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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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One thing is certainly very remarkable, and goes 

 some way towards favouring this notion, viz., in 

 many of the quotations there are mistakes, — words 

 are inserted, or rather substituted for others, but 

 without destroying the sense. This I have fre- 

 quently observed myself; but the observation 

 applies only, as far as I know, to the poetical 

 quotations ; — may he not have quoted the poetry 

 from memory, and, for the prose, had recourse to 

 the original ? L. G. 



21ie Authorised Version. — You have allowed 

 some discussion in your pages on wliat I consider 

 the certainly incorrect translation of Ileb. xiii. 4. 

 ill our authorised version. I do not think it at all 

 desirable to encourage a captious spirit of fault- 

 finding towards that admirable translation, but 

 fair criticism Is assuredly allowable. Can any of 

 your correspondents account for the rendering in 

 Heb. X. 23. of tV 6fj.o\oyiav rrjs eXiriSos by " the 

 profession of our faith ?" 



I have never seen any reply to a former Query 

 of mine (Vol. ii., p. 217.) about the omission of 

 the word "holy" in the article on the Church in 

 the Nicene Creed in all our Prayer-books. It is 

 not omitted in the original Greek and Latin. 



J. M. W. 



Hectors Chancel, — Would you, or one of your 

 correspondents, kindly inform me how the follow- 

 ing case has been settled ; it is one which in all 

 probability has often arisen, but I have not yet 

 been able to learn anything about it that is satis- 

 factory. 



In old times when a church became too small 

 for the parish, the ordinary custom was to build 

 an additional part to it In such a way that the old 

 church, after the alteration, formed an aisle to the 

 new part, which henceforth became the nave. 

 Until the Reformation the altar in the old chancel 

 would probably remain after the new chancel was 

 built, and be used as an inferior altar, while the 

 new altar would be used for high mass ; under 

 these circumstances the rector's right in the 

 chancel would probably remain untouched, and 

 his obligation to keep It in repair undisputed. 

 But when, at the Reformation, all but high altars 

 were taken away, which chancel was accounted 

 the rector's, the new, or the old, or both ? This 

 question has just arisen in an adjoining county. 



H. C. K. 



—^ Rectory, Hereford. 



Duchess of Lancaster. — Can any of your cor- 

 respondents inform us whether the Queen is really 

 Duchess of Lancaster ? The Lancastrians have 

 always rather prided themselves on that circum- 

 stance, but some wise person has lately made the 

 discovery that William III. never created himself 

 Duke of Lancaster, nor any of the Hanoverian 

 dynasty, and that consequently the title remains 



with the Stuarts, although the duchy privileges 

 belong to the Crown. Is this really the truth f 



A Lancastrian. 



Cheke's Clock. — Strype, in his Life of Sir 

 John Cheke, mentions that among other presents 

 bestowed on him by the king, was his own clock, 

 which after his death came into the possession of 

 Dr. Edwin Sandys, Bishop of Worcester, who, 

 about 1563, gave it as a new year's gift to Cecil 

 the Secretary. Can any of your readers give a 

 description of this clock, or what became of it 

 after coming into Cecil's possession ? C. B.T. 



Ruthven Family. — In a pedigree by Vincent in 

 the College of Arms, two sons of Patiick Ruthven 

 are to be found, the first called Cames de Gowrle, 

 the second Robert Ruthven ; they were alive iu 

 1660. Can any of your correspondents tell me 

 what became of them ? S. C. 



" The Man in the Almanack." — Will some kind 

 correspondent favour me with an elucidation of 

 the phrase " Man in the Almanack," which occurs 

 in the following quotation from the epilogue to 

 Nat. Lee's Gloriana, or the Cowt of Augustus 

 Caesar ? 



" The ladies, too, neglecting every grace, 

 Mob'd up in night cloaths, came with lace to face. 

 The Towre upon the forehead all turn'd back. 

 And stuck with pins like th' Man i' th' Almanack." 



Has this any reference to the practice of " prick- 

 ing for fortunes?" Henky Campkin. 



Arkwright. — What Is the origin of this name? 

 It might have been the family name of the pa- 

 triarch Noah, but I suppose It hardly goes so far 

 back. M. 



Burial, Law respecting. — Is there in existence 

 any law rendering burial In consecrated ground 

 compulsory ? Most people have a strong desire 

 to receive such Interment; but some few might 

 prefer to have their mortal remains deposited in 

 some loved spot, far away from other graves, — in 

 a scene where many happy hours had been passed. 

 It would be a very unusual thing ; but supposing 

 such a desire to exist, could its execution be pre- 

 vented ? It Is recorded that Manasseh, King of 

 Judah, " slept with his fathers, and was buried in 

 tlie garden of his own house. In the garden of 

 Uzza." — 2 Kings xxi. 18. Sampson Ankamenii. 



Mr. JBorroivs Muggletonians. — If this gentleman 

 correctly states (In his Lavengro') that a minister 

 of the Antlnoniians, with whom he was formerly 

 acquainted, was otherwise called a Muggletonlan, 

 the Inconceivable fact of that wretched maniac of 

 the seventeenth century (whose portrait Indicates 

 the most hopeless fatuity) still having believers, 

 must be a fact. But I marvel how Antlnomianisni 

 should arise out of the teaching of an LTnltarian, 



