 

 some discomfort. The difficulty consists in this : 

 that comfort is what I pay, but it costs me dis- 

 comfort. H. B. 



Epigram on the Duke of Wellington. — It will 

 be recollected that the great duke once had his 

 life endangered by one of the small bones of the 

 wing of a partridge on which he was dining. Dr. 

 M'= Arthur and Mr. W. Hulke were speedily in 

 attendance ; and ultimately succeeded in thrusting 

 the bone down the gullet. This occurrence gave 

 occasion to the following epigram, which is per- 

 haps worth preservation : — 



" Strange that the Duke, whose life was charm'd 

 'Gainst injury by ball and cartridge, 

 Nor by th' Imperial Eagle harm'd. 

 Should be endangered by a partridge ! 



" 'T would surely everyone astony 

 As soon as ever it was known, 

 That the great Conqueror of Boney, 

 Himself was conquer'd by a bone ! " 



C. Mansfield Ingleby. 

 Birmingham. 



The Austrian Lip. — The thick lips of the Haps- 

 burg family are not unfrequently alluded to. The 

 same peculiarity appears to have been noticed two 

 centuries and a half ago. Burton says (^Anat. Mel. 

 part I. sect. ii. mem. 1 . subs. 6.) : 



" The Austrian lip, and those Indians' flat noses, are 

 propagated ; the Bavarian chin, and goggle eyes amongst 

 the Jews." 



Henet T. Riley. 



Old Chair. — Should any of your readers be 

 passing through the little village of West Wy- 

 combe, let me recommend them to the hostelry 

 of the " Black Boy," in the parlour of which they 

 may get such a seat as, I should suppose, they 

 never had before. West Wycombe is celebrated 

 for its chairs, and here is undoubtedly a unique 

 specimen. If your readers can reconcile a straight 

 back of nine bars, two comfortable arms, three 

 legs, and a triangular seat ; carve the whole with 

 annular devices, and put the limbs together in the 

 most unlikely way possible, they may approximate 

 to some conception of this patriarchal chair. 



But seeing alone is believing, for to a great ex- 

 tent it baffles all description ; and, I may add, as 

 useful knowledge to a weary traveller, that for 

 convenience this seat throws even the " Chiltern 

 Hundreds " into the shade. Indeed, mine host 

 has been offered many a guinea for this relic, but 

 the old chair still stands for the admiration of 

 connoisseurs in the parlour of the " Black Boy." 

 T. Habwood Pattison. 



Condog. — Who has not heard of " the Reverend 

 and learned " Dr. Adam Littleton's mighty lapse 

 in that unhappy case of condog, one of the mean- 

 ings of Concurro, in his Latin Dictionary, 4to., 

 1678 ? Concurro, To run with others, to concur, 

 to condog. Well, whether it was the doctor's 

 humour (with an equal spice of obliviousness), 

 or the fault of his amanuensis, or compositor, 

 the blunder was corrected, and the dog vanished. 

 It was banished from all after editions. 



But, alas ! Litera scripta manet. Alas for the 

 mischief of scissors and paste ! See how error 

 spreads. Before me lies a bulky 4to. promisingly 

 styled LingucB Romance Dictionarium, LuculentUm, 

 Novum, Cambridge, 1693; the "Prefacers" to 

 which give due honour to Dr. Littleton, as one of 

 their authorities, but more highly laud their own 

 pains; "of which labour," we are told, ^^they 

 only can have a true sense who have been actually 

 concern'd in them." "I will look," said I, " for 

 some of the fruit, the product of this toil. I'll 

 look out Concurro. Ah! how that unlucky dog 

 haunts me, like the creature in Faust! Concurro, 

 to concur, to condog." In the title-page of this 

 1693 book, reference is made to the works of 

 Stephens, Holyoke, and others, and to " a large 

 manuscript, in three volumes, of Me. John Mil- 

 ton." What light can be thrown on this ? I can 



