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and dye; and we will not be against thim at any time, 

 upon any terms, either in aid or counsel, where any thing 

 may be treated, ordaified, compassed or done, which may 

 turn to their dishonour or damage, or if we know of it, 

 that we will hinder it with all our power, and we will make 

 it known to them without delay. And to the performance 

 of all these things in all points, we have sworn upon the 

 JBody of God, and upon the Holy Gospels, and upon the 

 Cross Neytz, and upon the Blaherode of Scotland, and 

 upon several other Reliques. And furthermore, to the 

 firm holding and keeping of the said Homage and Oath 

 in all points, we do bind our body, our heirs, all our lands 

 and tenements, and all that we have or can have de alto 

 et basso, and wholly, at the will of our said Lord the King, 

 and of his heirs: And we do will and grant for us and 

 our heirs, that if it happens, which God forbid, that Ave 

 or our heirs shall ever be in war against our said Lord 

 the King, or his heirs, or in aid or counsel to any of their 

 enemies, privil}' or openly, that our body, our lands and 

 our tenements, and all that we have or can have, be from 

 thenceforth forfeited to our said Lord the King, and to 

 his heirs, in such manner that we or our heirs may never 

 be able to claim or chalenge any right to the same. Fur- 

 thermore, we will and grant for us and our heirs, if it 

 happens that we be at any time hereafter against our said 

 Lord the King, or his heirs, as is said before, that then 

 the Archbishops, Bishops, and any other Prelates of Eng- 

 land and Scotland, such and as many as it shall please 

 our said Lord the King of England, or his heirs Kings of 

 England, without any manner of tryal, monition or warn- 

 ing, and without any man's gainsaying, may give sen- 

 tence of excommunication upon us and upon our heirs, 

 and may excommunicate us, and put us out of the com- 

 munity of all Christians, and may put our lands under 

 interdict. In witness of which things we have put our 

 Seal to this Letter. Given in the Priory of the Canons 

 of Lanrecost, the twenty-third day of October in the year 

 of Grace one thousand three hundred and six, and in the 

 four -and thirtieth year of the reign of our said Lord tlie 

 King. Which things being thus done, the said Lord 

 James, on the same day, came into the presence of his 

 Lord the said King oi England, and made Homage to the 

 said King for his the said James's lands in Scotland, in 

 the due and usual form. These things were done in the 

 Prioury of Lanrecost, in the diocese of Carlile in the Year, 

 Indiction and day aforesaid, in the presence of Adomar de 

 Valence, and of several other persons of Distinction 

 (named hereunder). And strait way the said Publick 

 Instrument was, by the Treasurer's command delivered to 

 Adam de Osgoteby, Keeper of the Rolls of the Chancery to 

 be enrolled." — Madox's Baronia Anglica^ Book iii. chap, 

 vi. 267. 2G8. 



The other persons of distinction were John de 

 Hastyng, John Boteturt, Robert de la Ward, 

 John de Sulleye, Barons; John Hastang, John 

 de Dunedale, knights ; and John de Sandale, Wil- 

 liam de Bevercote, Robert de Cotyngham, and 

 John de Wynton, clerks. John Pavin Phillips. 



Haverfordwest. 



5fttn0r ^atsi. 

 The Dog of Montahgis. — Every one has 

 heard of the conviction of a murderer by this 

 famous animal, " which," as we are told in Mur- 

 ray's Handbook of France, " is said to have taken 

 place in the presence of Charles VI." The story, 

 however, is far older. St. Ambrose, in his Hexae- 



meron (v. 24.), tells of a murder at Antioch which 

 was detected by a dog ; and Giraldus Cambrensis 

 (about A.D. 1200), who refers not only to Am- 

 brose, but to Suetonius, De Animantium Naturis, 

 adds the circumstance of the duel : — i 



"Hinc cane dentibus armato, illinc baculo cubitali mi- 

 lite munito ; tandem cane victore victus homicida suc- 

 cubuit, et ignominiosam publico patibulo poenam dedit." 

 — Itinerar. Cambrics, i. 7. 



J. C. R. 



Ordination Fees. — At p. 203.* of the Essay 

 on Ecclesiastical Economy by the late Rev. AV. J. 

 Conybeare, we find two instances specified of a 

 remarkable variety in the fees exacted by the 

 several bishops' secretaries for the documents ne- 

 cessary at the two ordinations. It would be 

 curious to have a full list of the varieties in such 

 exactions, and some information on the principle, 

 or rather want of principle, on which they are 

 made. I give Mr. Conybeare's instances below, 

 and add a third variation from ray own experience. 

 Mr. Conybeare's Essay was published in 1855 ; 

 my own knowledge dates from a year later. Is 

 there any change ? — 



Worcester - - 9/. 4s. 6cf. 



Hereford - - 7 10 6 



Peterborough. [- - 5 



P. J. F. Gantillon. 

 A Note on Cairns. — It is, I suppose, gene- 

 rally considered that cairns were sepulchral me- 

 morials, and were raised by every passer-by casting 

 a stone on the heap, " which would be regarded 

 as an honour to the dead, and as acceptable to 

 his manes." The custom reminds us of the request 

 of Archytas, in Horace (lib. i., ode xxviii.), to 

 the sailor not to leave his body unburied : — 



" Quamquam festinas (non eat longa mora) licebit, 

 Injecto ter pulvere curras.", 



It is said that to this day there is a proverbial 

 expression among the Highlanders allusive to the 

 old practice. A supplicant will tell his patron, 

 " Curri mi cloch er do chorne," " I will add a 

 stone to your cairn ; " meaning, " when you are 

 no more I will do all possible honour to your me- 

 mory." 



Now this seems to have been a wide-spread 

 custom; at least it is an interesting fact that it 

 exists at this present time in Burmah. In a small 

 work published last year, entitled The Gospel in 

 J3urmah, containing accounts of the American 

 missions in that country, is the following extract 

 from a journal : — 



" On the way I noticed a large rock on the side of 

 the mountain piled up with small stones, and in asking 

 how these stones came there, they told me of a custom 

 that prevails among all the Burmese. Everj' one who 

 passes by picks up a stone, and throws it on the cairn : 

 if they fail to do it, they believe sickness and other ills 



• As included in the volume of Collected Essays (Long- 

 mans, 1855). 



