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to those worn by watermen of the present day. 

 The colour of their dresses appears to have been 

 white ; though in 1544 a part, of the forces of 

 Henry VIII. were ordered to be dressed in blue 

 coats, gtiarded with red, without badges ,- the right 

 hose red, and the left one blue. In 1584, Eliza- 

 beth commanded that the cassocks of the soldiers 

 sent to Ireland should be a sad green, or russet. 

 The cloaks of the cavalry during her reign were 

 red. In 1693, the dresses of the soldiers were 

 grey, and those of the drummers purple. The 

 universal scarlet of the line was probably not 

 adopted until after George I. came over to " as- 

 cend the throne of his ancestors." 



Ralph Woodman. 

 New College, St. John's Wood. 



Coronation of Edward IV. : Feast of St. 

 Leon. — Sir Harris Nicolas is doubtful whether 

 the coronation of Edward IV. was on the 28th or 

 29th June : the following extract from the Cinque 

 Ports at Romney fixes the date as the 28th. " Be 

 it remembered, that on Sunday after the Feast 

 of St. Leon, and on the Vigil of the Apostles of 

 Peter and Paul in the year 1461, our Lord Ed- 

 ward the 4th after the Conquest, ' sublevatus est 

 in regem et apud Westm. coronatus,' the Barons 

 of the Cinque Ports bearing the canopy according 

 to custom." The record shows also that the 13th 

 June cannot be the correct date of St. Leon's 

 Feast. Nicolas quotes the Cotton MS., Domitian 

 A. xvii., as his authority for the 13th, but it could 

 not be earlier than the 21st. 



Wm. DuRRANT Cooper. 



81. Guilfoid Street. 



Books Bdrnt. — I do not see that any notice 

 has been taken in " N. & Q." of the burning of 

 the Praxis Spiritiialis. Abp. Laud writes in 

 1637 to his Vice-Chancellor : — 



" There was an English translation of a book of devo- 

 tion, written by Sales, Bp. of Geneva, and intitl'd Praxis 

 Spiritualis, sive Introductio ad Vitam devotam, licensed by 

 Dr. Haywood, then my Chaplain, about the latter end of 

 Nov last ; but before it passed his hands, he first struck 

 out divers things wherein it varied from the doctrine of 

 our Church, and so passed it. But ^by the practice of 

 one Burrowes (who is now found to be a Roman Catho- 

 licit) those passages struck out by Dr. Haywood were 

 interlined afterwards, and were printed according to 

 Burrowes's falsifications. The book being thus printed, 

 gave great and just offence, especially to myself, who, 

 upon the first hearing of it, gave present order to seize 

 upon all the copies, and to burn them publickly in Smith- 

 field. Eleven or twelve hundred copies were seized and 

 burnt accordingly." — Laud's Chancellorship, fol. 1700, 

 p. 129. 



John S. Bdrn. 



Henley. 



Clerical Heroes. — The Rev. George Walker, 

 who has handed down his name to posterity as 

 the gallant defender of Londonderry against the 

 forces of James in 1689, soon after the termina- 



tion of that memorable siege was rewarded with 

 the honorary degree of D.D. by the University of 

 Oxford, received the thanks of Parliament, and . 

 was nominated by William to the see of Derry 

 for his services. The bishop designate however, 

 whose chivalrous spirit had postponed the mitre 

 to the sword, never lived to wear the corona ob- 

 sidionalis presented by William, being among the 

 slain at the battle of the Boyne. 



The Rev. James Parker Harris, B.A., of Bra- 

 sennose College, Oxford, known as the chaplain of 

 Lucknow, had conferred on him at the last com- 

 memoration the honorary degree of M. A. for the 

 unflinching bravery with which he ministered to 

 the wants of the sick and suffering during that 

 siege. The address of the Vice-Chancellor on 

 that occasion, "Vir Reverende, etfortissime" was 

 indeed well and nobly earned, and met with an 

 enthusiastic response in the theatre. Walker was, 

 I presume, the last, if not the first, of clerical 

 heroes who ever received the thanks of Parliament 

 for military achievements. There may be many 

 among the clerical body who, if invasion threat- 

 ened our shores, would prove good Walkers in 

 the face of an enemy (perhaps good runners too!). 

 Some there indeed may be who would shoulder 

 the " volunteei''s " rifle now, and do great exe- 

 cution, but cedant arma togce we must adopt as a 

 prohibitory motto, not forgetting the stereotyped 

 fate of all such militant saints — They that take 

 the rifle much perish with the rifle. F. Phillott. 



Mrs, Sherwood's Autobiography : Butts' 

 Pedigree. — Dr. Doran, in a reply (2"* S. iii. 

 16.), refers to this Autobiography as containing a 

 pedigree of the authoress, who, before her mar- 

 riage, bore the name of Butts. The Doctor in 

 his remarks quietly satirises the egregious vanity 

 of the lady, whose pretentious humility did not 

 deter her from ostentatiously parading her family 

 pedigree before the world. Had the Doctor known 

 that the vaunted pedigree was a tissue of fictions, 

 and that the authoress did not descend from an 

 illustrious knightly family, and that she was not 

 connected with the family of the Lord Keeper 

 Bacon — whose features and likeness she bore * — 

 he would have been less delicate in handling the 

 subject. The pedigree, as appears by the com- 

 munications of the Rev. J. H.Dashwood, is a gross 

 fraud : the early part of it being apparently fa- 

 bricated by the notorious Wm. Sidney Spence, 

 and the latter by some other equally unscrupu- 

 lous person, who, for the purpose of connecting 

 the authoress with the veritable Butts family of 

 Shouldham Thorpe in the county of Norfolk, 

 gives to one of that family, known by his funeral 

 certificate in the College of Arms to have died 



* According to the fictitious pedigree Mrs. Sherwood 

 had no descent from the Bacon family. How the re- 

 markable likeness came is, therefore, a marvel. 



