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me who was the author of the work, the title of 

 which, as affixed to the reprint of 1701, is as fol- 

 lows : — 



" A Preparation to the Holy Communion, with Pra3'er3, 

 Meditations and Tlianksgivinga. By a godly and learned 

 Father of the Church of England ; for the use of our late 

 dread Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, Queen of England, &c. 

 Printed in the year 1588, and now reprinted. London, 

 Printed for Sam. Keble at the Turk's Head, in Fleet 

 Street. 1701." 12mo. 



The dedicatory epistle to Queen Elizabeth is 

 subscribed " C. B.," smd dated " Nov. 17, 1588." 



Vigil. 



Salvator Rosa. — I have been informed upon 

 good authority that the late Princess Sophia of 

 Grloucester left a landscape picture by Salvator 

 Rosa to the National Gallery under her will, 

 which was proved, I think, in 1844. 



I have no recollection of ever seeing this pic- 

 ture in the gallery. Perhaps some of your readers 

 may know something about it ? E. D. H. 



Miss AS A Title. — The eldest daughter of the 

 head of the family is always called 3iiss, without 

 adding the Christian name; but suppose this case: 

 Mr. Smith is an only son, his father is dead, he is 

 married and has a daughter and son ; the daugh- 

 ter is of course Miss Smith. In course of time 

 Mr. Smith dies ; !Miss Smith remains unmarried, 

 but her brother, who is now Mr. Smith, is mar- 

 ried and has a daughter. Is this daughter Miss 

 Smith, or Miss Jane Smith ? Does the aunt give 

 up her title to the eldest daughter of the head of 

 the family or not ? K. B. 



Htmnology. — Who is the author of the hymn 

 commencing — 



" Oft in sorrow, and in woe 

 Onward, Christians, onward go." 



It is attributed by Bickersteth, in his Christian 

 Psalmody, to Kirke White, but I think erroneously. 

 It is not in mv edition of Kirke White's poems. 



C. 



The Four Georges : George II. — Can any 

 ^of your readers tell me on what authority Mr. 

 Thackeray asserts (Comhill Mag. Aug. No., p. 

 191.) that the false and blasphemous eulogy on 

 that monster of vice, George II. (which he quotes) 

 was written by Mr., afterwards Bp., Porteus ? 



Who is the bishop whom the same writer affirms, 

 p. 181., of the same No., to have virtually paid 

 5000Z. for his bishopric ? 



In p. 175. of the same No. what is meant by 

 "the king making away with his father's will 

 under the astonished nose of the Archbishop of 

 Canterbury ? " A. B. 



Tiieophilus Gat, M.D. : William Gay, M.D. 

 — I have lately had in my hands a series of very 

 beautiful peiicil miniatures on vellum, executed 

 by Thomas Foster, near the close of the seven- 



teenth century. Among them is a portrait of the 

 Rev. Timothy Cruso, whose surname his school- 

 fellow, De Foe, is said to have borrowed, and 

 known to have turned to good account. That 

 likeness has been engraved. There is one of Tkeo- 

 philus Gay, M.D. T. Cruso had a very intimate 

 friend, Dr. William Gay, who, in 1697, was re- 

 siding "at Mr. Leppingwell's, in Kelvedon, Essex." 

 Morant, Hist. Essex, 1768 (ii. 154.), under Kel- 

 vedon, says, " Thomas Leapingwell, Gent., hath 

 an estate here." Cap anyone oblige me with any 

 particulars of these Gays, their relationship or 

 alliances ? or say when or where they died ? 



S. W. Rix. 

 Beccles. 



Consecration of a Private Burial Ground. 

 — 'Can any of your readers tell me what legal 

 "forms" have been used recently in the consecra- 

 tion ofaprivate burial-place or mausoleum within 

 a gentleman's grounds ? A Subscriber. 



Badges op Scottish Clans. — In the List of 

 Clans and their Badges which is given in Haydn's 

 Dictionary of Dates, I find the following : — 



Name. Badge. 



Campbell ------ Myrtle. 



Graham ..-.-- Laurel. 



M^Dougall ..... Cj'press. 



And these are the only apparently exotic plants 

 in this list of badges. The Campbells' badge 

 being Myrica gale, or " Dutch myrtle," a British 

 plant, is not really an exception to a rule which I 

 remember somewhere to have heard, that the 

 badges of all the clans were plants indigenous in 

 Scotland. But if the badges of Graham and M'= 

 Dougall are the plants known in the south by the 

 names of lam-el and cypress, they still remain ex- 

 ceptions to this rule ; and I shall be obliged to 

 any of your correspondents, skilled in botany and 

 clan-lore, who will confirm or refute these excep- 

 tions. Geo. E. Frere. 



Passage in Demosthenes. — 



"Punch pleases the Cockneys by calling them Roaring 

 British Lions. Demosthenes told the Athenians that 

 they were Eagles soaring among the clouds ; and Zaca- 

 riah Jackson got the same out of Brown's translation, 

 and charmed the suckers. How comes it that comparison 

 to such vermin is flattering.' The lion is onlj' a big cat, 

 and the eagle a bird of prey that will feed on garbage 

 rather than fight a game cock." — Five Cents' Worth of 

 Advice to Abolitionists, New Orleans, 1849, pp. 24. 



What is the passage in Demosthenes? and is 

 there a translation by Brown ? W. C. 



CoMPRiMBRE IN Kent, where ? — Froissart 

 (Chron., vol. ii. cap. 116.) states, that after the 

 dispersion of the rebels under Wat Tyler, the 

 King entered into Kent and came to a village 

 called Comprimbre, and called the mayor and all 

 the men of the town before him, and seized and 

 punished such men as were known to have been 



