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the noble work of our verj' Reverend and respectable 

 townsman Dr. Jamieson, from its high price, cannot have 

 a very extensive circulation among the middle classes of 

 society, the Pocket Dictionary will be found to answer 

 every useful purpose as a book of reference where mere 

 translation is only wanted, either of the dialect of the in- 

 habitants, or the writings of Scottish authors since the 

 time of Allan Ramsay.- It will be printed on a fine wove 

 paper, and will form a handsome volume in duodecimo." 



It is understood that the author died in 1815 

 or 1816, leaving a widow, a son, and two daugh- 

 ters. The Pocket Dictionary had not, therefore, 

 seen the light till two or three years after his 

 death, and in its present form different from that 

 which he had contemplated. From some cause 

 unknown it was published without his name : how- 

 ever a few of his friends used means that the fact 

 of its authorship should be communicated to the 

 public. Dr. Jamieson is said to have found It 

 serviceable in compiling the Supplement to his ela- 

 borate work. G. N. 

 JFiREPiiACES IN Church Towers (2"^ S. x. 256.) 

 — Till the reign of Elizabeth, baptism was always 

 given in this country by immersion, no matter 

 however cold and chill might be the weather. 

 The use then of a fire, before which to dry the 

 wet child and dress it, became a positive want in 

 a climate like ours; and the very best place 

 wherein to supply it, was the western tower. The 

 spot upon which to set the baptismal font is, for 

 symbolic reasons, at the entrance of the church, 

 near the south-west door, hard by which in most 

 places stands a bell-tower ; from the font to this 

 tower is but a step or two, and, once within this 

 tower's thick walls, and its door shut, the child's 

 cries — and most children cry loudly wEen bap- 

 tized — were thus hindered from breaking in upon 

 the public services, were any going on, or wound- 

 ing the ears of the people at their devotions. By 

 the fire in the western tower the baby, that some- 

 times had to be carried home a long way, might 

 be leisurely dried, dressed, and, if need were, 

 suckled too; and the godsibs could becomingly 

 wash their hands, as by the rubric they were told 

 to do, before they left the church. 



Another, though secondary motive for putting 

 up these fireplaces, may be found in the fact that 

 a boys' school was ofteu kept at the west end of 

 the church by one of its chantry priests, who 

 taught between morning and afternoon service on 

 week-days : to teacher, as well as to the boys, a 

 little fire would be an almost absolute necessity 

 during several months of the year. 



The vestry, standing as It did at quite the other 

 end of the building, with no entrance to it from 

 within the church but Inside the rood-screen 

 from a door in the chancel, was by no means the 

 place for answering the above requirements. 

 These then, to my mind, gave origin to those fire- 

 places to be found near the font, and at the west 

 end, either In a room over the south porch, or 



somewhere within the bell-tower, of our old parish 

 churches. D. IIoce:. 



Brook Green, Hammersmith. 



Chancels (2"* S. x. 68. 253. 312. 357.) —I 

 am well acquainted with the church of St. Mi- 

 chael's, Coventry. The deflection of this chancel 

 is very striking; the inclination Is towards the 

 south. The circumstance of the church being 

 dedicated to St. Michael gives the 29th of Sep- 

 tember for the supposed day for laying the first 

 stone ; on this day the sun rises due east. Does 

 not this set aside the idea of its depending upon 

 the point at which the sun rises on the day of the 

 patron saint ? The chancel of this church has a 

 fine apse of perpendicular character. 5- 5* 



An important instance of this peculiarity is 

 found in the fine church of St. Ouen at Rouen, 

 the choir of which inclines considerably out of 

 the straight line northwards. I am not sure that 

 I did not observe some inclination in that of the 

 cathedral of that city ; it exists in some other 

 churches of Normandy. J. D. Gardner. 



Bull op Paul IV. (2°<» S. x. 307.) —This Bull 

 absolving the king and queen from all excommu- 

 nications and other ecclesiastical censures, is en- 

 rolled on the Patent Roll, Chancery, Ireland, 2° & 

 3° Philip & Mary, No. 9. 



There is a second Bull on the roll, stated to 

 have been sent by Cardinal Pole. 



James Morrin. 



Rolls Office, Chancery. 



" MissA Triumphans " (2"«i S. x. 267:) — The 

 author was William Collins, Ord. Freed. Vide "N. 

 & Q.," 2"<i S. Iv. 8. 57. 'AAi6.5y. 



Dublin. 



Captain Rich (2°^ S. x. 306.) — I observe a 

 slight error in the Query under this head, and, 

 thinking It might mislead others, I have to ap- 

 prise your correspondent T. A. that this gentle- 

 man's name was " Cevill Rich " alias " Rich 

 Cevill." He was the son of Peter Cevill, a French 

 gentleman. 



There is some account of the Rich family under 

 " Mulbarton " in Blomefield's Norfolk, vol. v. pp. 

 78. and 79, and In a note at the latter page a re- 

 ference Is made to vol. Iv. of the English Baronet- 

 age, p. 592, ed. 1741, for an account of the family, 

 where possibly some account of the Cevills might 

 be obtained. John Nurse Chadwick. 



King's Lynn. 



Swan Uppxng (2°'^ S. x. 248.) — Is not the 

 term hopping a vulgar and long-used corruption of 

 tipping, signifying the duties of the official visitors, 

 which was to "take up" the swans and mark 

 them ? The book of The Order for Swannes, a 

 tract of four leaves, printed In 1570, mentions the 

 " upping dales," and declares what persons shall 



