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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°'i S. X. Dec. 8. '60. 



toutes fois come par le feu, a savoir de Purga- 

 toire." I- 



1 Cor. vii. 10. — " Qui sont cojoints par le sa- 

 crement de mariage." 



Ephes. V. 32. — " Ce sacrament est grand." 



1 Tim. iv. 1. — Quelques-uns se separeront de 

 la foi Romaine." Verse 3. : " Condamnans le 

 Sacrement de Mariage, Tabstinence des alimens." 



1 Peter iii. 19. — " II a preche aux esprits qui 

 estoiet en prison aux Limbes." 



Query. — Is not this a scarcer edition than that 

 of Bordeaux, printed 1686, twenty-four years 

 after ? The latter has often been mentioned, but 

 the Paris edition, as far as I know, has hitherto 

 escaped notice. However, as I only court inquiry, 

 I will be most thankful for any information on 

 the subject. As far as I can understand the 

 British Museum does not possess a copy. 



Perhaps I should have mentioned that I have 

 had letters from Dr. Cotton and Dr. Todd *, 

 librarian of Trin. Col. Dublin, both stating that 

 they were " unacquainted with the Paris edition," 

 now in my possession. 



William C. Neligan, LL.D., 

 Eector, St. Mary Shandon, Cork. 



CURIOUS REMAINS IN NORWICH. 



In continuation of the attempt to describe the 

 details of ecclesiastical architecture which have 

 escaped, or have been but cursorily noticed by 

 antiquaries, the following description of one re- 

 cently discovered must rank with the most re- 

 markable that have been brought forward for 

 invest^ation. 



In the extensive works carried on during the 

 important restorations of the beautiful church of 

 St. Peter of Mancroft, Norwich, a carefully and 

 well-squared trough, about three feet in depth, 

 and the same in width, was discovered beneath 

 the pavement in front of the stalls, or rather the 

 place they formerly occupied, and extending from 

 end to end on either side of the chancel. 



In the perpendicular walls of this trough, and 

 apparently numerically agreeing with the stalls, 

 were placed horizontally and at equal distances 

 between the base and the surface short pitchers 

 securely bedded in mortar of bluish and red- 

 coloured earths, the mouth of each being open to 

 * the trough. 



Remarkable as this discovery was of an archi- 

 tectural fragment, it might have passed with the 

 things out of mind, but in the progress of the 

 restorations now beinw made in the church of St. 



' * De. Todd asks, " May it be the same as the Bor- 

 deaux with a Paris title? " The reading of Acts xiii. 2. 1 

 have shown is diflFerent. There is also a slight difference 

 in 1 Cor. iii. 15., " a savoir " not occurring in the Bor- 

 deaux edition. The pagination also is diverse. 



Peter, Mountergate in the same city, the re- 

 moval of the pavement laid bare a similar trough 

 with the same formed pitchers, and differing only 

 to assimilate the proportions of the building, 

 which is materially smaller. 



This at once establishes to conviction the ex- 

 istence of some rite or custom that prevailed in 

 the middle ages, of which no vestige now remains, 

 and of which it is most probable no writers of the 

 period have left a record ; nor has any subsequent 

 author attempted to describe the end proposed, 

 or if it is a detail in architecture the object con- 

 templated remains enveloped in obscurity. 



In the construction of the pitchers there is but 

 a trifling difi'erence, and that chiefly in the hand- 

 hold, which is not in those discovered in Man- 

 croft Church. The glazing of those found in 

 the latter church is more corroded than in the 

 former, and there is some difference in the meagre 

 ornaments that are used. In size they vary in 

 measure from about two to four quarts. 



The following descriptive particulars of one 

 taken from Mountergate Church may suffice for 

 the whole, admitting the above variations : — 



From the base there is the swelling common in 

 this description of pottery, slightly ornamented 

 with a succession of fluted bands ; from this band 

 there is a graceful decrease to form the slight 

 shoulder, from which rises the neck banded by 

 two fillets, immediately below the mouth, which 

 expands with the usual convenience for pouring 

 off the contents ; from the neck the ordinarily 

 shaped bevelled hand-hold is attached and rejoins 

 at the fluting. The dimensions are as follows : 

 height, 10 inches ; round at the fluting, 24 inches ; 

 diameter at mouth, 4^ inches ; circumference at 

 neck, llf inches; diameter at base, 6 inches. 



It only remains to suggest that the following 

 extract from The Theatre of the Greeks, p. 155., 

 may assist in explaining the intended purpose for 

 which these appliances were constructed in our 

 churches : — 



" From the [enormous size of the theatre at Athens, 

 which is said to have contained 30,000 spectators, it be- 

 came necessary to employ acoustics to a considerable 

 extent. All round the koIkov were placed bell-shaped 

 vessels of bronze, called ^x^'s placed in an inverted posi- 

 tion, and resting on pedestals which received and dis- 

 tributed the vibrations of sound." 



H. D'AVENET. 



fSiimv Haiti. 



LoED Rrougham the Discoverer of Photo - 

 GRAPHY, — In note iv. to the volume of Tracts, 

 Mathematical and Physical, recently republished 

 by his Lordship, there occurs the following pas- 

 sage : — 



« In these papers of 179G and 1797, the different in- 

 flexibility of light was asserted, but not so fully proved 

 as in these Tracts VII. and VIII. The experiments and 



