Jan. 10. 1852.] 



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collar of SS. in tlie churches of Cheadle, jNIottram, 

 Over Peover, and Malpa?, of which I will send 

 you some notice as soon as I have seen them. 



Lewis Evans. 

 Sandbach, Cheshire. 



Pronunciation of Coke (Vol. iv., p. 244.). — 

 In confirmation of the opinion tliat his name was 

 pronounced Cook, I beg to send you an extract 

 from the Life of Sir Edward Coke, by C. \V. 

 Johnson, 1845, vol. i. p. 336. : — 



" When Coke was sent to the Tower they punned 

 against him in English. An unpublished letter of the 

 day has this curious anecdote. The room in which he 

 lodged in the Tower had formerly been a kitchen ; on 

 his entrance the Lord Chief Justice read upon the 

 door, ' This room wants a Cook.' " 



E. N. W. 



Southwark. 



Use of Misereres (Vol. iv., p. 307.). — The fol- 

 lowing facts may serve towards deciding the use 

 of " miserere" chairs in old churches. In the 

 Greek church, near London Wall, every seat is 

 on the miserere construction. During those parts 

 of the service (and they are very frequent) where 

 the rubric requires a standing posture, the wor- 

 shipper raises the stall to support the person, 

 which it does in a very sufficient manner. 



In the parish churcli of Mere, in Wiltshire, the 

 "misereres" are furnished with hooks, to ])revent 

 their falling down again when once elevateti. 



Reciiabite. 



Inscription on a Pair of Spectacles (Vol. iv., 

 p. 407.). — The words are evidently all proper 

 names except the third and fourth, Seel. Ei'b. 

 1 imagine the words to be German. Seel, a con- 

 traction for the genitive (sing, or plur.) of Selig, a 

 German euphemism for late (lit. blessed, happy), 

 and the other word a contraction for Erbe or Erben, 

 heir or heirs. I interpret it, " Peter Conrad 

 Wiegel, heir of the late John May." Sc. 



Carmarthen. 



John Lord Frescheville (Vol. iv., p. 441.). — In 

 answer to D.'s enquiry whether there is any proof 

 of this cavalier having been engaged in Kineton 

 fight, he may be referred to the patent of his 

 peerage, which refers to his having been present 

 at the first erection of the king's standard at 

 Nottingham, and to his " many eminent services 

 against the rebels, as well in the first happy defeate 

 given to the best of their cavalrye in the fight 

 near Worcester, as at Kineton, Braynford, Marie- 

 borough, Newbery, and many other places, where 

 he hath received severall wounds." I), is probably 

 not aware of the very copious memoirs of this 

 family communicated by Sir Frederick Madden 

 (from AVolley's Derbyshire Collections), and by 

 the Rev. Joseph Hunter to the Collectanea Topo- 

 graphica et Oenealogica, vol. iv. 1837. N. 



Nightingale and T^orn (Vol. Iv., pp. 175.242.).— 



" Ediv. Lorrain, behold the sharpness of this steel : 

 [^Drawing his sword,^ 

 Fervent desire, that sits against my heart, 

 Is far more thorny-pricking than this blade ; 

 That, like the nightingale, I shall be scar'd, 

 As oft as I disjjose myself to rest, 

 Until my colours be disploy'd in France : 

 This is my final answer, so be gone." 



Edward III., a Play, thought to be writ by 

 Shakspeare, Act I. Sc. 1. 



Of the two editions of The Ruigne of King 

 Edward the Third, consulted by Capell before 

 publishing the play in his Prolusions, the first 

 was printed in 1596, the second in 1599. 



C. Forbes. 



Temple. 



Godfrey Higgins's Works (Vol. iv., p. 152.). — 

 Perhaps it may not be uninteresting to Outis to 

 know that one of the works of Mr. Higgins called 

 f jrth one, whose title I send : 



" Animadversions on a Work entitled ' An Apology 

 for the Life and Character of the celebrated Prophet of 

 Arabia called Mohamed or the Illustrious, by God- 

 frey Higgins, Esq.;' with Annotations, by the Rev. 

 P.lnchbald, LL.D., formerly of University College, 

 Oxford. 



'* Taura fiku olv vpos tos /SXacc^Tj/tt'os. 



" Published at Doncaster, 1830." 



n. J. 



Ancient Egypt (Vol. iv., p. 152.).— This Query, 

 although partially answered in Vol. iv., pp. 240. 

 302., lias hitlierto received no reply on thfe subject 

 of the " Ritual of the Dead." Brugsch has just 

 published the Sai an Sinsin, .nve Liber Metem- 

 psychosis, Sfc, from a papyrus in the Museum at 

 Berlin, with an interlinear Latin translation, and 

 a transcript of the original in modern characters, 

 in conformity with the plan which he adopted in 

 his interpretation of the hieroglyphic portion of 

 the Rosetta Inscription, published in the early 

 part of the present year. S. P. H. T. will find 

 some of the information he requires In the former, 

 if not in both of these volumes. P. Z. 



Crosses and Crucifixes (Vol. iv., pp. 422. 485.). 

 — Your correspondent Sia J. E. Tennent, in 

 extracting from his volume on Modern Greece 

 (vol ii. p. 266.), has given fresh currency to a 

 singular error. The Council of Trullo was cited 

 by iiliu In 1830, and Is again quoted as ordering 

 " that thenceforth fiction and allegory should 

 cease, and the real figure of the Saviour be de- 

 picted on the tree;" and we are referred to Can. 82. 

 Act. Concil. Paris, 1714, v. lii. col. 1691, 1692. 

 But should your readers turn to the canons of 

 that council they would be disappointed at finding 

 nothing about the cross, and one is curious to 

 know how an historian could have been led into 

 so singular a mistake. Johnson (see Clergyman's 



