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M7'. Willett, Purchaser of the Orleans Pictures 

 (2"* S. viii. 308.) — The writer of this believes 

 Mr. Willett's name would be found in many 

 pi'iced catalogues of picture sales during at least 

 tbe first quarter of this century ; and believes 

 that he lived in Portland Place and had some 

 place in one of the counties near London. The 

 Court Guides of the time would show his London 

 residence, and perhaps Christie's books something 

 about his pictures, li the subject or description 

 of the picture were given, its history might be 

 more easily found. Klofron. 



The Mr. Willett, who bought pictures from the 

 Orleans Gallery, was probably Ralph Willett, 

 Esq., of Merly, Dorset, whose fine library was 

 sold by Leigh and Sotheby in Dec. 1813. H. P. 



Norton Family (2"* S. viii. 249.) — Some ac- 

 count of Richard Norton, Esq. of Norton Con- 

 yers and his " right good sonnes," who were 

 concerned in the "rising of the North," ad. 1569, 

 will be found in Sir Cuthbert Sharp's Memorials 

 of the Rebellion of 1569, p. 275. J. F. W. 



Cross and Candlesticks on Super-Altar (2""* S. 

 viii. 204. 255. 297,) — Lancastriensis professes 

 to be unable to find in the present Prayer-Book 

 of the Church of England the rubric which orders 

 a cross and candles to be set up on the altar of 

 every parish church. I think it is evident that 

 Mr. R. H. N. Browne refers to the first rubric, 

 at the conclusion of which occur the following 

 words : — 



" And here it is to be noted, tliat such Ornaments of 

 the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all times of 

 their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as 

 were in this Church of England by the Authority of Par- 

 liament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Ed- 

 ward the Sixth." 



The Act referred to authorised tbe use of the 

 vestments, and ornaments ordered by the first 

 Prayer-Book of Edward VI., among which orna- 

 ments are mentioned candles for the altar. 



In an Introduction to the Book of Common 

 Prayer, " by John Reeves, Esq., one of the Pa- 

 tentees of the Office of King's Printer, London, 

 1801," dedicated to George III., the author, ex- 

 plaining this first rubric, among other things, says, 



" Among other Ornaments of the Church, then in use, 

 and therefore within the meaning of this Rubric, there 

 were two lights, enjoined to be set upon the Altar, as a sig- 

 nificant emblem of the light, which Christ's Gospel 

 brought into the world. 



"This was ordered by the same injunction, which pro- 

 hibited all other lights and tapers, that used to be super- 

 stitiously set before images and shrines." 



I hope Lancastriensis will find the above satis- 

 factory. J. A. Pn. 



Mr. Gahstin will find a full and satisfactory 

 answer to his inquiry in pp. 78. et seq.^ and pp. 

 152. et seq., of the second edition (1844) of Hoic 



shall we Conform to the Liturgy of the Church of 

 England? by James Craigie Robertson, M.A., 

 now Canon of Canterbury. 



The two assertions contained in Mr. Nisbett 

 Browne's short reply will startle most of your 

 readers. The first, that the cross and candlesticks 

 are ordered to be placed on the altar " by the rubric 

 of our present Prayer-Book;" when the fact is 

 that the rubric does not mention them at all. 



The second, that the super-altar will be found 

 " in every properly- arranged church ; " when, if 

 so, not one in a hundred of the churches in the 

 kingdom is, according to Mr. Nisbett Bhownk's 

 ideas, properly arranged. 



I purposely refrain from entering farther into 

 the subject, the discussion of which is wholly fo- 

 reign to the objects of " N. & Q." Inquiries, such 

 as Mr. Garstin makes, should be answered by 

 facts ; and not by assertions unfounded and in- 

 ferences unexplained ; and I trust that your ex- 

 cellent and useful miscellany will not be insidiously 

 led to take part in the modern controversy on 

 church-ceremonial. . Senex. 



Lord Nitlisdale's Escape (2;«» S. vi. 438.) — EiN 

 Frager will find Lady Nithsdale's Narrative 

 reprinted in Jesse's Memoirs of the Pretenders 

 (Bohn's ed.) pp. 70 — 76., where it is quoted from 

 Ti-ansactions of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries, 

 vol, i. pp. 523—38. F. 



Schuyler (2"'» S. viii. 290.) — G. L., who asks 

 for " information respecting a Dutch family of 

 this name, will find very interesting particulars 

 of such a family in a letter of Mrs. Grant, dated 

 1773, being No. xxi. of her Lettei's from the 

 Mountains, which contains what she calls " a faint 

 sketch of the useful and happy, the estimable and 

 singular character of the friend of her childhood, 

 the instructress of her youth, and the existing 

 model, in her mind, of the highest practical vir- 

 tue," of Madam, or Aunt Schuyler. We learn 

 from it, and from a note, that " Aunt Schuyler s 

 father was called Cvyler ; " that she lived in Al- 

 bany, New York, U. S. ; and was a descendant 

 of those Dutch settlers by whom the province 

 was occupied when we got it in exchange for 

 Surinam." 



G. L. asks of the family, " Was it noble ? " 

 Mrs. Grant's " sketch " of Aunt Schuyler, and the 

 note appended, show that they were at least 

 amongst the noblest of nature's creation. The 

 whole account is highly interesting, and would be 

 acceptable to the readers of " N. & Q. ; " but its 

 length will doubtless preclude its publication 

 there. P. H. F. 



Gay's Works (2"" S. v. 215.) — I presume that 

 the edition of Gay's Works to which Mr. Cun- 

 ningham refers is that of 1795, 6 vols. 12mo. 



James Delano. 



